What is NPU (neural processing unit)?
A dedicated circuit for running neural-network inference quickly and at low power. It is built into the SoCs of smartphones and PCs.
Field: CPUs and architecture
NPU (neural processing unit) in the explanations
An NPU is a dedicated circuit that executes, in massive parallel, the multiply-accumulate operations dominating neural networks, often at low precision such as 8-bit integers or less.
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