Intel, Samsung Debut 'Slidable' PC With Extendable Screen It's a new effort to come up with a different type of laptop — or tablet, perhaps.
Intel and Samsung have one other new concept for find out how to make a PC: a “slidable” system with a display that extends out to a a lot bigger dimension if you pull the sting.
Missing a keyboard, the slidable PC regarded extra like a pill. However with a display diagonal starting from 13 inches to 17 inches, it was sized extra like a laptop computer. Intel Chief Government Pat Gelsinger and J.S. Choi, chief of Samsung’s show division, confirmed the system on the Intel Innovation convention Tuesday.
The system will fulfill wants for each a big display and portability, Gelsinger stated. It is a demonstration of what is attainable with OLED show expertise that is constructed onto a versatile plastic substrate.
It is not clear when or even when the slidable PC concept will mature right into a product. However the design exhibits how the PC business continues to check out new {hardware} to increase past conventional clamshell laptops with a keyboard and display related by a hinge.
Transferring components and versatile elements heighten the challenges of complexity and reliability. Prices additionally improve, a priority throughout a shrinking PC market. However novel designs can discover a area of interest, and premium PCs are faring higher than finances PCs, stated Michelle Johnston Holthaus, head of Intel’s PC chip group, on the convention.
Earlier this yr, Samsung demonstrated a slidable telephone display together with different novel designs.
