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Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' processors and newer
This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO. This new release paired with the Linux 6.8 kernel, oneAPI Level Zero 1.17.2, and OpenVINO 2024.1 is reported to be working for these upcoming Core Ultra processors. Those wanting to download the Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 source code or pre-built Ubuntu binaries can find them via GitHub.
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