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Natural Product Updates, a journal in chemistry Net protein utilization Network Processing Unit Neural Processing Unit Numeric (floating point) Processing Unit NPU terminology, a medical terminology for the clinical laboratory sciences.
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It's not nothing, it is an optimized designed for specific types of calculations, which makes it faster at those specific things than a general purpose processor. By your idea, a GPU is nothing, as well.
It's far more than nothing. It's competition in the rapidly growing AI-lite pattern matching space. Intel and Google both have chips out at this point (google's chip is in the Pixel phones) and there are quite a few others. ARM's added extensions to support this hoping it will help them retain/gain marketshare as most phones do their AI on the CPU rather than a dedicated chip like the Pixel phones.
In the case of Cortex-M vendors will publicly confirm whether they use the designs in their products because otherwise you can't program the microcontrollers.
Thanks Andrei! With Cortex M getting an all-new and improved version, any rumors on a successor to the A55? That's getting a bit long in tooth, and has fallen behind, for example, Apple's economy cores by a lot.
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Tomatotech - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
What’s a NPU?29a - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
NPU may mean:Neural Processing Unit
Na Píobairí Uilleann
National Power Unity
Neighborhood Planning Unit
Nineveh Plain Protection Units an Assyrian regional militia in Iraq
Science and technology
Natural Product Updates, a journal in chemistry
Net protein utilization
Network Processing Unit
Neural Processing Unit
Numeric (floating point) Processing Unit
NPU terminology, a medical terminology for the clinical laboratory sciences.
Organisations
National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Penghu, Taiwan
Nilamber Pitamber University, Medininagar, Jharkhand, India.
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, California, USA
North Park University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
National Police of Ukraine, government agency
eek2121 - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
I read this in Google Assistant's voice.PeachNCream - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
A buzzword.shabby - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
Wonder when they'll call it an aipu.levizx - Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - link
MTK calls it APU. Qualcomm calls it AIE.eek2121 - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
Exactly that. They want you to believe it's a Neural Processing Unit, but in reality it's nothing, except marketing.rrinker - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
It's not nothing, it is an optimized designed for specific types of calculations, which makes it faster at those specific things than a general purpose processor. By your idea, a GPU is nothing, as well.rahvin - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
It's far more than nothing. It's competition in the rapidly growing AI-lite pattern matching space. Intel and Google both have chips out at this point (google's chip is in the Pixel phones) and there are quite a few others. ARM's added extensions to support this hoping it will help them retain/gain marketshare as most phones do their AI on the CPU rather than a dedicated chip like the Pixel phones.ballsystemlord - Monday, February 10, 2020 - link
So, are we going to get arduino models with this processor and NPU?eastcoast_pete - Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - link
That is a really good question! Does anyone know?kallinteris - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
i expect SBCs with those IPs to be released in 3-6 monthsGNUminex_l_cowsay - Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - link
In the case of Cortex-M vendors will publicly confirm whether they use the designs in their products because otherwise you can't program the microcontrollers.eastcoast_pete - Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - link
Thanks Andrei! With Cortex M getting an all-new and improved version, any rumors on a successor to the A55? That's getting a bit long in tooth, and has fallen behind, for example, Apple's economy cores by a lot.kallinteris - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
there is no official info as of yetpberger - Thursday, February 13, 2020 - link
How the increase in performance translates into TOPS?