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Intel says Copilot will run on your laptop — but only Snapdragon chips can handle it
Maybe speak to Qualcomm
There are multiple reasons for running an AI tool like Copilot locally including privacy protection, security, offline access and cost — your machine does the expensive processing not the cloud. “The general trend is to offload as much of it [the AI processes] to endpoint [on-device] as possible,” David Feng, VP of Client Computing Group at Intel told Tom’s Guide at MWC. What is for certain is that you're going to hear a lot more about TOPS in the coming few years as companies seek to capitalise on the capabilities of the NPU for running complex calculations and AI processes without a major battery life impact.
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