Intel has revealed its new laptop power management technology at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, which targets the component that saps the most energy — the display.
The company claims the new 1-watt LCD panel it has developed in collaboration with Sharp and Innolux — who have also adopted it, according to The Register — can as much as double the battery life of some laptop models.
The company says that its Low Power Display Technology added between four and eight hours of extra battery life to a Dell XPS 13 laptop it brought to Computex for demonstration purposes. However, it has a couple of caveats — existing computers can’t be retrofitted with the technology and it is currently only compatible with Intel graphics, not Nvidia or AMD.
At a keynote speech, Intel’s senior VP and general manager of its Client Computing Group, Gregory Bryant introduced the technology with a video of the Dell laptop, which it was claimed was able to loop video for 25 hours — presumably on a single charge.
According to The Register, Bryant also said the tech has been offered to display manufacturers, that it is hoped it will provide “all-day battery life” and is scheduled for release in the autumn.
Analyst Comment
The current ‘event overload’ prevented us from getting more depth on exactly what is going on here. We will follow up to try to get more detail on what Intel is doing. Separately, at Computex, Intel showed a chip that was running at 5GHz. The company apparently ‘forgot’ to mention that it was overclocked (using a cooler that consumes more than a kilowatt of power!) in the presentation! (BR)
