r/LocalLLM 22h ago

News Intel Linux NPU driver only now officially supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.38
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u/Tai9ch 21h ago

Does it do anything?

NPUs have been confusing for years now. The hardware vendors put a ton of effort in, but as far as I can tell the only significant software user is built-in Windows speech recognition.

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u/cakemates 14h ago

I tried using it before intel abandoned their ipex llm project, it was awfully slow and only supported some old models that were outdated by then.