Neural Processing Units (NPU) and chess?

[Steve Maughan]

The latest computers and smartphones have Neural Processing Units (NPUs), capable of trillions of calculations per second. Has anyone looked into the possibility of using these NPUs to evaluate chess positions? Would it gives a speedup? Is it difficult to implement?

— Steve

[smatovic]

I asked the same question:

Can Stockfish make use of present/future NPUs?
viewtopic.php?p=965503#p965503

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Srdja

[Steve Maughan]

Apologies, I hadn't seen the other question. Clearly the lack of input regarding both questions, implies it's still early days and little is known about how to leverage the NPUs. I'm sure this will change in future.

— Steve

I asked the same question:

Can Stockfish make use of present/future NPUs?
viewtopic.php?p=965503#p965503

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Srdja

[towforce]

The latest computers and smartphones have Neural Processing Units (NPUs), capable of trillions of calculations per second.

In phones, it looks as though this astonishing power, roughly equivalent to the speed of the world's fastest supercomputer in the year 2000 (yes - I know it's not a fair comparison for multiple reasons), is going to get very little use from any application.

[smatovic]

Apologies, I hadn't seen the other question.

No need to.

Clearly the lack of input regarding both questions, implies it's still early days and little is known about how to leverage the NPUs. I'm sure this will change in future.

— Steve

Yes, I see there some potential too, might take some time till NPU is considered common hardware with standardized programming methods.

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Srdja

[Hai]

I asked the same question:

Can Stockfish make use of present/future NPUs?
viewtopic.php?p=965503#p965503

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Srdja

I asked the same question and another person too.

[smatovic]

I asked the same question and another person too.

So many questions, where are the answers?

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Srdja