Microsoft is preparing to unveil its vision of "AI-powered PCs" next month at an event in Seattle. Informed sources have reported that Microsoft is confident that a series of new Windows laptops on the Arm platform will outperform Apple's M3-based MacBook Air in both CPU performance and AI-accelerated tasks.
Microsoft believes that future Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processors will finally offer the performance it has been looking for to aggressively promote Windows on Arm OS. Microsoft is betting big on the future Snapdragon X Elite processors, which will appear in various Windows laptops this year, as well as on the latest consumer-oriented Surface devices.
Microsoft plans several demonstrations to show that these processors will be faster than the MacBook Air with an M3 chip in CPU loads, AI acceleration, and even program emulation. Microsoft claims in internal documents that these new Windows AI-powered PCs will provide "faster program emulation than Rosetta 2" - the solution used by Apple on their Apple Silicon Mac computers to translate programs compiled for 64-bit Intel processors for their own Apple processors.
Application emulation has been a major issue for the Windows on Arm platform over the past decade. Over 2 years ago, Microsoft introduced x64 application emulation for Windows 11. This helps ensure that applications can run on Windows devices with Arm architecture if there is no native ARM64 version available. Native Arm applications are key to improving the performance of future Windows laptops on Arm. Google recently released its own ARM64 version of Chrome, ready for these future devices.
It is also reported that Microsoft plans to ship consumer models of its future Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processors instead of Intel Core Ultra chips available in business versions.
Microsoft internally describes devices running on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processors as "next-gen AI Copilot PCs" to distinguish them from existing PCs running on the latest AMD or Intel Core Ultra chips. This new class of computers will be the first to access new AI-based Windows features, including the AI Explorer program, which allows you to "get everything you've ever seen or done on your device."
These new systems will have enhanced video streaming features and access to Windows Studio effects for background blurring, etc. Additionally, they will provide the ability to create images for free using AI models, as well as offer options for Copilot to access your PC's context to improve hints and responses.
The major AI-powered PC presentation from Microsoft will take place on May 20, just one day before the annual developer conference Build.
Source: The Verge
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