On December 7, the first AI PC Industry Innovation Forum was held at Lenovo headquarters in Beijing. The forum released the industry's first "AI PC Industry (China)** and brought together users, terminal manufacturers, computing power manufacturers (chips), AI technology manufacturers (large models), and ecological partners in the application field, and deeply ** AI PC has brought great changes to AI inclusiveness.
The panelists believed that with the arrival of AI PCs, large models will become an indispensable assistant for everyone, and the computing power demand for inference will exceed the computing power demand for training. The mode of concentrating computing power in the cloud has become unsustainable, and the AI computing load will gradually sink from the cloud to the edge and device side. In terms of building local intelligent computing power, the CPU + NPU + GPU heterogeneous architecture solution is one of the most mature solutions at present.
In this regard, Gao Yu, general manager of technology at Intel China, said that AI workloads come in a variety of shapes and sizes. So, there is no one-size-fits-all solution from the hardware. "Based on years of Xi and market experience, we came up with the concept of XPU, including GPU NPU CPU. Lenovo is a strategic partner of Intel, and the two companies are already advancing the development and innovation of AI experiences based on the upcoming Meteor Lake processors, he said.
Gao Yu, General Manager of Technology of Intel China).
As a representative of computing power manufacturers, Intel is taking three measures to continue to build computing power on the device side. The first is to build a high-performance AI-ready platform designed for AIThe second is to provide tools to support a broad ecosystem of x86 applications, and the third is to spark innovation and unlock new AI experiences, including support for software and application developers to better deploy AI capabilities to PC clients in all domains.
Intel also officially launched its first "AI PC Acceleration Program" this year, which will bring AI features to more than 100 million PCs by 2025. Through deep collaboration with more than 100 ISV partners and the integration of more than 300 AI acceleration features, Intel will continue to enhance the PC experience in audio effects, content creation, gaming, security, live streaming, collaboration, and more.
It is understood that in practice, Intel's 13th generation Core processors have been able to smoothly run large models with 7 billion to 18 billion parameters, and have successfully deployed LLMs. Gao Yu said that the upcoming AI PC processor, codenamed Meteor Lake, represents Intel's most significant architectural shift in 40 years and aims to pave the way for the AI PC era. It is the first processor with a built-in AI acceleration engine, NPU, enabling energy-efficient AI acceleration and local inference on a PC.
In order to complete relatively complex tasks, AI PCs often need to mobilize different models and applications to supplement and extend the capabilities of AI PCs. Therefore, the full play of AI PC functions requires not only the participation of computing power manufacturers like Intel, but also the support of the entire open industry ecosystem.
Driven by AI PCs, the PC industry ecosystem will shift from application-oriented to people-oriented, and users will become the drivers and creators of industry ecological innovation. Model, application, and computing power vendors need to make changes around the new human-centric requirements in the form of AI PCs (terminals), and fully consider the efficient operation of AI in R&D work to adapt to the new era of AI PCs.
As a terminal manufacturer, Lenovo is the closest end to users, so it has been pushed to the front of the stage and has become the core center of the ecological organizer and ecology. Based on the needs of the scenario, it integrates industrial resources for users, and assumes the responsibilities of AI PC technology integration innovation deliverer, creator and user experience maintainer of a new generation of personal agents and AI entrances, guardian of localized personal data and privacy security, and standard setter and promoter of an open AI application ecosystem. It is out of industry responsibility that Lenovo and IDC jointly released the industry's first "AI PC Industry (China)**", which redefines AI PC to accelerate the construction of a new ecosystem for the AI PC industry.
Gao Yu concluded by saying that the AI PC acceleration program will be driven by the upcoming IntelCore Ultra processor. In the future, Intel will build GPUs with performance parallelism and throughput for 3D rendering of converged AI, and dedicated low-power AI engine NPUs for sustained AI and AI load sharingIt is believed that with the support of the new platform, Intel will accelerate the joint creation of a hybrid AI computing architecture with Lenovo to drive the implementation of AI PCs.