Intel on Thursday mentioned that dozens of private laptop makers are utilizing its latest chip, as the corporate and its prospects attempt to entice customers to improve their machines for a brand new period of chatbots.
At a press occasion in New York, Intel mentioned the brand new providing will probably be accessible in laptops from Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Lenovo Group and others that may go on sale on Thursday at Best Buy within the U.S. and different international retailers together with China’s JD.com and Australia’s Harvey Norman.
Intel’s central processor items (CPUs) have lengthy served because the brains of most private computer systems. But the brand new chip that glided by the code title “Meteor Lake” is Intel’s first that can even comprise what known as an neural processing unit (NPU), a bit of the chip devoted to dealing with synthetic intelligence duties.
Apple, Qualcomm and different smartphone chip makers have included NPUs of their cell phone choices for not less than 5 years.
Intel’s pitch to customers and companies comes as it’s combating its means out of a post-pandemic PC droop the place consumers who upgraded to earn a living from home in 2020 have seen little cause to purchase new tools.
The Silicon Valley firm is hoping {that a} new wave of AI functions supplies some incentive to purchase what Intel has dubbed the “AI PC,” a class it expects will comprise 80% of PCs bought throughout the subsequent 4 years.
During an indication of the brand new chip in September, the corporate confirmed some examples of AI work that it hoped would spur curiosity, resembling transcribing voice notes with out having to ship knowledge to a third-party cloud supplier or producing a music within the fashion of pop star Taylor Swift. — Reuters
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