Re: Gaming Laptops

Paul wrote:
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vallor wrote:

 
After updating it to Linux Mint 22.1, and while looking at the output
of lspci(8), discovered this:
 
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor
Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (rev 02)
 
There's an out-of-tree driver Linux driver for it, and apparently Intel
is working to get it into the Linux kernel.
 
Having said that, can't imagine why I'd use it.  (I guess perhaps Windows
Copilot might use it, but I'll defer to others regarding whether or not
that is the case.)

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Your guess is as good as any.
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https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/ipla/software-development-platforms/client/platforms/alder-lake-desktop/12th-generation-intel-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/003/intel-gmm-and-neural-network-accelerator/
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Even the person making a URL for the article, was running out of letters.

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Interesting.  I hadn't even heard of this GNA thingy before.
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In a strange twist of fate, it's being used as a Direct Render Manager "thingy".
No resource goes wasted, I would guess.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GNA-To-DRM-Driver

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The article notes that Linux does not yet have a dedicated AI
accelerator subsystem.  I wonder when that's coming, and if we should
be afraid.