Germany’s IFA trade show is typically more about coffee makers and smart-home tech than CPUs and cool laptop concepts. But with Intel and Qualcomm launching major new mobile platforms in the days leading up to the main event — Lunar Lake and lower-cost, 8-core variants of the Snapdragon X Plus — we knew there would be plenty of important and exciting products to cover.
So we descended on Berlin, and soon found ourselves overwhelmed with new laptops and crazy concepts, next-gen gaming handhelds, multi-screen keyboards, and AI, of course. chip makers and laptop designers are still trying to convince us (and consumers) that AI is the biggest tech advancement since the internet — but despite some new features and advances on the NPU side, it still feels like the early dial-up days at best.
