Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

https://lemmy.world/post/43821885

Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades - Lemmy.World

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However, newer processors with dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) reduce strain on cloud servers and GPUs. As a result, PCWorld believes that CPUs, including Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI chips that support 40 TOPS or more, will become mandatory

in other words, your pc will be doing ai shit for someone else’s pc while you are idle

They couldn’t afford enough electricity to run it in-house so now they just run a mandated botnet to make you pay for it instead. If this isn’t a page out of a George Orwell novel, it should have been.
Didn’t Microsoft try that one before?
2026 even has newspeak in the form of bullshit like “unalive”
That’s called algospeak.