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Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake


Earlier this month I wrote about Intel's Linux software engineers posting patches adding 5th Gen NPU support to the IVPU accelerator driver for that updated neural processing unit to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel's Linux software engineers posting patches adding 5th Gen NPU support to the IVPU accelerator driver for that updated neural processing unit to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Those Panther Lake NPU driver patches in turn were sent out today as part of this week's drm-misc-next pull request going to DRM-Next. Linux 6.13 stable in turn will be out in February of next year, plenty of time ahead of Panther Lake processors expected to premiere later in 2025.

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