SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than US$2,500, the company announced Wednesday.
The launch is part of a broader push by tech companies to release hardware that can handle more AI computing on-device and offline, so users don't have to rely solely on remote cloud data centres, where running AI is slower and more expensive.
It also sees Nvidia, whose data centre processors power the AI revolution, make a move into personal computing, a sector dominated for decades by chips from Intel and Qualcomm.
