Intel Capital, their global investment division, has announced that they will be investing $300 million in various companies developing new technologies for their upcoming “ultrabook” PCs over the next three to four years. ”We are interested in innovative technologies that deliver incremental value, for example, three-dimensional camera sensors and gesture software that will enhance interactive experiences,” said David Flanagan, Intel Capital Managing Director of Mobility Sectors, to Dow Jones Newswire.
The new “ultrabook” category of portable computers is designed to be a bridging gap between laptops and tablets; the latter gaining more popularity everyday to the point of lowering PC sales globally. The first batch of ultrabooks will be coming out by the end of this year with the current Sandy Bridge processors.
The newer version coming in next year will not only be based on the next revision of Intel’s CPUs, the Ivy Bridge processors, but will also come with Windows 8. The next version of Windows is the first one designed from ground up to be used with tablets. It is also in the second version of ultrabooks that we’ll see detachable touchscreens so the shift between using a PC and a tablet becomes seamless.
Think of these new ultrabooks as looking close to the MacBook Air in terms of design, as being extremely thin (0.8 inches or lower), always connected to receive emails and notifications, (later models having) touchscreens and starting up instantaneously. The upcoming ASUS UX21 is a prime example of an ultrabook, as shown above.
About Taimoor HafeezFrom auditing to editing, I now test and analyze the latest gadgets and games instead of the latest financial statements. Both jobs are equally intense and rewarding. In my free time you'll find me raiding in WoW or engineering in TF2.
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