[kathymiorio02]

Hi everyone!

[mazen18]

hello and welcome ❤️

[Marwaesam]

Hello and welcome to our community❤️

[Abdelsalam]

Welcome to the community 🤍

[Morphine]

What do you think about how Microsoft is trying to do a somersault and force new HW on us because "we will need it" and we would run new, "amazing", indispensable (suddenly) AI services? They came up with the "standard" Copilot+ PC, requiring an NPU unit with at least 45 TFLOPS, which is currently only the RISC processor based on the ARM Snapdragon from Qualcomm on the market. Throughout the entire history of PCs, MS has strictly supported the (CISC) X86 architecture and when after a few decades it catches all the childhood diseases and errors in its programs, are we suddenly supposed to switch to a completely different architecture? And all this is actually just for the sake of notebook and laptop users, where the arguments about higher performance with lower consumption are at least a little bit catching! For desktop PCs, of course, this is complete stupidity, I call it brutality! What would be the problem for AMD, which was the first to come up with chiplets, to add one chiplet to its CPU that would perform the function of an NPU, and perhaps with a performance of 100 TFLOPs (joke), after all, even modern processors from ossified Intel would certainly not be able to handle the addition of an NPU unit, instead of some E-core! And even owners of older machines would not have to be impoverished! What would be the problem, to cram an NPU unit onto an "additional card", even with gigantic performance, when there was a thousand times more space available than on the Snapdragon chip? And such a card, for example for PCIE x4. which is free in most PCs anyway, would provide the comfort of "local AI" to everyone, even with a 10-year-old CPU! That slogan about "local AI" is, at least for now, also pretty nonsense! Even if you have a nice new laptop with a Copilot+ PC label and an NPU unit on the chip, all AI operations still run on Microsoft's CPU and NPU, which probably calculates Pi to a million decimal places out of boredom. But try disconnecting your machine from the internet and then trying to use AI, sort of "locally"! The only thing you'll get is the message "No internet connection!" and no local AI will take place. So I'm wondering what the point of this big circus, an event that must cost MS billions of dollars in marketing alone, is? They're plotting something against us in Redmod.. and after previous experiences, I'm worried that it won't be good! And doesn't he understand the somersault with the transition of Windows to RISC ARM processors? Maybe Qualcomm paid Microsoft with a 50% stake in the company and they played the biggest scam in the history of PCs on customers? When with Windows 11 this often annoying OS finally started working quite well on X86 processors, are we suddenly supposed to change a well-established, tuned and sophisticated platform, free from childhood diseases? Does that make sense to anyone? Personally, no one will force me to buy a "PC" with Snapdragon and "locally accessible AI" Copilot + PC! I will hold on to my well-established X86 system (currently AMD Ryzen 7700X) tooth and nail and as long as Windows 11 runs on it, so will they! If Microsoft makes another mistake and launches something like a "transition period" where it gives X86 users 3-4 years to switch to ARM CPUs from Qualcomm (and others who join the RISC wave), then I will say goodbye to Microsoft after 30 years and switch to some variant of Linux with a sophisticated GUI, like Ubuntu, or something similar, and I will think about whether a smartphone is not enough for me to work and a cheaper and gradually equally powerful console for gaming (for example, the Playstation 5 is built on Ryzen... Zen 2 CPU and Radeon graphics, RDNA from AMD, "so it is defacto a kind of hidden PC"). Well, we'll see how things develop. I'm quite curious about it!