Intel and AMD already offer processors with neural processing unitsbetter known as NPU, but the number of options remains very low compared to the figures for future years. According to Fast Technology, in the latest report published based on Canalys data, by 2028, 70% of equipment arriving on the market will have NPUs dedicated to artificial intelligence.
AI is taking over PCs
Windows has been working for several months to implement new AI-based features to improve the performance of game scalinga function that requires a local NPU to carry out its work, but it is not the only manufacturer to bet on the implementation of new functions based on local AI.
The AI capabilities currently offered by Adobe with Photoshop Yes First require a Internet connectionHowever, this may change in the future as processors with NPU reach the market en masse, thereby reducing the time required to deliver results and leading to greater productivity for the end user.
Seeing how both the processor market and the program market are evolving, it is clear that in a few years, if our team does not have a processor dedicated to AI, we won’t be able to do much or anything with it. In this case we could talk about planned obsolescence, although in a different way, since it is the technology that adapts to current needs, and not because it lacks functionality.
For this same year, PCs that will hit the market with NPU will represent 18% of the total number with a total of 48 million. By 2025, this figure will exceed 100 million, a figure that will increase significantly year by year until reaching 70% of total equipment in 2028, as we commented above.
The importance of NPUs
Currently, with a few exceptions, if we want to generate text or an image, we must use web servers trained for this specific task, and which have a very high cost for the platforms that offer them, therefore, at the exception of Microsoft’s AI. and Google based on the most modern LLMs, all paid (ChatGPT Plus, Midjourney, DALL-E and others).
Thanks to NPUs, users will reduce their dependence on the Internet to use AI, since processes can be carried out locally, provided we have the necessary software to increase productivity. However, the AI is no longer enabled to increase the productivity of our users, although, in addition, there are also interesting implementations for users who use the PC mainly to play, if the re-escalation function of Windows 11 is one of the first ones. arriving.
