In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, AI PC has become a hot topic in the PC industry. Major manufacturers have promoted and laid out the AIGC ecological chain, and AMD and Intel are also actively promoting the development of AI PCs. Recently, AMD Ryzen released the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors, and Intel also released the new Core Ultra processors, both of which have shown further improvements in AI tasks! So, who will be the leader in the future development of AI PCs?
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8040 series processors are based on the current Ryzen 7040 series processors, and although the new series processors will introduce NPU computing units, not every Ryzen 8040 processor will integrate the NPU. At the same time, it should be noted that ZEN 5 is not used in this series of processors, and there is no RDNA35, but the vest of the current Pheonix series, which is still a combination of ZEN4 and RDNA3, coupled with AMD's chaotic naming conventions, it is difficult for consumers to focus on the most suitable AI PC for themselves.
Intel, on the other hand, has seen a qualitative change in the architecture of the new Core Ultra series processors. Unlike previous Core processors, the Core Ultra processor is the first to feature a split module design and is based on FoverOS 3D packaging technology. The P-core is the Redwood Cove architecture, and the E-core is the Crestmont architecture. The Core Ultra processor has a design of up to 6P cores + 8E cores + 2LPE cores, which is 16 cores and 22 threads, and the LPE cores are specially designed by Intel for low-power tasks to handle some light-load applications to effectively reduce the power consumption of the processor.
In addition, to make AI processors more efficient, Intel has also added a separate NPU to the Meteor Lake architecture. The new architecture delivers lower power consumption, with 25% lower networking*** power consumption, 38% lower meeting power consumption* and 36% better battery life for everyday office applications than 13th Gen Core processors.
The Core Ultra processor is engaged in AI creation examples: for example, the Core Ultra processor can be competent for the end-side inference of large language models with up to 20 billion parameters, and it only takes one second to achieve 512x512**, and the **generation time of 1024*768 is only 6 seconds. In addition, Intel also pays special attention to building an AI ecosystem, and Intel will cooperate with more than 100 ISV partners and more than 300 applications with AI features.
In fact, the earliest prototype of AI technology can be traced back to Intel's "AI on PC Developer Program" in 2018. Today, large language models and generative AI have largely laid the foundation for the AIGC ecosystem, and these initiatives are many years ahead of AMD.
With the growing demand for AI from all walks of life, people find it difficult to meet the demand for AI computing power by relying only on a single graphics card or CPU. Therefore, software has also become crucial in Intel's AIGC ecosystem layout, such as the OpenVino toolkit, which is a powerful deep learning toolkit developed by Intel that can achieve optimized neural network inference across multiple hardware platforms, which enables developers to quickly convert various AI tools into programs that can run more efficiently on the x86 platform, greatly improving the efficiency of AI development and use, and further reducing the AI technology pair Demanding requirements for PC hardware performance.
2024 is the most critical year for the development of AI technology, and for the majority of consumers, next year may see fierce competition in the PC market that has not been seen in decades, with a variety of products blooming and competing for beauty. In this competition, the new Intel Core Ultra has attracted much attention with its triple advantages of a new process, a new process, and a new architecture that far surpasses the AMD Ryzen 8040. Therefore, AI PC products like Core Ultra, which are forward-looking in both software and hardware, will become the wisest choice for consumers.
Considering the forward-looking layout of hardware and software, Intel Core Ultra and its powerful AI adaptation capabilities have the potential to become an AI PC leader compared to AMD Ryzen 8040 series processors.