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I found 7 unique Windows apps that run AI tasks locally using an NPU

Microsoft made a big deal about the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) when it first unveiled Copilot+ PCs in 2024. The specialized piece of hardware is key to running AI tasks locally with more efficiency, ...
PC World

AI PCs rely on NPUs. So what exactly are these newfangled chips?

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...
Ars Technica

The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better?

Almost every technological innovation of the past several years has been laser-focused on one thing: generative AI. Many of these supposedly revolutionary systems run on big, expensive servers in a ...
XDA Developers

The hidden cost of 'AI PCs': Is the NPU actually doing anything for you?

Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming hardware, she's covered just about everything. Whether it's ...
PC World

The great NPU failure: Two years later, local AI is still all about GPUs

Local AI tools are more powerful than ever, but most of the magic ain't happening on NPUs—much to Microsoft's disappointment, I'm sure. For the last few years, the term “AI PC” has basically meant ...