February 26 news, according to Gartner’s latest forecast, global shipments of artificial intelligence (AI) personal computers (PCs) and generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) smartphones are expected to grow from 29 million units in 2023 to 295 million units by the end of 2024.
Gartner predicts that by the end of 2024, the shipments of generative AI smartphones and AIPCs will reach 240 million units and 54.5 million units respectively, accounting for 22% of basic and high-end smartphone shipments and 22% of PC shipments in 2024.
According to Gartner's definition, AIPC refers to computers equipped with dedicated AI accelerators or cores, neural processing units (NPUs), accelerated processing units (APUs) or tensor processing units (TPUs), designed to optimize and accelerate AI tasks on the device. This provides better performance and efficiency, eliminating the need to rely on external servers or cloud services when processing AI and generative AI workloads.
Generative AI smartphones are designed specifically for smartphones and are equipped with hardware and software features that enable seamless integration and efficient execution of generative AI-driven functions and applications on smartphones. These smartphones can locally run basic or fine-tuned AI models to generate new derivative versions of content, strategies, designs and methods. Some examples include Google’s GeminiNano, Baidu’s Wenxin, and OpenAI’s GPT-4.