Microsoft’s Copilot+ could land on desktops this year

Microsoft’s advanced AI feature, Copilot+, is currently limited to a few selected laptops. But that could soon change.

According to ZDNet Korea, via The Verge, Intel plans to update its Arrow Lake desktop processors later this year with a more powerful NPU (Neural Processing Unit) called “NPU 4.” This upgrade will meet the 40 TOPS (trillion operations per second) threshold required for Copilot+ features like Windows Recall. This means full support to desktops, not just laptops or mini PCs.

The new NPU design matches what’s found in Lunar Lake laptop chips that currently support Copilot+. While the updated Arrow Lake processors will include this enhanced NPU, they don’t appear to have more CPU or GPU cores compared to the current Core Ultra 200 models.