Canonical has released the official Intel NPU driver for Linux in the Snap Store.
New driver Intel NPU in Snap format brings together many components, including the device firmware, user-space driver and compiler, and an application to test the user-mode driver and compiler. In other words: the driver includes everything you need to use the AI inference accelerators built into the latest processors intel core ultra (Meteor Lake series and above).
For this driver to actually work, you need to use software, tools, and applications that know how to use it to perform AI tasks. In addition to the command line tools for LLM/ML, there are now OpenVINO AI plugins for GIMP and Audacity that can use the Intel NPU to perform specific AI tasks.
If you are the lucky owner of a suitable processor, download the Intel NPU driver at Ubuntu You can do it right now.
sudo snap install --beta intel-npu-driver
The Intel NPU Snap driver is currently in beta, so stability is not guaranteed.
Source: linux.org.ru
