ASUS unveiled a bunch of new laptops at this week's Computex tech expo in Taipei, including a Zenbook refresh. The Zenbook S16 is as sleek and well-designed as ever, but comes with a spate of iterative improvements and a couple of major updates. It's equipped with AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, announced just hours ago. That chip promises improved laptop AI performance with 50 TOPS of processing power, triple AMD's previous laptop hardware. That makes it suitable for Copilot, meaning Qualcomm isn't the only game in town for Microsoft's AI assistant. One thing worth pointing out is that this laptop is extremely thin and light for a 16-inch model, clocking in at just over three pounds with a thickness of just 1.1cm or 0.4 inches.

They are designed specifically to handle the very large machine-learning models that are being used for breakthroughs in image processing, natural …

Earlier last year, Amazon released their machine learning chip AWS Inferentia at their AWS re:Invent conference. Designed by Amazon-owned Israeli company that works on building semiconductor systems, the inference chips are geared at larger workloads. In an earlier article, we pointed out how the release of inference chip is an indication of AWS's intention of strengthening its hardware muscle and also countering other cloud competitors like Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Now, Intel is fighting a battle for market size by emerging as a leader in AI compute performance and also winning over significant mindshare -- a turf that clearly belonged to NVIDIA so far.