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Michael Larabel — Founder of Phoronix, creator of the Phoronix Test Suite
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phoronix.comWhen a fraction of 1% of readers are paying Phoronix Premium subscribers and paired with all the other web publisher difficulties these days, operations remain difficult but I persevere to keep going due to my passion for the Linux hardware space.
A one-person institution. Michael Larabel has been the sole author of Phoronix for over 21 years, publishing thousands of articles a year on Linux kernel development, hardware benchmarks, and open-source graphics drivers. He built the Phoronix Test Suite — the benchmarking framework used across the industry — and uses it to produce the data-driven reviews the site is known for. Nobody else covers this space with this depth, this consistency, or this volume.
Written by Michael Larabel since 2004.
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Benchmarking 18 Years Of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake As Much As 95x The Speed Of Penryn
For those curious how far Intel laptop CPU performance has evolved over the past nearly two decades, here are power and performance numbers when re-benchmarking all of the Intel-powered laptop CPUs I have on hand that are still operational from Penryn to Panther Lake. A ThinkPad from 2008 with the Core 2 Duo T9300 "Penryn" was still firing up and working with the latest upstream Intel open-source Linux driver support on Ubuntu 26.04 development. On a geo mean basis over the past 18 years from Pe...
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