What's New: Today at MWC 2024, Intel extends the benefits of the AI PC to commercial customers with the new Intel vPro® platform. The enhanced features of Intel® Core™ Ultra processors with available built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs, and Intel® Core™ 14th Gen processers will usher in new PC experiences for enterprises, small- and medium-size businesses, the public sector including education, and the edge. This year, the expansive commercial portfolio will deliver more than 100 notebook, 2-in-1, desktop and entry workstation designs from partners including Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, Dynabook, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft Surface, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung and VAIO.
"The new Intel vPro platform with Intel Core Ultra continues to raise the bar across productivity, security, manageability and stability, to ensure IT organizations manage transitions with confidence. We are delivering new AI experiences with more than 100 software vendors, Windows 11 and Copilot. 2024 is shaping up to be the best year to refresh your fleet and be AI-ready."
–David Feng, Intel vice president of Client Computing Group and general manager of Client Segments
About the Processors Powering the AI PC for Business: The new Intel Core Ultra processor delivers leadership performance, enhanced power efficiency and available built-in Intel Arc GPUs. With dedicated AI acceleration capability spread across the central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU) and the new neural processing unit (NPU), Intel Core Ultra-powered commercial PCs will support the apps you use every day and unlock an endless new wave of AI experiences.
The new available built-in Intel Arc GPU brings up to twice the graphics performance as the previous generation1 and advanced features such as AI and ray tracing for modern software needs. This is enhanced further with a new dedicated OEM-enabled Intel Arc Pro workstation graphics driver for enhanced performance optimizations across creative, design and engineering software.
In addition, new Intel Core 14th Gen processors will power a range of desktops and entry-level workstations to extend the commercial portfolio. Intel Core processors feature a performance hybrid architecture to maximize computing headroom for advanced applications and multitasking while Intel® Thread Director and Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology manage tasks and clock frequencies for optimal performance, energy efficiency and a great user experience.
About the New Intel vPro Platform: Building on Intel's power and performance leadership, the Intel vPro platform ensures a productive, secure, manageable and stable foundation for commercial client compute:
- Productivity: The Intel vPro platform harnesses all the benefits of the latest processors and platform technologies to enhance the productivity of all users. Expect significant gains of up to 47% better office application productivity over a three-year-old PC2.
- Security: Enhanced Intel® Threat Detection Technology is designed to take advantage of the new NPU to improve the efficiency of anomaly detection and reduce power. The new Intel® Silicon Security Engine authenticates system firmware to help safeguard against cyber threats below the operating system (OS).
- Manageability: Intel® Device Discovery is a new way for cloud-based tools to receive the information they need to take appropriate actions on a given PC. New Intel® Device Health with VMware and Eclypsium help IT organizations gain visibility into fleet patching requirements and deliver end-to-end device management. Intel continues to invest in hardware-based remote management, both for on-premise solutions leveraging endpoint management technology and cloud-native solutions like VMware Workspace ONE3.
- Stability: Intel's Stable IT Program aims to help IT organizations qualify once and deploy with confidence4. For frictionless OS transitions, Intel vPro validates and ensures Windows 10 and Windows 11 compatibility. Intel's strong developer program helped deliver 99.7% application compatibility on Windows 11.
An added benefit of the Intel vPro platform is sustainability across the PC product lifecycle. Currently, 94% of Intel vPro devices are EPEAT Silver or better5 and a single use of Intel vPro's remote repair capabilities saves carbon emissions equal to two years of PC usage, compared to dispatching a technician via truck6.
Why It Matters: The AI PC will fundamentally change the way organizations use their PCs, unleashing new experiences and levels of productivity for the global workforce. As part of Intel's AI PC Acceleration Program, more than 300 AI-accelerated features – many of which are purpose-built for commercial collaboration, productivity, content creation and accessibility – will be uniquely optimized to run best on Intel.
Additionally, the professional workstation market has seen a rise in expectations of graphics performance. This new generation of available built-in Intel Arc Pro graphics offers features and independent software vendor (ISV) certifications typically only seen on more expensive discrete graphics cards and brings a new era of responsive and reliable graphics capabilities to the modern workforce. Ray tracing capabilities help visualize product designs, AI upscales video to 8K, AV1 offers royalty-free and superior image compression and streaming, and ISV-certified drivers provide architectural and product design reliability.
From an OS level, Intel has a long history of collaboration with Microsoft. As the two companies usher in the year of the AI PC, deep co-engineering across hardware and software delivers more productive, creative and secure experiences through Windows 11, Microsoft Teams and Copilot.
"This is a pivotal time in enterprise technology, and we are extremely proud of the deep partnership between Microsoft and Intel," said James Howell, general manager of Windows at Microsoft. "With the combination of Copilot and Intel Core Ultra silicon, we're bringing improved efficiency, better graphics, and new AI experiences in productivity and creativity at scale with the AI PC."
More Context: Intel Core Ultra (Press Kit) | Intel MWC 2024 (Press Kit) | AI PC Built for Business | Intel Wireless
The Small Print:
1Intel® Arc™ GPUs: Intel® Arc™ graphics only available on select H-series Intel® Core™ Ultra processor powered systems with at least 16GB of system memory in a dual-channel configuration. OEM enablement required; check with OEM or retailer for system configuration details.
AI features may require software purchase, subscription or enablement by a software or platform provider, or may have specific configuration or compatibility requirements. Learn more at intel.com/aipc. Performance varies by use, configuration and other details. Based on Intel Core Ultra 7 165H performance with built in Intel Arc GPU. Details at intel.com/performanceindex.
2Performance results are based on testing as of February 2024. Details at intel.com/performanceindex.
Full Configurations:
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 165H Processor (MTL-H) PL1=28W, 16 Cores; tested on a Intel Internal development system; Memory: LPDDR5-7467 2x16GB Dual Rank Storage: Samsung PM9A1 NVMe 512GB; Display Resolution: 1920x1080; OS: Microsoft Windows 11 22H2 22621.2215; Graphics driver: Pre-production driver; BIOS: Preproduction BIOS, Power Plan set to Balanced, Power Mode set to "Best Performance".
Processor: 11th Gen Core i7 1185G7 processor, 4 Core; tested in Dell Latitude 5420; Memory: 32GB DDR4-3200; Storage: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB; Display Resolution: 1920x1080; OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 22631.3007 ; Graphics card: Integrated Intel graphics, Graphics Driver: 31.0.101.4644; BIOS: 1.33.0 Power Plan set to Balanced, Power Mode set to "Best performance".
3All features available on Windows. Not all features are available across all Intel vPro offerings.
4Available only on Intel vPro Enterprise.
5Based on data in the EPEAT Registry as of September 13, 2023, hosted by the Global Electronics Council, for computing client products in the market 2019-2023. Data is global and covers Desktop, Integrated Desktop Computer, and Notebook form factors. Intel, AMD, Apple, Arm, Dual, MediaTek, and Qualcomm devices are compared. Visit www.epeat.net/about-epeat to learn more about the registry.
6As measured by 2023 internal Intel study analyzing common emissions data that factors the estimated energy required to use Intel® AMT remote manageability features as compared with the estimated equivalent fuel needed to dispatch a technician, ship an asset, or have the user visit an office. Please visit www.intel.com/Performance-vPro for more information. Results may vary.
