Intel just unveiled the Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit (VPU), which the company claims in the first VPU to ship with a dedicated Neural Compute Engine to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Chip makers have been designing chips that incorporate both a CPU and GPU for decades at this point. But we’re increasingly seeing companies add other dedicated features, and as the tech world looks ...
Microsoft has introduced a new device category with Copilot+. Only laptops with a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), at least 16 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe SSD fulfil the minimum requirements.
Google Clips was one of the only genuine surprise announcements from Google’s October 4th event earlier this week. Designed to unobtrusively capture moments, it has a strong focus on privacy thanks to ...
The new processor is key to the chipmaker's recovery plans and taking on strong competition from AMD and Apple. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...
Google's Pixel 2 smartphone doesn't just have one of the best smartphone cameras ever; it also has custom silicon dedicated to the camera that isn't even active yet. Besides the Snapdragon 835, the ...
The term “central processing unit” (CPU) has popularly applied to a number of different parts of a computer over the past few decades, but it most commonly denotes the microprocessor chip that acts as ...