PCs & laptops
Every laptop and desktop in the world, counted as its CPU vector units plus integrated graphics plus, increasingly, a dedicated neural engine. An M-series MacBook now carries more usable FP16 throughput than a 2016 datacenter node.
PCs & laptops over time
Installed compute in zettaFLOP/s, log scale, 2008 → present. A straight line on this axis means steady exponential growth; the slope is the doubling rate. History before the 2026 anchor is reconstructed — see the methodology.
~1.9B active machines x ~2.0 TFLOP/s dense FP16 (CPU vector units + integrated GPU + NPU).
~1.55 billion active machines x ~2.4 TFLOP/s. The integrated-GPU rows in the July 2026 Steam survey average 4.4 TFLOP/s dense FP16, but Steam skews modern and the global PC base is older, so the fleet average is set below it.
Overlap treatment: Excludes discrete add-in GPUs, which are the consumer-GPU line, so a gaming PC is not counted twice.
Growth: compounding at 1.10× a year (87.3-month doubling) between published vintages.