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This has been my thinking. Today you have to go out of your way to buy a system with an NPU, so I don't have any. But tomorrow, will they just be included by default? That seems like a waste for those of us who aren't going to be running models. I wonder what other uses they could be put to?
They're useful for more things than just LLM's.
As to why, I think it's along the lines of this: the CPU does 100 things, one of those is AI acceleration. Let's take the AI acceleration and give it its own space instead so we can keep the power down a bit, add some specialization, and leave the CPU to do other stuff.
Again, I'm coming at this from a high-level as if explaining it to my ageing parents.