Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library

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Phoronix: Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library

Intel has made open-source its NPU Acceleration Library (intel-npu-acceleration-library) as a user-space library for Windows and Linux systems for interfacing with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found initially on their new Meteor Lake laptops...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Acceleration-Library

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There's direct ops access: https://github.com/intel/intel-npu-a...end/ops.py#L31

[ssokolow]

Intel NPUs (formerly known as VPUs)

Huh. I thought nVidia was going to use "NPU" for describing general-purpose alternatives to TCP Offload Engines on NICs but, apparently, they're going with this meaning of NPU too.

[sophisticles]

Not exactly unexpected seeing that all of Intel's drivers and associated software stack are open source.

[RedEyed]

That's really cool, and Linux is not second citizen!
I would love to see benchmarks of simple vision models.

It gives opportunity for GIMP, Affinity and other vision apps to bring NPU utilization.

Will AMD do the same?