Microsoft revealed Monday it has multiple 'Copilot+' computers that will officially hit the market in June. The announcement of the devices occurred at a Monday event.
Microsoft on Monday debuted a new category of personal computers with AI features as it rushes to build the emerging technology into products across its business and compete with Alphabet and Apple. At an event on its campus in Redmond, Washington, Chief Executive Satya Nadella introduced what Microsoft calls "Copilot+" PCs, saying that it and a range of manufacturers would sell them, including Acer and Asustek Computer.
Yusuf Mehdi, who heads up consumer marketing for Microsoft, said the company expects that 50 million AI PCs will be purchased over the next year. At the press event, he said faster AI assistants that run directly on a PC will be "the most compelling reason to upgrade your PC in a long time.
Microsoft also introduced a new generation of its own Surface Pro tablet and Surface Laptop that feature Qualcomm chips based on Arm Holdings' architecture. The company also introduced a technology called Prism that will help software written for Intel and AMD chips run on chips made with Arm technology. Microsoft showed its new devices in action against an Apple device, showing photo editing software from Adobe running faster on the Microsoft device.
Microsoft tapped Qualcomm to lead the effort to move the Windows operating system to Arm's chip designs in 2016. Qualcomm has exclusivity on Microsoft Windows devices that expires this year. Other chip designers such as Nvidia have efforts under way to make their own Arm-based PC chips, Reuters has previously reported.
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