This is really cool. I've been excitedly watching how wgpu is developing. I don't have much graphics experience outside of one ogl but it looks like it's turning into something seriously neat.
Thanks to Alyssa Rosenzweig and the Panfrost team for reverse-engineering the Mali GPU.
We can start moving out of the Intel/AMD backdoors and start to equip ourselves and our communities with trustworthy computers : ARM-based for now, RISC-V-based for later.
A new graphics library with GPU acceleration? That's a pretty big deal (migrating from Cairo to Skia). No wonder they renamed 6.5 to 7. I'm one of the weirdos who uses LO for wargaming maps and other graphics, so it's kind of exciting to see this.
I took the ambitious part to be changing how the gpu was connected to the rest of the system. Seems like a decent jump although not exactly risky.
But the conclusion sums it up well:
> Meteor Lake abandons the familiar Sandy Bridge client design that characterized Intel’s consumer CPU offerings for more than a decade. In its place, we get a flexible chiplet strategy that lets Intel pile on accelerators in response to market demands.
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