AMD Zen 3 processors are getting a little Linux love ahead of their release later this year, seemingly confirming a significant change from the existing Zen CPU architectures we've already seen. AMD ...

If you read that headline and thought, "what the heck, Zen 4 just came out," I have bad news for you, friend. The Ryzen 7000 series processors for desktop and their Socket AM5 platform came out last ...

Recent patches to the Linux kernel have added support for four new numerical ranges of AMD Family 26 processors, also known as Zen 5 CPUs. This development, confirmed by sources including Phoronix, ...

AMD has officially confirmed a high-severity security vulnerability in its new Zen 5–based CPUs, and it’s a nasty one because it hits cryptography right at the source: the hardware random number ...

Most synthetic benchmarks on Linux exhibit this phenomenon, including Stress-NG, which experienced a 26.6% decline in CPU performance when all security measures were turned on. However, security ...

In other recent Linux news, the developer of Horizon Linux is working to bring native support for Nintendo Switch games to Linux (it’s still in the very early stages), Debian Linux turns 29 today, and ...

Forward-looking: The Linux kernel is a great gauge for future hardware, as the massive code base is routinely updated to support hardware months in advance, sometimes even before it has been formally ...