Recent patches to the Linux kernel have added support for four new numerical ranges of AMD Family 26 processors, also known as Zen 5 CPUs. This development, confirmed by sources including Phoronix, ...

The top-end Ryzen 7 1800X boasts eight cores and 16 threads just like Intel’s Kaby Lake Core i7-6900K, but in a 95W package that costs half the price of Intel’s octo-core offering. And when it comes ...

Most synthetic benchmarks on Linux exhibit this phenomenon, including Stress-NG, which experienced a 26.6% decline in CPU performance when all security measures were turned on. However, security ...

AMD’s next generation of processors is moving forward, with new signs about Zen 6 appearing in Linux. As usual in the tech industry, the first clues about future products often do not come from ...

The release of Linux 6.3 has been largely uneventful, a far cry from the frenzied activity of recent releases. Torvalds has said that this might be a good sign, that the recent stability was more due ...

AMD Zen 3 processors are getting a little Linux love ahead of their release later this year, seemingly confirming a significant change from the existing Zen CPU architectures we've already seen. AMD ...

Temperature monitoring support for the AMD Zen 2 microprocessor is hitting the 4.21 Linux kernel. The 4.21 kernel is also introducing the PowerPC On-Chip Controller (OCC), which reports sensor data ...

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up ...