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Milk-V Titan Brings RISC-V Performance in Mini-ITX Form with UltraRISC UR-DP1000

Milk-V has revealed early details of the upcoming Milk-V Titan, a high-performance RISC-V platform built in a compact Mini-ITX form factor. It features the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 processor, which complies with the RV64GC(BHX) standard and supports hardware virtualization via the RV64 Hypervisor extension.

AAEON Launches World’s First NanoCOM-MTU with 28W Intel Core Ultra CPUs on COM Express Type 10

AAEON has introduced the NanoCOM-MTU, described as the first COM Express Type 10 module to feature 28W Intel Core Ultra processors. Designed for compact edge computing, industrial robotics, and embedded systems, the module delivers high-performance processing in a space-efficient 84 mm by 55 mm footprint.

ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications

The announcement highlights that the developer kit is built around the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module, available in Industrial, 64GB, and 32GB configurations. Each variant integrates the NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture and Arm Cortex-A78AE CPUs, delivering up to eight times the AI performance of the Jetson AGX Xavier platform.

(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container.

NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration.

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VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests

VirtualBox 7.1.12 is here about five weeks after VirtualBox 7.1.10 and promises to add additional fixes to improve support for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel series for both Linux hosts and guests. Initial support for Linux kernel 6.16 landed in the previous update, VirtualBox 7.1.10.

Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable

Coming four months after Blender 4.4, the Blender 4.5 LTS release finally makes the Vulkan backend stable, improving its performance and also adding support for OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra, and other features. On Linux, the Vulkan backend requires NVIDIA 550 or later for NVIDIA GPUs and Mesa 25.3 or later for AMD GPUs.

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland

Coming two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.4.2, the KDE Plasma 6.4.3 release improves the automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland to no longer offer a default scale factor that’s only a little bit higher than 100%. Instead, it will now round the calculated default scale factor down to 100% if it would otherwise be only a little bit higher.

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China is Turning Down Apple and Microsoft, GNU/Linux on the Rise

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 31, 2023

THIS past week we wrote about India exiting Microsoft and China moving further away from its notorious alliance with Microsoft and Bill Gates (Microsoft's ambassador and lobbyist to the Communist Party).

As it turns out, based on some reports, Apple is losing Chinese consumers to Huawei and "iPhone 15 series saw a 6% decline in sales in its launch month compared with the prior year, according to data from market researcher GfK that covers end-consumer sales for all channels."

This mentions "Huawei Technologies’ return to the mobile arena spotlight as a key event in the period."

As noted two weeks ago in the sister site, Microsoft's share in devices in China had fallen to a flat 0.00%, according to statCounter.

Does this mean China is moving to GNU/Linux, as it vouched it would (several years ago)? Well, again, based on statCounter numbers the adoption of GNU/Linux in China grew a lot this past year (since altercations with the US and political crises). This unfortunate diplomatic development might work to the advantage of GNU/Linux, even if it causes conflicts and suffering. This past Sunday the release of Linux was delayed due to Chinese developers and companies. They're pushing their own hardware architecture. █

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