Intel at CES 2012: ultrabooks, K800 Medfield smartphone, new prototypes, and more!
Unlike its perennial partner Microsoft, which is going on hiatus from CES keynotes after this year, Intel continues to treat the Consumer Electronics Show as its big set-piece event for presenting new products to the public. This year's highlight was the development of ultrabooks: Intel's new category of ultra-thin and portable laptops was only sprouting up at IFA, but CES is where it flourished into a fully fledged market segment. Intel also revealed new Medfield-based smartphones, some fresh and innovative concept designs, and a couple of long-term partnerships with Motorola and Lenovo to produce mobile devices.
Intel Windows 8 tablet with Clover Trail first hands-on pictures
Here's your first look at a tablet running Intel's 32nm Clover Trail processor and Windows 8! Unfortunately, precious little is known about this tablet since it was teased last night at the Intel keynote beyond the fact that it has Intel's new 32 nanometer chipset inside and tablets like this are destined to take on ARM-based devices head-on. Intel is keeping this tablet under glass but we managed to get a good look at the ports, which consist of a single USB port, HDMI-out, an SD card slot,...
CES 2012
Lenovo K800 hands-on: first Intel-powered phone, with Android 4.0 and 720p display
We're at Showstoppers at CES in Vegas, and we just got a first look at Lenovo's new K800 smartphone, the first in the world to run on Intel's Medfield chipset. We liked the design of the phone's hardware, though it's a little thick. It will run a heavily skinned version of Android 4.0 (though the model we saw ran Android 2.3.7), which looks similar to the skins on Lenovo's tablets. It's got a 1.6GHz Intel processor, a 4.5-inch 720p HD TFT display, an 8-megapixel camera, a WCDMA HSPA+ 21Mbps...
Intel announces reference tablet with sliding keyboard
Intel just announced a new reference design for a tablet with a display that slides along the keyboard and folds onto it to work in either laptop or tablet mode. It looks a bit like the sliders from Sony and the Samsung Sliding PC 7. The tablets will run on Ivy Bridge silicon — probably including the integrated graphics — and have built-in NFC, which was shown this morning. Intel demoed some games with the ability to use your phone as a remote control, and the processor's ability to eat...
CES 2012
Intel teases Windows 8 tablet with 32nm Clover Trail SoC
What's this? Intel just pulled out another device on stage, a Windows 8 slate, and says it's running on a 32nm SoC but didn't specify Medfield. Thankfully, a little bird (and a PR representative) tell us it's Clover Trail. Sorry, folks, that's really all we know right now.
Mobile
Motorola to make Intel-powered phones and tablets, first phone coming in the second half of 2012
You've read that headline right: Motorola and Intel have inked a multi-year, multi-device partnership, meaning Motorola will be making both phones and tablets powered by Intel's new Medfield, Atom Z2460 processor. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is expected to take the stage with Intel's Paul Otellni here at Intel's press conference to announce the partnership, and while they are not expected to demo a phone, Intel confirmed that Motorola will ship an Android phone in the second half of this year...
Android
Intel details new Medfield Atom processor, announces added Android app support (update: video)
We've spotted a couple of devices today with Intel's new Medfield chip, and this evening the company is finally coming clean about its forthcoming Atom processor, which is now confirmed to be coming to Lenovo and Motorola phones and tablets later this year. The single-core, 32nm processor, which is now called the Atom Z2460, is clocked at 1.6GHz and supports hyper-threading. That processor is then bundled with the Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX540 graphics, and Intel's 6540 HSPA+ modem...
Android
Intel's Medfield reference design smartphone first hands-on
The floodgates have finally opened here at CES 2012 and we've just played with Intel's reference design smartphone on the show floor. This prototype smartphone is running Android 2.3.7 on the company's Atom Z2460 Medfield processor we've recently heard about. Clocked at 1.6Ghz, the 32nm X86-architecture chip supports hyperthreading, Intel's graphics media accelerator for video and up to a 24 megapixel image sensor. The device has a 4.03-inch 1024x600 display, records 1080P video on its 8...
Intel shows 'Nikiski' laptop prototype with full-width, see-through touchpad
This is wild. Intel won't say who it's partnering with, but it just showed off a "Nikiski" laptop prototype at its CES 2012 keynote. It's mostly a regular laptop, but the whole palm rest is a glass touchpad. Outside of being full-width (hopefully with great palm rejection), the LCD can shine through the wide strip of glass when it's closed — turning the bottom of the laptop into a Windows 8-like widget display. Check out our hands-on right here!
Intel demos NFC capabilities in Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks
As part of its press conference this morning, Intel is demoing ultrabooks running on Ivy Bridge, complete with built-in NFC supported by the Mastercard Paypass system. Intel has built in identity protection technology that only allows it work with a specific card. The company's also shown off plenty of DirectX 11 demos on Ivy Bridge, and the graphics looked pretty great fantastic from our seat in the audience.
Microsoft
Intel including touchscreen capabilities in future ultrabooks
Intel has just announced that it intends to add touchscreen capabilties to future ultrabooks. Intel VP Mooley Eden said that "people want the real keyboard and touchscreen" and showed some demos of people reaching out to touch a Windows 7 laptop. Despite some thoughts that raising your arm to touch a laptop screen wouldn't be ergonomic, Intel's done testing that shows people don't mind. Given the expanded touch capabilities built into Windows 8, we wouldn't be surprised to see this technology...
