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Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks - 88-core monster competes with or beats Epyc and Xeon in selected tests

… Phoronix was invited to NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters to test the upcoming 88-core CPUs. …

May 27, 2026 · Zak Killian

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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden

… Intel i486, AMD Elan SoCs, and AMD Geode CPUs also put out to pasture We reported a month ago that Linux devs had started to remove support for the 37-year-old Intel i486 CPU in patches destined for the Linux 7.1 kernel. …

May 10, 2026 · Mark Tyson