Leaks from generally well-placed sources allow us to better understand Intel’s plans for the Meteor Lake platform, which is being developed with support for Windows 12. The details come from leaker @leaf_hobby, who revealed full details of the Intel Xeon chips ahead of launch. Meteor Lake is expected to have 20 PCIe Gen5 lanes, and highlights Cards video.
Microsoft, in turn, is not confirming any plans for Windows 12, although there are already indications of what it intends to do. “As we develop future versions of Windows, we’re thinking about other places where AI should have a natural role as part of the experience,” explained Chief Marketing Officer Youssef Mahdi.
Mehdi’s comments are reflected in Bing’s new integration with AI in the taskbar and the various changes Microsoft made in the latest Windows 11 update. AI will reinvent everything we do on Windows” and AI “has the potential to have a profound impact on the way we use a computer” , he remembers the edge.
To make this vision a reality, Microsoft must work closely with hardware manufacturers like AMD or Intel to get chips capable of handling AI-related workloads.
With AMD, the latest mobile Ryzen 7000 chips are said to be the first x86 chips to have a dedicated AI engine that supports Windows Studio Effects, showing that AMD and Microsoft are already paving the way for bringing AI to Windows laptops.
Intel, with Meteor Lake due in 2024, should follow the trend as well: it will be the first to have a microarchitecture, with discrete components for CPU cores, integrated graphics and I/O.
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