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Microsoft wanted 2025 to be all about Copilot+ PCs -- new laptops running ARM CPUs with a builtin NPU for all sorts of AI stuff. Later in 2025 Microsoft grudgingly added AMD & Intel powered laptops to the Copilot+ club. People bought them, but it turns out Not because they were Copilot+ devices, but because they wanted/needed a new laptop. In fact, Dell found that all that AI advertising propaganda turned customers off: "... I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome". Most of their new laptops will still have NPUs, since it's part of most laptop CPUs from AMD & Intel, and in all Qualcomm chips, but [thankfully] no more AI hype/branding.
Eventually real AI software running on a PC/laptop *might* use an NPU, but today it still uses the GPU [Graphics Processor] -- an NPU mainly powers some of the gimmick add-ons Microsoft stuffed in Windows. The reason it's included in laptop CPUs is that by taking some of the load off the GPU you get better battery life.