20% of PCs launched in 2024 will have a powerful chip that Apple has been using for six years!
Six years after the launch of the Neural Engine chip in the iPhone Microsoft has decided to follow Apple’s example and make your own implementation on this year’s computers and in other companies as well. According to a Canalys report, around 20% of PCs launched this year should have their own equivalent of this component.
After a contraction in computer shipments in 2023, in which Apple was at a particular disadvantage, Several market analysis firms predict that in 2024 the sector will stabilize. The last quarter has already shown signs of this, and we will see significant innovations, including those related to artificial intelligence capabilitieswhat the Neural Engine is precisely based on.
Microsoft will implement the Neural Engine chip in its computers
Several of the innovations that should be known throughout these months were presented at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show), which is currently taking place in Las Vegas. According to Ishan Dutt, principal analyst at Canalys:
“A series of announcements from OEMs and chipset suppliers at CES will pave the way for more products to come to market later this year. We expect that one in five PCs shipped this year will be AI-enabled and feature a dedicated chipset or block., such as an NPU, to run AI workloads on the device. “Adoption will grow rapidly thereafter, particularly in the commercial sector, where the benefits of on-device AI in terms of productivity, security and cost management will become a key driver for businesses.”
He Apple Neural Engine was first introduced and released on the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X on September 12, 2017.allowing the device to “learn more from users”.
This designation is the brand name for a group of highly specialized computing cores optimized for energy-efficient execution of deep neural networks on Apple devices. It accelerates machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, providing huge benefits in speed, memory and power compared to the main CPU or GPU.
With the launch of MacBook Pros equipped with the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips in October 2023, Apple has updated the Neural Engine to offer faster speed and the possibility of additional unified memory.
