No NPU on the PRO 7945 — what carries local AI in a commercial desktop?

  All of the PRO 7945's AI lives on the CPU cores: 12 cores/24 threads with 5.4GHz boost and AVX-512 handle embedding, document vectorization and quantized small-model inference comfortably, dual-channel DDR5 reaches 128GB for knowledge-base RAG residency, and the absent NPU is hardly a shortfall — commercial settings carry little always-on light AI to offload anyway.

  Enterprises want a stable, manageable box that runs data work, and that is what this part is for; expecting it to run interactive large models single-handedly points the wrong way. The cost-aware split: run it as the RAG and preprocessing base, hand generation to a server or the cloud, and let this single machine own the data plane.