Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines

Microsoft has bragged that its own Azure HPC service was able to reduce the length of its Surface laptop design process – most notably for a hinge, which was reduced to one iteration, and hopes to use AI to do even better in future. According to principal engineer Prasad Raghavendra, Abaqus FEA software has been implemented …

[Paul Crawford]

All of that design effort and yet it will be hobbled with W11

[navarac]

or bloated with AI and adverts, in Windows "next"

[big_D]

Hmm, scaled up to use thousands of cores... Sounds like, "you too can benefit from scaled up Abacus FEA*".

* Can result in increased license cost and compute a huge increase in your compute bill.

[AMBxx]

Copilot design

MS ask for more robust laptop.

Copilot removes the screen.

[ldo]

Most Of Azure Is Linux

That means you can no longer even design a Windows machine without Linux.