As AI workloads become more demanding, specialised chips are taking centre stage. Here's how different processors work and where they fit in ...

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 ...

Microsoft Co-Pilot Plus certification now requires an NPU with 40+ TOPs, known as trillion operations per second. If your chip doesn't hit this, you're essentially locked out of the true AI PC ...

Current laptops with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors rely on a hybrid chip design that is specifically geared towards energy efficiency. The Neural Processing Unit (NPU), used for the first time ...

WSL 3 GPU passthrough for Windows arrives at Microsoft Build 2026, letting developers run Ollama, PyTorch, and llama.cpp ...

AI Everywhere: Taiwanese manufacturer PowerColor has been making graphics cards and GPUs since the late 90s. The company's latest proposal relates to AI, of course, or rather how NPUs can be used to ...

It will make it sway to upper-midrange phones in the coming months. MediaTek just unveiled the Dimensity 7500 with an ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD might not have unveiled its next-gen RDNA 4 GPU architecture at Computex 2024 last week, but Radeon AIB partner PowerColor had an awesome concept ...

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The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is right around the corner, and a well-known tipster just shared more information about the chip. Ice Universe claims that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is coming with “greatly ...