Intel has begun teasing details of its upcoming ‘Meteor Lake’ CPU architecture, which should be released as part of the 14th Gen Intel Core family starting later this year. On the sidelines of the Computex trade show in Taipei, Intel demonstrated for the first time a prototype laptop running an unidentified Meteor Lake engineering sample … Read more
Snapdragon X Plus was launched on Wednesday as Qualcomm’s latest Arm-based chip for laptops. It follows the launch of the chipmaker’s top-of-the-line Snapdragon X Elite platform. The latest laptop processor is equipped with a 10-core CPU and a 45 TOPS NPU, along with support for 64GB of RAM. Qualcomm has also touted the on-device artificial … Read more
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its M4 chip, the company’s most powerful Apple Silicon processor to date. The new chipset is built on the firm’s second-generation 3nm technology and powers the latest iPad Pro (2024) models launched at its ‘Let Loose’ launch event with new ‘Tandem OLED’ screens. It is equipped with up to 10 CPU … Read more
Microsoft is shipping an on-device large language model (LLM) with all Copilot+ PCs. The company announced its latest variant of the Phi-3 AI model dubbed Phi-Silica at the Microsoft Build 2024 event. This has now become the fifth variant of Phi-3 and officially the smallest LLM (or SLM) at just 3.3 billion parameters. This new AI … Read more
HP launched the first generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) PCs in India, the HP EliteBook Ultra and HP OmniBook X. Both devices are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series chipsets and feature the dedicated Copilot key, which gives them the Copilot+ PC moniker. The OmniBook X is targeted towards retail consumers whereas the EliteBook … Read more
Honor introduced the MagicBook Art 14 globally last week at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA Berlin) 2024. At the same event, the company unveiled the Honor MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon. Initially, the MagicBook Art 14 laptop was launched in China with up to Intel Core Ultra 7 CPUs. The latest version is powered by Snapdragon X Elite chipsets, … Read more
Microsoft is shipping an on-device large language model (LLM) with all Copilot+ PCs. The company announced its latest variant of the Phi-3 AI model dubbed Phi-Silica at the Microsoft Build 2024 event. This has now become the fifth variant of Phi-3 and officially the smallest LLM (or SLM) at just 3.3 billion parameters. This new AI … Read more
As the second wave of AI PCs has hit the market, two things are immediately clear. One, the ecosystem players are looking at neural processing units (NPUs) as the next big thing in compute, and not just a gimmick. Second, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are still aiming to create a brand identity around AI PC. … Read more