The rise of consumer-focused artificial intelligence applications (like AI art and ChatGPT) was the most dynamic trend of 2022. But don’t get too excited quite yet—buying new laptops from AMD and Intel with AI functions built in aren’t worth opening your wallet. Given the breakneck pace of AI development, though, they may very well be come next year’s CES.
Here’s what’s going on. Deep within the of processor architectures that make up AMD’s lies XDNA, the new AI hardware architecture that AMD is launching within the Ryzen as a placeholder until its Meteor Lake chips . Qualcomm has offered AI technology as part of its Arm-based Snapdragon chips for years, which power most smartphones but are a niche player in Windows PCs.