Intel Core Ultra is officially here with Intel’s AI Everywhere event kicking off today, December 14, 2023.
The new processors, first announced at Intel Innovations a couple of months ago, are Intel’s first chips to feature a neural processing unit (NPU).
“AI innovation is poised to raise the digital economy’s impact up to as much as one-third of global gross domestic product,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in an Intel press release. “Intel is developing the technologies and solutions that empower customers to seamlessly integrate and effectively run AI in all their applications — in the cloud and, increasingly, locally at the PC and edge, where data is generated and used.”
This means that AI applications like those powering ChatGPT and Midjourney are set to become much more ubiquitous, though those apps require data to be sent over the internet to servers run by OpenAI and others in order to produce an output. Intel’s new chips hold the promise that applications like those might start being processed offline on your device rather than on someone elses, a huge improvement in data security, especially for business and enterprise users.
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