1. What Is npu-smi npu-smi is a command-line tool provided by Huawei, purpose-built for managing and monitoring the status and performance of Huawei Ascend series Neural Processing Units (NPUs), similar to NVIDIA’s nvidia-smi. 2. Meaning of npu-smi Fields 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 npu-smi info +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | npu-smi 23.