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With the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 well underway, IT departments and information ocers find themselves juggling a second major consideration: The rapid adoption of AI across commercial computing and the associated rise of AI PCs.
AMD hosts a veritable library of resources for information ocers and IT sta looking for information on AI and the near-term future of AI PC adoption, including analyst briefs and a whitepaper from IDC, a broad survey of the market by Tech Target, and a discussion of the AI PC’s likely business impact on IT from Forrester. Here, we will examine the AI PC question from a solution-centric perspective, including an evaluation of AMD Ryzen™ AI PRO processors and their ability to support existing and emerging customer workloads.
Multiple analyst forecasts suggest that AI PCs — the term refers to systems that include a dedicated neural processing unit, or NPU for handling AI workloads — will quickly supplant conventional PCs in-market, reaching near-total saturation over the next 3-5 years. IDC, for example, predicts 93.9% of global commercial PC shipments will be AI PCs by 2028. That’s a remarkably quick shift for a technology
that was scarcely on the radar just a few years ago.
The speed of that transition and the sustained emphasis on AI from every corner of the computing world risks overwhelming a more practical, nuanced conversation on what characteristics and capabilities enterprise customers care about most. Our own conversations with partners suggest that businesses are looking for hardware that satisfies three criteria.
