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📰 Exclusive Preview Of System76's Completely Redesigned Thelio Desktop It has been eight years already since System76 announced Thelio as their own built-in-the-USA, custom-engineered cases for desktops and workstations. System76 Thelio is an open hardware design and built exceptionally well out of their facilities in Colorado. System76 Thelio has served them well for their range of desktop systems over the years from ARM64 developer workstations to high-end AMD Linux systems. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-new-thelio #linux#amd

📰AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-NPUs-Linux-LLMs #kernel#linux#amd

📰Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3 This week's batch of "x86/urgent" patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AMD-x86-Linux-7.0-rc3 #intel#linux#amd

📰 AMD GAIA 0.16 Introduces C++17 Agent Framework For Building AI PC Agents In Pure C++ AMD's GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16. With this new GAIA release is support for developing AI agents purely in C++ with no longer needing to depend upon Python... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.16 #amd#opensource#python

📰 3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-Ryzen-MSI-Port-Progress #amd

📰 Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a is a AMD Strix Halo laptop with a 15.3 inch OLED display, up to 128GB RAM, and pen support The new Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a (15″ Gen 11) is a premium laptop with a 15.3 inch, 2.5K OLED display, support for up to 128GB of RAM, and an emphasis on graphics and content creation – the laptop’s large Force Pad touchpad features Wacom technology, allowing you to use Lenovo Yoga Pen Gen 2 to draw on . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lenovo-yoga-pro-7a-is-a-amd-strix-halo-laptop-with-a-15-3-inch-oled-display-up-to-128gb-ram-and-pen-support/ #amd

📰TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen AI 300 TUXEDO Computers launches a new variant of the InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux-powered laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-infinitybook-max-16-linux-laptop-now-available-with-amd-ryzen-ai-300 #amd#linux

📰 AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HSMP-Preps-For-Zen-6-EPYC #amd#linux

📰 AMD EPYC Achieves 5G/6G RAN Performance Leadership With New OCUDU Project Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-intel-xeon-ocudu #opensource#linux#intel#amd

📰Linux Preps IBPB-On-Entry Feature For AMD SEV-SNP Guest VMs Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD Zen 5 processors for enhancing security of guest virtual machines... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-IBPB-On-Entry-SNP-VMs #linux#amd#kernel

📰 AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DPTCi-Linux-Driver #linux#amd#kernel

📰More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1 ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-More-Sensors-Linux-7.1 #amd#linux#intel#opensource