AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them?
Nov 14, 2024 · 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.
Premium-priced AI PCs? Businesses aren't buying – yet
Nov 22, 2024 · The premium price of AI PCs and a lack of killer applications are leading to some confusion among customers who want to upgrade their aging estates ahead of Windows 10 support ending. So says a senior Gartner analyst who asked The Register recently if we are also hearing that businesses are still "delaying" signing off purchase orders.
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 …
We asked Intel to define ‘AI PC’. Anything with Core Ultra
Mar 12, 2024 · Because AI PCs are therefore just PCs with current processors, Intel doesn't consider "AI PC" to be a brand that denotes conformity with a spec or a particular capability not present in other PCs.
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.
Windows 10's farewell tour set to drive laptop sales in 2025
4 days ago · The global laptop market is forecast to grow by 4.9 percent during 2025, but commercial upgrade cycles and the looming Windows 10 end of life are driving this rather than demand for AI-capable PCs.
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.
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.
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 ...