NPUs in modern laptops and mini-PCs are low-power chips designed for small, steady AI tasks like background blur and voice detection, but they will not speed up local LLM token generation, which is li…
Microsoft and NVIDIA announced NVIDIA RTX Spark, a new Arm-based Windows PC chipset, with devices from Microsoft Surface, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI expected in fall 2026. The Windows on Arm app …
Mistral.rs released version 0.9.0 on 7 July, claiming up to 1.8× faster CPU decoding than llama.cpp on both x86 and ARM hardware, challenging the de-facto standard for local LLM inference. The speedup…
Unified memory in mini PCs like the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 allows them to run 70-billion-parameter models that exceed the VRAM capacity of high-end GPUs like the NVIDIA RTX 5090, but at significantly s…