AI PC Ambitions Face an Unforgiving Reality of Memory Constraints and Budget Pressure For the PC industry, 2025 was the year that the end of Windows 10 support would drive a massive PC refresh cycle. As part of this refresh, AI PCs, devices with neural processing units (NPUs) designed to execute AI and machine learning tasks, were expected to rise in popularity as businesses prepared their workforce for a new era of AI-infused productivity.