Microsoft has released the next Surface Pro and Surface Laptop powered by Snapdragon X2 processors, available immediately with business editions arriving July 14. The devices bring faster graphics performance, longer battery life and refined displays while continuing Surface's focus on hybrid AI workloads that span on-device and cloud processing.

The updates continue a pattern set over more than 13 years in which Surface devices have been shaped by architects, developers, students and field engineers who use them to build, solve problems and ship work.
Microsoft states that some AI workloads belong on device for local, fast and always-available processing while others require cloud scale.
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