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AFAICT it's only going to work on Copilot+ branded systems anyway, and currently only the Snapdragon ARM machines have a beefy enough NPU to meet that criteria. Both Intel and AMD are working towards getting that certification with their upcoming CPUs though.


People should be already upset even if things planned now will start working as expected by Big corp in 5-10 years.


One can hope the AI hype train will have derailed in 5-10 years and Microsoft will have moved on to pushing some other nonsense that nobody actually wants.


> Microsoft will have moved on to pushing some other nonsense that nobody actually wants.

This is the one thing they're quite consistent about.


As of yesterday, the latest chips from AMD (stryx point) and Intel (lunar lake) are considered Copilot+ ready




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