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AMD
puts dedicated slop processor in their laptop platform
acquires xilinx IP to do it
uses xilinx software
consequently never ships a usable product

classic neofox_3c

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@mia amd only knows how to make chips. when it comes to software they're cooked harder than a barbecue convention in hell
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@mia i think the igpu actually performs better at ai inferrence too. No one understands the purpose of those coprocessors
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@snacks @mia it’s just werid marketing. All the ai futures were just moved to standard and and intel CPUs.
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@snacks something like, the npu only accelerates time to first token before the gpu kicks in? idk

funny to go from my permanently bandwidth-starved intel igpu to a platform with 200-500GB/s memory that can be dynamically pinned for GPU use

it is so stupidly fast for a laptop

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@mia i think it's because microsoft really wanted ai accelerators and made them a requirement for tgeir copilot laptops or whatever they're called. Also anything ai makes investors happy
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