Modern SoCs already have all kinds of features with use-cases that are few and non-essential. Granted they don't take as much space as NPUS, but manufacturers a

Modern SoCs already have all kinds of features with use-cases that are few and non-essential. Granted they don't take as much space as NPUS, but manufacturers are betting that if NPUs are available, software will evolve to use them regularly. If it doesn't, they'll probably go away in a few generations. But at a minimum, Microsoft and Apple seem highly committed to using them.