Lenovo's new flagship Chromebook Plus 14 is the first Chromebook with a high-powered NPU—courtesy of MediaTek—and it’s bringing some truly slick, exclusive AI smarts. I checked it out firsthand at Google's offices.
Honestly that’s probably the biggest takeaway. MTK still lives in my head purely in embedded systems & handhelds, so seeing it here does raise an eyebrow.
What I like the most is the way mtk is breaking into the laptop CPU world.
SD X: 2100/10500
SD X Elite: 2700/14000
M4: 3800/14600
MTK kompanio ultra; 2600/8000
Honestly that’s probably the biggest takeaway. MTK still lives in my head purely in embedded systems & handhelds, so seeing it here does raise an eyebrow.
What’s great is that they didn’t either have to ask “permission” to MS to be considered good for laptops. Simply clever.