20 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020NEWS INTEL CONFIRMS TIGER LAKE PROCESSOR
AMD’s barrage of CES announcements,
including the Ryzen 4000 (see page 12) 7nm/
Zen 2 mobile chips expected to take on Intel,
and the ridiculously powerful 64-core
3rd-gen Ryzen Threadripper 3990WX (go.
pcworld.com/39wx).PROJECT ATHENA GAINS
MOMENTUM
The press conference began with segments
on Intel’s enterprise businesses, which we’ve
summarized at the end of this story. Finally it
was time for some consumer PC news.
Greg Bryant, executive vice president of
its Client Computing Group, came onstage to
update the audience on Project Athena (go.
pcworld.com/pran), the thin-and-light
specification that Intel helped develop. In less
than a year, Intel has verified 25 ProjectAthena devices, Bryant said. In 2020, that
number will be doubled to more than 50,
Bryant continued—including a new dual-
screen specification.
Intel representatives showed off two
Project Athena laptops: the Acer Swift 3 (go.
pcworld.com/3swf) and the HP Elite
Dragonfly (go.pcworld.com/drfl). Bryant also
highlighted the Project Athena partnership
with Google for Chromebooks, including the
Asus Chromebook Flip C434 and Samsung
Galaxy Chromebook (go.pcworld.com/glcb)
announced at CES.
Lenovo’s Christian Teismann, senior vice
president for the commercial business at
Lenovo, came onstage to show off the
ThinkPad X1 Fold (go.pcworld.com/x1fl), a
dual-screen PC that can be a 13.3-inch display
or tablet, or a small laptop. Intel followed that
with a demo of the
Dell Concept Duet
(see page 7, a larger
dual-screen laptop
prototype.
Intel’s Chris
Walker made a
surprise entrance with
another concept: the
“Horseshoe Bend,” a
full 17-inch foldable
PC. Like the Lenovo
ThinkPad X1 Fold, the
Horseshoe Bend can
be a single-screenThe Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is part of Intel’s Project Athena program,
partnering with Google. Intel showed off the new model at CES in Las Vegas.