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

AArch64 Articles & Reviews

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

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
Intel Clarifies HECI Usage For Arc Graphics' GSC   Intel   2022-11-04
LLVM's BOLT Flipped On By Default For Linux x86/AArch64 Test Releases   LLVM   2022-11-04
Rust UEFI Firmware Targets Promoted To Tier-2 Status   Programming   2022-11-03
FEX 2211 Emulator Gets God of War & Other Modern AAA Games Running On Linux AArch64   Linux Gaming   2022-11-03
Ampere Altra SMpro Hardware Monitoring Set For Linux 6.2   Hardware   2022-10-27
Intel Sends Out Meteor Lake & Sierra Forest Patches For The GCC Compiler   Intel   2022-10-14
FEX-Emu 2210 Eyes Emulating AVX On Arm, Various Fixes   Linux Gaming   2022-10-13
Linux 6.1 Drops BF16 Support For Cortex-A510 Due To Hardware Bug   Arm   2022-10-12
LLVM Clang 15 Delivers Some Small x86_64 Performance Improvements But Mostly Flat   LLVM   2022-10-11
GNU Linux-libre 6.0 Released After More Blob Cleaning   Linux Kernel   2022-10-03
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2022-10-01
Intel, Microsoft & Arm Continue Advancing The Cloud-Hypervisor With v27 Released   Virtualization   2022-09-30
Intel oneDNN 2.7 Released With Sapphire Rapids & DG2 Optimizations, AMD GPU Bringup   Intel   2022-09-28
Pyston 2.3.5 Released As Speedy Alternative To CPython   Programming   2022-09-27
Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1   Linux Kernel   2022-09-25
Apple M2 Support Added To Upstream LLVM Along With The A15, A16   LLVM   2022-09-23
OpenMandriva Speeding Up Their AArch64 Linux Development With Ampere Altra   Operating Systems   2022-09-20
Rust UEFI Firmware Targets Look For A Promotion To Tier-2   Programming   2022-09-12
FLAC 1.4 Released With AArch64 Optimizations, Faster x86_64 FMA   Multimedia   2022-09-11
Latest Mesa AGX Work Points To More Apple M1/M2 Similarities With PowerVR Graphics   Apple   2022-09-07
Mesa CI Begins Making Use Of Mold Linker For "Substantial" Performance Improvement   Mesa   2022-08-24
Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots   Linux Kernel   2022-08-22
Linux 6.0 Adds EFI Mirrored Memory & ACPI PRM For 64-bit Arm   Linux Kernel   2022-08-10
GNU Linux-libre 5.19-gnu Released - Continues The Uphill Battle Against Firmware Blobs   Linux Kernel   2022-08-01
Linux 5.19 Released - Linus Torvalds Released It From An Apple Silicon MacBook   Linux Kernel   2022-07-31
ARM64 With Linux 5.20 Improves Its Meltdown Mitigation KPTI Code   Arm   2022-07-30
Linux 5.20 To Enable THP SWAP On 64-bit Arm For Better Swapping Performance   Arm   2022-07-26
GNU C Library Finally Adds arc4random Functions For Linux   GNU   2022-07-23
Arm Working On Function Multi-Versioning For GCC   Arm   2022-07-19
Rocky Linux 9.0 Released As Free RHEL 9.0 Alternative   Red Hat   2022-07-14
FEX-Emu 2207 Continues Work On Running Steam Play Games On 64-bit Arm   Free Software   2022-07-07
liburing 2.2 Released For Easier IO_uring Usage On Linux   Linux Storage   2022-06-26
RHEL-Based AlmaLinux Announces "ALBS" Access For Its Public Build System   Operating Systems   2022-06-20
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Makes Progress On Driver Porting, Plans For Usable RISC-V Images   Operating Systems   2022-06-09
Glibc Adds Arm SVE-Optimized Memory Copy - Can "Significantly" Help Performance   Arm   2022-06-08
Arm Looking To Make It Easier To Run Docker On AArch64 Linux   Arm   2022-06-07
macOS 13 Adding Ability To Use Rosetta In ARM Linux VMs For Speedy x86_64 Linux Binaries   Apple   2022-06-06
FEX-Emu 2206 Released For Enjoying x86/x86_64 Apps & Games On Arm   Linux Gaming   2022-06-05
AmpereOne Announced As Ampere's In-House AArch64 Cloud Native Processor Design   Arm   2022-05-26
AlmaLinux 9.0 Released As Community, Free Alternative To Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0   Operating Systems   2022-05-26
Nearly Half A Million Lines Of New Graphics Driver Code Sent In For Linux 5.19   Linux Kernel   2022-05-25
ARMv9 Scalable Matrix Extension Support Lands In Linux 5.19   Arm   2022-05-25
GNU Linux-Libre 5.18-gnu Continues Its Battle Against Binary Blobs   GNU   2022-05-23
PostgreSQL 15 Performance Improving With Faster Sorting, Many New Features   Programming   2022-05-22
Google Posts Latest Code For KCFI As Better Control-Flow Integrity For The Linux Kernel   Linux Security   2022-05-16
Ubuntu Core 22 Beta Released For IoT & Edge Devices   Ubuntu   2022-05-13
Microsoft Issues First Production Release Of Its CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution   Microsoft   2022-05-09
Rust-Written Redox OS 0.7 Released With New Bootloader, RedoxFS Goes CoW   Operating Systems   2022-04-29
Intel Preps Some Big Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 5.19   Intel   2022-04-27
Ubuntu Outlines How To Use Its Real-Time Kernel Beta - It Requires Ubuntu Advantage   Ubuntu   2022-04-27
GraalVM CE 22.1 Released With Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support   Oracle   2022-04-26
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta   Ubuntu   2022-04-21
AlmaLinux 9 Beta Released For Testing As No-Cost RHEL9 Alternative   Operating Systems   2022-04-19
FEX-Emu 2204 Released With Fixes For Running x86/x86_64 Binaries On AArch64   Arm   2022-04-19
Box86 0.2.6 / Box64 0.1.8 Released With Working Steam & Steam Play On Non-x86 CPUs   Free Software   2022-04-16
Huawei Working On UEFI Mirrored Memory Support For Linux AArch64   Arm   2022-04-16
Cloud-Hypervisor 23.0 Released With Support For Intel AMX   Virtualization   2022-04-14
LLVM 14.0.1 Released To Provide Many Bug Fixes   LLVM   2022-04-13
ADLINK Launches Ampere Altra Developer Platform, Starting At $3999 USD   Arm   2022-04-07
DRM-Misc-Next Sends In First Batch Of Graphics/Display Driver Changes For Linux 5.19   Linux Kernel   2022-04-07
FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.1, WiFi Updates   BSD   2022-04-01
Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1   Phoronix   2022-03-31
Linux 5.18 Hardens The Kernel For 64-bit Arm With Shadow Call Stack Support   Arm   2022-03-28
Tesla FSD Chip Added To Upstream Linux 5.18 Along With The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W   Arm   2022-03-24
Linux 5.18 Brings Many Networking Changes, New WiFi / Wired Hardware Support   Linux Networking   2022-03-24
LLVM / Clang 14.0 Prepared For Release With With Armv9, BOLT, More C++20 & C23   LLVM   2022-03-23
GNU Linux-Libre 5.17 Released For Free Software Purists   GNU   2022-03-22
Linux 5.18 Scheduler Updates Improve NUMA Balancing For AMD EPYC Servers   Linux Kernel   2022-03-21
Asahi Linux Issues First Alpha Release For Running Linux On Apple Silicon   Apple   2022-03-19
Arm Posts GCC Tuning Patches For Neoverse-N2 & New Neoverse-Demeter   Arm   2022-03-16
The 64-bit Arm Updates Submitted Ahead Of Linux 5.18   Arm   2022-03-16
AMD Posts New Linux Code For Zen 4's UAI Feature   AMD   2022-03-10
BoringTun v0.4 Released For CloudFlare's Rust-Based WireGuard   Linux Networking   2022-03-08
FEX 2203 Emulator Released With RdRand & 3DNow Support, More JIT Work   Linux Gaming   2022-03-06
Cloud-Hypervisor 22.0 Released With New Features For This Open-Source VMM   Virtualization   2022-03-04
VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64   Virtualization   2022-03-03
Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February   Phoronix   2022-03-01