Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts
AI PCs are forecast to account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, says tech market sales number cruncher and consultancy Gartner, and by 2026, an AI device may be the virtually the only laptop a big business can choose.
While PC vendors looking for good news might welcome this figure, it does not represent the emergence of a killer AI app. Instead, it is an indicator that buying a PCFor Gartner, an AI PC is one with an embedded neural processing unit . Although there might not be much on the desktop that demands the hardware, it is, according to analyst, going to become more ubiquitous to the point where a buyer might hedge their bets and buy a bit of future-proofing.
At the recent Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology conference, HP CEO Enrique Lores told analysts that he expects AI PCs to represent approximately 50 percent of shipments in 2027 and drive an average selling price increase across the sector of The eventual dominance of the AI PC appears inevitable, even if the hardware currently surpasses the software applications, yet it is coming at a terrible time for some vendors. Atwal noted that for Intel,"it's almost the worst time for it to happen."
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