Intel Meteor Lake's VPU Linux Driver Updated, UMD Code Posted

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Meteor Lake's VPU Linux Driver Updated, UMD Code Posted

Back in July Intel engineers published the initial open-source driver code around the new Versatile Processing Unit "VPU" coming with Meteor Lake. This VPU block with 14th Gen Core CPUs is intended for AI inference acceleration for deep learning software...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-VPU-Linux-v5-Plus-UMD

[Vorpal]

Typo: "The revised patches have some optimizations, continue renaming code in being adapted from the DRM subsystem to the new "accewl" framework/subsystem, and other clean-ups. "

[brucethemoose]

Before long, there will be enough accelerators to cobble together a linux "AI core" benchmark. Intel looks like it will be ready first, but maybe the AMD and ARM accelerators will be functional soon.


I suppose that could already be done with dGPUs, but it feels kind of unfair to anyone but Nvidia, since thats what all the major libraries support first and foremost.