How To Test NPUs

What are NPUs? Why do you want to use NPUs? How do you test them?

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NPU stands for Neural Processing Unit and it is a special hardware (aka, AI Accelerator) for Artificial Intelligence. It is gaining more popularity among AI companies as a way to overcome GPU bottlenecks. There is more need to test and evaluate AI model performance in NPUs. This article is meant as a guideline for testing NPUs.