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simulator5gyesterday at 1:33 AM1 replyview on HN

If you do use video chat background blurring, the NPU is more efficient at it vs using your cpu or gpu. So the feature it supports is longer battery life and less resource usage on your main chips.


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Gigachadyesterday at 2:27 AM

I'm not too familiar with the NPU, but this sounds a lot like GPU acceleration where a lot of the time you still end up having everything run on the CPU since it just works everywhere all the time rather than having to have both a CPU and an NPU version.