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Tiger Lake, dedicated gaming GPU, Horseshoe Bend concept… Intel announcements at CES 2020

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Intel discussed many projects in progress at its CES 2020 conference on January 6. Athena project (now 25 certified machines, 50 others will be in 2020), autonomous driving with Mobileye, cartography boosted with AI to help the Red Cross, volumetric ehealth applied to sport… But the two most significant announcements, concerning Tiger Lake processors and the GPU Xe platform were kept for the end of the conference.

The first graphics cards based on Intel chips from 2020

After two years of work, Intel has given an overview of its first dedicated graphics chip for the general public, dubbed "DG1" for the moment. Little details have been released on it, but Intel has shown a ehealth of the Destiny 2 game running on it. The company also revealed that the Xe platform will be integrated with Tiger Lake processors, the first copies of which are to be marketed in 2020.

This is the other highlight of the conference. Intel introduced a Tiger Lake-powered laptop running the Warframe game. The Digital Factory was then able to take it in hand during a dedicated event, during which a Tiger Lake wafer (a silicon wafer from which the processors are cut) was also exposed.

Significant performance gains with Tiger Lake

This generation of CPU, which will be engraved with a fineness of 10 nm +, will represent a consequent increase in performance for equal generation, according to Intel. Gregory Bryant, head of the Client Computing division at Intel, went on stage to say that this is a double-digit percentage, and that it is "much more than 10%" . In particular, significant gains can be expected for calculations related to artificial intelligence. Also noteworthy: compatibility with the Thunderbolt 4 standard, whose throughput is four times that of USB 3.0.

A foldable tablet-style laptop concept

Another device taking advantage of a Tiger Lake CPU integrating a GPU Xe: a new prototype of laptop equipped with a foldable OLED screen of 17.3 inches, in the body of a 12 inch laptop. It is called "Horseshoe Bend", in reference to the shape of a horseshoe. When unfolded, the touch screen can be used as a large tablet to watch movies or benefit from a large workspace.

When folded in half, like a traditional laptop, the Windows 10 virtual keyboard will appear automatically. The prototype is also accompanied by an optional wireless physical keyboard that can be used remotely or hung on half of the screen. The Digital Factory had the opportunity to see it up close, and the concept seemed promising, although Intel did not want to fold it completely in front of us.

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