IMAGE: GORDON MAH UNG JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 13Project Athena notebooks
perform better on battery, and
Intel has the numbers to prove it
Intel’s trying to steal a little of the spotlight away from Qualcomm. BY MARK HACHMANI
ntel’s redesign of the thin-and-light
notebook, known as Project Athena (go.
pcworld.com/prat), may have struggled to
be more than a name to most consumers.
But Intel claims that its design partnership with
PC makers has paid off in a way you might not
think about: battery-powered performance.
“Performance” is usually synonymous withplugging a laptop in. Unplugging a laptop
usually translates to long battery life at the
expense of a slower clock speed. But Intel
unveiled battery-powered performance
numbers alongside the Qualcomm
Snapdragon Technology Conference to
bolster its design chops.
Intel already has about eighteen certified