All products and promotions are independently selected by our experts. To help us provide free unbiased advice, we earn an affiliate commission if you make a purchase. Click here to find out more Microsoft has hiked prices for 34 million Game Pass subscribers worldwide, forcing them to pay an extra £24 each year. The price … Read more
Analysis AMD expects to have notebook chips within a few years that can locally execute 30 billion parameters in major languages at a rate of 100 tokens per second. Achieving this goal – which also requires 100ms first token latency – isn’t as simple as it sounds. It will require optimizations on both the software … Read more
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Laptops with Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus have arrived. As the first Microsoft Copilot+ PCs, these machines not only promise to perform AI-driven tasks locally, but should also have excellent battery life. Microsoft has tried Arm-based computers before, but these new devices could actually find success — and perhaps challenge Apple’s M-series Macs. … Read more
Today marks the launch of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs, marking the beginning of the Microsoft Copilot+ AI PC era. The first Microsoft Copilot+ AI PCs are here! And Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs are driving the new era Ever since Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X Elite CPUs for Windows AI PCs, they have taken the market … Read more
ROG Ally celebrates its 1-year anniversary today, June 13, 2024. Below, we look back at how it overcame its launch problems to become a viable Steam Deck competitor, and a sign of just how open the portable PC market can be. Considering how much the portable gaming PC market has exploded since Valve launched the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. The titans of the chip industry descended on Taiwan this week to claim an “AI PC revolution” that promises the biggest advances in decades in the way consumers and office workers interact with their personal … Read more
What you need to know ASUS just announced three new PCs for makers that will hit the market in the second half of 2024. One of those new devices is the ProArt PZ13, a convertible PC powered by a Snapdragon X processor. The ProArt PZ13 also has a 13-inch 3K OLED display, a stand and … Read more
Project G-Assist, NVIDIA ACE NIMs for digital humans and generative AI tools power advanced AI experiences on RTX laptops; Plus RTX-accelerated APIs for small language models coming to Windows Copilot Runtime COMPUTEX—NVIDIA announced new ones today NVIDIA RTX™ technology to power AI assistants and digital humans that run on new GeForce RTX™ AI Laptops. NVIDIA … Read more
What you need to know Microsoft has unveiled a host of next-generation AI features coming with Windows 11 exclusively on Copilot+ PCs with powerful NPUs. One user bypassed these strict requirements and got Windows Recall running on Arm64 hardware. The feature works surprisingly well on unsupported hardware, but you’ll likely have a better experience on … Read more