Forward-looking: Neither AMD nor Intel has formally announced its next wave of laptop chips. Microsoft, however, already seems to have a spot picked out for them. A slide that appears to come from the company sorts Windows PCs into four AI tiers by memory. Ryzen AI 500 and Core Ultra Series 4 both land in its mainstream Copilot+ class.
Known leaker HXL posted the slide on X on Tuesday. Titled "Windows is the home for hybrid intelligence," it lines PCs up along a memory scale that runs from 8GB to beyond 128GB. Chip names only appear underneath, almost like footnotes.
Those footnotes still carry the biggest news, though. Microsoft splits its Copilot+ tier into three bands, from quick local questions at 16GB to delegated tasks at 32GB and long-running jobs at 64GB. Core Ultra Series 3 and 4 sit in the first two, right next to Ryzen AI 400 and 500.
As for timing, a small "CY26-27" label beside the chip list offers a rough window. That lines up with leaks pegging Core Ultra Series 4 as Intel's Nova Lake and Ryzen AI 500 as AMD's Zen 6-based Medusa Point, both reportedly due in 2027.
Spend more on memory, and the chip list changes completely. At 64GB, the mainstream parts disappear in favor of Ryzen AI Max+ 400, Nvidia's RTX Spark and an unnamed "Core Ultra Next" from Intel. The same trio carries over into the 128GB Builder PC tier, which is meant for building and serving models locally.
Past that sits a Supercomputer tier for desk-side machines running frontier models – a sign of how far Microsoft wants Windows to stretch.
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