The leading PC manufacturer used the Consumer Electronics Show to showcase their latest line-up of AI PCs powered by neural processing units (NPU). HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Asus all demoed new AI PC ...

If you’re in the market for a new computer, you’re going to hear a lot about AI PCs. It’s a hot sales term, but it can also be baffling, because the concept keeps evolving right before our eyes. A ...

The MIPS S8200 is a RISC-V neural processing unit designed to run transformer-based and agentic AI models directly on ...

San Diego, Nov. 24, 2025 – Kneron, a San Diego-based company developing neural processing units (NPUs) for AI, today announced its KL1140 chip. It is built to bring LLMs to edge devices, delivering up ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. As Microsoft winds up support for Windows 10 this fall and old ...

Rahul Tikoo, a top AMD PC executive, tells CRN that the chip designer is ‘talking to customers’ about ‘use cases’ and ‘potential opportunities’ for a dedicated accelerator chip that is not a GPU but ...

CRN rounds up eight cool AI PC applications you can use now, which range from an AI assistant that can analyze and summarize private documents to applications for live video production, DJing, image ...

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 ...

Nick is a Features author who's been writing for fellow tech geeks since 2011. While he's mostly focused on phones, he's also thrilled by cameras and audio gear of all shapes and sizes. On weekends, ...

Microsoft, sometime in March earlier this year, quietly updated the Windows 11 minimum system requirements page. With the update, the company has tried to clarify the processor requirements that users ...