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📰 Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04 This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn't a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapdragon-X-Elite-Ubuntu-26.04 #ubuntu#arm

📰 Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.345-Released #arm

📰 NanoPi NEO03 Plus is a tiny, headless single-board PC for $24 The FriendlyELEC NanoPi NEO03 Plus is a tiny single-board computer (SBC) that measures 48 x 48mm (1.9″ x 1.9″) and features a 2 GHz Rockchip RK3528A quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor with Mali-450 graphics. While the little computer isn’t exactly a speed demon, it is cheap. The NanoPi NEO03 Plus available now for $24. But while it’s a . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/nanopi-neo03-plus-is-a-tiny-headless-single-board-pc-for-24/ #arm

📰 CoreCollective is a New Consortium Bringing the Arm Software Ecosystem Under One Roof The likes of AMD, Canonical, Google, Huawei, Qualcomm, Red Hat, and others are on board. 🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/corecollective-launch/ #amd#arm

📰 Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-619-gpu-soc-rust-improvements.html #linux#kernel#arm

📰 Nvidia Readies New Arm-Based Chips for Dell, Lenovo Laptops Nvidia is returning to consumer PCs through new partnerships with Intel and MediaTek, aiming to power AI-enabled laptops that rival Apple’s efficiency... 🔗 Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-nvidia-return-consumer-pc-ai-laptops/ #intel#arm

📰Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-PanVK-25.7x-16x-MSAA #opensource#arm

📰Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller overclocked to run at more than 5X original frequency The Raspberry Pi RP2350 is a microcontroller chip designed for low-power, low-latency applications. While it’s a big step up from the older RP2040 chip, it’s still not exactly a speed demon. But what if it… was? When Raspberry Pi first introduced the RP2350 in 2024, the company described it as a chip with two Arm . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-rp2350-microcontroller-overclocked-to-run-at-more-than-5x-original-frequency/ #raspberry#arm

📰 Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices Pocketblue brings Fedora Atomic to select ARM-powered devices, providing users with an immutable Linux system on their phones and tablets. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pocketblue-brings-fedora-atomic-linux-to-mobile-devices/ #linux#fedora#arm

📰 DshanPi-A1 is an RK3576 dev board with two RJ45 ports, HDMI input and output, and more The DshanPi-A1 is a new single-board computer with the same Rockchip RK3576 octa-core Arm-based chip as the Bit-Brick K1 Pro. But while the Bit-Brick board features two M.2 slots for NVMe storage, the DshanPi-A1 does not. It stands out for a few other reasons though. The main one is that in addition to an HDMI port . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/dshanpi-a1-is-an-rk3576-dev-board-with-two-rj45-ports-hdmi-input-and-output-and-more/ #arm

📰Bit-Brick K1 and K1 Pro are dev boards with RISC-V or Arm chips, up to 8GB RAM, and M.2 slots The Bit-Brick K1 and Bit-Brick K1 Pro are both compact computer board that measures 90 x 80mm (3.54″ x 3.15″) and feature support for 4GB or 8GB of onboard LPDDR4x memory, and plenty of I/O features including Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, and two M.2 slots with support for NVMe SSDs, among other . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/bit-brick-k1-and-k1-pro-are-dev-boards-with-risc-v-or-arm-chips-up-to-8gb-ram-and-m-2-slots/ #arm