Acer has introduced two new laptops, the 2024 Acer Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14, powered by AMD Ryzen 8040 series chips. These laptops are being marketed as AI workhorses due to their dedicated neural processing units (NPU). Equipped with OLED displays, Radeon 780M graphics, and 32GB of RAM, these Windows 11 machines are designed to deliver top-notch performance.
The Ryzen 8040 chip series, which was unveiled in December, boasts a dedicated AI Engine that promises up to 1.4 times faster performance than its predecessors in Llama 2 and AI vision models. Acer plans to leverage the NPU in the Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 for AI-related tasks such as PurifiedVoice (eliminating background noise in calls and recordings) and PurifiedView (blurring backgrounds in images and correcting eye positioning in video calls).
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Similar to other new Windows machines, these laptops come with a dedicated Microsoft Copilot button on their keyboards for quick AI queries, resembling ChatGPT. (Copilot taps into Microsoft and…
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