Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei and Intel are expanding dedicated AI silicon with more Neural Engine cores, NPU efficiency gains, memory bandwidth improvements, and Linux NPU driver support for local inference.
On Friday Intel released Linux NPU Driver 1.38, adding official support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The open-source user-space components work with the IVPU kernel driver to leverage the Core Ultra NPU, a concrete step for local AI inference on long-term s...
Qualcomm details the next-generation Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPU. The move confirms that local inference becomes a primary design constraint for client chips and a strategic option for organizations evaluating self-hosted deployments and d...
The new Apple A20 Pro SoC doubles the Neural Engine from 16 to 32 cores and, thanks to a 96-bit LPDDR5X bus on a 2nm process, reaches about 115 GB/s of memory bandwidth. A costly investment that signals Apple's strategic priority for local model exec...
Huawei has put LogicFolding to the test on the Kirin 9050 Pro: according to the source, the density gain reaches 55% and NPU power consumption drops by 66%. The data points to a clear direction for local inference: denser chips and more efficient NPU...
