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0 pointslostlogin2mo ago0 comments

Apparently it’s been a thing for a while:

What is an AI PC? ('Look, Ma! No Cloud!')

An AI PC has a CPU, a GPU and an NPU, each with specific AI acceleration capabilities. An NPU, or neural processing unit, is a specialized accelerator that handles artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tasks right on your PC instead of sending data to be processed in the cloud. https://newsroom.intel.com/artificial-intelligence/what-is-a...

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sidewndr462mo ago

It'd be interesting to see some market survey data showing the number of AI laptops sold & the number of users that actively use the acceleration capabilities for any task, even once.

sixothree2mo ago

I'm not sure I've ever heard of a single task that comes built into the system and uses the NPU.

fassssst2mo ago

Remove background from an image. Summarize some text. OCR to select text or click links in a screenshot. Relighting and centering you in your webcam. Semantic search for images and files.

A lot of that is in the first party Mac and Windows apps.

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