Codeweavers Joins the Khronos Group Along with IKEA VKMS Coming in Linux 4.19 Is One of the Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 15 August 2018 at 05:25 AM EDT

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Intel Begins Teasing Their Discrete Graphics Card CodeWeavers Joins The Khronos Group Along With IKEA VKMS Coming In Linux 4.19 Is One Of The Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 15 August 2018 at 05:25 AM EDT. 12 Comments Best GSoC & Outreachy Projects Of The Year Crypto Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 In addition to the many technical accomplishments of Khronos this week at Kernel, Speck Is Still In The Kernel SIGGRAPH 2018, they were also celebrating the milestone of crossing 140 members to this industry standards group. Mesa 18.2-RC3 Released With Two Dozen Fixes The Khronos Group membership count has largely stayed about the same in QEMU 3.0 Brings Spectre V4 Mitigation, recent years as while they get new members, it's largely been through OpenGL ES Support In SDL Front-End acquisitions within the industry that their headcount hasn't grown too much. But recently DRM Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 With they welcomed several new members to this standards group developing Vulkan, OpenCL, New VKMS Driver, Intel Icelake Work OpenGL, OpenXR, SPIR-V, etc. The Linux Benchmarking Continues On The Threadripper 2950X & 2990WX Following Magic Leap joining Khronos, other recent members include Fraunhofer, DisplayLink, and even... IKEA. IKEA Communications is now part of Khronos. CodeWeavers Joins The Khronos Group Along With IKEA Updated Vega 20 Open-Source Driver Patches Posted, Including PSP & PowerPlay Support

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Another name most Phoronix readers should find familiar that's now part of Khronos is An Early Look At The L1 Terminal Fault CodeWeavers. Yep, the Wine-makers at CodeWeavers are onboard. This shouldn't be too "L1TF" Performance Impact On Virtual surprising but in fact just surprising it took them so many years before joining. But the Machines timing makes sense now that CodeWeavers is developing VKD3D that maps Direct3D 12 to A Look At The Windows 10 vs. Linux Vulkan and also employing this approach on macOS as well via the MoltenVK project. Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX CodeWeavers also remains involved obviously with Wine's D3D to OpenGL work, etc. So it's AMD Threadripper 2990WX Linux great to see CodeWeavers now a member of The Khronos Group. Benchmarks: The 32-Core / 64-Thread Beast AMD Threadripper 2990WX Cooling Those curious about the Khronos members or the requirements for joining this organization, Performance - Testing Five Heatsinks & Two details can be found at Khronos.org. Water Coolers AMD Threadripper 2950X Offers Great Linux COM Express Longevity Support - Intel Premier Partner Performance At $900 USD OPEN System on Modules with the Latest Intel Xeon, Core and Atom processors adlinktech.com/COM+Express

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