Tech for tech's sake with niche uses that traditional hardware can handle

If you haven't heard of neural processing units (NPUs) by now, you must have missed a year's worth of AI marketing from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.

In the past 12 months, these AI-focused processors have been touted as the next essential upgrade – one that everyone apparently needs to make the most of artificial intelligence. But is this all just marketing hype, or do NPUs genuinely offer the transformative value they promise?

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