“This should translate into improved performance and energy-efficient compute, which ultimately means better battery life,” Lee said.
PC makers will offer Panther Lake-based hardware in various configurations, which should encourage enterprises to develop their own AI agents, said Bob O’Donnell, principal analyst at Technalysis Research. “We’re going to live in a world of hybrid AI, meaning you’re going to have agents that would run on a PC, that would call some models and resources locally on the PC, but will also call to the cloud,” he said.
Though agents will be a critical function in the hybrid AI model on Windows PCs, that will take years to materialize, O’Donnell said. “Things like [Model Context Protocol] start to enable this, as well as [Agent to Agent], so you’ve got critical standards in place to start to make this stuff happen, but I think that’s where we’re going to end up,” O’Donnell said.
