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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
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That's why they have the "Copilot PC" hardware requirement, because they're using an NPU on the local machine.
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/npu-devices/
It's not...terribly beefy. Like, I have a Framework Desktop with an APU and 128GB of memory that schlorps down 120W or something, substantially outdoes what you're going to do on a laptop. And that in turn is weaker computationally than something like the big Nvidia hardware going into datacenters.
But it is doing local computation.