Intel at CES 2020 – Mobileye’s Road Management Experience Management, Project Athena and TigerLake

Intel CES 2020

Intel at CES 2020 was huge. So far 14 releases covering Mobileye (Autonomous vehicles), AI, Project Athena (it’s counter to Windows on ARM) and 10th Generation Core processors.

Here is a curated version of Intel at CES 2020. More than ever it is about Intel Inside and its computer manufacturing partners.

Intel at CES 2020

Project Athena takes significant steps forward

Project Athena is more about what we expect of future laptops. Intel calls this called Key Experience Indicators (KEIs). These include always on (Lucid Sleep), long battery life (and fast charging), small hybrid form factors, maximum speed (ram and SSD), and more responsive – just like a smartphone only larger.

Not surprisingly it now includes Chromebooks. The ASUS Flip C436 (14” NanoEdge Display), and Samsung Galaxy Chromebook (13.3” 4K AMOLED) are Project Athena certified.

Intel has verified 25 laptop designs against the program’s gen-1 specification. It expects to verify 50 more device designs across Windows and Chrome OS this year.

Intel CES 2020

Tiger Lake

Intel’s next mobile computing vision codenamed Tiger Lake has optimisations spanning the CPU, AI accelerators and discrete-level integrated graphics.

Intel at CES 2020
Tiger Lake (R) compared to 10th Gen Core (L)

It will deliver double-digit performance gains, massive AI performance improvements, a massive leap in graphics performance and 4x the throughput of USB 3 with the new integrated Thunderbolt 4. Built on Intel’s 10nm+ process, the first Tiger Lake systems should ship this year.

Preview of first Xe-based discrete GPU

Intel provided insight into the progress on the new Intel Xe graphics architecture, which will provide substantial performance gains in Tiger Lake, and previewed Intel’s first Xe-based discrete GPU, code-named DG1.

 New form factor – if it bends then it is new

This includes new dual-screen and foldable designs. Like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold which leverages the Intel Core Lakefield and the Dell Concept Duet.

Intel showed a foldable OLED display form factor, code-named “Horseshoe Bend.” Based on Intel’s Tiger Lake mobile processors, the design is similar in size to a 12-inch ‘Surface-style laptop with a folding touchscreen display that can open to more than 17 inches.

Mobileye

Intel CES 2020

We will let the 22-minute video tell the story. The self-driving robocar naturally navigates traffic. The drive demonstrated Mobileye’s innovative approach to deliver safer mobility for all with a combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision, the regulatory science model of RSS and true redundancy through independent sensing systems.

You can access the plethora of Intel at CES 2020 releases here and watch the news conference here.