Phison has announced new aiDAPTIV+ upgrades and they will soon land inside Maingear’s upcoming AI concept laptop.
AI and ML processing power has become an important metric in determining the capability of modern hardware, be it for CPUs, GPUs, or NPUs. Aside from processor power itself, AI tasks also gobble up plenty of memory depending on the chosen parameter and the precision of the model. For example, single precision (float32) typically consumes four times the parameter value. Thus, even a 32GB RTX 5090 can be saturated by inferencing an eight-billion parameter model.
Graphics cards like the AMD RX 7900 XTX, Nvidia RTX 4090, and RTX 5090 rely on their available 24-32 GB VRAM buffer. While those are typically desktop hardware, there have also been attempts to outdo such specs in mobile form factor too. AMD for example released the Ryzen AI Max and Max+ APUs earlier this year at CES, and they can allocate up to 96GB of memory. Thanks to that, AMD claims the Max+ 395 can easily beat Nvidia’s RTX 4090 in such a memory-demanding load.
Meanwhile, Phison has already been working on such technology for a while which helps hardware not run out of available buffer.
