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 developme