At HP Future of Work AI Conference 2026, HP Japan announced a sub-1 kg AI PC and a mobile workstation with up to 192 GB of memory, and outlined a hybrid AI strategy combining on-device processing with the cloud.
At its annual event, HP Future of Work AI Conference 2026, held in Tokyo, HP Japan introduced products developed for the Japanese market, including the sub-1 kg 14-inch AI PC HP EliteBook 8 G2iW 14 and the HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 mobile workstation, which supports up to 192 GB of memory. It also explained HPIQ, software that switches between AI processing on the device and in the cloud.
The company emphasised a strategy centred on hybrid AI, combining cloud-based and on-device inference. Against the backdrop of communication costs and security challenges associated with the spread of AI agents, as well as the burden of device management, it set a goal of achieving half of inference processing on devices by 2030.