No Surface launched in 2026 bears the name anymore, a Microsoft executive confirms. The technical threshold — an NPU of about 45 TOPS — remains in effect, but without a trade name attached.
Launched in 2024 by Microsoft and Qualcomm, the "Copilot+ PC" category was supposed to define the generation of computers designed for local AI, with functions reserved for machines crossing a given performance threshold. The start was a failure: Recall, the flagship feature that was supposed to justify the category, proved to be severely vulnerable from the first reviews by security researchers, forcing Microsoft to postpone it and release these machines without their main argument. Since then, manufacturers have removed the name from their marketing materials, and Microsoft has followed.
No Surface released in 2026 will have the mention in its product name, unlike those from 2025 and previous years; it is now necessary to search the spec sheets to find a trace of compatibility. Interviewed at the Snapdragon Summit, Brett Ostrum, vice president of the Surface division, confirmed that these machines are no longer called Copilot+ PC while specifying that they meet all the requirements set previously.
Kedar Kondap, head of the computing business at Qualcomm, situates the initial logic: it was a question of delimiting a category of devices by a measurable bar, around an NPU of about 45 TOPS, to guarantee certain experiences. These experiences are still offered, without the terminology. Nvidia, for its part, has never associated its future RTX Spark platform with the brand, even though these machines cross the threshold. The technical reference therefore outlives its commercial label.
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