Dell Technologies Announces Enterprise AI PC and Workstation Adoption Trends in Asia-Pacific
Dell Technologies reveals that 48% of APAC organizations have adopted AI PCs. The study highlights a shift toward distributed AI, with AI PCs saving employees an average of 2.17 hours per day, signaling a transition from experimentation to full implementation.
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Note: This is a summary version of the press release announced in Singapore on April 22, 2026.
Enterprise AI is shifting toward more distributed models, bringing intelligence closer to users while advanced workloads require high-performance systems. AI PCs and workstations are complementary platforms that support productivity at scale and accommodate complex AI development.
Singapore – April 22, 2026
Dell Technologies today announced that enterprise AI adoption in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is moving from the experimentation phase to the implementation phase. 48% of organizations with over 500 employees in this region have already deployed AI PCs, and 95% expect workstations to play a critical or very critical role in their AI initiatives over the next two years. These trends indicate a more distributed AI environment where intelligence moves closer to the user while supporting increasingly complex and compute-intensive workloads.
Two IDC InfoBriefs commissioned by Dell Technologies and Intel—'Future-Forward Work: The Strategic Case for AI PC Adoption' and 'Future-Proofing Your AI Potential with Workstations'—support this trend. The research highlights an acceleration in adoption across both intelligent endpoints and high-performance systems, outlining the next phase of AI deployment for organizations.
This trend reflects an industry-wide shift toward aligning compute resources with specific workload requirements. Organizations are balancing intelligent endpoints for daily productivity with high-performance systems designed for advanced AI and specialized use cases. Enterprise AI deployment is expanding across client devices, edge environments, and data centers, mirroring a more distributed approach across the IT landscape.
AI PCs: Bringing Intelligence to Daily Operations
AI PCs are becoming a core element of the modern workplace, running AI workloads directly on the device to provide a faster, more responsive user experience and reduce reliance on constant cloud connectivity. This approach supports improved data privacy and security, giving IT teams greater control over deployment and management, and enabling the scaling of AI capabilities across the organization.
The research commissioned by Dell Technologies and Intel confirms this trend. As AI becomes embedded in daily operations, device strategies are changing accordingly. 89% of organizations in the APAC region consider AI capabilities a very important factor in future PC purchase decisions.
In Japan, 39% of organizations have already deployed AI PCs. Conversely, there is strong concern about the consequences of not adopting them, with 21% of organizations believing that operational costs will increase without AI PCs—8 percentage points higher than the APAC average. Furthermore, 71% of organizations are open to paying a premium of 10% or more for AI PCs to mitigate issues like rising costs and stagnant innovation.
In organizations where AI PCs account for more than 50% of the fleet, a saving of 2.17 hours per employee per day has been reported, with a 30% productivity improvement compared to using AI on traditional PCs. AI PCs are enabling new enterprise use cases such as real-time collaboration, report generation, natural language search, and content creation, delivering tangible productivity gains.
In practice, this enables sales teams to create proposals faster, shortens financial and operational analysis cycles, streamlines HR paperwork, accelerates document reviews for engineering teams, and provides faster support for customer-facing operations. As organizations prepare for more autonomous and agentic AI in hybrid work environments, AI PCs are increasingly important as a managed way to scale intelligent experiences safely, consistently, and with clearer business impact across the workforce.
The trend is clear, with four out of five APAC organizations expecting AI PCs to drive the adoption of agentic AI, and the same proportion recognizing that these applications will enhance control and security. 84% of organizations believe AI PCs will improve employee productivity.
Enterprise AI is shifting toward more distributed models, bringing intelligence closer to users while advanced workloads require high-performance systems. AI PCs and workstations are complementary platforms that support productivity at scale and accommodate complex AI development.
Singapore – April 22, 2026
Dell Technologies today announced that enterprise AI adoption in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is moving from the experimentation phase to the implementation phase. 48% of organizations with over 500 employees in this region have already deployed AI PCs, and 95% expect workstations to play a critical or very critical role in their AI initiatives over the next two years. These trends indicate a more distributed AI environment where intelligence moves closer to the user while supporting increasingly complex and compute-intensive workloads.
Two IDC InfoBriefs commissioned by Dell Technologies and Intel—'Future-Forward Work: The Strategic Case for AI PC Adoption' and 'Future-Proofing Your AI Potential with Workstations'—support this trend. The research highlights an acceleration in adoption across both intelligent endpoints and high-performance systems, outlining the next phase of AI deployment for organizations.
This trend reflects an industry-wide shift toward aligning compute resources with specific workload requirements. Organizations are balancing intelligent endpoints for daily productivity with high-performance systems designed for advanced AI and specialized use cases. Enterprise AI deployment is expanding across client devices, edge environments, and data centers, mirroring a more distributed approach across the IT landscape.
AI PCs: Bringing Intelligence to Daily Operations
AI PCs are becoming a core element of the modern workplace, running AI workloads directly on the device to provide a faster, more responsive user experience and reduce reliance on constant cloud connectivity. This approach supports improved data privacy and security, giving IT teams greater control over deployment and management, and enabling the scaling of AI capabilities across the organization.
The research commissioned by Dell Technologies and Intel confirms this trend. As AI becomes embedded in daily operations, device strategies are changing accordingly. 89% of organizations in the APAC region consider AI capabilities a very important factor in future PC purchase decisions.
In Japan, 39% of organizations have already deployed AI PCs. Conversely, there is strong concern about the consequences of not adopting them, with 21% of organizations believing that operational costs will increase without AI PCs—8 percentage points higher than the APAC average. Furthermore, 71% of organizations are open to paying a premium of 10% or more for AI PCs to mitigate issues like rising costs and stagnant innovation.
In organizations where AI PCs account for more than 50% of the fleet, a saving of 2.17 hours per employee per day has been reported, with a 30% productivity improvement compared to using AI on traditional PCs. AI PCs are enabling new enterprise use cases such as real-time collaboration, report generation, natural language search, and content creation, delivering tangible productivity gains.
In practice, this enables sales teams to create proposals faster, shortens financial and operational analysis cycles, streamlines HR paperwork, accelerates document reviews for engineering teams, and provides faster support for customer-facing operations. As organizations prepare for more autonomous and agentic AI in hybrid work environments, AI PCs are increasingly important as a managed way to scale intelligent experiences safely, consistently, and with clearer business impact across the workforce.
The trend is clear, with four out of five APAC organizations expecting AI PCs to drive the adoption of agentic AI, and the same proportion recognizing that these applications will enhance control and security. 84% of organizations believe AI PCs will improve employee productivity.