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Intel Preps Nice NPU Driver Improvements For Linux 6.14

For those with an Intel Core Ultra system bearing the company's Neural Processing Unit (NPU), some nice driver enhancements are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle.

For those with an Intel Core Ultra system bearing the company's Neural Processing Unit (NPU), some nice driver enhancements are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable features for the Intel NPU coming in Linux 6.14 include enabling its hardware scheduling "HWS" by default, adding memory utilization reporting, MMU optimizations, and other improvements. For the past number of months the open-source IVPU driver has been working on the hardware scheduling support that may help with performance and for Linux 6.14 it's now in good shape for enabling by default.

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