That's only for Apple products, which is fine because I don't have to use Apple products. I'm not objecting to machines that have "AI hardware" in them. There are people who want that. I'm objecting to the idea that all machines will have such hardware in them.

To be clear, I don't think that's going to be the case, which is why I started my comment with "Dell wishes".

Both Intel and AMD CPUs both now feature NPUs as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Lake#NPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors#P...

This is a feature that will be in every new PC once these new CPUs become the baseline.

It's a useful feature for most people. Being able to search my photo library on my Mac for "car" to find that photo of a car I found parked weirdly last week is something I do all the time, and not having to upload all my photos to Google in order to enable it is actually a good thing.

But Microsoft and Intel (and Dell) may already be in cahoots on this. So, eventually you may have to give up on those as well.

Could AI hw be emulated time shared on some xilinx program able chip?