Computex 2011: Intel presents ultrabook, calls Medfield tablets

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In a speech mainly in trade show, Computex in Taiwan, Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney said the company will occupy some “new ideas” from tablets to invented the PC, carving a new category of laptops dubbed ultrabooks. Maloney also discussed progress with their own Intel chips for tablets and Smartphones. He demonstrated a tablet running Android Medfield 3.0, or honeycomb, for the first time and said the first devices based on 32nm SoC will be available in six to nine months.


Ultrabook is essentially very thin ultraportable with a mainstream price. First ultrabooks, that will be available later this year, will be based on second generation Intel Core processors (Sandy Bridge), a thickness of less than 0,8 inches is measured and cost less than $ 1000. Size, performance, and functions of these ultrabooks will evolve over the next two-three years, as Intel introduces a new technology of the processor. In particular, Intel plans to introduce features that will make laptops more responsive, much as Smartphones and tablets, and more secure.


“We must find new ways to generate excitement around the PC,” said Maloney.


CEO of Asustek, Jonney Shih, came onstage to show one of the first ultrabooks. Asus UX series is 11.6-inch laptop with a unibody design of the aluminium that measures only 0.67 inches it extremes point, but includes a second generation processor core. I got a closer look at Asus UX Intel press event later in the day and the design looks great, but it is difficult to say much more at this point, Intel is not to allow anyone to touch notebook.


To illustrate how Intel plans to make notebooks, including ultrabooks, more responsive, Maloney demonstrate two functions that he said will “are available in the market really soon.” first, Intel smart connection allows your laptop and receive system updates for the application when it is in suspension. To do this, smart connect wakes up periodically to your laptop, check for updates and then put back to sleep. The second feature, Intel Quick Launch, use the cache Flash memory to store the status of the system, so that he can restore from hibernation in about five to six seconds. This is useful, because the only lasts about two to three days, until one into hibernation, there is a battery life of 30 days, he said.


They will be useful features, but it does not appear that they are exclusive to ultrabooks. Indeed, Maloney noted that “the beauty of these features is we must not wait, they can be installed on computers with Windows 7 now.


On paper it sounds very similar to ultrabook laptops Intel CULV, which introduced in 2009, they never really caught because of ultra-low voltage processors compromised performance, but the systems were still prices much higher than netbooks. This time, Intel is promising that ultrabooks will be “no compromise” notebooks thanks to its process technology. The following year Intel will introduce its first 22nm Ivy bridge processors, which will increase the battery life, performance, and promoting security. Maloney said that until the end of 2012 ultrabooks will constitute 40% of all consumer laptops. But the real breakthrough, he said, will occur in 2013 with the release of Haswell, new microarchitecture that will cut point of thermal design in half (from 35 watts per 15 W) reinventing laptop computer.


Maloney also talked about Intel’s efforts to get into other mobile devices. Cedar trail, the first 32nm Intel netbook platform, will be used on systems running Windows, the Google Chrome OS and MeeGo. These netbooks will have more than 10 hours of battery life and will include quick launch smart connect, Intel wireless display for viewing content on TVs (with a separate adapter) and PC sync, which wirelessly synchronizes documents cross multiple devices and media.


For tablets Maloney describes the atom Z670 platform (also known as tracking of Oak), which has been shipping since April, as a sort of stopgap solution. Intel has 35 victories for the design and some of them shows on stage. But Intel’s Medfield is really the first atom SoC platform that is “designed” specifically for tablets and Smartphones, Maloney said. Intel says that tablets, on the basis of Medfield will be of a thickness of less than 9 mm and weighing less than 1.5 pounds. Comparison Apple iPad 2 is the thickness of 8.8 mm and weighs 1.4 pounds.



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