It’s been more than four years since developer Gaël Duval announced plans to develop a fork of Google’s Android operating system that would strip away Google apps and services to make a more privacy-centric mobile operating system. Since then, /e/OS has come a long way. You can even buy phones that come with the software pre-installed.
Now Duval says that by the time the project celebrates its fifth birthday later this year, the platform might be mature enough to graduate from beta to stable with an /e/OS V1 release. The team is also working with phone makers including Fairphone and Terracube to bring more Murena-branded phones to the /e/OS shop.
In other tech news from around the web, NVIDIA has unveiled its next-gen GPU architecture, which will make its debut in the H100 graphics accelerator for data centers, as well as an updated Maxine SDK with support for GPU-accelerated audio AI features. And AMD has launched a few new chips for business-class laptops.
Here’s a roundup of recent stories:
Nearly five years after launching the /e/OS project to offer a de-Googled version of Android, Gaël Duval says next steps include a new Launcher, data sync service, and encryption for privacy-focused cloud services. /e/OS V1 could launch by year’s end. https://t.co/unMVRTkBUx
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) March 22, 2022
NVIDIA introduces Hopper graphics architecture and H100 graphics accelerator for servers, manufactured on a 4nm node, capable of 2TB/s memory bandwidth, and a LOT of performance, but also consuming a lot of power (700 watts). https://t.co/5tgPApS2hK
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) March 22, 2022
NVIDIA Maxine SDK adds support for GPU-accelerated AI features for audio & video conferencing including acoustic echo cancellation and AI-based upsampling of 8 kHz or 16 kHz audio to 48 kHz. https://t.co/7ZeNfnNXTb
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) March 22, 2022
New AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5875U, Ryzen 5 Pro 5675U, and Ryzen 3 Pro 5475U “Barcelo” chips with Zen 3 CPU cores are starting to arrive… but they’re not all that different from previous-gen “Cezanne” chips. https://t.co/ev5RzuyZh6
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) March 22, 2022
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