Why it matters: The Linux kernel includes an ancient trick to deal with possible incompatibilities in early ACPI implementations. Nowadays, the trick isn't needed and just makes thing worse for AMD ...

When balanced mode secretly behaves like performance.

Intel has long been competitive in the CPU front and while most people only know if for its iCore processors, the company is innovating its approach toward chips. This includes a Linux kernel ...

A Steam Deck-like handheld with GeForce RTX graphics and DLSS 4 support? It sounds like it's only a matter of time as NVIDIA ...

Intel's Linux engineers have pushed Meteor Lake-S (MTL-S) driver code for implementation in the Linux kernel. The publication of this code is interesting to see for two main reasons: it shows Intel is ...

That would have been horrible. Itanium had 2 goals, first kill all the Unix RISC architectures in the workstation and server market and second to lock AMD out of the server and workstation and then PC ...

AMD's Ryzen 7 has been generally well-received by the enthusiast community, but there's been one low-level problem that we've been watching but haven't previously reported on. In early June, Ryzen ...

If you read that headline and thought, "what the heck, Zen 4 just came out," I have bad news for you, friend. The Ryzen 7000 series processors for desktop and their Socket AM5 platform came out last ...

Steam Machine with RTX 5060 on SteamOS runs games but beta Linux drivers can break the UI, overlay, and HDR. While DLSS helps boost smoothness ...