Keke | Intel, along with 50 partners, showcases a full range of AI PCs including 30 laptops and desktops equipped with Core Ultra (2nd generation).

October 25, 2024, Beijing - Today, Intel held the Intel Core Ultra 200V Mobile Processor Tasting Conference and AI PC Ecosystem Conference, as well as the Intel Core Ultra 200S Desktop Processor Launch. At the event, Intel demonstrated its full-stack ecological advantages, sharing products and AI functions and applications with 50 ISVs, OEMs, channel partners, and ODM industry partners, promoting the blooming of 30 desktop and laptop models based on the Intel Core Ultra processor (second generation).

David Feng, Vice President of Intel Client Computing Group and General Manager of Client Segmentation Marketing, said: "What makes an excellent AI PC? Intel has been providing its own answers. We are continuously committed to creating an outstanding PC platform and building a broad AI software ecosystem, repeatedly driving technological innovations in laptops and desktops, and leading the industry innovation and development of AI PCs. The Intel Core Ultra processor (second generation) puts the needs of users first, significantly reducing power consumption while ensuring outstanding gaming performance and exceptional computing capabilities, and bringing a cooler and quieter excellent experience in collaboration with ecological partners."

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High Energy Efficiency, Low Power Consumption, and Long Battery Life, Core Ultra 200V Revolutionizes AI PC

The Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors have a highly breakthrough x86 energy efficiency, with excellent performance in graphics performance, application compatibility, security, and AI computing capabilities. The overall platform AI computing power of CPU, NPU, and GPU is up to 120 TOPS, and its AI strength should not be underestimated. At the event, Intel and ISVs showcased the revolutionary AI PC experience of the Core Ultra 200V from four common scenarios: gaming, creation, AI, and battery life:

In terms of battery life, which is the most important for laptop users, the Core Ultra 200V can achieve a battery life of up to 20 hours in productivity use cases; the on-site demonstration of the Battery Life test of the test tool Procyon on the laptop lasted for 18.5 hours, which was even more pleasantly surprising; on the spot, on the laptop equipped with the Core Ultra 200V, it was shown that game players can play the domestic AAA masterpiece "Black Myth: Wukong" smoothly at 60 FPS, and they can also enjoy playing the resource-intensive "Delta Force" and "Cyberpunk 2077" to their heart's content; creators can perform intelligent noise reduction in Lightroom, and creative rendering does not require a long wait; intelligent AI is also a powerful addition, and the Qwen 2-7B large model driven by the NPU runs smoothly on the laptop, and the miniCPM v2.6 can recognize images in 2.6 seconds and complete the task in 1 second.

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28 ISVs + Five AI Scenarios, Let You Play with AI PC

Software and ecosystem are the cornerstones of Intel's AI PC strategy, achieving three builds: First, building an advanced AI PC processor platform to provide powerful XPU computing power; second, building an easy-to-use, efficient, and open AI PC software toolchain; third, building an open, innovative, and win-win software partner ecosystem.

Intel not only brings AI into people's lives, but also allows users to experience the convenience and extraordinary experience brought by the stronger computing power of AI PCs.

At the conference site, Intel and Duce Zhipu Qingyan brought local high-speed reasoning of the end-side model, privacy mode to protect data security, and smooth operation of the offline large model. Intel and CodeGeeX brought efficient offline operation of the end-side model, support for more than 300 programming languages and compatibility with multiple mainstream models, greatly improving programming efficiency. Intel joined hands with Mianbi Intelligence for in-depth optimization, enabling the PC application performance of the Mianbi MiniCPM end-side model to achieve a leapfrog improvement, with the characteristics of high efficiency and low cost. Currently, the "end-side ChatGPT moment" has been initiated in performance, and the multi-modal direction has reached the comprehensive benchmarking level of GPT-4V.

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 Since the release of AI PC, Intel has been continuously cultivating the development of local AI applications, improving the breadth and depth of model adaptation, and working with ecological partners to implement five AI application scenarios: knowledge assistant, office assistant, entertainment assistant, creation assistant, and vertical assistant, to benefit a wider range of PC users. The AI scenarios are diverse:

Knowledge assistants including Evernote, Transwarp, Zhiwo AI, Digital China, Zhizhiyaya, and Flowy help users draw the necessary knowledge from the massive amount of knowledge; with the support of AI, Evernote solves the pain points of note-taking applications, performs offline knowledge management, intelligent tagging, and knowledge management functions, and ensures data security, bringing a faster operating experience.

Office assistants such as ExtendOffice, Beijing North Core RuiSheng Technology Co., Ltd., AiPPT, Wenxiu, Zhipu Xiaozhi, and Flowy can double the productivity of every workplace user; Beijing North Core RuiSheng Technology Co., Ltd. can automatically generate meeting minutes locally, perform multilingual translation, and significantly improve productivity efficiency. AiPPT makes it easy to create PPTs with AI on the cloud or locally.

Creation assistants such as Yixin Technology, FaceUnity, Jianying, Wondershare Filmora, Meitu Yunxiu, Tai Ling, and D5 can help users freely exert their creativity; the D5 renderer can get the desired environmental atmosphere with one click, thereby improving the work efficiency of rendering designers. In addition, D5 Hi can automatically generate relevant effects based on the designer's sketches and conceptual design information.

Entertainment assistants such as DouDou AI Game Companion, iQIYI, QQ Music, etc., make users' leisure and entertainment more interesting; DouDou AI Game Companion is an AI companion that plays games with you. In addition to the AI nurturing function, it also has a professional game large model, real-time voice conversation, and game screen recognition ability. iQIYI upgrades the search experience based on local AI: users only need to describe the plot to achieve intelligent drama search and directly locate the exciting plot points. The upcoming Taodou 2.0 will also become a small assistant, interacting with users anytime and anywhere to accompany them in chasing dramas. QQ Music presents a master tape-level sound quality through AI, making the experience of listening to music more interesting.

Vertical assistants such as Baichuan Intelligence, Yingqi Intelligence, FaceUnity, Turing Micro Queyun, Niburu, Transwarp, etc., solve difficult problems for users in various industries... These five AI application scenarios release diversified computing power. The Khadas AI PC software application development kit brings convenience to developers and improves development efficiency.

AI PC is changing the world in five major aspects. Whether it is the human-computer interaction method, the way of information acquisition, work efficiency and process, decision-making process and accuracy, or daily lifestyle, they are all being given a new experience by AI, allowing people to enjoy the convenience and fun brought by AI intelligence.

Expanding AI to Desktop, Core Ultra 200S Completes the AI PC Family

Intel's released Core Ultra 200S adopts a modular design and architecture, and for the first time introduces an NPU for desktop processors to assist in AI computing, expanding the AI features to the desktop platform. In the era of AI gaming, computing power has a new distribution: the CPU is responsible for voice recognition and processing, the NPU performs real-time image recognition, the iGPU performs LLM semantic understanding, and the dGPU performs game graphics rendering. This processor series not only reduces the game power consumption by up to 165W2, reduces the overall power consumption of daily applications by up to 58%3, but also improves the multi-threaded performance by 14%4, and comprehensively upgrades the overclocking function through a fine-grained Turbo Boost frequency control with a step of up to 16.67MHz. The ultra-high energy efficiency ratio makes the operation cooler and quieter. This processor also supports CUDIMM memory for the first time, achieving a higher memory frequency, and integrates Thunderbolt 4 to enhance the device interconnection experience. Compared to the previous generation, the Core Ultra 200S has a stronger memory overclocking performance, easily reaching 9000 MT/s, and the IPC improvement brings stronger single-thread and multi-thread capabilities, and significantly improves the AI performance. At the event site, ODM partners demonstrated the shocking strength of the Core Ultra 200S desktop in multiple aspects such as energy efficiency, GPU, and AI.

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Gigabyte demonstrated an excellent memory overclocking performance, ASUS showed the extreme overclocking performance; MSI showcased the latest motherboard with Thunderbolt interface, achieving many innovative functions. The local operation of the "Black Myth: Wukong" AI game assistant demonstrated the game recognition scene, and the functions of voice, graphics, and knowledge base query can be executed on the CPU, GPU, and NPU respectively, and it can mark items and danger warnings in real time according to the player's position, helping players unlock more possibilities. The new smart core game assistant demonstrated the experience on "Valorant", showing the game AI performance of the Core Ultra. Colorful demonstrated the AI light control and peripheral solution, enabling the independent selection and control of the motherboard light effect and parameters through natural language, and even being able to control the desktop setup, peripherals, and light control. MAXSUN AI Control Center performs AI intelligent capture, which can capture the highlights of the game's exciting moments.

The new Core Ultra desktop processor unlocks an epoch-making gaming experience for players, creating a benchmark for ultra-high energy efficiency flagship chips, opening the era of AI gaming, unlocking more overclocking experiences, and bringing experiences such as Thunderbolt fast interconnection. Intel will, as always, work with industry partners to provide users with an intelligent, powerful, and extraordinary experience in the AI PC era.