Intel Gaudi 3 PCIe Accelerator Cards Now Available - Still Waiting On Upstream Linux Driver
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In addition to [1]announcing the Arc Pro B-Series workstation graphics cards and "Project Battlematrix" Linux software improvements , Intel also used Computex 2025 for announcing that [2]Gaudi 3 accelerators are now available in PCIe card form factors and rack scale systems.
Intel [3]announced today that Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are now available in PCIe and rack-scale systems.
Intel [4]announced Gaudi 3 last year though to date availability has been limited outside of select cloud providers. Now though it looks like Gaudi 3 availability will be improving.
One unfortunate aspect though is that Gaudi 3 doesn't yet have any mainline Linux kernel driver support. While the Gaudi accelerators were well regarded for their upstream open-source driver support with the "habanalabs" accelerator driver, there hasn't been any open-source upstream support to date. Intel had mentioned [5]open-source driver support last October that never materialized. Last year Intel also [6]lost multiple Habana Labs Linux driver developers .
Back in March it was talked about by an Intel-HabanaLabs engineer that [7]they wanted to get back to their upstream driver work though two months later that has yet to really materialize. As can be seen from [8]this Linux Git search for the "habanalabs" driver, there's been little activity in months and still no Gaudi 3 support.
Intel is promoting Gaudi 3 still for its "open-source" support and they may have some out-of-tree code available, but hopefully they will manage to upstream their Gaudi 3 accelerator support into the mainline Linux kernel sooner than later.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b-series
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Gaudi+3
[3] https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kit/intel-at-computex-2025
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-gaudi-3-xeon-6
[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gaudi-3-Linux-Driver-Oct
[6] https://www.phoronix.com/news/HabanaLabs-Maintainer-Leaving-2
[7] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Habana-Labs-Upstream-2025
[8] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=grep&q=habanalabs
Intel [3]announced today that Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are now available in PCIe and rack-scale systems.
Intel [4]announced Gaudi 3 last year though to date availability has been limited outside of select cloud providers. Now though it looks like Gaudi 3 availability will be improving.
One unfortunate aspect though is that Gaudi 3 doesn't yet have any mainline Linux kernel driver support. While the Gaudi accelerators were well regarded for their upstream open-source driver support with the "habanalabs" accelerator driver, there hasn't been any open-source upstream support to date. Intel had mentioned [5]open-source driver support last October that never materialized. Last year Intel also [6]lost multiple Habana Labs Linux driver developers .
Back in March it was talked about by an Intel-HabanaLabs engineer that [7]they wanted to get back to their upstream driver work though two months later that has yet to really materialize. As can be seen from [8]this Linux Git search for the "habanalabs" driver, there's been little activity in months and still no Gaudi 3 support.
Intel is promoting Gaudi 3 still for its "open-source" support and they may have some out-of-tree code available, but hopefully they will manage to upstream their Gaudi 3 accelerator support into the mainline Linux kernel sooner than later.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b-series
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Gaudi+3
[3] https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kit/intel-at-computex-2025
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-gaudi-3-xeon-6
[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gaudi-3-Linux-Driver-Oct
[6] https://www.phoronix.com/news/HabanaLabs-Maintainer-Leaving-2
[7] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Habana-Labs-Upstream-2025
[8] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=grep&q=habanalabs
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