Today, at the Dell Technologies World 2025 conference held in conjunction with Computex Taipei, the company announced a new product that further expands its Dell Pro Max PC lineup. As the name suggests, it is a high-performance PC that includes both desktop and laptop computers.
Dell is further expanding its laptop lineup with the new Pro Max Plus. The company said select models of Pro Max Plus laptops will feature the Qualcomm AI 100 inference card, making them the first mobile workstations to feature an enterprise-class discrete neural processing unit (dNPU).
Because NPUs are fine-tuned for hardware-accelerated AI/ML workloads, the integration of this hardware is expected to significantly improve AI performance.
Each Qualcomm AI 100 dNPU comes with 16 AI cores, and Dell uses a dual AI 100 configuration in its Pro Max Plus laptop. As a result, the Qualcomm AI 100 dNPU includes a total of 32 AI cores, 288 MB of on-chip SRAM (9 MB per AI core), and 64GB of LPDDR4x memory, with memory bandwidth up to 274 GB/s.
Dell claims its new Pro Max Plus workstation laptop can handle large language models (LLMs) with between 30 billion and 109 billion parameters. As a result, AI engineers and data scientists working on applications such as chatbots and AI agents will benefit from increased inference speed and accuracy.
The use of independent NPUs in mobile devices is also to achieve more powerful local AI processing capabilities, thereby reducing dependence on cloud services. Additionally, local computing can reduce operating costs compared to server-based environments and help address some privacy-related issues.
Dell says it's powered by a 55-watt Intel Arrow Lake HX processor, along with 256 GB of system memory (DRAM) and up to 16 TB of solid-state drive (SSD). Arrow Lake HX was unveiled at CES 2025 earlier this year.
Pricing for the Dell Pro Max Plus hasn't been revealed today, but it's expected to go on sale later this year.