Prepare for the arrival of a new category in the PC market: “slideables”, or sliding PCs, which introduce flexible OLED screens into PCs, in the same way that this display technology gave birth to to the foldable smartphone. Intel and Samsung showcased this new category at Intel’s Innovation Conference, showing off a device that looks like a tablet, without a physical keyboard, and whose screen expands from 13 to 17 inches.
Could it be the PC form factor that will bring more Intel chips to Android devices, or Windows tablets that will challenge Apple’s iPad M1? For Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and Samsung screen manager JS Choi, the answer is a resounding “yes”: the two executives unveiled the 17-inch sliding screen on Tuesday as the first example of Samsung’s sliding OLED technology for Intel-based PCs.
For the leader of Samsung, it is “the world’s first 17-inch sliding screen for PC”. According to him, it will meet various needs for portability and larger screens. The demo model meanwhile expands what is possible for PCs with OLED display technology in a flexible plastic substrate.
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“It’s just the beginning,” says JS Choi, however. “With this sliding screen and software collaborations, we expect to see better and more beautiful PC usage scenarios in the future. As for bringing PCs and smartphones closer together, Intel management says its Unison app for connecting Android phones to PCs will begin rolling out to select Intel Core 12-based Evo PCs.e generation this year.
Intel also showed off its 13 “Raptor Lake” architecture chipse generation, a refinement of his response of 12e generation to Apple’s Silicon processors, which introduced processor cores optimized for performance and efficiency. The chips of the 13e generation claim twice the efficiency cores than the previous generation.
In February, Intel announced that it would buy Tower Semiconductor, an Israeli company, for $6 billion to bolster its foundry services. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger hopes the company will become a chipmaking node, with “chiplets” supplied by TSMC, Texas Instruments, Samsung and others via the new UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) standard. ).
Source: ZDNet.com