At Intel Vision 2024.Intel CEO Pat Kissinger has revealed that Intel has now shipped 5 million AI PC chips...Expected to ship 40 million units by 2024 AI PCIntel's AI processors are available in more than 230 designs, covering thin and light PCs and gaming handheld devices. Intel aims to supply processors for more than 100 million AI PCs by 2025.
At the end of last month, Intel announced two new artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives for the AI PC Accelerator Program, namely the addition of the AI PC Developer Program and the inclusion of independent hardware vendors (IHVs) in the AI PC Accelerator Program. AI PC Acceleration Program.
Intel and Microsoft have jointly defined the criteria for what constitutes an AI PC as an AI PC with an NPU, CPU, and GPU, support for Microsoft's Copilot, and physical Copilot buttons directly on the keyboard.
Microsoft also requires that AI PCs be equipped with an NPU with a performance of 40 TOPS, which is the Neural Processing Unit, a chip dedicated to processing AI programs. TOPS is a unit of measurement of the performance of the NPU, representing the number of trillions of operations that can be performed per second, and the higher the value, the higher the performance of the chip. Although TOPS is not a complete measure of an NPU's performance (power consumption is equally important), it provides a basic performance reference standard.
Intel has also come up with a simpler definition of an AI PC on its own, where each part of the CPU, GPU and NPU has its own AI-specific acceleration, which is in fact the design philosophy of Intel's own Meteor Lake and its successors.