From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11
On Mon, 4/6/2026 8:26 PM, Shinji Ikari wrote:
Hello
knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> schrieb
I have heard this update was only be offered to specific computers, to
get the silicon ready? Have I misunderstood or is there validity to it.
I do not know what you mean with "silicon ready", but yes 26H1 does
exist for ARM CPU based systems.
You can get teaser hints from the Wiki article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11_version_history
21H2
22H2
23H2
24H2 Hudson Valley 26100
25H2 26200 [Most will be close to this version]
26H1 28000 [ARM related] <====
26H2 26300 [Not here yet, end of this year]
"Version 26H1
version 26H1 ... released on February 10, 2026.
preview was ... November 7, 2025 [73]
Version 26H1 is a platform-specific support release that only includes changes
to support devices with ARM processors,[73] with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2
being one of the confirmed case as of March 25, 2026.[74]
Also version 26H1 added many AI and NPU features. <=== [Mumble... Huh!]
"
Intel has Lunar Lake and AMD has Strix Halo, for NPU hardware support (of a sort).
This means that, to some extent, both streams will get "features".
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/npu-devices/
Many of the new Windows AI features require an NPU with the
ability to run at 40+ TOPS, including but not limited to:
...
Copilot+ PCs with new AMD and Intel silicon, including
AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and Intel Core Ultra 200V series.
At this point, most of the acceleration features are "sucker plays",
in that there will be silicon in your computer that "does not do much".
At this point, there should be no FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out),
simply because the industry has forked more hardware formats
than they know what to do with.
Training in TRIT format and issuing models in TRIT format
(no quantization step), those models are tiny enough, they
could run on your 16GB W11 hardware platform. Yet, you don't
see a lot of offerings delivered that way because "what companies
will profit from it". And this is part of the reason, you
should know you're "going on a ride" with this stuff.
I guess we'll know more about the value equation, when
somebody here reports "something magical my machine did" :-)
We won't know whether the magic is an LLM-AI, or it is
a neural network (the thing that existed before LLM-AI).
Maybe you will get "image sharpening" for example (which
your phone had long ago).
The "Scan Text" button, that appears when you have taken
a SnippingTool.exe screen snapshot, that button is a "portal"
to the other side. On a hunch, I shoved a QR code into
a picture, and used the "Scan Text" button on it, and the
software knew I wanted the QR code to be converted. Some
day there may be more functions than just OCR and QR
under that button. There is no notation indicating capability,
so this is very much Magic 8 ball material. The "OCR in Table Format"
has never worked properly, so don't be distracted by that option
quite yet. They'll massage that and fix it eventually.
Maybe like Notepad, 15 years will pass...
Paul
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