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SUSE Announces Better Support For NVIDIA CUDA

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 8:25 p.m. | Original

SUSE in partnership with NVIDIA today announced making the NVIDIA CUDA TOolkit officially available on all SUSE platforms.

Similar to Canonical's recent announcement of official support for NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu Linux archives , SUSE today announced formal CUDA support on SUSE Linux operating systems.

This evolved support for NVIDIA CUDA on SUSE Enterprise Linux includes simplified installation support via the SUSE repositories, continuous updates for new CUDA packages that align with the latest NVIDIA official releases, and is available to all SUSE users.

SUSE wrote in today's announcement :

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Qualcomm Announces X2 Elite SoCs - Up To 18 Cores & Up To 5.0GHz Boost Frequency

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 5:35 p.m. | Original

Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs as building off their X Elite laptop SoCs that shipped last year. With the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) flagship is 18 cores with a 5.0GHz single and dual core boost frequency.

Qualcomm used the Snapdragon Summit for talking up the X2 Elite SoCs today, including the 12-core X2 Elite X2E-80-100, 18-core X2

Linux Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Attempting To Pursue Made-In-USA Laptops

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 1:05 p.m. | Original

Linux/Windows laptop vendor MALIBAL that caused quite a fuss last year when suggesting against supporting Coreboot and in turn blocked shipping of products to states/countries where the involved developers were located is now pursuing an initiative of made-in-America laptops. But it's going to be a lengthy journey and first they are soliciting investments to first pursue American-made keyboards and touchpads.

MALIBAL announced today "Project Liberation" with their goal of American-made laptops with the first phase being " the first truly American-

The Massive AI Performance Benefit With AMX On Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids"

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 10:20 a.m. | Original

Besides the support for MRDIMM-8800 memory , another distinct advantage of Intel Xeon 6 " Granite Rapids " processors is the continued presence of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the impact of AMX on the Intel Xeon 6980P processors for AI inference workloads.

Back when Advanced Matrix Extensions debuted in 2023 with Sapphire Rapids processors, I ran some initial AMX performance benchmarks at the time. Last year when Granite Rapids launched with the Xeon 69

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 9:10 a.m. | Original

Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders.

Merged this week to Mesa 25.3 by Simon Perretta is adapting the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa to generate its needed internal shaders to get rid of the old hard-coded shader framework mess previously shipped by this Imagination driver.

"This set of changes adds support for generating the various internal shaders required by the driver, and drops the old

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Intel Moves Pre-Arc Graphics To "Legacy" Driver On Windows - Linux Users Need Not Worry

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 8:28 a.m. | Original

Intel announced this week that its moving its graphics driver support for integrated graphics on 11th Gen through 14th Gen processors over to their legacy driver model on Microsoft Windows. While this is a setback for those using Raptor Lake processors on Windows as well as the few Xe DG1 discrete graphics out there, Linux users don't have much to worry about.

Intel already moving their 14th Gen "Raptor Lake" processors' integrated graphics over to their legacy software support model comes as a bit of

GCC 16 Will No Longer Treat Function Multi-Versioning As Experimental On ARM64

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 6:40 a.m. | Original

Function Multi-Versioning (FMV) is the compiler feature that allows developers to specify multiple versions of the same function that can be used for optimizing execution for specific target features. For example, FMV can allow optimized functions to be called if the CPU supports AVX, AVX-512, SSE4.2, or other differing ISA capabilities. With the GCC 16 compiler release, AArch64/ARM64 now considers its FMV support to be stable and complete.

With this commit yesterday to the

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 6:28 a.m. | Original

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding.

MPEG-H 3D Audio is the standard for providing immersive next-generation audio. and alternative to Dolby Atmos. MPEG-H 3D Audio supports the notion of audio objects, audio channels,and higher order ambisonics and supports up to 128 codec core channels and 64 loudspeaker channels. Those unfamiliar with MPEG-H audio can learn more via mpegh.com .

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18

Phoronix | Sept. 24, 2025, 6:18 a.m. | Original

In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18 , another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller.

The past few months there has been work by Cristian Ciocalte of Collabora for proper audio jack handling on the DualSense controller . Ciocalte explained with the prior patch series :

"The Sony DualSense wireless controller (PS5) provides an internal mono speaker, in

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark

Phoronix | Sept. 23, 2025, 8:23 p.m. | Original

SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system.

The patch for SquashFS wires up SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE support for much faster searchs for holes and data within sparse files. In cases of sparse copying of files with large holes, this can lead to very significant performance improvements for this file-system.

The benchmark shown by Lougher for a sparse copy of a big file with

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