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[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 45 points 1 day ago (8 children)

However, newer processors with dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) reduce strain on cloud servers and GPUs. As a result, PCWorld believes that CPUs, including Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI chips that support 40 TOPS or more, will become mandatory

in other words, your pc will be doing ai shit for someone else's pc while you are idle

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They couldn’t afford enough electricity to run it in-house so now they just run a mandated botnet to make you pay for it instead. If this isn’t a page out of a George Orwell novel, it should have been.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 point 1 day ago

Didn't Microsoft try that one before?

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