These AI features won’t come cheaply, with Windows 12 set to debut a new hardware requirement just as its predecessor did with the TPM 2.0 requirement. This time around, a dedicated NPU would be required, a specialized processor designed to handle AI tasks.

This is so dumb if true. First they force HW upgrades because.of TPM 2.0 and now, on the very next product they force another one for many due to NPU?

You can see they have long term vision…

Great so now I need both a new motherboard and a new CPU also it can install the operating system and I can then not use the AI features because I don’t want them. Especially stupid because I can already use AI if I wanted without having to get an NPU by going on Microsoft’s own AI website.

I can’t see corporations going for this.