alt Hacker NewsTensor is essentially shipping subpar hardware with not even taking care of software properly.
https://ai.google.dev/edge/litert/android/npu/overview has been identical for a year+ now.
In practice Qualcomm and MediaTek ship working NPU SDKs for third party developers, NNAPI doesn't count and is deprecated anyway.
Man this is a funny situation. Ty for sharing, more or less confirms my understanding. Couldn't quite believe it when I was in Google, or out of Google. This should be a big scandal afaict. What is going on???
(n.b. to readers, if you click through, the Google Pixel Tensor API is coming soon. So why in the world has Google been selling Tensor chips in Pixel as some big AI play since...idk, at least 2019?)