One of the exciting innovations currently being explored by Canonical ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release is an x86-64-v3 build of the OS / packages.
Supercomputers have entered the exascale range, capable of more than a quintillion operations per second - and enterprise applications are starting to.
With Intel's just-launched 5th Gen Xeon 'Emerald Rapids' processors headlined by the 64-core Xeon Platinum 8592+, one of the key upgrades with these new server processors is now supporting DDR5-5600 memory compared to DDR5-4800 with Sapphire Rapids and also the memory frequency limit with AMD's EPYC Zen 4 processors.