Before you buy a Copilot PC: Microsoft's Bet on ARM Chips

with the announcement of the co-pilot computers Microsoft also announced that their surface lineup will be switching over to the arm architecture from the previous x86 chips if you're in the market for a Windows device there's a bunch of new phrases and words to look for as they'll be using the market material going forward especially so you know what's right for you Microsoft is kind of positioning these co-pilot devices as their premium top-of-the-line devices that exist above their older Intel and AMD devices so maybe you don't even need a co-pilot device for your need needs so these are some of the things you should look out for so firstly the x86 chips have been the dominant architecture for Windows and desktop applications for decades historically x86 processors especially from Intel and AMD have outperformed arm processors in terms of raw processing power so naturally the x86 was the right move but beyond that the x86 system is well supported and over the years Investments were made to optimize windows and other Microsoft software for x86 so transitioning to arm would require a similar level of investment to ensure capable performance and stability so why not as time passed the x86 architecture got better but so did the arm architecture and especially in terms of performance now that the performance is catching up to the x86 you can get the efficiency of arm chips with similar performance to the x86 for example look at the M chips Apple uses on the iPads and MacBooks or even the ones they use on the iPhone for that matter they're also based on the arm architecture they're incredibly powerful and very efficient so arm chips have always been Superior in terms of power efficiency when compared to x86 chips features like all day battery life and some chips having 5G built into them are all advantages this has over x86 ships but one of the first concerns you might have if you're in the market for a Windows laptop is that with this new architecture developers must rework applications to run on these new chips and you're right this is true but the other option for developers to get their apps working on these new devices is to use Microsoft prism which is an emulator that will allow you to use these applications and software on these new devices and emulations aren't a new thing by any means but the experience hasn't always been great because previous chips were kind of slow and affected some of the performance but Microsoft is saying that thanks to these new Snapdragon chips which we'll go over in just a bit this shouldn't be an issue and I just want to emphasize this a little bit more because it'll be very important if you're looking to upgrade to one of these devices until the developers fully rework apps to work on arm for Windows this is what they'll have to use in order to get their software and services working I can't speak to how well Microsoft prism is yet because I haven't tested it myself but I'll be testing that when I get my hands on the new Surface devices so stay tuned for that that being said Microsoft is claiming that when you combine the new prism emulator with the raw performance and improvements of these new Chips there's a two times performance boost and it's comparable to the rest of windows when Apple made to switch the arm on their MacBooks they use Rosetta 2 as their emulation platform to allow devs to Port over apps for users Microsoft is claiming that performance will be similar to Rosetta and if that's true people were pretty satisfied with the experience on Rosetta 2 so like I said stay tuned for my video on the Surface Pro and let me know if you have any anything specific you want me to cover in that video but the good news is that a lot of these major apps like Google Chrome Photoshop and you know major companes have already added support or started working on it in order to really understand this new co-pilot plus branding and the requirements to qualified as a co-pilot plus device there's a few terms you should know starting with the npu whenever you were shopping for a computer in the past you'd always consider the CPU and the GPU however now with the rise of AI the npu is going to be a crucial thing for you to look at as well so CPU is the primary processing unit of a PC or a mobile device it's used for a tasks like running operating systems like Windows and running applications a GPU is a bit more specialized and is used for rendering graphics and accelerating tasks and now uh npu is specifically designed for accelerating Ai and machine learning tasks so it's really good at stuff like image recognition natural language processing and recommendation systems it's similar to GPU in the sense that it's specialized for tasks a GPU specializes in rendering Graphics but it npu specializes in running AI related tasks its capabilities are measured by a term called tops or trillion operations per second the requirements for a co-pilot plus computer is a minimum of 40 tops and only the Snapdragon X+ and X Elite are capable or are eligible for this at 45 tops at least at the time of making this video and along with having a minimum of 40 tops co-pilot devices must also have a minimum of 16 GB of RAM and a minimum of 256 GB of storage and you might be wondering why storage capacity matters after all storage capacity doesn't affect the performance of a device and you're that's right that's true but with the introduction of co-pilot Plus Computers Microsoft also introduced a new feature called recall which they're making sure is available on all of their co-pilot devices and recall will try to make helpful Suggestions by tracking everything you've done on your computer it uses AI to retrieve just about anything you've done or seen on your computer attending meetings opening files and web searches everything with three you can just search something you've done in the past and it'll find it for you and it'll need at least 25 GB of storage to save screenshots of everything that it's been tracking they're saying 25 GB of storage will be about 3 months of tracking history roughly and honestly it sounds like a security Nightmare and I'm sure you're all thinking the same thing but Microsoft says that everything will be private local and secure just on the device and not on the cloud I don't know if it's just me but there's no way Microsoft is just going to turn a blind eye to getting all of your information and constant surveillance it's just way too profitable for them to not at least be sketchy about it and do things like automatically turn it on after a Windows update but with that being said they also introduced a feature called live captions where you can translate from 44 languages to English in real time across any video or audio plane on your computer so to wrap it up after a long history of chips based on the x86 architecture Microsoft is now heavily pushing chips with the arm architecture and the first Microsoft devices they announced with these new chips are the Surface Pro and Surface Pro laptop powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips Microsoft isn't ditching the x86 architecture but instead they're supporting both as I mentioned earlier but they're encouraging developers to develop their services on this new arm architecture and of course their new co-pilot computers are positioned as their most premium devices and I'll be reviewing the Surface Pro when I get my hands on it so stay tuned if you want to see that if you have any questions anything you want to see uh me cover for those new devices or need clarification on anything I said in this video then leave a comment below but yeah that's all for me I'll catch you guys on the next one peace [Music]

Channel: Yonny Digital

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Length: 7min 15sec (435 seconds)

Published: Tue May 28 2024