Or use a laptop with a GPU? An npu seems to just be slightly upgraded onboard graphics.

Really? How fast is the memory bus compared to x86? And did they just double the bus bandwidth by doubling the memory?

I’m dubious because they only now went to 16gb ram as base, which has been standard on x86 for almost a decade.

But you can accelerate nural nets better with a GPU, right? They’ve got a lot more parallel matrix multiplication compute than any npu you can slap on a CPU.

Meaning one’s that didn’t agree with Russia’s official stance, or ones claiming to be independent but still funded by Russia? Those would be very different things.

Seems silly to try to get the CPU to do GPU stuff, just upgrade the GPU.

Matrix multiplication is also largely what graphics cards do, I wonder how the npus are different.

And it’s hard to tell what the difference is. Apples ‘built from the ground up for AI’ chips just have more RAM. What’s the difference with CPUs? Do they just have more onboard graphics processing that can also be used for matrix multiplication?