From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10/23/2024 6:38 PM, Ralf Schneider wrote:   
   >> This Laptop still has Win 7 on it, which I update stuff on about every   
   >> week.   
   > Never Windoof since 1992, but DOS. Linux since 1999 and allways happy.   
   >   
   > Regards   
   > Ralf   
   >   
      
   This is a picture of a PC with an NPU.   
      
   https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto   
   good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.a   
   azonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea3a4aa-152a-40bd-9114-ffb63a99   
   221_1183x811.png   
      
     ( https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intel-meteor-lakes-npu )   
      
   Even though the NPU is running in that picture (being used), the machine   
   can't be used for Recall. The 40 TOPS requirement was a smoke screen.   
   Raising the bar was simply a way of invalidating all the first   
   generation "lick and a promise" NPUs, like the one in the picture there.   
   Some day, they will figure out what they really want that NPU   
   to do, in terms of operation type (INT8 or FP64).   
      
   It's a lot like the era of DSP cards for Photoshop.   
   The difference being, that those worked (because they   
   were more generalist).   
      
   The "achievement" on that pictured computer, was the author of the   
   article getting the utilization graph to come off the zero line :-)   
   Neat. It's not often a useless piece of silicon like that, gets warm.   
      
      Paul   
      
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