EFI, the Extensible Firmware Interface, is the firmware layer that initializes hardware before Windows loads. It checks CPU, RAM, storage, and peripherals, then hands control to the operating system.

For the past few years Microsoft has been pushing the idea of Copilot+ PCs as special systems that have NPU’s with enough AI processing performance to allow you to use certain AI features without a ...

Virtually none of Microsoft's new Copilot features requires a Copilot+ PC or an NPU, as Microsoft sets out to make every PC ...

The last time Microsoft rolled out a major AI feature with this level of access to your personal data, it ... didn't go well.