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Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times For AMD Zen 4   Programming   2024-03-31
AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted For GCC - Confirms New AVX Features & More   AMD   2024-02-10
OpenCV 4.9 Brings DNN Module Enhancements, Orbbec Gemini 2 Camera Support   Programming   2023-12-31
Intel oneDNN 3.3 Brings More Performance Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids / AMX   Intel   2023-10-07
QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements   Virtualization   2023-08-22
Intel Granite Rapids D Support Merged Into GCC 14   Intel   2023-07-12
Intel Posts Initial Granite Rapids D Support For GCC Compiler, Supports AMX-COMPLEX   Intel   2023-07-06
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2023 - Load TF Models Directly, Hybrid CPU Thread Scheduling   Intel   2023-06-01
LLVM 16.0.1 Released With Many Compiler Fixes, Backports AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model   LLVM   2023-04-05
Initial AMD Zen 4 Enablement Lands In LLVM Clang 16.0   AMD   2022-12-17
Intel RAO-INT Added To GCC 13, Grand Ridge & Granite Rapids CPU Targets Ready   Intel   2022-11-07
Intel Granite Rapids Support Submitted For The GCC Compiler   Intel   2022-11-04
GCC 13 Compiler Merges Support For Intel AVX-NE-CONVERT   Intel   2022-10-31
AMD Sends Out Basic Zen 4 "Znver4" Enablement For The GCC Compiler   AMD   2022-10-16
Intel Sends Out Meteor Lake & Sierra Forest Patches For The GCC Compiler   Intel   2022-10-14
Linux 6.1 Drops BF16 Support For Cortex-A510 Due To Hardware Bug   Arm   2022-10-12
Apple M2 Support Added To Upstream LLVM Along With The A15, A16   LLVM   2022-09-23
GCC & LLVM Ready With x86 __bf16 Type Support   Programming   2022-08-18
More AMD RDNA3 / GFX11 Enablement Patches Merged Into LLVM 15.0   Radeon   2022-05-11
Last Minute Sapphire Rapids Change Lands In GCC 12   Intel   2022-03-18
Arm Posts GCC Tuning Patches For Neoverse-N2 & New Neoverse-Demeter   Arm   2022-03-16
Intel Alder Lake + Radeon Linux Gaming Performance Holds Steady With 5.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2022-02-21
LLVM Clang 14 Begins Landing Intel AVX-512 FP16 Support   LLVM   2021-08-16
Intel Posts Big Set of Patches For AVX-512 FP16 Compiler Support For Sapphire Rapids   Intel   2021-07-01
GCC 11 Releasing Next Week With Intel AMX, New CPU Support, More C++20/C++23   GNU   2021-04-25
Arm Neoverse N2 Support Added To The LLVM Clang 12 Compiler   LLVM   2020-11-27
Arm Neoverse V1 Support Added To LLVM Clang 12 Compiler   Arm   2020-11-09
Intel Prepares Linux Kernel Support For Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)   Intel   2020-10-02
Arm Begins Bringing Up Neoverse N2, Neoverse V1 Support In The GNU Toolchain   Arm   2020-09-24
Intel Sapphire Rapids Target Added To LLVM/Clang 12.0   LLVM   2020-09-01
OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression   Linux Storage   2020-08-22
GCC 11 Compiler Lands Intel Sapphire Rapids + Alder Lake Support   Intel   2020-07-10
NVIDIA CUDA 11.0 Released With Ampere Support, New Programming Features   NVIDIA   2020-07-08
GCC Compiler Support Posted For Intel AMX   Intel   2020-07-06
OpenBLAS 0.3.10 Released With Initial BFloat16 Support, x86_64 Optimizations   Programming   2020-06-15
BFloat16 Support About To Land Within LLVM   LLVM   2020-05-13
Intel MKL-DNN / DNNL 1.3 Released With Cooper Lake Optimizations   Intel   2020-04-03
GCC 10 Adds ARMv8.6-A Targeting, BFloat16 + i8MM Options   Arm   2020-01-03
QEMU 4.2 Released With Many Improvements For Linux Virtualization   Virtualization   2019-12-13
GNU Binutils 2.33.1 Released With Support For Newer Arm Cortex CPUs, SVE2/TME/MVE   GNU   2019-10-12
Fedora 32 Planning To Ship With GNU Binutils 2.33   Fedora   2019-10-04
Arm Talks Up Their BFloat16 / BF16 Support For Upcoming Processors   Arm   2019-08-30
GCC 10 Lands Support For -march=tigerlake & -march=cooperlake   GNU   2019-08-20
LLVM/Clang 9.0 Merges Support For Intel "Cooperlake" CPU Target   LLVM   2019-06-07
Intel's BFloat16 Support Plumbed Into GCC 10 & LLVM Clang 9 Compilers   Programming   2019-05-10
Intel Prepares GCC Compiler Support For BFloat16   Intel   2019-04-13
GNU Gets Gas'ed Up For Intel BFloat16 Support   GNU   2019-04-06
Intel Publishes Whitepaper On New BFloat16 Floating-Point Format For Future CPUs   Intel   2018-11-14
Linux 4.6-rc3 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2016-04-10