Tantra's Mantra with Prakash Sangam
Sep 20, 2026 · 43 min · 12 segments
Tantra Analyst attended Lenovo’s Innovation World 2026 and IFA 2026 events in Berlin in early September. Personal AI was a major theme at both events. IFA also had a strong Physical AI component, with…
Prakash SangamHost
Leonard LeeGuest
At a high level, I mean, I think It was definitely a smaller event than the first event that I attended.
The hype site was really in full throttle by the time we hit Germany, right? Because Copilot plus PC was introduced in the March timeframe.
This is where a lot of the momentum had already been sort of generated going into last year.
And I think for this year, there's kind of, it felt like a bit of a reset around the desktop and the workstation.
Initially, AI PC concepts were really focus more on the laptop right and having the 40 plus tops so that you can run ai on device right well i think last year i think some of the excitement got a little bit subdued around the ai pc but it's being renewed now that everyone's talking about inference now um everyone's
And I think, the whole on-device AI value proposition, but also the unique security and privacy potential.
I'm not gonna say that we're there yet, but the potential is driving interest now in the desktop and the workstation.
And I've been saying for quite some time already that the workstation will probably be that landing place site and beachhead for enterprise ai and it looks like a lot of the talk these days is gravitating toward that direction and so that was like one of the big impressions that i got thematically or at least one of the themes that i i picked up on um the other thing um is You know, obviously Kira was announced earlier this year and we'll get into that later, I'm sure.
But it was, it was good to see, get an update on the progress of that because I think it's an important.
At a high level, I mean, I think It was definitely a smaller event than the first event that I attended.
The hype site was really in full throttle by the time we hit Germany, right? Because Copilot plus PC was introduced in the March timeframe.
This is where a lot of the momentum had already been sort of generated going into last year.
And I think for this year, there's kind of, it felt like a bit of a reset around the desktop and the workstation.
Initially, AI PC concepts were really focus more on the laptop right and having the 40 plus tops so that you can run ai on device right well i think last year i think some of the excitement got a little bit subdued around the ai pc but it's being renewed now that everyone's talking about inference now um everyone's
And I think, the whole on-device AI value proposition, but also the unique security and privacy potential.
I'm not gonna say that we're there yet, but the potential is driving interest now in the desktop and the workstation.
And I've been saying for quite some time already that the workstation will probably be that landing place site and beachhead for enterprise ai and it looks like a lot of the talk these days is gravitating toward that direction and so that was like one of the big impressions that i got thematically or at least one of the themes that i i picked up on um the other thing um is You know, obviously Kira was announced earlier this year and we'll get into that later, I'm sure.
But it was, it was good to see, get an update on the progress of that because I think it's an important.
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