The Importance of Including AI Acceleration in Your Next PC Fleet Upgrade
Incorporating offline AI acceleration into your next PC fleet upgrade is a strategic decision that can offer significant benefits. Boosted productivity and creativity can transform how employees work—improved energy efficiency results in longer battery life and lower costs. Enhanced security and privacy minimize exposure to potential data breaches, cyberattacks, or unauthorized third-party access. By enabling these powerful new assistive features, this technology equips businesses with the tools to stay productive, reduce operational costs, and safeguard their data.
Download the whitepaper to take a deep dive into the specific benefits, how to upgrade, and get clarity on the role of the AI PC and the possibilities it can unlock.
Understanding the AI PC: Where and When to Adopt
In this whitepaper from the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, discover how and when to invest in AI PCs, what AI PCs can do, and get a detailed look at the benefits they offer.
This Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper explores why organizations should upgrade to artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled PCs (AI PCs) and what to consider before refreshing their PC fleet.
AI PCs offer the potential to perform tasks more quickly and with lower latency than when the cloud is used because they are not reliant on the network connection's quality, reliability, or responsiveness.
One of the most noteworthy benefits of AI PCs is the ability to perform advanced AI processing without exposing data to the cloud. Performing local AI processing and taking advantage of security functionality built into the device can significantly bolster cybersecurity and enhance data privacy.
The capabilities of AI PCs are designed to offer IT departments more assistance in supporting these devices and integrating them into system management tools and workflows while also maintaining the familiarities of already-existing business platforms.
IT organizations making PC fleet refresh decisions must rely on forecasts, analyst recommendations, and their own data gathering, considering the varying needs of their users, before creating an acquisition and rollout plan.
4 Key Takeaways
AI PCs deliver multiple benefits for businesses. AI PCs promise key benefits in performance, productivity, cost efficiency, privacy, data security, sustainable energy use, and manageability.
AI PCs future-proof your fleet. An aging PC fleet and the sunsetting of Windows 10 support are driving factors supporting investment in AI PCs.
Forging the optimal path to moving to a fully AI-enabled fleet depends on several factors. Analysts recommend organizations gather everything they know now, from the state of their current fleet to their employees' anticipated use cases and needs, before they make new investments.
AI PCs will eventually become the default. In addition to the hard numbers business of assessing value and projecting ROI, decision-makers must consider the bigger picture and how they can leverage AI PCs to set up their organizations to succeed in the next wave of innovation.
“AI PCs represent an important milestone in the nascent AI era, promising key benefits in performance, productivity, cost efficiency, privacy, data security, sustainable energy use, and manageability. The ability to run AI locally opens up a rich new frontier in the rapid evolution of AI in the enterprise, and that has the attention of boardrooms.”
Alex Clemente, Managing Director, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
“As commercial organizations plan their next round of PC fleet upgrades, incorporating offline artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration technology into the PC assortment should be a top priority.”
Robert Hallock, Vice President and General Manager, Client AI and Technical Marketing, Intel