The "brain" of any modern smartphone is its SoC (system-on-chip), an incredibly complex micromachine. It packs a CPU and GPU, audio and video processing, wireless communication, and power management ...

The ‘neural processing unit’ is being pushed as the next big thing for ‘AI PCs’ and ‘AI smartphones,’ but it won’t eliminate the need for cloud-based AI. Reading time 6 minutes There’s a CPU. There’s ...

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...

Computing power has increased exponentially over the past few decades. We now have cameras on smartphones with incredible computational photography, voice assistants that respond near instantaneously, ...

Aimed at AI/ML applications, Renesas’ RA8P1 MCUs leverage an Arm Ethos-U55 neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 256 GOPS at 500 MHz. The 32-bit devices also integrate dual CPU cores—a 1-GHz Arm ...