Oh my god I want this shit to stop
I think AI has its place.
That place isn’t shoved down the throat of the consumer.
It’s been existing for many years now. Just think of all the image processing going on when you take a picture with your smartphone for example. NPUs have been in smartphones for years (I think Apple had their first NPU in the A11 of the iPhone 8 in like 2017).
Manufacturers simply didn’t call it AI back then, and now it’s a buzzword. And these “AI” features are getting more and more complex, so notebook chips now need dedicated NPUs to run this stuff quick and efficiently.
Same brother, same.
You might not have noticed, but it’s Next-Gen!
‘We cut total productivity by dedicating some cores to AI BS and would make you pay for them’.
- AMD, probably
The whole NPU thing reeks of stagnation.
Can’t stop shooting their own feet. Great product, horrible name. Imagine buying a laptop with this cpu and then someone asks you what processor it has.
You mean Strix Point? It’s just a manufacturing codename, like all the Intel Lakes. They are sold under the numerical name still. Also, I always found funny that all intel cpus are lakes in the pcs. The irony.
Ryzen AI 9 HX 17. strix point is a cool name imo
