AMD and Intel are competing for processors to support recent artificial intelligence (AI) features to be introduced in ‘Windows 11’.

On the ‘Construct 2023’ conference that opened on the twenty third (local time), Microsoft (MS) announced that it will install ‘Windows Co-Pilot’ to boost AI in ‘Windows 11’ in June, and a recent Windows 11-based PC platform. The 2 corporations began competing in earnest.

Tom’s Hardware, knowledgeable media outlet, reported on the twenty fourth that processor competition between AMD and Intel for Windows 11-based PC platforms is intensifying, and that AMD is one step ahead of Intel in supporting AI acceleration.

AMD has already installed an AI-only accelerator ‘Ryzen AI’ within the ‘Ryzen 7040’ processor for mobile platforms referred to as ‘Phoenix’.

AMD introduced that laptops with the Ryzen 7040 processor show superior performance in each application performance and graphics performance than competitors’ equivalent products.

This processor for mainstream notebooks with a thermal design power (TDP) of 28W relies on the ‘Zen 4’ architecture with as much as 8 cores and 16 threads of CPU cores, and the most recent ‘RDNA 3’ architecture with as much as 12 CU (Compute Unit) configurations of Radeon Radeon. It has a 700M processor built-in GPU.

Specifically, with the ‘Ryzen AI’ accelerator, AI-using functions similar to ‘Windows Co-Pilot’ and ‘Studio Effects Pack’ of Windows 11 will be hardware accelerated with a dedicated engine.

“We’re working closely with Microsoft to offer early access to Ryzen AI for developers to enable the long run of fantastic AI experiences in Windows 11,” AMD said. “That is only the start of AI innovation in Windows 11.” .

Meanwhile, Intel has admitted that there are not any dedicated AI accelerators in its current consumer CPU lineup. As a substitute, it announced that it’s developing an AI acceleration-supported ‘Meteor Lake’ processor in cooperation with Microsoft and other corporations, which is targeted for release next 12 months.

Meteor Lake processors speed up a number of the AI ​​workloads on the CPU and GPU through the built-in Neural VPU, a dedicated AI engine integrated directly into the SoC to run AI models power-efficiently.

Intel also mentioned working with Microsoft to enhance Windows 11 AI. Nevertheless, it has not yet released hardware to consumers, and as an alternative, like AMD, “helps developers run their AI models optimally on the Windows 11 platform,” he explained.

Subsequently, Tom’s Hardware points out that “consumers can have to purchase ‘AMD Inside’ as an alternative of ‘Intel Inside’ for the Windows 11 PC platform in the intervening time.”

Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com