How AI Will Revolutionize the Computing Experience
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being embedded into large-scale enterprise applications to bring efficiencies into everyday workflows. But the potential for AI extends well beyond the software stack – it promises to revolutionize the capabilities and user experience for a new hybrid workforce that relies on PCs and laptops for productivity and enterprise access.
The AI PC represents a new generation of personal computers with dedicated AI acceleration capabilities built into the hardware. Download the report to understand the roadmap to and beyond the AI PC and explore its most important practical applications.
The AI PC is here
What exactly is an AI-enabled PC? AI PCs are equipped with dedicated AI accelerators or cores – such as central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), or neural processing units (NPUs) – designed to optimize and accelerate AI tasks on the device. AI PCs can run all the different types of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads and applications, but with better performance and efficiency than previous generations of PCs. The result is improved user productivity, optimized battery life, enhanced security and privacy by being run on the client device, and greater offline accessibility because the PC will not always have to rely on external servers or cloud services.
The AI PC represents a new generation of personal computers with dedicated AI acceleration capabilities built into the hardware. Intel® Core™ Ultra processors are optimized across three compute engines, the CPU, GPU, and NPU, to run the next wave of advanced AI workloads.
Intel is equipping software developers with tools such as OpenVINO and oneAPI, an open standard adopted by Intel for a unified Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used across different computing accelerator architectures.
The AI PC will solve the growth challenges cloud-only AI applications face today. Many people correlate AI with the cloud. Indeed, many of the large language models (LLMs) used for GenAI sit within the cloud. But that can prove costly, with AI usage predicted to grow exponentially. AI PCs can offer local performance and efficient AI computing with little to no cost to developers.
Gartner forecasts worldwide shipments of AI PCs and GenAI smartphones will total 295 million units by the end of 2024 – a huge jump from 29 million units in 20231. This means the rapid adoption of GenAI capabilities and AI processors will become a standard device requirement.
4 Key Takeaways
We’re at the tipping point of client computing. The rapid adoption of GenAI capabilities and AI processors will eventually become a standard requirement in devices. In the coming years, as part of its AI PC Acceleration Program, Intel will enable hundreds of AI features across more than 100 million Intel Core Ultra AI PCs.
The new AI devices have updated components inside—the NPU, CPU, and GPU—which means they can handle workloads far more efficiently, allowing the user to have a smooth, engaging, collaborative experience and be productive at the same time.
It’s not just the end-user that benefits from the AI PC. There are a range of capabilities of which IT departments can take advantage. For example, security – technology such as Intel Threat Detection (Intel TDT) includes machine learning heuristics and anomalous behavior detection that speed up the ability to detect malware attacks.
IT will have an easier time reusing AI PCs. AI is dramatically improving the user experience and helping people to be much more productive and creative. But in the coming years, it will also enable greater reuse and recycling of devices, optimizing the device's lifecycle while ensuring that organizations maximize their initial investment.
“The AI PC will not only usher in the next generation of the PC platform but redefine what it means to work on a PC and how powerful it can be as a productivity platform. AI acceleration must now be a component of people’s PC buying decisions.”
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“The Intel advantage is compatibility. There are a lot of applications that will simply just run on Intel Core Ultra, creating a frictionless AI experience. And we’re not stopping with what we currently have – we are extending our support to many more ISVs to ensure that their applications will take advantage of these brand-new capabilities we’re building within our platforms.”
Bradley Jenkins, EMEA Client Computing Category Manager, Intel