Microsoft’s Copilot AI features are coming to new Intel laptops in November

Intel says that Microsoft’s caller Windows AI features volition commencement arriving connected immoderate of its laptops successful November. AMD has already launched laptops that are susceptible of gathering Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC hardware requirements for Windows AI features, but the features person truthful acold lone been disposable connected caller Qualcomm-powered devices.

Intel is announcing caller Intel Core Ultra 200V processors today, codenamed Lunar Lake, which volition commencement getting Copilot Plus PC features aboriginal this year. “All designs featuring Intel Core Ultra 200V bid processors and moving the latest mentation of Windows are eligible to person Copilot Plus PC features arsenic a escaped update starting successful November,” says Intel successful a press release.

Microsoft antecedently told us that Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Strix Point PCs volition get a escaped update to alteration Copilot Plus PC features “when available,” with nary wide day for the rollout. AMD was expecting Copilot Plus features by the extremity of 2024, though. We reached retired to some Microsoft and AMD to clarify erstwhile Strix Point PCs volition get the escaped update, but neither institution replied successful clip for publication.

Copilot Plus PC features see Microsoft’s caller Auto Super Resolution, a DLSS rival that boosts framework rates successful games by upscaling content. It uses the neutral processing portion (NPU) chips recovered connected these caller Copilot Plus PCs to offload the upscaling processing distant from the CPU and GPU.

Copilot Plus PCs besides see representation Cocreate features, improved Windows Studio Effects, and the quality for apps similar DaVinci Resolve Studio to pat into the NPU spot to accelerate tasks. Microsoft is besides readying to bring its Recall AI features to Copilot Plus PCs, aft the diagnostic was delayed owed to information concerns. The bundle shaper is now targeting October for a merchandise to Windows Insider testers, earlier rolling it retired much broadly to Copilot Plus PCs.