The Intel Evo Platform is basically Intel’s way of verifying that laptops offer a certain set of “key experiences.” When the platform first launched in 2020 that meant long battery life, quick resume from sleep, and fast charging, among other things. Now Intel is introducing the 3rd-gen Intel Evo Platform. Along with those earlier experiences, […]
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Intel Evo certified Chromebooks with Tiger Lake processors are coming soon
The first Chromebooks with 11th-gen Intel “Tiger Lake” processors are coming soon, and some will be the first Intel Evo-certified Chromebooks. The Intel Evo platform debuted in 2020, with Intel providing a set of experience goals for laptops with long battery life, fast charging, quick resume from sleep, and other features. Since then more than […]
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Intel Visual Sensing Controller AI module coming soon to PCs
Intel has introduced a new AI chip that the company says will bring low-power capabilities to laptop computers. The Intel Visual Sensing Controller, code-named “Clover Falls” is what Intel calls a “companion chip” designed to work with the Intel Core processor in a notebook rather than replace it. Among other things, it could allow laptops […]
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Intel launches a Tiger Lake laptop for white label PC vendors
Intel is best known for making chips. But the company has also been selling its own compact desktop computers under the NUC brand for much of the past decade. Now Intel is also making NUC laptops. But you won’t buy it from Intel. Instead, the Intel NUC M15 Laptop Kit is a notebook aimed at […]
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HP Spectre x360 14 with 3:2 display and Intel Tiger Lake coming this month
HP is expanding its Spectre line of premium thin and light laptops with the introduction of a new HP Spectre x360 14 laptop featuring a 13.5 inch, 3000 x 2000 pixel OLED touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge that lets you use the PC as a notebook, laptop, or something in between, and support for up to an […]
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MSI Prestige Evo is one of the first Intel EVO certified laptops
In addition to new gaming and business laptops, MSI is introducing several new consumer laptops during the IFA show this week. For the most part, the new MSI Modern and MSI Prestige series laptops are pretty much what you’d expect: 11th-gen Intel Core chips, thin and light designs, support for NVIDIA graphics in some models, […]
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More than 150 Intel Tiger Lake PCs are coming soon
Intel’s 11th-gen Core processors offer up to twice the graphics performance of last year’s models, while delivering up to a 20-percent boost in productivity tasks, all while offering better energy efficiency. The chip maker unveiled some key details about its new Tiger Lake chips with Willow Cove CPU architecture and Intel Iris Xe last month. […]
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Acer brings Tiger Lake to its Swift 3 and Swift 5 laptops
The new Acer Swift 5 (SF514-55) is a 2.3 pound laptop with a magnesium-aluminum chassis, a 14 inch full HD touchscreen display, and support for up to an Intel Core i7 Tiger Lake processor with Intel Xe graphics. Coming this November for $1000 and up, it’s a premium thin and light notebook that’s one of the […]