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AMD unwraps Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" processors - 50 TOPS of AI performance, Zen 5c density cores come to Ryzen 9 for the first time | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

It's been existing for many years now. Just think of all the image processing going on when you take a picture with your smartphone for example. NPUs have been in smartphones for years (I think Apple had their first NPU in the A11 of the iPhone 8 in like 2017).

Manufacturers simply didn't call it AI back then, and now it's a buzzword. And these "AI" features are getting more and more complex, so notebook chips now need dedicated NPUs to run this stuff quick and efficiently.