Intel Project Firefly Taps Phone Supply Chain For Sub-$600 Wildcat Lake Laptops
You've used a cheap laptop before, right? They're awful! Flimsy plastic everywhere, garbage screens, slow storage, unbearable keyboards, terrible trackpads. Intel wants to change all that by taking a hint from the phone market with its Project Firefly, fundamentally rethinking how "mainstream" laptops are designed, built, and marketed, and it explains this process in a new video on its "Intel Technology" YouTube channel.
You can watch the video below if you prefer, but it's over 35 minutes long. To save you the trouble, here's the key points: historically, premium innovations take a long time to trickle down to the mainstream market. Intel says that because developing silicon is getting increasingly expensive, this segment has suffered, often receiving repurposed 5-to-7-year-old silicon featuring only minor updates.
Top: Intel's Alejandro Hoyos and Sam Gao discuss Project Firefly.
So Intel decided to make Wildcat Lake, the Core Series 3 processors, which are designed...
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