Acer Swift Air 14 Ships With Wildcat Lake, the Chip Intel Already Upstreamed to Linux
Acer's Swift Air 14 is among the first Wildcat Lake laptops, and Intel has already upstreamed the CPU, Xe3 graphics, and NPU support into mainline Linux and Mesa.
Acer makes the Aspire, Nitro, and Predator gaming laptops alongside Chromebooks with Linux developer mode, and its mini PCs and ARM-based hardware attract tinkerers in the open source community.
Acer's Swift Air 14 is among the first Wildcat Lake laptops, and Intel has already upstreamed the CPU, Xe3 graphics, and NPU support into mainline Linux and Mesa.
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