New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- AI laptops have turned into the loudest buzzword of 2025. Copilots now live inside your device, creative tools upscale images in seconds, and real-time translation runs quietly in the background. The showdown at the centre of it all comes from two chip families: Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X series. This guide does not take sides. It simply helps you choose the chip that actually suits your AI workloads instead of joining a fan club.

AI-heavy usage goes far beyond asking a chatbot simple questions. It includes local LLM inference, code assistants that run offline, speech-to-text tools, image and video upscaling, and vision tasks such as object detection. All of this depends on three hardware blocks: the CPU for ...