Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that matter
WEBAug 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 lot on what exactly you're trying to achieve.
AI PCs need to be better at everything trad PCs can do
WEBSep 5, 2024 · According to analyst house Omdia, some 1,300 games have been tested on Microsoft's first wave of AI PCs – which includes models from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung – and only about half managed to run to an acceptable standard.
Analysts: AI PCs set to dominate shipments by 2026
WEBSep 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.
We asked Intel to define ‘AI PC’. Anything with Core Ultra
WEBMar 12, 2024 · Intel used the "Centrino" brand to distinguish Wi-Fi-enabled PCs, and did likewise by giving home entertainment PCs the "Viiv" moniker. Chipzilla still uses the tactic with "vPro" – a brand that denotes processors that …
When is a PC an AI PC? Nobody seems to know or wants to tell
WEBOct 5, 2023 · Canalys EMEA Forum Execs at the biggest PC makers seem to be salivating at the prospect of AI computers inflating their margins – even if they are unable or unwilling to define the emerging category.
AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better, hardware-wise
WEBJan 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 capable of pushing 16-18 TOPS.
Dell unveils new hardware and talks up the AI PC
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Dell Technologies has joined other PC vendors that bought a ticket on the AI hype train as it prepares to release a swathe of new devices. According to the hardware giant, the industry is at the cusp of a major refresh cycle, and what customers really want is an AI PC (even if they don't know it yet).
AMD says future PCs will run 30B parameter models at 100T/s
WEBJul 15, 2024 · As it stands, AMD claims its Ryzen AI 300-series Strix Point processors, announced at Computex last month, are capable of running LLMs at 4-bit precision up to around seven billion parameters in size, at a modest 20 tokens a second and 1–4 seconds first token latencies.
PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts
WEBApr 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."
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third, no thanks to AI PCs
WEBMar 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 …