📰 Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026
The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement in the works...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/R300g-Code-Cleanup-2026
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📰 AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware
ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.2
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📰 Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tiny-Corp-Exabox-Pre-Order
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📰 Blender 5.1 Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Released with Many New Features
Blender 5.1 open-source 3D graphics software is now available for download with hardware ray-tracing by for AMD GPUs and other changes. Here's what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-1-open-source-3d-graphics-software-released-with-many-new-features
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📰 Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware
The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty of storage potential via six MCIO connectors and four PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Beyond offering nice capabilities for this modern AMD EPYC server motherboard at a ~$700 USD price point, it's uniquely positioned for an open-source firmware future thanks to ongoing work around AMD openSIL and hopefully...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/gigabyte-mz33-ar1
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📰 Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DRM-Format-Modifiers-GCN
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📰 Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation
A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the AMD Ryzen 9000 series. This was an interesting Linux-powered desktop manufactured in Colorado while for those needing a bit more performance, since then the redesigned Thelio Major launched. The new System76 Thelio Major provides an updated Thelio case design like Mira while comes packed with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-major-9980x
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📰 AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17.5
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📰AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron
Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.3
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📰 Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m
The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m"...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA4m-RADV-ACO
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📰 AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps
The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-10.2-Released
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📰 AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026
For those that like to make remarks about AMD "fine wine" especially when it comes to open-source Linux drivers and/or nostalgic about feature work on really old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-InterWave-2026-Linux-
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