Intel Panther Lake Client & Clearwater Forest Data Center CPUs Get Early Support In Linux

Intel has added support for its next-gen Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs within the latest Linux GCC compiler patches.

Intel's Next-Gen Panther Lake & Clearwater Forest CPUs Recieve Early Support In Linux Patches

Now for those who are unaware of the GCC compiler, in layman's words, it is known as one of the oldest compilers in the market, with a wider adoption in the industry as a whole. What makes GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers interesting is their open-source approach, which allows individual developers as well as corporate ones to work together on a united platform. We have previously reported on Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPU support being added within the LLVM compiler, and the integration of support for Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs defines Intel's commitment to enhancing open-source resources.

The information is disclosed by Phoronix, which has revealed Team Blue's plans to bring in support for CPU families that are expected to drop by 2025. It is important to highlight that Intel has already provided support for upcoming Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Sierra Forest CPUs in GCC 14, making it ahead of the competition at least for now. AMD on the other end, is nowhere to be seen with next-gen CPU support at the GCC compiler, although Team Red has made strides at Linux's kernel, providing support for Zen 5 architecture.

+Intel Panther Lake CPU with 64-bit extensions, MOVBE, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT, AES, PREFETCHW, PCLMUL, RDRND, XSAVE, XSAVEC, XSAVES, XSAVEOPT, FSGSBASE, PTWRITE, RDPID, SGX, GFNI-SSE, CLWB, MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B, CLDEMOTE, WAITPKG, ADCX, AVX, AVX2, BMI, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT, PCONFIG, PKU, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, SERIALIZE, HRESET, KL, WIDEKL, AVX-VNNI, AVXIFMA, AVXVNNIINT8, AVXNECONVERT, CMPCCXADD, AVXVNNIINT16, SHA512, SM3, SM4 and PREFETCHI instruction set support.

Intel Clear Water Forest CPU with 64-bit extensions, MOVBE, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT, AES, PREFETCHW, PCLMUL, RDRND, XSAVE, XSAVEC, XSAVES, XSAVEOPT, FSGSBASE, PTWRITE, RDPID, SGX, GFNI-SSE, CLWB, MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B, CLDEMOTE, WAITPKG, ADCX, AVX, AVX2, BMI, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT, PCONFIG, PKU, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, SERIALIZE, HRESET, KL, WIDEKL, AVX-VNNI, AVXIFMA, AVXVNNIINT8, AVXNECONVERT, CMPCCXADD, AVXVNNIINT16, SHA512, SM3, SM4, USER_MSR and PREFETCHI instruction set support.

via Phoronix

Intel's Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs are still a long way, with their debut expected somewhere in 2025. The Intel Panther Lake CPUs will replace Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake on the client front while Clearwater Forest is the E-Core-only successor to Sierra Forest which debuts next year. We should appreciate Intel here for its "early" next-gen support, since it not only eradicates the possibility of potential bugs on launch but also aids open-source developers in digging out information from patches released by the company, ultimately revealing "conclusive" bits at some point.

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