Artificial Intelligence

The Offline Laptop, Reconsidered: How On-Device AI Accelerators Are Rewriting What a PC Needs the Network For

Every major laptop chip vendor now clears Microsoft's 40 TOPS Copilot+ bar, and Gartner expects AI PCs to become the majority of the market in 2026. But the network isn't going away — it's changing job description, from a per-request dependency into a fallback for the heavy reasoning your NPU still can't handle.