Mechrevo's Pan Chunjie: Combining Software and Hardware to Solve Users' AI Needs One by One

Whether an AI PC can truly be easy to use has never been something that can be solved by piling on hardware or software alone. At the 2026 NetEase Future Conference, MECHREVO founder Pan Chunjie made exactly this point when discussing AI PCs: the privacy, security, low latency, and local memory that users care about cannot be handled by hardware or software alone—hardware and software must be combined.

MECHREVO started out in 2014 with high-performance gaming laptops, and through extreme performance release, it brought gaming laptops that were once prohibitively expensive to prices more people could afford. Twelve years later, product forms have changed, but the philosophy of "serving users with care" has not; in the AI PC era, this problem must be solved through a combination of software and hardware. Users have given MECHREVO a nickname: "Brother Ji who listens to advice." In the AI PC era, this habit has not changed—only the focus of listening to advice has become how to combine software and hardware.

What users want cannot be achieved by one side alone

What users care about is very concrete. Work documents, personal photos, and chat records should not be uploaded to invisible servers; AI responses cannot take several seconds—waiting a few seconds versus an instant response are completely different experiences; usage habits, work content, and accumulated knowledge should be retained on one's own device rather than explained all over again each time. These needs cannot be solved by stacking hardware, nor can pure software algorithms handle them—to run large models locally with fast and reassuring responses, hardware must make room and software must refine scheduling; the two ends must be combined.

For software-hardware integration, MECHREVO must hold it in its own hands

To turn ideas into products, both the software and hardware ends must first be held in one's own hands. MECHREVO has its own factories and R&D teams, with independent control from design, supply chain, and manufacturing to service, so hardware adjustments can be implemented quickly without waiting for external schedules. Upstream, it continues to cooperate with chip, GPU, and storage manufacturers to transform advanced technologies into mass-producible, iterable intelligent PCs integrating software and hardware. On the software side, backed by iSoftStone—this leading Chinese software services company has a large number of development talents and serves all walks of life—it fills in capabilities from the underlying layer to applications and jointly builds a software-hardware integration ecosystem. On the software level, there is also a self-developed AI Agent, so that local AI is not only able to run but can truly help users complete tasks. In terms of product forms, an AI PC should not have only one shape; it can be a thin-and-light laptop or a compact AI Box.

It is worth mentioning that MECHREVO is one of the first three companies to pass the national terminal intelligence L3 level certification, which is currently the highest level in the intelligence grading of artificial intelligence terminals.

From the lab to products, turning needs into details

Software-hardware integration is not a slogan; it must be verified in usage details. MECHREVO has a player lab in Suzhou, where a group of real gamers treat themselves as ordinary users and put products through repeated use and testing in AAA titles, popular online games, and productivity software; once they encounter issues such as stuttering, noise, or peripheral compatibility, they directly sync with the R&D team to drive adjustments in firmware, cooling, performance scheduling, and other aspects. MECHREVO calls this approach "going one kilometer deeper."

The self-branded AI SSD currently under development is also a product of software-hardware integration. It allows most of the model to run in NAND flash, breaking through the capacity limits of memory and VRAM; it saves and reuses processed context and, with a more reasonable loading method, reduces repeated computation and loading overhead. This is not something a hard drive alone can accomplish, and data always remains on the user's device. Laboratory tests show that the Yaoshi 15 Air equipped with the AI SSD expanded the range of runnable models, with inference acceleration approaching two times.

Final thoughts

Pan Chunjie said that in making AI PCs, profit is not the goal; making them accessible and affordable for everyone is the original aspiration of continuous innovation. If technology belongs only to a few, it is merely a luxury; polishing software-hardware integration to a high standard is meant to let more people access and afford it—this is the same thing MECHREVO had in mind in 2014 when making high-performance gaming laptops: bringing good things into more people's hands.