Zen 6 Kernel Patches Put Numbers on a Third Core Type
AMD's kernel patches put the first numbers on Zen 6's new low-power core, Intel's own parts store names LGA1954 alongside Nova Lake-S, and G.Skill brings EXPO ULL to a mainstream AM5 memory kit.
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AMD Clears 30 Percent of Client x86 While DDR4 Sells Intel’s Older Chips
Mercury Research put AMD past 30 percent of client x86 for the first time, and two Intel chips returned to Amazon's top ten. DDR5 pricing links the two.
GeForce On Streams Today With DLSS 4.5 Expected, and Zen 6 Reaches Linux Early
NVIDIA's Gamescom stream airs with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction widely expected, and AMD's Zen 6 overclocking plumbing reaches the Linux kernel months ahead of the silicon.
A Two-Instruction Gap in AMD’s Spectre v2 Defense, Now Closed
MIT researchers found a two-instruction timing gap that let interrupts defeat AMD's Safe RET mitigation on Zen 1 through Zen 4. The kernel fix was already merged before disclosure; separately, Linux 7.2-rc6 untangles a Zen 5/Zen 6 ID mixup.
AM5 Gets Its First Open-Source Firmware, and Zen 6 Starts Landing in Linux
One retail B850 board now boots on coreboot and openSIL, with a very short CPU list, while Zen 6's per-core performance floors are already merged in mainline Linux.