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Well, this is a bit strange..

Intel today published 38 new security advisories in their first Patch Tuesday roundabout since February

While Intel Thunder Bay sparked rumors years ago as potentially being a mix of Intel x86 cores and Movidius VPU cores, although the Linux patches put it as ARM cores paired with the Movidius VPU, Thunder Bay is no more

Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has increased its instruction heap size to 2Gb in order to address a hang experienced with the game Overwatch while this is also likely to help other software/games moving forward.

Recently I noticed out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux the performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors was much improved for some workloads compared to tests done just weeks ago on the same Sapphire Rapids server.

After profiling and raising an issue by Google's Chrome OS engineers, there is a set of 'request for comments' patches out today for the Intel Linux graphics driver that can provide 10~15% better performance when operating in the tuned mode.

There's a bit of Linux kernel code for AMD Zen 2 processors called the 'spectral chicken' and a call for cleaning up that code, which was originally written by an Intel Linux engineer, has been rejected.

While Intel Shadow Stack support has been around since Tiger Lake CPUs as part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET), finally for the Linux 6.4 kernel is this security feature being enabled with the mainline Linux kernel.

It's been just shy of ten years since Intel launched their Haswell processors that were very successful at the time and was followed by Broadwell

For more than one year Intel's been working on developing the Xe Linux kernel graphics driver as a modern Direct Rendering Manager driver for Gen12 and newer integrated/discrete graphics