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AI Is About to Remake the PC. Dell and HP Could Be Big Winners

3 points by Bostonian 3y ago

Bostonian 3y ago
... 'The pandemic, at the very least, proved that people still rely on PCs. The AI opportunity is sending the PC industry back to its innovative roots. AI PCs won’t look different than the one now sitting on your desk. But on the inside, they’ll have a system-on-a-chip that includes three important elements: a conventional CPU, or central processing unit; a GPU, or graphics processing unit; and—here’s the new wrinkle—an NPU, or neural processing unit. Neural processing is a way of processing very large data sets efficiently. And the NPU will pick up most of the AI-specific computing requirements. Apple has been including a neural engine as part of its homegrown processors since it introduced the A11 processor in the iPhone 10 in 2017. This past Monday night, Apple unveiled its latest MacBooks during a rare prime-time event, a sign of its renewed focus on its own PC division. The latest MacBook Pros, along with an upgraded iMac, will all use a version of the company’s new M3 processors. Apple said the high-end version of the chip, called the M3 Max, will be capable of running complex AI workloads.'
JohnFen 3y ago
> The PC business is going all in on artificial intelligence. This worries me a bit. I don't care about whether or not an "NPU" exists in my machine (I won't be using it anyway), but will this increase prices or cause other things to be omitted?