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by cherioo 157 days ago
AI PC has been in the buzz for more than 2 years now (despite itself being a near useless concept), and intel has like 75% marketshare for laptop. Both of those are well with in norm for an intel marketing piece.

It’s not really meant for consumer. Who would even visit newsroom.intel.com?
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lostlogin 157 days ago
Apparently it’s been a thing for a while:

What is an AI PC? ('Look, Ma! No Cloud!')

An AI PC has a CPU, a GPU and an NPU, each with specific AI acceleration capabilities. An NPU, or neural processing unit, is a specialized accelerator that handles artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tasks right on your PC instead of sending data to be processed in the cloud. https://newsroom.intel.com/artificial-intelligence/what-is-a...

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sidewndr46 156 days ago
It'd be interesting to see some market survey data showing the number of AI laptops sold & the number of users that actively use the acceleration capabilities for any task, even once.
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sixothree 156 days ago
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a single task that comes built into the system and uses the NPU.
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fassssst 156 days ago
Remove background from an image. Summarize some text. OCR to select text or click links in a screenshot. Relighting and centering you in your webcam. Semantic search for images and files.

A lot of that is in the first party Mac and Windows apps.

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lostlogin 156 days ago
Selecting text in a photo is a game changer. I love it.
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MBCook 156 days ago
Wasn’t built in OCR an amazing feature?

We probably could have done it years earlier. But when it showed up… wow.

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olyjohn 156 days ago
CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show last I checked.
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