These NPUs are tying up a substantial amount of silicon area so it would be a real shame if they end up not being used for much. I can't find a die analysis of the Snapdragon X which isolates the NPU specifically but AMDs equivalent with the same ~50 TOPS performance target can be seen here, and takes up about as much area as three high performance CPU cores:
https://www.techpowerup.com/325035/amd-strix-point-silicon-p...
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