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What does an NPU do and why do so many laptops have them?
Bought a new laptop recently? Chances are that it's equipped with an NPU, a chip you're almost certainly not using.
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Bought a new laptop recently? Chances are that it's equipped with an NPU, a chip you're almost certainly not using. The NPU, or Neural Processing Unit, is a block of silicon that runs AI workloads at a fraction of the power a CPU or GPU needs. Roughly 2W compared to well over 100W that standard laptop discrete graphics need to do the same job.
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