• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Can this wasted silicon even be used for anything productive? Especially if one doesn’t run a commercial system?

    Because it’s plausible that amd will follow suit.

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      5 days ago

      If it can sort your photos, or run a low level LLM to sort through files, then at least some corporation isnt sucking up your data.

      For Linux anyways, Microsoft will slurp up everything, if youre using Windows your begging for your privacy to be non-existent.

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      7 days ago

      I mean, it’s already embedded in a lot of different things that you may not realize.

      • Many photo/video modes on phones can/do leverage dedicated NPUs
      • Translation services that run locally

      At the end of the day, anything that can be done in parallel can leverage these cores.