Nvidia Vera CPU Competes With AMD Epyc and Intel Xeon in Early Linux Tests
… The benchmarks were selected by Nvidia; however, we'll want to see less-biased test results to draw a firm conclusion. …
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Intel Drops Security Patch Benchmark Ban After Public Outcry
… To-date, the company has mostly reacted well, with good communication and prompt updates, but this week, it tried to gag anyone who applied a microcode patch under Linux to fix the Foreshadow flaw the most recent major security problem . …
Google's Edge TPU Debuts in New Development Board
… Google's web page for the Edge TPU project only states that the device is compatible with "Linux OS." This may be a typo in the documentation or a reference to a custom Linux distro that Google built itself. …
Intel Does Not Launch Different SSD Configurations Under the Same SKU
… Multiple sites published articles on the impact of the Spectre and Meltdown fixes on both Windows and Linux. …
Steam Machine beta kit arrives with top-tier specs and amazing packaging
… However, SteamOS is Linux-based, and doesn't have much in the way of choice at the moment. …
The state of web browsing in Windows 8
… The vast majority of all time spent in front of a PC is spent inside a web browser, usually surfing Facebook, YouTube, or Google -- and yet here we are, judging a beta product on the interaction between the legacy Desktop and newfangled Metro Start Screen, and threatening to leave it all behind in … …
Ubuntu Edge: The desktop-replacement smartphone that's doomed to fail
… Even if it does fail miserably, it lays the groundwork for an exciting new breed of converging post-PC devices -- and, ironically enough, we'd finally have a Linux desktop that's capable of gaining significant market share. …
Hands On With Nvidia's New Jetson Nano
… Nvidia benchmarks the Nano at 472 GFLOPS of compute performance while consuming as little as 5 watts. …