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Are NPU-equipped processors another trick of planned obsolescence?

Are NPU-equipped processors another trick of planned obsolescence?

Microsoft announced a few months ago the Co-pilot + artificial intelligence for Windows 11. For this to work, a processor with NPU cores with power equal to or greater than 40 TOPS is MANDATORY required. Although, as Intel recently revealed, it’s really just a mechanism for planned obsolescencesince any graphics card could run Copilot+ tasks. ...