Apple claims its maxed M4 chips 4x faster than rival AI PCs
Oct 31, 2024 · In its launch announcement, Apple boasted its mid-range M4 Pro system-on-a-chip (SoC) – which can be had with up to 14 CPU cores (ten performance, four efficiency), and 20 GPU cores – was "far more powerful and capable than any AI PC chip," boasting up to 2.1x the performance of Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V with its 48 TOPS NPU. Step up to the ...
AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them?
4 days ago · Despite 49% surge in shipments, buyers seem unconvinced. Warehouses in the IT channel are stocking up with AI-capable PCs - industry watcher Canalys claims these made up 20 percent of all shipments during Q3 2024, amounting to some 13.3 million units worldwide.
Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that matter
Aug 25, 2024 · In this guide, we'll explore some common misconceptions and get to the bottom of what specs actually matter when deploying AI at home. Setting expectations. The kind of hardware you need to run AI models locally depends a …
AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better, hardware-wise
Jan 23, 2024 · In a recent report, the group claimed Microsoft will define AI PCs as having 16GB of RAM and 40 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of NPU inferencing performance. For reference, the NPUs in Intel, AMD, and Apple's latest notebook chips are …
Analysts: AI PCs set to dominate shipments by 2026
Sep 25, 2024 · AI PCs are forecast to account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, says tech market sales number cruncher and consultancy Gartner, and by 2026, an AI device may be the virtually the only laptop a big business can choose. Shipments of AI PCs are estimated to be 43 million units in 2024, an increase of 99.8 percent from 2023 and 114 million units in ...
Incoming wave of AI PCs makes buying riskier for businesses
Mar 1, 2024 · AI PCs due to land this year could increase businesses' risk of buying the wrong tech as there is still no current AI standard for software to work with and confusion remains over what makes up an AI PC.
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third, no thanks to AI PCs
Mar 6, 2024 · Shipments of consumer-grade GPUs are growing strongly, according to graphics-focused analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, but probably not due to the emergence of generative AI or the so-called AI PC. The firm's latest report found GPU shipments grew 32 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2023 to 9.5 million units, and 6.8 percent ...
PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts
Apr 9, 2024 · Canalys forecasts that nearly 50 million PCs shipped in 2024 will be of the AI-capable variety. The opportunity for OEMs comes from this and that the current installed base of PC hardware is "larger and older than ever."
AI PCs need to be better at everything trad PCs can do
Sep 5, 2024 · "With powerful new silicon capable of an incredible 40+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), all-day battery life and access to the most advanced AI models, Copilot+ PCs will enable you to do things you can't on any other PC," Microsoft gushes.
Why Copilot will only sort of run locally on AI PCs for now
Mar 31, 2024 · Combined with an Adreno GPU capable of 4.6 teraFLOPS of FP32 performance, Qualcomm says the part will be able to run AI models up to 13 billion parameters entirely on device and generate 30 tokens a second when running smaller 7-billion-parameter LLMs.