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Intel hosted its first AI dev conference in Beijing, and kicked off the event by introducing its "Intel Neural Compute Stick 2", designed to build smarter AI algorithms and for prototyping computer vision at the network edge.

Microsoft wants the population of Windows users to grow. Intel would like to see that happening too, given that it is joined at the arm and the hip to the Redmond software behemoth. Newer PCs are more expensive, but run the bloated Windows operating system that much faster.

Chip maker Qualcomm has fired a broadside against Apple, accusing the latter of "a campaign of false promises, stealth and subterfuge” in the long-running patent-infringement battle between the two firms.