Comments on: Artificial Intelligence – Edge Debate. https://www.radiofreemobile.com/artificial-intelligence-edge-debate/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: Andrew https://www.radiofreemobile.com/artificial-intelligence-edge-debate/#comment-15877 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:12:07 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=10543#comment-15877 [disclosure: I work for Microsoft but not in any area related directly to AI, so this is personal curiosity]

Do you see something like DirectX but for NPUs being something OS vendors could create? Thus abstracting the differences in NPUs by the developer being able to write to “NPUX” instead of directly to the chip, the way game developers don’t have to write games directly targeting different GPUs?

I know very little about NPUs, so maybe this makes no sense. But it seems like invariably hardware gets abstracted into software, and I’m wondering if the chip vendors are the only ones who can do that.

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