Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 12 September 2026 at 06:34 AM EDT. Add A Comment Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver. With the new Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 release there is just one listed change and a rather surprising one at that... official support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
- ▪Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 12 September 2026 at 06:34 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accele
- ▪With the new Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 release there is just one listed change and a rather surprising one at that... official support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
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Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 12 September 2026 at 06:34 AM EDT. Add A Comment Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver. With the new Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 release there is just one listed change and a rather surprising one at that... official support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The Intel NPU Linux stack has worked on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS already, but only now is officially recognized by Intel and formally supported by their packaged user-space driver stack.
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