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Originally Posted by freebeard
Does it have an NPU?
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Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS... This was the first release by Intel that doesn't improve performance for most applications, but instead reduces power consumption.
All this talk about needing way more power for AI compute seems silly to me. The watts per flops have been declining continuously, but aside from that, there is so much idle power consumption from compute that's doing nothing. Something like Folding@Home should offload AI tasks to idle compute nodes AND provide a reward for participating. It could become sophisticated enough to prefer nodes that have a momentary excess amount of renewable power generation.
In addition to shifting electricity supply around to stabilize the grid, we could be shifting demand around.