How the AI PC Revolutionizes IT and User Experience
As excitement surrounding AI continues to grow, it is reflected in the momentum around AI PCs. The market is at the beginning of a major transition, with AI-capable PC shipments projected to surpass 100 million in 2025 – 40% of all PC shipments. Beyond that, analysts anticipate a staggering growth rate of 44% between 2024 and 2028.
AI PCs have the potential to disrupt the PC market and bring huge potential benefits not only to organizations with more effective system management, improved security and lower costs, but to users in terms of productivity and creativity. Are you ready to make the leap to AI PCs? Download the report to get answers to the key questions that IT leaders are asking about AI PC adoption.
What is an AI PC, and how does it differ from a traditional PC?
What exactly is an AI PC? AI PCs are desktops or notebooks that contain dedicated AI accelerators or cores – such as central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and neural processing units (NPUs) – a dedicated hardware component designed to optimize and accelerate AI workloads 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, 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 OpenVINOTM 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 end-user benefits are huge. Specific applications that require CPU cycles can now be moved to the other engines within the system, giving the user more performance and the ability to do more things than ever before.
AI PCs have the potential to transform IT. AI PCs enable IT to leverage machine learning (ML) to gain a level of insight into their systems they have never been able to tap into before, transforming IT from being reactive to becoming proactive.
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.
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.
AI-powered security capabilities can help detect threats at the hardware level before they happen. A key benefit of an AI PC powered by the Intel Core Ultra processor will be the improved capacity for AI-powered threat detection, especially for those devices that utilize Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel® TDT) as part of the Intel vPro® platform.
IT will have an easier time reusing AI PCs. AI is dramatically improving the user experience and helping people to be much more productive. But it will also enable greater reuse and recycling of devices, optimizing the device's lifecycle while ensuring that organizations maximize their initial investment.
“IT can improve their visibility into system health, transforming IT from reactive break-fix practices to predictive, proactive and self-healing.”
Sarah Wieskus, general manager of commercial client sales, Intel
“It’s awesome that these AI PCs have so much compute to work with. Security ISVs can offload security scanning to the other engines, bring more security to the system and make it that much more difficult for criminals to attack the environment”
Sarah Wieskus, general manager of commercial client sales, Intel