Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThe RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoWhat do you mean “adjustment”?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoBackground blur, image enhancements, I even have one on my laptop that adjusts your eyes so it looks like you’re looking at the camera.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoI have all of that without an NPU
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoIt might be more efficient on an npu.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoSounds like marketing nonsense to me.
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoYou can watch your cpu and gpu spike when you turn on various features that could be offloaded to dedicated chips. You probably would have thought a math coprocessor or cpu-native media encoding/decoding was nonsense when it first came out too.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoNone of those things have been relentlessly crammed down our throats like AI has.
What do you mean “adjustment”?
Background blur, image enhancements, I even have one on my laptop that adjusts your eyes so it looks like you’re looking at the camera.
I have all of that without an NPU
It might be more efficient on an npu.
Sounds like marketing nonsense to me.
You can watch your cpu and gpu spike when you turn on various features that could be offloaded to dedicated chips.
You probably would have thought a math coprocessor or cpu-native media encoding/decoding was nonsense when it first came out too.
None of those things have been relentlessly crammed down our throats like AI has.