Microsoft made some unusually major moves ahead of its Build developer conference: It announced a new Copilot+ initiative for powerful AI PCs, which will be led by the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop. These machines are powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips, and they come with a special version of Windows 11 optimized for Arm mobile chips and AI. Basically, Microsoft is doing for PCs what Apple did with its M-series Macs four years ago.
In this bonus episode, Devindra chats with Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows and Devices, about the new Surface devices and the Copilot+ PC initiative. We still don’t know how well these new machines will perform, but it sounds like Microsoft has certainly heard our complaints about Arm-based Windows devices.
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2024-05-21 14:39:38
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