are NPUs the future of laptop processors?

Getting hands on with one of the first laptops from MSI to have an NPU integrated in its central processor - how much of a difference does it *actually* make in our day to day lives? Let's find out!

[MirorRflction]

The number 1 consumer usecase for NPUs should be for local voice processing and digital assistants. Currently all the digital assistants (ex:siri) send a recording of your voice to the cloud to be processed, which is not secure or reliable if your internet connection drops. With NUPs you can have a fully local digital assistant that still works without depending on an internet connection. Connection to the Internet should always be secondary to local functionality. There is no cloud, just someone elses computer, which is why we need the default to be whats called hybrid cloud, where local functionality syncs to the cloud but can still operate without it wherever possible

[GalaxyGamer]

cpu= central processing unit
gpu = graphics processing unit
npu = no processing unit

[moneyong]

Wasn't this first in mgs2 arsenal gear, I remember ocelot saying "the nureal network is going haywire"

[nonetrix]

Is it even using the NPU though? It could be falling back to CPU or GPU easily. Software has to be changed to actually use this at all, as it is I doubt much software has bothered. Also AI in video games is not really the same as other AIs, they most of the time are programmatic rather than AI which is not easily predictable really, as such CPU is best suited still. Maybe in games it will slowly become more relevant, but I'm not sure

[simunator]

i7 4790k, gtx 970 sli still running like a champ after 8 years. no need to upgrade

[ExtravagantEthan]

I feel like it needs to be restated what Ai even means anymore. There is no inherent ‘intelligence’ but rather very clever data referencing.

[AmaroqStarwind]

NPU used to mean Network Processing Unit... Just like how APU used to mean Audio Processing Unit.

[mafa]

Love ur vids man keep up the great work!

[wokzhongson]

my brother in christ that is the back of an old Intel sticker on the thumbnail

[epiciphones]

I your experiments i learn more from you than school lol thanks for that 💚

[Demmo.]

this is pretty interesting, excited to see what the future is for laptops.

[severinghams]

it will be cool to see games like Minecraft and BeamNG use it for the pathfinding and vehicle AI respectively

[bader]

8:48
They got the high alert perk on this laptop 😂

[AshokKumar-gbl]

Test the pertier module for cooling pc CPU.

[kaiperdaens]

BRO PEOPLE NEED TO STOP ADVERTISING WITH *MILITARY GRADE* BC IT ISN'T THAT SPECIAL.

[wolfbrave]

He misrepresented when he said they all offloaded to the NPU freeing up the CPU and GPU is false it's the CPU still being used. The CPU Arithmetic logic unit offloaded that task to its NPU Core.

[NickMak-mc]

I'd love to see how NPUs affect stable diffusion performance

[sherlock]

As a real-time embedded software development engineer who uses his laptop for documentation and basic C/C++ software design, development/documentation work, the NPU is NOT something that would likely be of any use to me. (Mind you, my usual price point is $2500-$2800 for laptops, so I tend to get powerhouses.

[PCKodachi]

With that "person behind you detection" ... wait, Mommmm!😂

[HasTheTimeGone]

your thermal paste got review bombed yeester