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📰 AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.1 #amd#opensource#ubuntu

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04 In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-gnome-kde #amd#gnome#wayland#ubuntu#kde#plasma

📰 AMD-Optimized Rocky Linux Distribution To Focus On AI & HPC Workloads AMD and CIQ jointly announced today that AMD-optimized Rocky Linux builds are being worked on for this RHEL-derived operating system. The AMD-optimized Rocky Linux will focus on AI and HPC workloads and be nicely integrated with ROCm... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Rocky-Linux-Optimized #amd#linux

📰 Cloudflare Details Their Upgrade To EPYC Turin For 2x Throughput, 50% Better Perf/Watt Cloudflare's technical blog posts about their hardware and software efforts are always a treat to read. Their latest fascinating technical content is on their newest "Gen 13" server platform based around AMD EPYC Turin where they are now achieving 2x throughput and 50% better performance-per-Watt thanks to these latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors paired with software improvements too... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-Gen13-Server-Turin #amd

📰 AMD Posts Latest "pghot" Code For Overhauling Linux Hot Page Tracking & Promotion One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern AMD EPYC servers with CXL and multiple memory tiers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-pghot-RFC-Latest-Linux #kernel#linux#amd

📰 Linux 7.0 Lands Fix For Years Old Bug Affecting AMD Hainan GPUs Merged overnight for Linux 7.0 and set to be back-ported to existing Linux stable kernel versions is a fix for aging AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models. This closes a 2021 bug report that was long neglected and ended up being just a small tweak to fix the issue reported of GPU hangs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Hainan-Fix-Linux-7.0 #kernel#amd#linux

📰AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP AMD today sent out another batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-GFX12.1-Linux-7.1 #kernel#linux#amd

📰 AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MLIR-AIE-1.3 #linux#amd

📰 TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux laptop is now available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, up to 128 GB RAM, and up to 16TB storage. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-gemini-17-gen4-linux-laptop-now-available-with-amd-ryzen-9-9955hx #linux#amd

📰 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 #opensource#amd

📰 Fedora Workstation 44 Beta Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen AI Max Framework Desktop Since last week's Fedora 44 Beta release I have been testing out this upcoming Fedora Linux version on a few systems in the lab, most notably with the Framework Desktop powered by the powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo". Fedora Workstation 44 Beta has been looking nice and running stable albeit in some instances seeing lower performance at this point than Fedora Workstation 43 but overall in good shape. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-44-beta #linux#fedora#amd

📰 AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1 Last week yet more AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window happening in April... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-For-Linux-7.1 #linux#kernel#amd