AArch64 is the official name of the 64-bit ARM architecture.

AArch64 Articles & Reviews

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU   Software   2024-02-27
Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon   Processors   2023-12-11
GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers For The Apple M2 On Linux   Software   2022-09-01
Amazon Graviton3 Benchmarks - Nice Performance Uplift With AWS EC2 C7g   Processors   2022-05-24
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance   Operating Systems   2022-02-07
Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Continues In The Right Direction For AArch64   Operating Systems   2021-10-28
LLVM Clang 12 Leading Over GCC 11 Compiler Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake   Software   2021-06-04
AMD/Intel Benchmarks: Building The Mainline Linux x86_64 Kernel With LLVM Clang   Software   2019-09-12
Extensive Benchmarks Looking At AMD Znver1 GCC 9 Performance, EPYC Compiler Tuning   Software   2019-02-20
GCC 8/9 vs. LLVM Clang 7/8 Compiler Performance On AArch64   Software   2019-02-12
Trying Out LLVM 4.0's LLD Linker On Ubuntu 17.04 vs. GNU LD, GNU Gold   Software   2017-03-16
Benchmarking The Low-Cost PINE 64+ ARM Single Board Computer   Computers   2016-03-26

AArch64 Linux & Open-Source News

Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries   Mozilla   2024-04-19
FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s   Linux Gaming   2024-04-15
GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support   GNU   2024-04-11
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI   Multimedia   2024-04-05
OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers   BSD   2024-04-05
ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9   Arm   2024-03-15
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers   GNU   2024-03-11
Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust   Linux Kernel   2024-03-10
FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations   Linux Gaming   2024-03-05
Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro   Microsoft   2024-02-25
Intel's OIDn 2.2 Released With Meteor Lake GPU Support, Better CPU Performance   Intel   2024-02-17
FEX 2402 Brings More Performance Improvements For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64   Linux Gaming   2024-02-13
Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9   Arm   2024-02-12
Eclipse OpenJ9 0.43 Released With New Options, Updated Compilers For Release Binaries   Programming   2024-02-06
LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions   LLVM   2024-02-05
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
Intel Open Image Denoise Rolls Out Metal Support, Expanded AArch64 Support   Intel   2024-02-02
LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23   LLVM   2024-01-29
GNU Binutils 2.42 Brings Support For New Intel CPU Extensions: APX, AVX10.1 & More   GNU   2024-01-29
Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation   WINE   2024-01-18
Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40   Fedora   2024-01-17
Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues   WINE   2024-01-12
EROFS Adds Sub-Page Compressed Data Support To Help Out Android & ARM64 Servers   Linux Storage   2024-01-12
Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch   Fedora   2024-01-11
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs   Arm   2024-01-11
GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support   GNU   2024-01-10
GNU Linux-libre 6.7 Cleans Up Graphics Driver Blobs, Addresses New Drivers   Linux Kernel   2024-01-08
OpenBLAS 0.3.26 Brings More x86_64 Optimizations, Better LoongArch64 & ARM64   Programming   2024-01-07
Newlib 4.4 Released With Long Double Support On i386 / AArch64 / x86_64 & Xtensa Port   Programming   2024-01-04
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023   Microsoft   2024-01-03
Rav1e 0.7.0 Released For Xiph.Org's Latest Rust-Based AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2023-12-31
Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon - Likely For Linux 6.8   Intel   2023-12-07
Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly   Fedora   2023-12-06
FEX 2312 Brings More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Games/Apps On AArch64   Free Software   2023-12-04
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights   Phoronix   2023-12-01
Intel Speeds Up ISPC Via LLVM/Clang LTO   Intel   2023-11-15
Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver   Intel   2023-11-11
RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks   RISC-V   2023-11-10
FEX 2311 Brings More AVX Optimizations, Preparations For Better Performance   Free Software   2023-11-08
Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows Apps On AArch64 Wine   WINE   2023-11-06
Mesa 23.3-rc2 Released With Fixes For Zink, Rusticl, RADV & Other Drivers   Mesa   2023-11-01
GNU Linux-libre 6.6-gnu Released For Those Wanting A Stripped Down Kernel   GNU   2023-10-30
Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT)   RISC-V   2023-10-24
Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping   Raspberry Pi   2023-10-23
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers   SUSE   2023-10-13
Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration   WINE   2023-10-09
Intel oneDNN 3.3 Brings More Performance Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids / AMX   Intel   2023-10-07
FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend   Linux Gaming   2023-10-06
Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 Rebuilds AArch64 Packages Due To That Nasty GCC Bug   Arm   2023-10-01
HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux   Hardware   2023-09-20
GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results   Oracle   2023-09-20
LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features   LLVM   2023-09-19
AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library   WINE   2023-09-05
Armbian 23.08 Released With Work-In-Progress ThinkPad X13s Support, New SBCs   Operating Systems   2023-09-04
New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6   RISC-V   2023-09-01
Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2   Arm   2023-08-30
Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs   Google   2023-08-29
Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs   Arm   2023-08-27
Box64 0.2.4 Released - Some x86-64 Games Now Playable On RISC-V   Linux Gaming   2023-08-19
Orange Pi 5 Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2023-08-19
Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks   Operating Systems   2023-08-16
FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux"   Free Software   2023-08-06
AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V   Radeon   2023-07-28
FreeBSD Working On Support For LinuxBoot, Going From 256 To 1024 CPU Core Limit   BSD   2023-07-27
The Open64 Compiler Seeing Some Recent Changes, clang2whirl Clang Open64 Front-End   Programming   2023-07-21
System76 Begins Publishing "Virgo" Laptop PCB Design Specs, Confirms Intel Raptor Lake   Hardware   2023-07-11
Wine-Based Hangover 8.11 Begins Integrating FEX Emulator Support   WINE   2023-07-09
LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector Extensions   Hardware   2023-06-30
Cloud Hypervisor 33 Released With TDX Fix, New D-Bus API   Virtualization   2023-06-30
NVIDIA CUDA 12.2 Released With Linux HMM Support   NVIDIA   2023-06-28
Linux 6.5 On AArch64 Sees New Extensions, KPTI Cleanup   Arm   2023-06-27
GNU Linux-libre 6.4 Released For Stripping Out Possible Binary Blob Dependencies   GNU   2023-06-26
New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds   LLVM   2023-06-25
LLVM 17 Lands Arm Neoverse-V2 Scheduling Model   Arm   2023-06-15
Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support   Debian   2023-06-10
Hangover 0.8.9 Released For Running More Windows Games/Apps On ARM Linux   WINE   2023-06-02
PostgreSQL 16 Reaches Beta With Performance Improvements - Including SIMD for x86 & ARM   Programming   2023-05-25
AlmaLinux 8.8 Released For Those Relying On RHEL8   Operating Systems   2023-05-18
Rocky Linux 9.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Support, AArch64 64kb Page Size Kernel   Operating Systems   2023-05-16
Intel oneAPI's Embree 4.1 Brings Its Ray-Tracing Library To 64-bit ARM   Intel   2023-05-12
AlmaLinux 9.2 Released As Free Alternative To Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2   Operating Systems   2023-05-11
FEX 2305 Emulator On ARM Adds More AVX Instructions, Optimizations   Free Software   2023-05-07
EROFS Receives Some Useful Improvements With Linux 6.4   Linux Storage   2023-04-30
GCC 13.1 Released With Modula-2 Language Support, More C23/C++23 Features   GNU   2023-04-26
Initial Apple M2 Support & Other 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 6.4   Arm   2023-04-25
GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu Cleans Up New ath12k WiFi Driver, Other New Additions   Linux Kernel   2023-04-23
FreeBSD Has A Great Start To 2023 With Numerous Accomplishments   BSD   2023-04-21
Solus Linux Plans New Direction Built Off Serpent OS   Operating Systems   2023-04-18
Eclipse OpenJ9 0.37 Released - But It Shouldn't Be Used In Production   Programming   2023-04-18
Intel's OpenGL & Vulkan Linux Drivers Now Build On ARM   Intel   2023-04-17
Hangover 0.8.5 Released For Running Windows Apps/Games With Wine On AArch64/POWER   WINE   2023-04-07
Updated SUSE ALP Prototype Focuses On Confidential Computing   SUSE   2023-04-03
Intel oneDNN 3.1 Further Optimizing For Sapphire Rapids, Starts Tuning For Sierra Forest   Intel   2023-03-31
Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 "SME2" Support Lands In GNU Binutils   Arm   2023-03-30
AmpereOne Sees Last Minute Compiler Tuning Ahead Of GCC 13   GNU   2023-03-27
LLVM 16.0 Released With New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features   LLVM   2023-03-18
Box86 v0.3 & Box64 v0.2.2 Released For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Arm   Free Software   2023-03-10
Embree 4.0.1 Released With Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series Support   Intel   2023-03-10
Hangover 0.8.3 Released For Enjoying Windows x86/x86_64 Apps/Games On Linux ARM64   WINE   2023-03-09
FEX 2303 Released For Improving Linux x86_64 Gaming On ARM64   Linux Gaming   2023-03-06
Intel ISPC 1.19 Released With Sapphire Rapids Support, Data Center GPU Max   Intel   2023-02-28
Armbian 23.02 ARM/RISC-V OS Released With Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel   Operating Systems   2023-02-27
Linux 6.3 ARM64 Changes Land With SME 2 & SME 2.1 Support   Arm   2023-02-25
openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta Released For Testing   SUSE   2023-02-21
GNU Linux-libre 6.2 Continues The De-Blobbing Battle   GNU   2023-02-20
Plans Being Drafted To Upstream Intel's New "Xe" Linux Graphics Driver   Intel   2023-02-20
GNU Debugger 13.1 Brings LoongArch & C-SKY Debugging On Linux, Zstd Debug Sections   GNU   2023-02-19
Linux 6.3 Supports The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 & Other New High-End Arm SoCs   Arm   2023-02-18
RISC-V Linux Patches Start On "zisslpcfi" Support For Control-Flow Integrity   RISC-V   2023-02-13
Hangover Project Restarted To Run Windows 32-bit/64-bit Apps On ARM64/PPC64 & More   WINE   2023-02-11
Gentoo Had A Busy 2022 With A Weekly LiveGUI ISO, Gpkg Binary Packages For Portage   Operating Systems   2023-02-10
Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems   Apple   2023-02-07
Linux 6.3 Preparing Support For Arm's Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2)   Arm   2023-02-06
Arm Helping With AArch64 Rust Linux Kernel Enablement   Arm   2023-01-25
Mold 1.10 Released With Few New Features For This High Speed Linker   Programming   2023-01-20
GNU Binutils 2.40 Released With AMD Zen 4 & Upcoming Intel Instructions, Zstd Support   GNU   2023-01-14
FEX-Emu 2301 Working More On AVX Emulation Atop Arm, New AArch64 Code Emitter   Linux Gaming   2023-01-06
Mold 1.9 Released With Support For More CPU Architectures   Programming   2023-01-06
Compiling The Linux Kernel With LLVM's Clang Matured In 2022   LLVM   2023-01-05
Google Moves Forward With HugeTLB HGM For The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2023-01-05
GNU Binutils 2.40 Branched With Zstd Support, Zen 4, New Intel Instructions   GNU   2023-01-02
AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year   Phoronix   2022-12-30
Ruby 3.2 Released With WebAssembly Support, Production-Grade YJIT   Free Software   2022-12-25
Linux MGLRU Results Are Looking Great On Ampere Altra   Linux Kernel   2022-12-21
Intel Releases oneDNN 3.0 In Advance Of Sapphire Rapids   Intel   2022-12-20
Ampere Computing Joins Intel, AMD, Arm, Microsoft & Others On The Cloud Hypervisor   Virtualization   2022-12-16
KVM Preps For New Intel CPU Instructions With Linux 6.2   Virtualization   2022-12-16
AArch64 Architecture Code Improvements Land In Linux 6.2   Arm   2022-12-15
Linux 6.2 Graphics Changes: Intel Arc Graphics Stable, Initial NVIDIA RTX 30 Acceleration   Linux Kernel   2022-12-13
GNU Linux-libre 6.1-gnu Deblobs More Network & GPU Drivers   GNU   2022-12-12
The Many New Features On The Horizon For Linux 6.2   Linux Kernel   2022-12-09
Modula-2 Language Frontend Patches Ready For Merging Into GCC 13   GNU   2022-12-06
FEX-Emu 2212 Improves x86_64 Game Support On Arm, Now Supports Older Radeon GPUs   Linux Gaming   2022-12-06
openSUSE's D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration   SUSE   2022-12-06
Fedora 38 Cleared To Produce "Mobility Phosh" Spins   Fedora   2022-12-05
Intel oneDNN 3.0 Being Prepared With More Performance Optimizations   Intel   2022-12-03
NixOS 22.11 Released With Better AArch64 Support, NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Driver Option   Operating Systems   2022-12-01
SVT-AV1 1.4 & Rav1e 0.6 Released For Open-Source AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2022-12-01
Rust-Written Redox OS 0.8 Released With i686 Support, Audio & Multi-Display Working   Operating Systems   2022-11-23
Intel Mesa Driver Changes Land For Building On Non-x86 CPUs   Intel   2022-11-23
Wasmer 3.0 Released As The Latest "Universal WebAssembly Runtime"   Programming   2022-11-21
Cloud Hypervisor 28 Released As The Project's First LTS Version   Virtualization   2022-11-18
Box64 0.2 Gets DXVK 2.0 Running, Many Other Improvements For Emulating x86_64 On Arm   Linux Gaming   2022-11-17
GNU Binutils Lands New "SFrame" Format Support For Simple Stack Unwinding   GNU   2022-11-17
Ampere-1A CPU Support Added To GCC 13   Arm   2022-11-14
Linux 6.2 Implementing Dynamic Shadow Call Stack Support For AArch64   Arm   2022-11-14
AMD Joins The Cloud Hypervisor Project Started By Intel   Intel   2022-11-08
Fedora 38 Looking At A Phosh Image For Mobile Devices   Fedora   2022-11-08
Linux 6.2 AMDGPU Driver Gets Newer GPUs Working On Arm, SR-IOV Fixes For RDNA3/GFX11   Radeon   2022-11-05