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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