In addition to announcing the Arc Pro B-Series workstation graphics cards and “Project Battlematrix” Linux software improvements, Intel also used Computex 2025 for announcing that Gaudi 3 accelerators are now available in PCIe card form factors and rack scale systems.
Intel announced today that Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are now available in PCIe and rack-scale systems.
Intel 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 open-source driver support last October that never materialized. Last year Intel also lost multiple Habana Labs Linux driver developers.
Back in March it was talked about by an Intel-HabanaLabs engineer that 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 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.
