The identity of the two-screen PC "Tiger Rapids" which Intel secretly develops is revealed

ASUS and Lenovo announced a two-screen laptop with COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2018. The background of both companies releasing two-screen notebook PCs is a secret terminal developed by Intel "Tiger RapidsPCWorld has made it clear that there was the existence.

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You can check the two Intel strict confidential development terminals, codenamed "Tiger Rapids" and terminal with codename unknown, in the following movie.

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PCWorld infiltrated a room called "Client Experience Design Studio" at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.


"Tiger Rapids" is a note type terminal with two displays connected by a hinge. It is with a penholder.


Tiger Rapids is a two-screen terminal with two different displays of liquid crystal display (left) and E ink display (right).


The emphasis is placed on the pen, and the E ink display (EPD) can be used instead of Notepad.


Content written in EPD can be imported into OneNote instantly.


Furthermore, it is also possible to convert the contents instantly by machine learning technology.


Although it is a semiconductor maker such as CPU, Intel, we develop all Tiger Rapids terminals from our own company. In the table explaining the progress of development, there was "notebook" as the concept of Omara.


A terminal designed based on this notebook, a model is made on a paper basis ......


Output with a 3D printer, and fill in the design.


After that, models were made even with metal parts ......


Wear a real display, in a more realistic shape.


Once the design is solidified, a specially designed motherboard and battery are manufactured, and the actual machine is built up. Tiger Rapids has a 7.9-inch LCD display, the 7th generation Kaby Lake's Core processor, SSD, Wi-Fi module, and the memory capacity is not disclosed. The thickness is 4.85 mm and it is thinner than iPhone 8. It seems that the external port is only Type - C USB, and the prototype has realized the battery life of 13 to 15 hours.


Intel cherishes the texture of traditional paper and pen and seems to have stuck with EPD and pen development.


And, apart from Tiger Rapids, two screen terminal whose code name is unknown.


Both screens adopt liquid crystal display.


Since the bezel width is narrow, even if you display the large screen using the two displays, there is not much discomfort.


If used sideways, it becomes a notebook type. You can also use the entire screen as a keyboard.


It can be transformed into so-called "tent" mode by folding back. It is useful for presentations and others.


If you display Excel etc. on the big screen, the work seems to be going back.


Gregory Bryant, Senior Vice President of Client Computing at Intel, said ASUS "Project Precog"And Lenovo's second generation"Yoga Book"The two screen terminal announced at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2018, for example, said it was based on Tiger Rapids. As Intel defines the concept, develops reference machines and provides them to PC makers, manufacturers can focus on design and marketing.

Intel is committed to consolidating the product concept to the end and proposing it to the PC maker, and there is no plans to release these two screen terminal with the Intel brand. Nonetheless, as Intel is capable of product development from the chip level such as VPU "Movious", the concept design proposed to the manufacturer will have a big impact on future computer designs. In the near future, there seems to be a possibility that a lot of two screen type terminals will appear.