Dell Technologies held a new personal computer product launch event and announced the notebook PC Inspiron, the latest product equipped with the Core Ultra that was just officially announced by Intel. Kenichiro Yasuo, PhD in Engineering and General Manager of Intel Corporation’s Technology Division, also took the stage at the presentation and explained the appeal of this new processor.
Bootstrap your PC as a new machine with a new processor
As I wrote about recently in this series, I am really curious about what will happen if AI processors installed in computers start operating standalone.
Intel calls the new processor Core Ultra, codenamed Meteor Lake, a once-in-40-year transformation, and the processor generation is separate from the 14th generation of the Core processor family.Starting anew with the first generationdo.
Under the banner of this new generation of processors, namely the Core Ultra processors, Intel is shouting out the slogan of AI Everywhere. This is because the Core Ultra processor has an integrated NPU as an AI processor.
Equipped with this new processor, a new generation of PCs will be born that will be able to perform three types of calculations using the CPU, GPU, and NPU.
Generative AI has only been booming for about two years, but most of today’s AI is cloud-centric.
Intel is planning to change this to Cloud + Client + Edge in the future. Mr. Yasuo explains that the core of this is the Core Ultra processor equipped with an NPU, which is the core of AI processing.
The introduction of AI to PCs will further expand the range of applications for AI, which is currently being used to enhance various functions such as audio effects, high quality web conferencing, and effects in creative work and gaming. Understand everyday operations, improve the user experience, and cover everything you do with your PC. And it seems that AI will be able to adapt to everything.
Of course, Intel cannot do these things alone. That’s why we turn our ideas into reality through a variety of collaborations with partners such as Dell Technologies and numerous software vendors. We are trying to lead this major revolution in PCs.
Eliminating cloud dependence will change the way you use your PC
Mr. Yasuo says that Intel believes that AI PCs should be able to take over the AI functions of the cloud locally.
Mr. Yasuo says that he never imagined that PCs would perform inference processing, but this is becoming a reality. If you can steadily experience the effects of the apps you have right now, and if you can do things locally with low power consumption that you previously could not do without consuming huge amounts of power, the way you use your PC will definitely change. Mr. Ansei says that he will go.
Of course, its usage also includes interacting with AI using natural language. Of course, you need a lot of software. That’s why Mr. Yasuo believes it is important to improve AI-related software.
Intel is able to take the lead because it knows full well that users are looking for more than just high latency and low power consumption, Yasuo said.
The company is increasing the number of software that can simultaneously utilize three types of computing units: NPU, GPU, and CPU, and expanding AI software by providing free OpenVINO toolkit as a general-purpose inference engine that allows you to easily start developing inference applications. The company emphasizes that it can contribute to increasing the number of companies at an accelerating pace.
Dai Matsubara, CSB PGTM Product Assortment Planner and Consultant at Dell Technology, also says that demand will not increase unless the way PCs are used changes, and hopes that the combination of local AI and cloud AI will be a breakthrough.
Additionally, with Windows 10 EOS coming soon, there will be a synergistic effect, and the market is likely to grow.
At that time, PC added “use” to “make”, and now…
40 years ago was 1983. In an epoch-making event, NEC released the PC-100 in October of the same year. This product supported GUI using a mouse, and the standard OS was MS-DOS. It did not have ROM-BASIC, which was familiar to the previous 98 series.
I personally had a chance to keep it on hand and use it, and even though I didn’t quite understand it, I felt like I was witnessing the moment when something changed. Just System’s JS-WORD, which allows you to create documents using a mouse, was included as a standard app.
I remember that when I was using it to write, I felt a kind of elation.
Since Intel only happens once every 40 years, we’ll probably be able to enjoy the same excitement that we had then for several years to come. At least that’s what I’m hoping for.
At that time, computers, which were originally calculators, began to function as document creators that could communicate in a graphical manner, completely changing the image of PCs. A calculator ghost was even mutated into a different creature by a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet has as many calculators as there are squares.
At that time, in addition to “creating (software),” the role of the PC was “using (software).” As a result, the definition of the word user has also changed. This is the start of a new stage for PC.
What kind of changes will occur in PCs as AI processing becomes possible on standalone PCs? Actually, I don’t think there are many people who really understand this. Of course, I don’t know either.
The future that will be available in the near future is not yet clearly visible. Perhaps they lack imagination. That’s fine. As long as you can get your heart filled with anticipation, that’s fine.
Perhaps the new PCs, breathed a new lease of life by the new Core Ultra processor, will find entirely new uses for people who aren’t PC experts. Conversely, it’s best not to trust too much what computer experts say about how it’s convenient to use.
As activist Jerry Rubin once proclaimed, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty,” believing the experts can be a disaster. It can be said that no one really knows.
I am lucky to have the opportunity to witness such a big event twice. I’m going to look at what’s going to happen from a different perspective than I did 40 years ago.
2023-12-15 21:05:00
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