Dell has officially joined the enterprise AI arms race with its latest mobile workstation, the Pro Max Plus. The standout feature—and really the only one the company is talking about—is its use of a discrete enterprise-grade NPU, a first in the category. That makes this laptop more about AI than anything else.
At the heart of the Pro Max Plus is the Qualcomm AI 100 PC Inference Card. Dell claims this makes it the “world’s first mobile workstation with an enterprise-grade discrete NPU.”
Dell Pro Max Plus is all about AI
The card carries 32 dedicated AI cores and 64GB of memory specifically allocated for AI workloads. The workstation probably has separate shared memory for other tasks. So, it’s the kind of configuration we’d normally see on server racks.
According to Dell, the Pro Max Plus can support large language models with up to 109 billion parameters. It’s clearly a device for AI enthusiasts and data scientists rather than general users. This probably explains why Dell hasn’t provided a price tag or full spec sheet yet.
Aside from the AI hardware, details are pretty scarce at the moment. There’s no word on the CPU, GPU, storage, or display. We will learn learn more when Dell launches the machine later this year.
Laptops with some form of discrete AI processing aren’t totally new. Microsoft launched the Surface Laptop Studio 2 with Intel’s Movidius VPU. But Dell’s approach is much more aggressive here, both in terms of hardware capability and intended use case.
There will be more Pro Max Plus models in the future, but Dell says not all of them will emphasize AI to this extent. This initial version seems to be the flagship for the AI-focused crowd.
No release date has been confirmed, and there’s no indication of how much it will cost. We will keep you posted with any new updates.
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