For the last year, the tech industry has been buzzing about the “AI PC.” We’ve seen a parade of laptops featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips, promising MacBook-level battery life and integrated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) capable of […]
While PC demand is increasing this quarter, the problem with this segment is a general lack of product marketing. Early in the creation of the PC market, the component and software vendors (mostly Microsoft) came up with the concept of
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One of the issues with every OEM being pushed rapidly into a new hardware platform is that it tends to result in a lot of products that aren’t well differentiated from each other. While the feature set for these PCs
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Microsoft Build this year was all about Copilot, which will span Microsoft’s offerings. While any current computer can run Copilot, only special AI PCs run Copilot+. Copilot+ gets you to a whole different level of AI experiences that require the
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One of the highlights of CES 2024 was the ThinkBook 13x. I’ve waited months to get my hands on one, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s lightweight, attractive, and has up to 21 hours of battery life and 3 USB-C Thunderbolt
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I’m writing this in New York, where I’ve been watching my old friend and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger talk about AI. He started his talk with applied AI and how it is used in the Starkey Hearing Aids that help
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