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While earlier this week was looking at the AMD EPYC 4004 vs.

April 2024 is now in the books after writing 257 original Linux/open-source-related news articles and another 13 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews

As part of my Linux 6.9 benchmarking I've been trying out many hardware combinations and overall seeing nice performance out of this kernel that will debut as stable in the next 2~3 weeks.

Last week being surprised to see a number of AMD EPYC performance gains with Linux 6.9 using that in-development kernel, I was curious about what other platforms may be benefiting from better performance on this kernel that will debut as stable in May.

Intel's oneDNN Deep Neural Network Library used for building deep learning applications is preparing another release that continues going heavy on performance optimizations and preparing for future Intel hardware generations.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the State University of New York publishes benchmarks of NVIDIA's new Grace Superchip, can't beat Intel Sapphire Rapids.

The 144-core Grace Superchip couldnt catch up to a 96-core dual-socket Sapphire Rapids server, but it may prove to be more efficient.

SVT-AV1 v1.8 was released this week as the newest version of this open-source AV1 video encoder originally started by Intel and continues to be developed by Intel engineers in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media

At AMD's AI event today the company provided more details on their Instinct MI300 series for their very exciting data center APU and CDNA3 discrete GPU accelerator.

Intel has released a new version of ISPC, their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler