While everyone has focused on Apple's power-efficiency on the M series chips, one thing that has been very interesting is how powerful the unified memory model (by having the memory on-package with CPU) with large bandwidth to the memory actually is. Hence a lot of people in the local LLMA community are really going after high-memory Macs.
It's great to see NPUs here with the new Ryzen cores - but I wonder how effective they will be with off-die memory versus the Apple approach.
That said, it's nothing but great to see these capabilities in something other then a expensive NVIDIA card. Local NPUs may really help with edge deploying more conferencing capabilities.
Edited - sorry, ,meant on-package.
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