alt Hacker NewsNever wanted to do high quality voice recognition? No need for face/object detection in near instant speed for your photos, embedding based indexing and RAG for your local documents with free text search where synonyms also work? All locally, real-time, with minimal energy use.
That is fine. Most ordinary users can benefit from these very basic use cases which can be accelerated.
Guess people also said this for video encoding acceleration, and now they use it on a daily basis for video conferencing, for example.
Those usecases are at least 5 years if not 10 years out. They require software support which won't come until a significant part of the pc market has the necessary hardware for it. Until then, paying extra for the hardware is foolish.
This will only come if Windows 12 requires a TPU and most of the old hardware is decommissioned.