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hulitulast Friday at 6:37 PM1 replyview on HN

> For certain workloads, NPU is faster than CPU by quite a bit

WTF is an NPU ? What kind of instructions does it support ? Can it add 3 and 5 ? Can it compute matrices ?


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cyanydeezlast Saturday at 2:29 PM

Neural Processing Unit.

A retarded GPU that does matrix multiplication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_processing_unit

In theory, its your math coprocessor for your 386.

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