Microsoft (MSFT.O) has announced plans to host an event at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters on Monday to unveil a number of consumer device-related hardware and software products.
A new iteration of the Surface Pro tablet and laptop, including Qualcomm (QCOM.O) opens new tab processors based on Arm Holdings’ (O9Ty.F) opens new tab architecture, is anticipated to be unveiled by the Windows manufacturer.
Following decades of dominance by Intel’s (INTC.O) opens new tab processors in the personal computer business, lower-power Arm component manufacturers such as Qualcomm have attempted to enter the Windows-PC market.
A “neural processing unit” included in Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPUs is intended to speed up AI-focused apps like Microsoft’s Copilot software.
Journalists and industry analysts are welcome to attend Microsoft’s product event in person, which takes place one day before to the opening of its annual developer conference. There won’t be a live broadcast.
Microsoft intends to expand its early edge in the battle to build AI solutions that users are ready to pay for. As other Big Tech firms compete to dominate the burgeoning industry, it was able to surpass Alphabet (GOOGL.O) because to its cooperation with OpenAI, the provider of ChatGPT.
AI voice assistants have had difficulty achieving two key aspects of realistic voice conversations: responding in real time and being interrupted. OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google demonstrated these capabilities last week. Additionally, Google declared that it will be releasing a number of generative AI tools to its lucrative search engine.
