A new RISC-V concept laptop design is in the works, known as the Balthazar Personal Computing Device. This laptop design is designed from the ground up to be a completely open-source laptop, that is cheap to buy and can be directly upgraded by the user themself. The laptop is not being sold directly by its…
“We are now the new NYCTrainSign captains,” he wrote. What remains to be seen is whether the comeback is too late for the group of design and tech aficionados who forked over up to $600 to buy signs they eagerly awaited but never received. “I need this” was a typical comment on the company’s once-active…
AMD has traditionally separated its Linux drivers into open-source and closed-source solutions, and the latter has outperformed the former for quite some time now. However, a new report from Phoronix reveals that the latest round of improvements to the RadeonSI workstation open-source graphics driver has resulted in a 10% performance uplift. The Linux Application Programming…
RISC-V has been one of the hottest topics in the world of computing, as the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) allows for extensive customization and is easy to understand, besides the whole open-source, license-free benefit. There’s even a project that designed a general-purpose GPU based on RISC-V ISA, and now we are witnessing a port of…
