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A discussion piece asks what computing would look like if the industry moved away from GPUs, the chips that currently dominate AI training and graphics. It comes as GPUs are at the center of a global AI boom, with massive spending on Nvidia hardware and debates over whether alternatives like CPUs, TPUs or other accelerators could take on some of the workload.

Gaming PCs are increasingly being positioned as local platforms for running AI workloads, with modern graphics cards marketed on their AI performance. The discussion centres on what AI features and tools gamers can realistically run on their own hardware, and whether gaming machines are becoming general-purpose AI computers.