PoetPhilosopher
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It came up in a thread of mine recently what I meant when I said that a computer system with an NPU could "better handle machine learning applications" (or some such).
Some computer systems, especially the very newest laptops, have begun including a Neural Processing Unit chip, a computer chip designed to handle "small repetitive tasks in large quantities", to take some of the load off the CPU and GPU of a computer system when handling the following:
Very deep and technical Machine Learning applications
Possible future and more general AI applications (think the possible implementation of the NPU in something like a photo-editing program which has AI filters)
Object Detection when capturing live camera footage
Or to just have a more advanced form of Power-saving for the system than not having an NPU could have.
However, I will say that for the average consumer, uses other than using the NPU to handle 'advanced power-saving' are kind of limited right now, so you will likely see the NPU incorporated into laptops (and possibly even some midrange and high-end smartphones) before you will many desktops.
en.wikichip.org
Anyway, I just found this interesting.
Some computer systems, especially the very newest laptops, have begun including a Neural Processing Unit chip, a computer chip designed to handle "small repetitive tasks in large quantities", to take some of the load off the CPU and GPU of a computer system when handling the following:
Very deep and technical Machine Learning applications
Possible future and more general AI applications (think the possible implementation of the NPU in something like a photo-editing program which has AI filters)
Object Detection when capturing live camera footage
Or to just have a more advanced form of Power-saving for the system than not having an NPU could have.
However, I will say that for the average consumer, uses other than using the NPU to handle 'advanced power-saving' are kind of limited right now, so you will likely see the NPU incorporated into laptops (and possibly even some midrange and high-end smartphones) before you will many desktops.
Neural Processor - WikiChip
A neural processor, a neural processing unit (NPU), or simply an AI Accelerator is a specialized circuit that implements all the necessary control and arithmetic logic necessary to execute machine learning algorithms, typically by operating on predictive models such as artificial neural networks...
Anyway, I just found this interesting.