Microsoft's announced Copilot+ PCs, range of laptops utilising Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus ARM64-based SoCs, including a new Surface, that Microsoft is pitching as computers that can do a bunch of AI stuff locally due to the beefy NPUs (neural processing units) on those SoCs. Most of the AI stuff we've seen before, but "Recall", which lets you "scroll across time to find the content you need in your timeline across any application, website, document, or more" by leveraging "your personal semantic index, built and stored entirely on your device", seems new. Microsoft claims these Snapdragon SoCs are 58% faster in the Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core benchmark than the M3 SoC in Apple's 15" MacBook Air. There's also a new "Prism" translation layer coming to Windows 11 24H2 that'll make running x86 apps on ARM64 "similar to Rosetta" on macOS. These devices start shipping (in the US at least) on June 18th so not long to wait to see if these claims are true.
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