• onlinepersona
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    4 months ago

    An… AI PC? As in a neural engine or something? Will it help with running LLMs? I’m not sure what that is.

    Now I have to look up what an NPU is, what it does and what it’s for. Completely new territory for me. I thought it was all CPUs and GPUs, maybe specialized hardware for mining crypto but NPUs?

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      4 months ago

      unless i’m misunderstanding it, an npu is a vector coprocessor without the graphics stuff

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          There are some simulation and math scenarios where it can speed things up while using fraction of power a GPU would, but for general use it is not that usefull.