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Intel's 2025-Q1 Linux Excitement With Battlemage, AVX10 & Other Kernel Improvements
With the first quarter quickly drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Intel Linux news of the quarter
The problem, which was introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2019, could lead to system stalls and boot delays for those still using Intel Core 2 CPUs with modern distributions. Coming up for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle in 2025 is a fix to benefit Haswell and similarly aged Intel platforms with integrated graphics. Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of this past week, there are some nice Xe2 / Battlemage improvements for enhancing the performance of some OpenCL workloads and also correcting the performance of some workloads that were in poor standing on launch day.
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