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Forbes
5 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
AI PCs Will Dominate By 2027, Says Asus Executive
So-called AI PCs will account for more than half of PC shipments by 2027, according to a senior Asus executive. Demand for AI PCs – which ship with a neural processing unit (NPU) to assist with AI tasks – has been relatively modest so far. The market share of AI PCs is 'still single digit', Eric Chen, Asus's senior corporate vice president told me in a briefing to coincide with last week's Computex trade show. 'It's not that big,' he admitted. However, he said that growth over the next couple of years will mean that by 2027 'over 50%' of total PC shipments will be AI PCs. Asus's predictions are roughly in line with that of major analysts such as Gartner, IDC and Canalys, all of which have predicted steep growth in AI-capable PCs over the next few years. The big challenge for PC makers is giving businesses and consumers a solid reason to pay a premium for an AI PC. Popular AI services such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Anthropic's Claude are cloud based and don't directly benefit from the presence of an NPU. Meanwhile, Microsoft has struggled to deliver compelling AI features in Windows, with the highly controversial and much delayed Recall feature only arriving on Copilot+ machines at the end of last month. Microsoft was forced to pull an early test version of the all-seeing Recall after serious security flaws were discovered by testers, which have now been fixed. Chen said 'the big bottleneck" right now is that users don't fully understand how AI can help them. He gave an example of how Asus is deploying AI within its own business to check the paperwork that comes with business transactions. Previously that task was done by hand, but now the company is using AI to process the paperwork. 'They used to spend 200 hours to do the checks,' said Chen. 'Now, three hours. That's a big, big difference.' It's those kinds of tasks involving sensitive customer data that companies might not want uploaded to cloud services that will really take advantage of the local processing power offered by AI PCs, Chen claimed. 'A lot of companies and people, they don't want their data to upload to the cloud,' he said. Although Asus has been developing a suite of its own applications, such as Muse Tree, which offers AI image generation without relying on expensive, resource-hungry cloud services, Chen concedes that professionals will still turn to the cloud when they need the optimal quality. He said that 'local is already good enough" for many lightweight tasks, however, and that cloud AI services will eventually start tapping the power available to AI PCs. 'The cloud and the local, they will work together. That is one of the trends that will happen,' Chen added. AI PCs may well hold more appeal to businesses than consumers right now, and that's perhaps one of the reasons that Asus has decided to ramp up its commercial offering, pitting the company into even stronger competition with rivals such as Dell and Lenovo. 'In the past 35 years, we are more focused on the consumer PC business,' said Chen. 'In the coming years, Asus will develop our commercial business as well.' IDC's figures for 2024 worldwide PC shipments put Asus in fifth position, with a market share of around 7%. But Chen said the company had 'very aggressive' plans to attack the commercial market in a bid to close the gap to market leader Lenovo, which shipped more than three times as many PCs as Asus did in 2024, according to IDC's figures.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
North Park Dance Team Takes Top Prize at National Championship
CHICAGO, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In April, North Park University's (NPU) dance team won the NCAA Division III Team Performance category for the first time in program history at the College Classic National Championship in Orlando, Florida. Thirteen North Park student-athletes attended the competition and master classes, eight of whom were in the group that competed in the Division III Team Performance category. Twelve team members competed and placed ninth in the Division III Pom category. North Park attended the event for the first time in 2024, taking sixth place in Division III Pom and eleventh in Division III Jazz. "Winning the national championship title this year meant everything to us," said Head Coach Kim Maljak. "We worked hard, committed lots of time to practicing, and were dedicated to perfecting our last-minute changes to the routine. Because of that dedication, we became North Park's first-ever national champion dance team!" As champions, North Park brought home a trophy, custom jackets, rings, and a banner, which will hang from the balcony in NPU's Helwig Recreation Center. The College Classic National Championship, according to organizer Dance Team Union, emphasizes the athletic and creative aspects of dance, recognizing each team's unique qualities and individuality. Teams from across the county competed for titles in various dance styles, with the winners of the preliminary rounds advancing to the final and battle rounds. North Park University is city-centered, intercultural, and emerging as the model for Christian higher education in 21st-century America. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE North Park University
CNBC
20-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Kneron's smart robotics, powered by Chat-GPT
Kneron CEO, Albert Liu, unveils a Neutral Processing Unit (NPU) chip designed to outperform traditional Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) chip in AI applications. This enables smart edge devices creating intelligent robots like "Haley".
Globe and Mail
07-05-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Intel Excels in Stringent AI Benchmark: Should You Buy the Stock?
Intel Corporation INTC recently announced that it has successfully achieved industry-first full NPU (Neural Processing Unit) compliance in the MLPerf Client v0.6 benchmark. MLPerf is an industry-standard benchmarking suite created to assess AI system performance. The newly released MLPerf Client v0.6 Benchmark is a subset of MLPerf designed to evaluate client devices such as laptops and PCs with a strong emphasis on large language model acceleration and NPU performance. It offers a clear assessment of hardware and software capabilities in swiftly handling AI tasks such as content generation and summarization. During the process, Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors showcased the fastest NPU response time with an impressive token latency of just 1.09 seconds and the highest NPU throughput at 18.55 tokens per second. Intel also demonstrated remarkable GPU performance during the process. Intel Core Ultra processor is the only NPU to achieve complete compliance, accentuating its strong AI compute capabilities. Intel Rides on AI Traction, Portfolio Optimization Intel has been taking several strategic decisions to gain a firmer footing in the expansive AI sector, spanning cloud and enterprise servers to networks, volume clients, and ubiquitous edge environments, in line with the evolving market dynamics. Intel's Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores have garnered significant industry attention owing to their high-performance AI processing. Intel XEON platforms offer extensive performance improvements coupled with energy efficiency and easy-to-deploy software. With these features, Intel XEON has set a new benchmark in 5G cloud native core, which is driving demand from software vendors and independent telecom manufacturers. The company is witnessing solid market traction in the AI PC market. Backed by strong demand for its core Ultra Chips, Intel remains firmly on track to power more than 100 million AI PCs by the end of 2025. Intel is also venturing into the automotive market to capitalize on the growing AI proliferation in that industry. The company's second-generation AI-powered software-defined vehicle system-on-chip with multi-process node chiplet architecture brings advanced capabilities. The chip offers 10x performance enhancement for generative and multimodal AI, 3x graphics performance, and enhances camera and image processing features. Such state-of-the-art features will boost Intel's new AI chip demand in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Intel is divesting 51% of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a prominent global technology investment firm. The move highlights Intel's strategy to reshape its portfolio, optimize cost structure, strengthen its liquidity position, and boost focus on core operations. One-Year INTC Stock Price Performance Intel has plunged 33.3% in the past year against the industry 's growth of 18.7%. The company has underperformed its peer NVIDIA Corporation NVDA but outperformed Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD. INTC Plagued by Margin Woes Despite investing heavily in new chip design and manufacturing, Intel is playing a catch-up game with NVIDIA and AMD. In the CPU space, AMD has gained a strong foothold with its Ryzen and EPYC processors. AMD's strategy of offering competitive pricing with high performance has challenged Intel's dominance in the CPU market. In the graphics and AI acceleration space, NVIDIA has made significant inroads. It is witnessing strong demand for generative AI and large language models using GPUs based on NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell architectures. Backed by strong industry expertise, both NVIDIA and AMD are aiming to expand their influence in the automotive segment. Intensifying competition with NVIDIA and AMD across multiple end markets is weighing on Intel's margin. Intel's debt-to-capital ratio stands at 32% compared to the industry average of 17.3%. As of March 31, 2025, Intel had cash and cash equivalents of $8.95 billion with $44.91 billion of long-term debt. A high debt level may limit sufficient cash flow generation, which is required to meet future debt obligations. Additionally, Intel has a significant presence in China. Growing Sino-U.S. trade hostilities can impact its operations. Estimate Revision Trend of INTC Earnings estimates for Intel for 2025 have moved down 37.5% to 30 cents over the past 60 days, while the same for 2026 has declined 28.32% to 81 cents. The negative estimate revision depicts bearish sentiments for the stock. End Note Intel's strong AI focus and the expansion of its portfolio offerings for AI PCs, data centers, and automotive markets are commendable. Its effort to lower costs and improve liquidity with strategic divestiture is a positive. However, intensifying competition in the commercial PC, server, storage and networking markets remains a major headwind. In addition, its high dependence on China, imposition of trade tariffs, and Beijing's move to replace U.S.-made chips with domestic alternatives are impeding Intel's commercial prospects. Its high debt levels make it vulnerable to economic downturns and growing geopolitical unrest. Declining earnings estimate revisions underscore dwindling investors' confidence. Despite heavy investment in chipset innovation and AI acceleration, Intel's ability to regain a competitive edge appears to be a challenging endeavor. Intel carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) at present. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. 5 Stocks Set to Double Each was handpicked by a Zacks expert as the #1 favorite stock to gain +100% or more in 2024. 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Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Why Ceva Stock Was Accelerating This Week
Niche electronics company Ceva (NASDAQ: CEVA) has been an outperformer on the stock exchange of late, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. On Tuesday the company announced a licensing deal, and investors flocked to snap up its shares. Ceva is in the business of developing and licensing processing devices and software, and has lately attracted interest because of its artificial intelligence (AI) processors. On Tuesday, the company announced that it sold a license for a next-generation solution supporting advanced driver assisted systems (ADASes). Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » Specifically, the license covers its NeuPro-M Edge AI Neural Processing Unit (NPU), and the client is South Korean vehicle tech company Nextchip. Ceva described the Neu-Pro M as an "architecture designed to accelerate deep learning and machine learning workloads in a wide range of applications." Ceva did not provide any financial details of the arrangement. In the press release touting the deal, however, it didn't hesitate to cite a forecast from Grand View Research that the worldwide ADAS market will grow at a compound annual rate of over 19% from 2023 to 2030. In the latter year, it should reach nearly $123 billion. Signing off on a deal is well and good, but it's tough to estimate this one's potential impact on Ceva because investors don't (yet) have the financial particulars. They'll soon see if the recent excitement swirling around the company is justified by results; last week it set its first-quarter earnings release date. This is slated to occur on Wednesday, May 7. Before you buy stock in Ceva, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Ceva wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $566,035!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $629,519!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 829% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 155% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of April 21, 2025 Eric Volkman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Ceva. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Why Ceva Stock Was Accelerating This Week was originally published by The Motley Fool
