2024-03-29 17:00:00
Samah Labib wrote Friday, March 29, 2024 07:00 PM
Intel’s latest report stated that the Copilot AI service is set to… Microsoft To run natively on PCs, the company also said that next-generation AI PCs will require integrated neural processing units (NPUs) with more than 40 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of power, which is beyond the capabilities of any consumer processor on the market.
Intel said AI-powered PCs will be able to run more elements of Copilot locally, and currently, Copilot’s software runs almost everything in the cloud, even small requests.
This creates a fair amount of delay which is fine for large jobs, but is not ideal for smaller jobs, and adding local compute capability would reduce this delay, while potentially improving performance and privacy as well.
Microsoft was previously rumored to require 40 TOPS on next-gen AI PCs (along with a modest 16GB of RAM), and at the moment Windows doesn’t make much use of NPUs, aside from powering video effects like background blur. For Surface Studio webcams.
Both ChromeOS and macOS use the power of the NPU for more video and audio processing features, along with optical character recognition, translation, live transcription, and more, Ars Technica noted.
So far, the processor with the fastest NPU speed is the Apple M3, which offers 18 TOPS across the range (M3, M3 Pro and M3 Ultra), and AMD’s Ryzen 8040 and 7040 laptop chips are next with 16 and 10 TOPS respectively, while the laptop Intel’s Meteor Lake to 10 TOPS as well.
Qualcomm may provide the first processor powerful enough for Copilot via the Snapdragon X Elite, which will provide 45 TOPS of artificial intelligence calculation speed.
Intel’s Lunar Lake chips, scheduled to arrive in 2025, will ship at three times the current NPU speeds, and yesterday the company introduced 300 new AI features optimized specifically for its OpenVino platform.
The chip giant also announced an AI PC development kit based on the ASUS NUC Pro that uses existing Meteor Lake silicon.
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