Popular apps such as Blender, Capture One and Affinity Photo 2 are taking advantage of the Snapdragon X Series’ NPU to offer new AI-powered capabilities. The Snapdragon X Series came out earlier ...

There are a couple of dozen NPU options on the market today. Each with competing and conflicting claims about efficiency, programmability and flexibility. One of the starkest differences among the ...

During Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm highlighted several big-name creative apps that are now optimized to utilize NPUs. Blender, Affinity Photo 2, Capture One, Moises, Cubase, and Nuendo either ...

Running on the Snapdragon NPU delivers enhanced privacy, security, and real-time AI processing capabilities to a wide range of devices, with a focus on enterprise-grade laptops. "Our collaboration ...

Along with the CPU and the GPU, the NPU also gets a decent upgrade on the 8 Elite. The new architecture features Hexagon Direct Link between the CPU, GPU, and NPU. Qualcomm claims the new AI ...

But the chip doesn’t use the Copilot+ capabilities of Intel’s mobile Lunar Lake chip — its designers used the older NPU found on Meteor Lake instead. For now, this means that if you buy an ...

It wouldn’t be a modern chipset announcement without enhanced AI capabilities, and the Snapdragon 8 Elite’s Hexagon NPU has seen some significant changes. First, it boasts a larger input token ...

Need a better understanding of how these components impact your device’s performance? This guide explains how the CPU, GPU, and neural processing unit (NPU) contribute to the seamless functionality of ...

If you're someone who frequently uses voice commands or relies heavily on video call enhancements, an NPU might save some battery life. But for most users, at present it's a nice-to-have feature ...

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an ...