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Dell Now Shipping Laptop With Qualcomm NPU On Linux Ahead Of Windows 11 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/linux@programming.dev

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Max 16 Plus laptop with a Qualcomm discrete NPU is now shipping... That is if you are running Ubuntu Linux while the Windows 11 pre-load option is expected in early 2026. An exciting twist with the Linux version of the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus shipping before Microsoft Windows.

The new Dell Pro Max 16 Plus features a Qualcomm AI 100 PC inference accelerator. The Dell Pro Max 16 Plus makes it the first mobile workstation with such an "enterprise grade" discrete NPu.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Probably because they are still making their proprietary drivers for Windows. I dunno how programs interface with NPUs but there must be some type of API which talks to it thru a driver.

I bet in the Ubuntu version is all up to upstream, so not Dell.