A phone drove a Porsche, and I rode along
Huawei has spent a lot of time talking up the supposed AI capabilities of its latest in-house processor design, the Kirin 970. Found inside the company’s newest Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones, as well as the Honor View 10, the Kirin 970 has a dedicated “neural processing unit” or NPU that’s designed specifically for AI-related tasks.
So far, however, there haven’t been that many use cases for the NPU, despite Huawei’s efforts to promote open AI development on its platform. Out of the box, you’ll only really notice the NPU at work in things like the camera app, which automatically detects subjects in the scene based on image recognition and adjusts settings accordingly. So this week at Mobile World Congress, Huawei wanted to put the…
