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, ...

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 has just released updates for the Linux kernel that provide performance monitoring abilities for its upcoming AMD Zen 5 CPUs. These patches allow software to check on features such as the ...

Forward-looking: The Linux kernel is a great gauge for future hardware, as the massive code base is routinely updated to support hardware months in advance, sometimes even before it has been formally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 6.15 last week. In addition to the usual new and adapted drivers and many small corrections, the new kernel is mainly dedicated to optimization and decluttering.

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 ...