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EngadgetMay 20, 2024
Microsoft Surface and Copilot Event: Everything announced including new Surface laptops, Copilot PC and more
Microsoft just couldn't wait until its Build developer conference properly starts tomorrow to drop some knowledge bombs. The company held a pre-Build event on Monday that wasn't livestreamed for the public, but it made some major announcements on the AI and Surface fronts.

Its vision for so-called AI PCs is taking shape with Copilot PCs, which are designed to run many generative AI processes locally instead of in the cloud. Along with its own Surface systems that will adopt this format, several other manufacturers are making Copilot PCs too. Microsoft also detailed some of the upcoming AI features for Windows 11.

Copilot PCs The big news coming out of this event is Microsoft's vision for AI-centric PCs. Microsoft's take on this is the Copilot PC. 

To qualify as a Copilot PC, a system will need to have neural processing unit (NPU) performance of at least 40 TOPs (trillions of operations per second) and have 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage at minimum. This is so the PC can run generative AI processes locally rather than via the cloud. That's a strategy we've seen in some recent flagship smartphones, such as Google Pixel devices.

Microsoft says it has completely reimagined the Win


PC World Latest NewsMay 20, 2024
Intel claps back at Qualcomm after Snapdragon X launch

In a back-and-forth that resembles a certain pair of pop vocalists with beef, Intel scheduled an announcement that its new Lunar Lake series of chips will beat Snapdragon X in several metrics, including the new NPU hotness, at exactly the same time as the new Arm-based laptops were announced. Gordon goes into deep detail on the differences, the similarities, and what all these new chips actually mean for you, the consumer.

Once you're done with that, you can catch up on all of today's news on the new Snapdragon machines from the likes of Surface, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and HP.

Microsoft's new Surface laptops are bursting with AI power


PC World Latest NewsMay 20, 2024
HP debuts two OmniBook and EliteBook Snapdragon laptops

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