AI PCs mesh new processing power from Intel's Meteor Lake, AMD's Ryzen 8040, and Qualcomm's X directly with new features being built into Windows 11 (and someday Windows 12) to unlock AI for all. Someday, that is: We're only just at the dawn of the age of the AI PC today.
AMD was first to market, with Ryzen 7040 series, the first ever CPU to feature an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for AI workloads. Hawk Point, the Ryzen 8040, is the company's current offering. Intel's flagship here is the Meteor Lake, announced in Dec. 2023 -- but look for the next-gen Lunar Lake chips later in 2024. And soon Qualcomm will power AI PCs thanks to its ARM-powered Snapdragon X Elite, which will launch in laptops in mid-2024 -- at Computex , perhaps?
Meteor Lake : Intel's newest offer Foveros 3D packaging, a radical new tech that's Intel's largest architectural shift in 40 years. And they're the first mainstream chips to use silicon from a competing fab.
Snapdragon X Elite: Qualcomm is taking another stab at an Arm PC system-on-a chip, this time based on the new Oryon cores that come from its purchase of Nuvia. The new chip, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite, will launch in laptops in mid-2024 .
Hawk Point: The new Hawk Point lineup is the first to come with Ryzen 8000 branding, but the chips feature the same 5nm Zen 4 cores, RDNA 3 graphics, and XDNA AI engine as the existing Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” processors.