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Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Acer Swift Lite 14 AI PC with Intel Core Ultra processors launched; Starts at Rs 62,999
Acer has launched the Swift Lite 14, an AI-powered laptop targeting mobile professionals with its promise of ultra-lightweight design and Intel Core Ultra processors featuring integrated AI Boost NPU . The device starts at Rs 62,999 and is now available across Acer stores and major retailers. The Swift Lite 14 weighs just 1.1 kg and measures 15.9mm thick, making it highly portable while delivering advanced AI capabilities. The laptop features Intel's latest Core Ultra processors with AI Boost NPU, enabling Windows Studio Effects, background blur, and noise cancellation without compromising battery life. Key specifications include a 14-inch OLED display with WUXGA resolution and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, delivering immersive visuals with an 87% screen-to-body ratio. The device features a 180-degree hinge for collaborative work environments and comes in Light Silver and Sunset Copper finishes with an aluminum alloy chassis. Connectivity options include two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports supporting Power Delivery and DisplayPort, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, HDMI output, and a 3.5mm audio jack. The laptop supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1, with configurations up to 32GB LPDDR5 RAM and 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Never Put Eggs In The Refrigerator. Here's Why... Car Novels Undo "Swift Lite embodies the next generation of mobile computing, powered by AI," said Sudhir Goel , Chief Business Officer at Acer India. "It strikes the ideal balance between portability and performance, reflecting our vision for an AI-first future." The laptop runs Windows 11 Home with integrated Copilot access via a dedicated keyboard key. Additional features include a Full HD webcam with privacy shutter, precision touchpad, and 50Wh battery for extended usage. The Swift Lite 14 is available at Acer exclusive stores, Acer online store, Croma, Reliance Digital, and Vijay Sales. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
The Verge
08-07-2025
- The Verge
Microsoft's Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year
Microsoft's latest Windows AI features arrived first on new Copilot Plus PCs last year, but they were limited to a special range of laptops. That looks set to change thanks to Intel refreshing its existing Arrow Lake desktop CPUs later this year, that might just deliver Copilot Plus PC features in desktop PC form factors for the first time. Intel's latest Core Ultra desktop CPUs launched in October with an NPU inside, but it wasn't capable enough to hit the 40 TOPS requirement that Microsoft mandates for Copilot Plus features. ZDNet Korea reports that Intel is now preparing an Arrow Lake Refresh that will include higher clock speeds and a more advanced NPU that should be capable of Copilot Plus features. The new NPU design will reportedly move the refreshed Core Ultra 200 lineup to a newer 'NPU 4' design, the same NPU architecture found on Intel's Lunar Lake laptop CPUs that got Copilot Plus AI features in November. This would allow for true desktop PCs with a capable NPU, instead of Copilot Plus only being available on mini PCs and all-in-one PCs that use laptop processors. It sounds like a newer NPU will be the main part of Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh, as it will reportedly not include addition CPU or GPU cores over the existing Core Ultra 200 chips. More space on the chip for NPU features will disappoint gamers who have been waiting for Intel to be more competitive in the desktop CPU space, though. The first Arrow Lake chips ran more efficiently and cooler, but the PC gaming performance was disappointing and often behind Intel's previous Raptor Lake CPUs. Intel admitted that its Arrow Lake launch 'didn't go as planned,' but a series of BIOS updates have done little to change the gaming performance situation. It now looks unlikely that Intel will compete with AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D and 9950X3D chips in gaming performance until its next generation Nova Lake CPUs launch in 2026.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Yahoo
Intel May Unveil Refreshed Arrow Lake with Better Performance Before the Year is Out
Although Intel hasn't confirmed reports of an Arrow Lake refresh, rumors have circulated for months that we'd see one in the second half of 2025. Now that we're in July, a little more info on the possible refresh is available for the beleaguered CPU. As Wccftech points out, refreshed Intel CPUs typically get a bump in clock speed. That's the expectation for this refresh, which should provide somewhat better performance. But we doubt that Intel would bother with a refresh just for a faster clock—especially in this climate, where AI is everything and Arrow Lake is sadly lacking. At the moment, the Core Ultra 200S series doesn't quite provide the 13 TOPS needed for CoPilot PCs. Intel apparently plans to solve the AI problem for Arrow Lake by adding the NPU4 from Lunar Lake. As Wccftech notes, that could bring the refreshed CPU's TOPs performance to 48, giving it the AI muscle the chip needs. Nova Lake. Credit: Intel We won't know just how much performance improvement the refreshed CPU provides until the launch, but it sounds as though it will be a minor improvement bump. Gaming improvement, if any, will likely be minimal. That said, it's worth remembering that Intel already gave its Core Ultra 200 CPUs serious attention to gaming performance. When concerns arose shortly after the processor's launch in late 2024, Intel created a list of issues and set out a plan for addressing them. That included a brutal Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) problem that turned out to be an issue with some anti-cheat software, rather than Intel's hardware. Intel packed its fixes into BIOS updates and soon had its Arrow Lake CPUs providing much better gaming benchmark results. Intel quietly kept its attention on improving gaming performance for the CPUs and released a new overclocking profile in April, geared at making Arrow Lake a better processor for gaming and in general. So long as you have an unlocked CPU and Intel XMP-supporting memory modules, you can give your PC a decent performance boost in a matter of minutes. If Intel launches refreshed Arrow Lake CPUs this year, they might not have much time in the spotlight. Nova Lake desktop CPUs are on the way for 2026 with loads of cores, DDR5 8000 memory, and a chance to give Intel a win.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. According to a detailed post on X, Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPU will be getting over double the cores of its existing Arrow Lake chips. The top Core Ultra 9 model allegedly packs a staggering 52 cores. But it's arguably the mid-range Ultra 5 that's most interesting given it boasts more cores in every category than Intel's incumbent top desktop processor. The current Intel Core Ultra 9 285K has eight Performance and 16 Efficient cores. However, according to the X post, there will be a Nova Lake Core Ultra 5 model with eight Performance, 16 Efficient and another four Low Power Efficient cores. Meanwhile, the top Core Ultra 9 model crams in 16 Performance, 32 Efficient and four Low Power Efficient cores for that grand total of 52 cores. Even the very lowest end Nova Lake gets 12 cores, with a 4P, 4E and 4 LP-E split. If true, Nova Lake will be the biggest jump in raw CPU performance from Intel in some time. Intel's desktop chips have topped out at eight Performance cores since the Alder Lake generation launched back in late 2021. That generation also offered eight Efficient cores. But while the Raptor Lake follow-up boosted the E-Core count to 16 a year later, Intel hasn't increased core counts since. Indeed, Intel actually deprecated the total thread count when Arrow Lake arrived in October last year on account of removing support for HyperThreading, which enables Performance cores to support two software threads in parallel when present. Anyway, if these core counts are correct, the multi-threading performance of Nova Lake will be pretty epic. If Nova Lake also brings improved IPC from its Performance cores, thought to be codenamed Coyote Cove, and Efficient cores, codenamed Arctic Wolf, then the overall performance uptick could be spectacular. As for how this compares with AMD's future plans, it isn't totally clear. Various rumours point to anywhere from 12-core to 32-core chiplets in AMD's next-gen CPU plans using the upcoming Zen 6 architecture. The former would probably mean a 24-core top desktop CPU, the latter as many as 64 cores given AMD's top desktop CPU conventionally has two CPU core chiplets. However, the 32-core chiplet is probably based on the Zen 6c architecture with compact cores with the full Zen 6 chiplet topping out at either 12 or 16 cores. That would give total core counts of 24 and 32 respectively. With multithreading, you'd be looking at 48 or 64 threads. If you take a pessimistic view, that's 48 threads from 24 full fat Zen 6 cores versus 52 mixed cores from Intel. Game on. However you slice it, it certainly looks like desktop PCs will benefit from a very meaty upgrade when Nova Lake and Zen 6 arrive. Your next upgrade Best CPU for gaming: The top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game ahead of the rest. As for exactly when that will happen, we'd bank on late 2026 for Nova Lake in terms of a launch date with early 2027 a more realistic target for widespread availability. It's not yet clear what production node Intel will use for Nova Lake, with Intel's own 18A and 14A nodes, along with TSMC N2 all mooted as possibilities by various rumours. AMD's Zen 6, meanwhile, may be based on TSMC's N2 node when it arrives, likely in the second half of 2026. AMD has confirmed that the server variant of Zen 6 will definitely use TSMC's next-gen N2 node, which heavily implies, though doesn't absolutely guarantee, that Zen 6 for PCs will use the same technology. Anywho, the latter half of 2026 is certainly shaping up to be pretty exciting for the PC in terms of new CPUs.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Yahoo
An Intel Nova Lake leak suggests the next generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% more multi-threaded performance, but the numbers just don't add up
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Despite not being expected to appear until 2026, rumours and leaks about Intel's next generation of desktop CPUs continue to come thick and fast. The latest snippet claims that Nova Lake will have "leadership gaming performance" coming from more than 10% better single-threaded (ST) and 60% higher multi-threaded (MT) performance gains. However, it's not a particularly comprehensive leak, just a snapshot of what looks like an internal Intel document, posted by X user (via 3DCenter). First of all, it doesn't explicitly state that it's about Nova Lake, the successor to Arrow Lake, but the fact that "New Low-Power Island" is a feature pretty much points to it being about the next generation of desktop CPUs. This is just a cluster of low-power E-cores, used for background tasks, that first appeared in Meteor Lake but not in any desktop chip so far. Other than that, there are just two additional statements: "Leadership Gaming Performance" and ">1.1x higher ST and 1.6x MT performance". The former is standard marketing fluff, and there's nothing to really note here, other than Intel is clearly trying to get one over AMD in the gaming market. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is so much better than the Core Ultra 9 285K in games that it's obvious Intel can't ignore it. The single- and multi-threaded (ST/MT) performance gains are another matter, though. An uplift of 10% for ST is almost certainly referring to the P-cores, and while that might not sound like much of a boost, it's par for the course with CPU architectural changes these days. After all, AMD claimed that Zen 5 had a 16% better average IPC (instructions per clock) than Zen 4, but games didn't show anything like that at launch. However, 60% better multi-threaded performance is an odd one, partly because there's no indication what the comparison is with and partly because it's been rumoured that the Nova Lake range will top out with a 16 P-core, 32 E-core monster. If one assumes that Intel is comparing that chip to the 285K (8 P-cores, 16 E-cores), then clock-for-clock, you're looking at a 100% uplift in MT performance. So where's the other 40%? It's possible that a 16P+32E monster CPU just can't maintain anywhere near its maximum clock speeds when fully loaded with threads, but if it's dropping that much, it's a bit worrying. One might argue that Intel isn't planning on launching with a 48-core beast and instead will start off with an 8P+32E or a 12P+24E chip at best. A Nova Lake processor with 36 or 40 threads would have an MT uplift over the 285K of 50% to 67%, clock-for-clock, which is more in line with the 60% claim in the leak, but even so, the numbers just don't make a lot of sense right now. Especially that the one thing Intel chips don't need more of is cores. One concern I have with Intel throwing a mountain of cores into its next desktop CPUs is how they access and share the last level of cache or LLC (currently L3, in the case of Arrow Lake). Each P-core and E-core cluster has its own slice of LLC, but they can access other slices via a ring bus. The more cores/clusters one adds to the ring, the more ring stops need to be present, and the higher the latency one gets with core-to-core cache accesses. Cache latency is currently Intel's biggest weakness against AMD's Zen 5, especially when 3D V-Cache is brought into play. While it's being claimed that Intel has something planned to counter the dominance of X3D chips in gaming, just adding more cache isn't the solution—the latency really needs to be cut right down. Intel's older Raptor Lake chips (i.e. Core 13th/14th Gen) are better than Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200S) in games, because they can clock much higher, especially the ring bus. The downside is that they will suck up as much power as you can throw at them in the process and Intel had to do something about that, hence why Arrow Lake's clock speeds and power consumption are far more conservative. I've spent a lot of time over the year messing about with voltages, clocks, and various timings with a Core Ultra 9 285K and Ultra 7 265K to try and improve how well the chips can fling data around. I can get some pretty decent throughput figures, but the access latency for L3 never really improves enough to make any headway against a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Nova Lake could be an absolute behemoth in multi-threaded applications, especially those used in the professional sector, but games are still more than happy with 12 to 16 threads. That's because all the big releases are developed for consoles, which only offer that many threads to developers. What they want is a really good cache structure, with fast, low-latency data access. If Intel's move to aim for "leadership gaming performance" consists entirely of just shoehorning a buckload of cores into its next generation of desktop processors, I suspect that AMD won't have much to worry about.
