The ‘neural processing unit’ is being pushed as the next big thing for ‘AI PCs’ and ‘AI smartphones,’ but it won’t eliminate the need for cloud-based AI. Reading time 6 minutes There’s a CPU. There’s ...

Popular apps such as Blender, Capture One and Affinity Photo 2 are taking advantage of the Snapdragon X Series’ NPU to offer new AI-powered capabilities. The Snapdragon X Series came out earlier this ...

The NPU is there—I just never see it do anything.

Microsoft has been shouting about the PC revolution for some time now, and for a company that’s struggled in the hardware department, it might have sounded like a load of hot air. That was until ...

Experts At The Table: AI/ML are driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge devices such as PCs and smartphones. Semiconductor ...

Discover how an NPU neural processing unit and AI chip enable fast, private on-device AI, and why your next AI PC laptop should include this powerful technology. Pixabay, jarmoluk Neural processing ...

Bottom line: Whether you actually need an NPU is a debate for another day. But if you splurged on an AI PC, the reality is that your device now features an extra piece of silicon you need to keep up ...

AMD had the first "AI PC" processor with its Phoenix APUs back in 2023, improving things across the board with the Hawk Point APUs with higher TOPS out of the NPU. Now, we have the far more powerful ...

Chinese company Cixin Technology has unveiled its new Cixin P1, based on the Arm architecture-similar to Qualcomm's new fleet of Arm-based Snpadragon X series SoCs. The Cixin P1 features a 12-core Arm ...