The NPU in Your Laptop Is Not a Small GPU

The default mental model most people bring to an NPU is “a smaller, more efficient GPU, specifically for AI.” That model is wrong in a way that produces predictable disappointment: someone buys a Copilot+ PC expecting their NPU to meaningfully accelerate a local LLM chat app or an image generator, benchmarks it against their GPU, … Continue reading The NPU in Your Laptop Is Not a Small GPU