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 ‘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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The NPU (Neural Processing Unit) is something we've seen on Intel's current-gen Core Ultra 100 series "Meteor Lake" CPUs, a growing amount of AMD Ryzen CPUs -- and their upcoming Zen 5-based CPUs and ...

TI’s MSPM0G5187 and AM13E23019 MCUs integrate the TinyEngine NPU, enabling efficient edge AI in systems ranging from simple to complex. These latest additions to TI’s portfolio of AI-enabled hardware, ...

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 ...

The biggest mistake a chip design team can make in evaluating AI acceleration options for a new SoC is to rely entirely upon spreadsheets of performance numbers from the NPU vendor without going ...