PC makers say tomorrow’s AI PCs need to just keep it simple [Video]

Believe it or not, AI is already subtly reshaping the PC.

No, we’re not talking about the microprocessor or integrated NPUs. There, progress has been slow and stuttering, as chip vendors and Microsoft work toward establishing an ecosystem of Copilot+ PCs.

Instead, PC vendors are looking for ways to reinvent the familiar with AI capabilities. Within Windows, you’re already seeing this with generative AI and filtering influencing the direction of Photos and Paint. But we wanted to know what PC vendors thought about the future of the AI PCs they’re building. The unexpected answers? Voice. The phone.

Unlike, say, monitors,an AI PC is a fusion of the underlying processor, the surrounding hardware, the operating systems, and any AI apps and services PC makers layer on. All of those companies have their own agendas, and their own perspectives. What PC makers appear to agree on is that consumers need to hear a single, …