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The real consumers of the NPUs are the operating systems themselves. Google’s TPU and Apple’s ANE are used to power OS features like Apple’s Face ID and Google’s image enhancements.

We’re seeing these things in traditional PCs now because Microsoft has demanded it so that Microsoft can use it in Windows 11.

Any use by third party software is a lower priority



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