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    6 months ago

    The Core Ultra chips, like the Ryzen 7040-series chips, also include a neural processing unit (NPU) that can be used to accelerate some AI workloads. But both NPUs fall far short of the performance required for Recall and other locally accelerated AI features coming to Windows 11 24H2 later this year;

    Why even waste the fucking space on the die then?

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        6 months ago

        I sure as hell don’t, but it seems extra pointless when it can’t even run the workloads it was designed for.

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          6 months ago

          I’m sure it still works in photoshop or whatever, just not the windows stuff.

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      NPUs existed before recall and have other uses apart from that.