From PC World: Not everyone wants to run local AI on their own PCs. But if you do, there’s a major problem. Most sophisticated models can’t fit inside the limitations of your PC’s memory and storage. Phison and Intel are working on a solution.
Using Phison’s aiDAPTIV solution, a 26 billion parameter AI model can be run on a laptop with 16GB of RAM, versus the 32GB of RAM it would normally require. That has two advantages: bringing local AI to more laptops and allowing more powerful laptops to load even larger models or else run separate tasks alongside AI. On a PC, AI can monopolize system resources, preventing any other work from being done. This can sometimes force a user to buy a dedicated AI PC.
It’s a simple productivity solution, allowing either larger AI models to be run on a PC or freeing up a laptop for other tasks.
Part of AI’s hardware problem is that it has to calculate tokens, whether for something as simple as asking an LLM for a poem or a more complex set of instructions to monitor oil prices and make predictions. In either case, tokens are being generated on the fly inside the video memory. (Intel traditionally split half of a laptop’s system RAM between the integrated GPU and Windows, before allowing consumers to manually adjust the allocation in August 2025.)
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