Acer Brings Amd Chips To Its Swift Go Copilot Plus Laptops

Acer is putting AMD chips successful its ultra-thin Swift Go 16 AI and Swift Go 14 AI Copilot Plus laptops, immoderate of which recreation pinch up to an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 processor. Until now, Acer only offered its Swift Go 14 Copilot Plus laptop pinch a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor.

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 processor has 8 cores, 16 threads, and an up to 5.0GHz boost clock. The Swift Go AI laptops characteristic a neural processing information (NPU) moving AMD’s XDNA 2 architecture pinch up to 50 TOPS, arsenic bully arsenic AMD Radeon 800M graphics.

Both nan 16- and 14-inch Swift Go AI recreation pinch nan action for either an OLED show pinch a 120Hz refresh title aliases an IPS touch panel. There’s too up to 32GB of low-power DDR5X SDRAM, a 1440p HDR webcam, and up to 24.9 hours of video playback connected nan Swift Go 14 AI (or up to 18 hours of video playback connected nan Swift Go 16 AI).

The Swift Go 14 AI will motorboat successful May pinch a starting worth of $899.99, while nan Swift Go 16 AI will get successful April starting astatine $949.99. Over nan past less months, Microsoft has been gradually expanding AI features, specified arsenic Recall and unrecorded translation, to Copilot Plus PCs moving AMD and Intel chips, arsenic these features were antecedently only disposable connected Qualcomm-equipped devices.

Along pinch these laptops, Acer too revealed a brace of non-AI Swift Go laptops powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285H processor and Intel Arc graphics, pinch nan 14- and 16-inch options starting astatine nan aforesaid prices arsenic their Copilot Plus counterparts.

There’s a caller Aspire Vero 16 laptop arsenic well, which Acer says has an “easy-to-repair” creation pinch a chassis made of overmuch than 70 percent “post-consumer recycled integrative and bio-based oyster ammunition material.” The Aspire Vero features up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor and Intel Arc graphics. It will commencement astatine $799.99 erstwhile it launches successful April.