All new Intel Ultrabook, features and effects it'll make in the mobile market

Intel, unquestionably the world’s biggest semiconductor chipmaker, comes up with a new concept in portable laptops at the Computex Taipei 2011. It is an ultraportable laptop dubbed Ultrabooks. The chipmaker stunned the spectators of Computex with its 0.8-inch thickUltrabook that is priced below $1000. The high-performing 11.6-inch ultraportable laptop offers several tablet-like features, Intel flatters. According to Intel, 40 percent of consumer laptops sold in the world by the end of 2012 will be Ultrabooks.

new Intel Ultrabook

Features:

Chipset: Intel Ultrabooks will initially run on Intel’s high-performing Ivy Bridge chipset, which will bring unmatched speed for the device. The Ivy Bridge is Intel’s 3-D-trasistor-based chipset that makes use of the company’s featured 22-nanometer engraving process.

Tablet-like features: As Intel emphasizes, the Ultrabook, though sporting an 11.6-inch display, has the very features of a tablet PC. It means that there is a huge prospect for the growth of the Ultrabook platform. The thin, light and elegant design of Intel Ultrabook indeed justifies this point. Having tablet-like features, the device may raise threats to Apple iPad and other Android tablet PCs.

Thickness: As far as thickness of Ultrabook is concerned, it is a stunning development. Intel’s Ultrabook comes up with a thickness of 0.8-inch or 20 mm. It makes the device ultraportable, in fact.

Processors: Intel Ultrabook runs on a high-performing Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor. The company envisages 22nm Ivy Bridge processors for Ultrabooks, which cost below $1,000.

Sports: Intel Ultrabook is an 11.6-inch laptop powered by Intel Core 15 CPU. The device that weighs at 2.2 pounds highlights a mini-HDMI port, SSD storage and certainly an USB 3.0 port.

Technology: The very technology behind the Intel Ultrabook laptop is Moore’s Law that states the quantity of transistors used on an IC will be doubled every two years.

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New Intel Ultrabook

Intel announced the laptops at Computex 2011 and said Ultrabooks will merge the performance capabilities of modern laptops with "tablet-like features such as instant-on functionality.

Impact

As Intel believes, the Ultrabook laptop concept will make huge impact on the computer world in a few months. Presenting the device at the Computex, Intel officials stated that by the end of 2012, almost 40 percent of consumer laptops will be swallowed by Ultrabooks. It means that the entire arena of laptop will have a turn towards Ultrabooks.

In fact, with the Ultrabook, Intel aims at a superbly performing laptop, which should be an ultraportable one, though. The system should be a tablet-like device with instant-on and all-day battery life capacities. The company envisages a highly dependable mobile laptop with all the potentials and features of a laptop.