Computerworld February 20, 2025
The applications are designed for use with AI PCs.
Applications that support the specialized AI chips on Co-Pilot+ PCs have been rare, but Microsoft is looking to change that.
The company this week introduced an upgraded AI Hub that adds new programs to the Microsoft Store that will run on neural processing units (NPUs), the specialized processors in laptops designed to run AI-intensive programs.
The new AI Hub will “provide AI experiences” powered by a PC’s NPU, Microsoft said in a blog post.
The NPU is an ancillary chip to a computer’s CPU and GPU, and is more power efficient when running generative AI (genAI)-based tasks such as image recognition, content creation, and voice transcription.
“The NPU’s ability to offload...
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