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>AMD has been selling “Ryzen AI”-branded laptop processors for around a year and a half at this point. In addition to including modern CPU and GPU architectures, these are attempting to capitalize on the generative AI craze by offering chips with neural processing units (NPUs) suitable for running language and image-generation models locally, rather than on some company’s server. But so far, AMD’s desktop chips have lacked both these higher-performance NPUs and the Ryzen AI label.

Archive: https://archive.today/XfSQm From the post: >>AMD has been selling “Ryzen AI”-branded laptop processors for around a year and a half at this point. In addition to including modern CPU and GPU architectures, these are attempting to capitalize on the generative AI craze by offering chips with neural processing units (NPUs) suitable for running language and image-generation models locally, rather than on some company’s server. But so far, AMD’s desktop chips have lacked both these higher-performance NPUs and the Ryzen AI label.
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NPUs are wasted silicon until something comes along that actually uses the damn thing. Copilot was supposed to let you run it locally on an NPU last year and that never materialized.

Has anything actually been able to make use of an NPU? When I got my NPU equipped laptop, every model I tried in LM Studio still tried to use the CPU and the NPU just sat there worthless.

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I have a old PS5 NPU. It's apparently good for gaming. I am working on getting it setup. It used to be for bitcoin mining.