"an NPU with a CPU and GPU attached to it" Sure, plenty of room for optimizations. "there's nothing in the horizon to do this" Sure, the prediction is that a

"an NPU with a CPU and GPU attached to it" Sure, plenty of room for optimizations. "there's nothing in the horizon to do this" Sure, the prediction is that a new curve is laying just a bit beyond the horizon. MacBook Air still starts with 8GB of RAM for the same reason they still start with a 256 GB disk and for the same reason an 8 TB SSD from Apple means +$2,200†: corporate greed since it's good enough. The argument is it won't be good enough in the near future. † whereas a Samsung 870 8TB SSD is around 700 USD