For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.
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ch00f@lemmy.world 3 days agoWhat kind of consumer-facing software runs on that NPU?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
capuccino@lemmy.world 3 days ago
New versions of Sony Vegas use the NPU to enhance AI features, nothing that humans cannot do before.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sony still makes laptops? TIL
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I know Video editing software uses it for things like motion tracking.
It’s all stuff your GPU can do, but the NPU can do it for like 1/10th to 1/100th the power.