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Dell Technologies showcased the latest generation of commercial Intel-powered devices at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, all of which are equipped with AI enhancements. Gazal Shah, the Latitude product manager at Dell Technologies, explained that the three PCs — the Precision 5690, the Latitude 9450 and a tablet form factor called the 7350 Detachable — are equipped with Intel’s Core Ultra processors, which include built-in AI acceleration to boost productivity while delivering robust security and improved flexibility.
More specifically, the Core Ultra processors integrate AI through a new neural processing unit (NPU) to augment the capabilities of central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs). According to Shah, computing on an NPU versus a CPU results in better performance and more power efficiency. For example, running background blur during a video call using a CPU can consume as much as 6-10% of your CPU cycles, she said. “If it runs on the NPU, it would be around 2.5-3% of your CPU cycles,” she continued.
Dell also demonstrated how the new processors enable specific use cases such as real-time on-device language translation. In collaboration with Omnibridge — an Intel company — Dell showed how a deaf individual and a hearing person communicating live without a translator or any network dependency. “Think about what this could mean for the future when you can run translations in real time for any language, anytime anywhere,” said Shah.
Speaking to Dell’s commitment to collaboration more broadly, Shah stated: “We’re making collaborations simple, effective and very, very inclusive.”
Lastly, Shah detailed how AI can also improve the security of commercial devices. “Typically, security agents need to be lightweight, so they haven’t been able to run a lot of AI-based optimizations on the device,” she said, adding that today, threats are detected using rule-based techniques on device along with AI-based detection on cloud, and while this is secure, running AI-based threat detection on the device is more comprehensive and secure. In fact, when running on predecessor processors, AI threat detection measures can consume up to 20% of your CPU power. With the new Intel Core Ultra processors, said Shah, that comes down to less than 1% because this processing is offloaded to the NPU.
For Dell and Intel, the Core Ultra represents the first processor designed to take full advantage of AI and all that it will enable for the PC environment. “We are very excited to share these experiences with our customers,” concluded Shah