Excavator Articles & Reviews |
| Ubuntu 25.10 amd64v3 Benchmarks: Some Minor & Rare Performance Advantages For Desktop Workloads | Operating Systems | 2025-10-31 |
Excavator Linux & Open-Source News |
| Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10 | Ubuntu | 2026-06-08 |
| Fedora Yet To Decide On x86_64-v3 Packages For Fedora Linux 45 | Fedora | 2026-05-05 |
| Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages | Fedora | 2026-04-15 |
| Ubuntu Announces Architecture Variants: Ubuntu 25.10 Gets x86_64-v3 Packages | Ubuntu | 2025-10-30 |
| Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-05 |
| Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A. | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-17 |
| OpenJPH v0.16 Now Using AVX2 For Faster HTJ2K/JPEG2000 | Programming | 2024-09-09 |
| New AVX2 Code Helps FFmpeg With VVC Decoding Performance | Multimedia | 2024-08-31 |
| Mozilla's Llamafile 0.8.2 Scores Big With New AVX2 Performance Optimizations | AI | 2024-05-09 |
| Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud | Ubuntu | 2024-03-27 |
| Gentoo Linux Begins Offering x86-64-v3 Binary Packages | Operating Systems | 2024-02-04 |
| CachyOS Experimenting With x86-64-v4 Repository For AVX-512 Optimized Packages | Operating Systems | 2024-01-29 |
| Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too | Operating Systems | 2024-01-20 |
| Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10 | Red Hat | 2024-01-03 |
| SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform Considers Requiring AVX-Capable x86_64 CPUs | SUSE | 2022-07-06 |
| AVX2 Tuning Paying Off Big Time For Dav1d 10b/12b Video Decode | Multimedia | 2021-05-17 |
| Dav1d 0.9 Released With AVX2-Tuned 10b/12b Decode For Big Speed Boost | Multimedia | 2021-05-16 |
| GCC 11 Squeezes In Another Zen 3 Optimization | GNU | 2021-03-18 |
| Arch Linux Developers Discuss Idea Of Providing An x86-64-v3 Port | Arch Linux | 2021-03-16 |
| AMD Announces Ryzen/Athlon 3000 C-Series For Chromebooks | AMD | 2020-09-22 |
| 5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features | LLVM | 2020-06-28 |
| RHEL9 Likely To Drop Older x86_64 CPUs, Fedora Can Better Prepare With "Enterprise Linux Next" | Fedora | 2020-03-27 |
| Linux Will Finally Stop Flickering With AMD Stoney Ridge On 4K Displays | AMD | 2020-02-20 |
| Clear Linux Could Soon Be Faster Within Containers On AVX2 Systems | Clear Linux | 2019-07-17 |
| Some AMD CPUs Might Lose RdRand Randomness Following Suspend/Resume | AMD | 2019-05-07 |
| Coreboot Finally Sees Zen/Ryzen Support In The Form Of Picasso APU Enablement | Coreboot | 2019-04-23 |
| Linux's ALSA HDA Code Finally Seeing AMD Stoney Ridge Support | AMD | 2018-11-29 |
| Hwmon Updates Sent To The Kernel Finally Complete AMD Excavator Temperature Readings | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-22 |
| Linux Will Finally Report Temperatures For Certain AMD Excavator CPUs | AMD | 2018-09-03 |
| Systemd Will Now Use RdRand Directly If The Kernel Can't Deliver Entropy | systemd | 2018-08-26 |
| Clear Linux Working On AVX2-Optimized Qt Toolkit | Clear Linux | 2018-06-25 |
| Linux 4.18 To Report CPU Temps Finally On Stoney & Bristol Ridge | AMD | 2018-06-04 |
| AMD Stoney Ridge Audio Supported By Linux 4.15 | AMD | 2017-11-14 |
| Lenovo Announces New ThinkPads With AMD APUs | AMD | 2017-09-07 |
| FFmpeg Has Seen Some AVX2 Optimizations For VP9 Decoding | Multimedia | 2017-08-27 |
| More AMD Stoney Ridge Code Lands In Coreboot | AMD | 2017-06-26 |
| Google Kahlee: The First AMD-Powered Chromebook | AMD | 2017-04-06 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 CPUs Shipping 2 March, Pre-Order Today | AMD | 2017-02-22 |
| AMD Stoney Ridge Support Lands In Coreboot | Coreboot | 2016-11-08 |
| AMD Releases Two New Kaveri APUs & An Excavator-Based CPU | AMD | 2016-02-02 |
| AMD A10-8700P "Carrizo" Linux Laptop Testing | AMD | 2015-11-29 |
| Intel Is Working On Faster Linux Encryption For AVX2 CPUs, Up To 5.8x Throughput | Intel | 2015-10-29 |
| AMD Announces New R-Series Embedded SoCs | AMD | 2015-10-21 |
| AMD Is Ready To Land Zen Processor Support In The GCC Compiler | AMD | 2015-10-04 |
| Jim Keller Leaves AMD, Again | AMD | 2015-09-18 |
| Interested In Linux Benchmarks Of The AMD "Carrizo" A8-7410? | AMD | 2015-08-21 |
| AMD's Carrizo Launches: New Laptops In The Weeks Ahead | AMD | 2015-06-03 |
| AMD's New Carrizo Graphics PCI IDs | AMD | 2015-04-21 |
| AMD Starts Linux Enablement On Next-Gen "Zen" Architecture | AMD | 2015-03-17 |
| AMD Talks Up The Carrizo APU At ISSCC | AMD | 2015-02-24 |
| AMDKFD Driver Does More Prepping For Carrizo / VI APUs | AMD | 2015-01-13 |
| AMDKFD Linux Driver Begins Preparing For VI Carrizo APUs | AMD | 2015-01-08 |
| AMD's Carrizo Gets Temperature Monitoring On Linux | AMD | 2014-10-09 |
| The Features To Find With The Imminent Release Of LLVM/Clang 3.5 | LLVM | 2014-09-02 |
| Clang Now Handles AMD Excavator "Bdver4" Tuning | LLVM | 2014-05-02 |
| GCC 4.9.0 Released, Brings Many Compiler Features | GNU | 2014-04-22 |
| Bringing Major Features, GCC 4.9 RC1 Has Been Released | GNU | 2014-04-11 |
| GCC 4.9 Is Working Towards A Possible Release In April | GNU | 2014-03-19 |
| AMD Excavator Enablement Lands For GCC 4.9 | AMD | 2013-11-18 |
| GCC 4.9 Continues Piling On New Features | GNU | 2013-11-17 |
| AMD Publishes Bdver4 (Excavator) GCC Compiler Patch | AMD | 2013-11-13 |
