Microsoft announced a bold new direction for its laptops, based primarily on enabling bleeding-edge AI features that require a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Copilot+ PCs are Microsoft's new badge for approved AI-ready PCs, which so far is limited to only laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors. Those laptops aren't available just yet, but there are plenty of them coming soon.
Efficiency, value, and a shiny new button on the keyboard are Microsoft's hallmarks for this new wave of computing. It's an effort to make AI PCs a real, substantive endeavor, and to give Windows on Arm its day in the sun. As previously rumored, Microsoft is putting its Copilot AI on computers locally. Here's everything we know from Microsoft's Copilot+ PC press conference and all that's come before.
