PC World

AI PCs rely on NPUs. So what exactly are these newfangled chips?

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...
Android Authority

Next Qualcomm mobile chip might have dedicated NPU

The upcoming Snapdragon mobile chipset for 2019 might have a dedicated NPU. NPU stands for Neural Processing Unit and its function is to process AI features. Huawei’s Kirin series of chipsets already ...
EDN

NPU software spawns network architectures

There has been so much change in the communications industry during the past few years that it is tempting to focus on the truly revolutionary advances occurring at the systems and network application ...
PC World

The great NPU failure: Two years later, local AI is still all about GPUs

For the last few years, the term “AI PC” has basically meant little more than “a lightweight portable laptop with a neural processing unit (NPU).” Today, two years after the glitzy launch of NPUs with ...