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1. throwa356262 · 1790427463 · focus · HN ↗

   The sad part of this is that all those powerful NPUs are basically paperweight.

   35-50 low power TOPS taking 1/5 of the die area and not being used by anyone...

   1. bfrog · 1790427972 · focus · HN ↗

      These things are a waste of sand.

      Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

      1. Marsymars · 1790441518 · focus · HN ↗

         > Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

         I actually wonder about this - my regular dev workstation is a Qualcomm ARM laptop - by-and-large my bottleneck for CPU-bound tasks is thermal. Would adding more CPU or cache instead of the NPU help with performance/watt?

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