Was Koduri’s departure going to be the end of the range? Today’s report tells us otherwise, and indeed, Intel appears to be more on track than many might have expected.Īs reported by Taiwan’s Commercial Times, Intel is said to have come to an exciting understanding with the world’s biggest semiconductor foundry TSMC. The development of Intel Arc felt shakey enough from the beginning, with multiple delays and poor optimization upon launch. It also only provides NVIDIA drivers at the moment, so you’ll have to get your drivers elsewhere if you have AMD or Intel graphics hardware. Gamers will be able to enable this optional repository and get an updated graphics stack without hunting it down, and normal Ubuntu users will be able to ignore it and continue using the stable version included with the current version of Ubuntu.

The official Graphics Drivers Team PPA–that’s short for personal package archive–is designed to solve this issue in the long term.

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You’ll see an “Install Updates” button that will take care of this for you in the About This Computer window. You should also install any available updates for Ubuntu from Update Manager before continuing. To check this on Ubuntu’s default Unity desktop, click the gear in the top-right corner of the screen and select “About This Computer.” You’ll see this information displayed to the right of “OS type.” You can also check this from the terminal. You’ll need to know whether you’re using a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Ubuntu before continuing. RELATED: How to Check if Your Linux System Is 32-bit or 64-bit Are You Using a 32-bit or 64-bit Version of Ubuntu?

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