AMD Declares 2025 the “Year of the AI PC,” Comparing NPU Development to the 3D Revolution That GPUs Kicked Off in the ’90s

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Many of the Windows 11 commercial PCs purchased in the next 12 months are going to support AI via dedicated NPU hardware and will therefore qualify as AI PCs. According to IDC, 93.9% of commercial PCs will be AI PCs by 2028.

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Oh thank goodness. I mean, I'm sure having an NPU will be a requirement for upgrading to Windows 12 -- because that TPM they required us to have for WIndows 11 has been so great and necessary.
 
Brent_Justice said:
I STRONGLY Disagree with this.
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I agree with you WTF does AI do for me that I can't just use a web based one? I mean I can ALREADY run local AI on my video card/processor. (from a gamer/professional perspective you have the TOPS for doing local AI already.)

Local Ai removes subscription from the vendors.

Commercial will want consolidated AI servers not local.

Where is the benefit from local AI on desktops/laptops other than utterly MURDERING battery life on laptops and phones?

How or why does joe average consumer WANT local AI? Short of for security IF local AI isn't uploading back to the cloud for AI engagement and queries/learning when it's back online?

The only driver of local AI right now is consumer sentiment and understanding.

Games don't even use NPU's yet. (I have one of the early intel laptops that have specific NPU's. Even using the AI tasks I've never seen a load on them. Using local AI software I've never seen a load on them. WHERE IS THE DEMAND?!
 
I think your idea of AI, and what everyone else is thinking, are vastly different.

I dont think vendors are envisioning people training or runing full LLMs on their local PC. There's a lot of things you can do with AI other than just run massive LLMs. Apple has been using it for biometrics and image processing for years now.
 
Brian_B said:
I think your idea of AI, and what everyone else is thinking, are vastly different.

I don't think vendors are envisioning people training or running full LLMs on their local PC. There's a lot of things you can do with AI other than just run massive LLMs. Apple has been using it for biometrics and image processing for years now.
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My point is I have a processor with specific neural processors, running software that is supposed to do AI things... and it does NOTHING on them. ZERO. Not even a BLIP. So why am I buying NPU's if there isn't anything to task them with yet?
 
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