At last month’s Citi analyst conference, Intel CFO David Zinsner revealed news of next year’s Windows update, suggesting that consumers may upgrade their PCs in response to a new version of Windows.
“We think 2024 is going to be a pretty good year for the PC market, particularly driven by Windows updates,” it said at the conference. “Existing Windows PC hardware is relatively old and will probably be heavily updated next year.” According to outside analysis, Zinsner refers to the “Windows update” is most likely Windows 12.
Intel has announced its Meteor Lake mobile chip, which will be released in December. It’s Intel’s first processor to have a small chip in each component, and the first to use Intel’s 4 process, in addition to having a dedicated AI co-processor built in.
And as previously reported, hardware leaker @leaf_hobby had posted details about Intel’s Meteor Lake desktop platform. Although the tweet has been deleted, it can still be expected that this processor is meant for the next generation of Windows (most likely Windows 12).
While Microsoft hasn’t officially announced anything about Windows 12, it’s still not hard to deduce that Windows 12 will perhaps be integrated with AI features to spur user demand for updates. In an interview with The Verge website this year, Microsoft’s head of consumer marketing, Yusuf Mehdi, said, “When we start working on future versions of Windows, we’ll think about where AI should play a natural role in the experience.”
However, with the recent departure of Panos Panay, head of the Windows division, to Amazon, it’s not clear if that will have any impact on the development of Windows 12.
