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In this installment of the neXt Curve reThink Podcast Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve has a chat with Nitin Kumar, Qualcomm's VP of Product Management of Snapdragon Chipsets, at a special Snapdragon X Series preview event held in San Francisco to ponder the question of why the NPU matters for the AI PC and how it defines new AI-enabled experiences for PC users who have long awaited something new. 

Leonard and Nitin discuss:

• The NPU, the net new thing defining the AI PC (00:40)
• Qualcomm's legacy in AI computing and NPU (01:30)
• The smartphone, the genesis of NPU (02:50)
• Why the NPU matters for the future of AI computing (03:45)
• The role of NPU for generative AI changing the PC experience (05:40)
• What difference does the NPU make in running AI workloads? (07:00)
• How does the NPU stack up against GPU in AI computing? (09:14)
• Leonard & Nitin invent "heterogeneous AI compute" (10:55)

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