The Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Huawei, claims which its new phone, the Honor View 10, is the first to use a Neural Network Processing Unit. Huawei's AI-chip is an entirely new advancement in smartphone technology and is ought not be confused with the term 'AI-powered' used with phones with artificially intelligent virtual assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri on it. More 'cores' had to be added in order to make the processors do more as the GPU (general processing unit) has reached its maximum speed possible without overheating. However, Huawei smartphone is not the first to launch a smartphone with 1 of these new processors installed. Google's Pixel 2 launched with a neural-network based IPU (image processing unit) installed, but because they ran out of time at launch, the feature has not been turned on.
Huawei beats Google to AI-powered smartphone with Honor View 10
The standard up to this point is to have a GPU (general processing unit) but which has reached its max speed possible without overheating. Google's Pixel 2 launched with a neural-network based IPU (image processing unit) installed, but it still has not been turned on. Its chip is an NPU (neural processing unit) that, like the Pixel Vissual Core, is a dedicated chip with image code libraries embedded. While it is used for image processing, it's technically accessible for anything next the handset needs doing which could benefit from the power of neural network-type calculations. So, with an integrated chip that's in fact being used with the phone, Huawei smartphone is initially "way ahead" of Google, concluded Burbidge.
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