it is day three of techlink's coverage of ces but only day two
of ces because although everyone's here by monday
it's vegas you know what are you gonna do today we're
talking about the coolest stuff i've seen at ces and that we haven't talked
about already on TechLinked okay ready go at Intel's press conference the
company laid out quite a few announcements their ice lake chips based
on the 10 nanometer process will be the company's first to feature the new sunny
cove architecture gen 11 integrated graphics native Thunderbolt 3 and wi-fi
6 support and dl boost ice lake cpus are coming by the
end of the year but perhaps the most interesting information we got from
Intel was about code name lakefield which is what they're calling their
modular chips that use foveros 3d stacking it's not faveros
for example lakefield processors would use large sunny cove cores in
combination with smaller atom cores which means it would be able to operate
either at very low power for efficient use or pump things up for heavy
workloads those modular cpus are put in a stack with dram chips which allows
Intel to make the motherboard extremely small and can be scaled for applications
all the way up from tiny low power devices to full desktop pcs now Intel
also briefly mentioned project athena which they're saying is an Intel driven
initiative to foster innovation across the entire pc ecosystem similar to what
they did with the ultrabook branding they didn't say anything else
specifically but if you're going to give vague promises about allegedly industry
shattering projects ces is the place to do it now the hype
around vr has died down for sure but htc had a couple of interesting
announcements to make about their vive line of headsets the vive pro i adds eye
tracking and foveated rendering to the regular vive pro which should allow pcs
to only render the parts of a vr scene that the user is looking at increasing
performance and hopefully making it so that you don't need to have a super
expensive pc to enjoy yourself which is always a good thing htc also teased the
htc cosmog cosmoch
dennis it's that's not it the htc cosmos
which will apparently be fully wireless but unlike the quest will still be
intended for home use with a pc or
with a smartphone the video showed a smartphone it was
very confusing for everybody like i said it was just the tease but it did have a
flashy video very ces and htc gave a
peek at the vive reality system which looks kind of like a playstation home
for the vive but it could also be a tracking system that would allow the
vive to break free of being shackled to valve's steamvr tracking which is
exciting as anyone who's ever been shackled to something could understand
hey and check this out it's not a functioning product but
i think it's super cool bell that's the aircraft company not the canadian isp is
showing off a scale model of the nexus a vertical takeoff and landing capable
vehicle that will be used for uber's air taxi service it's got five seats and
will run on a hybrid electric engine with six tilting ducted rotors
there's not much room around ces as large as ces is there's not much room
like i said it's a scale model so it doesn't actually fly yet but bell says
it will have the nexus in operation by the mid-2020s and uber plans to have its
air taxi service up and running by 2023 so
futuristic vehicles like this one may become common more quickly than you
think see that see that dennis sure i did a little bit
of vague promising there it's the ces spirit in me and it's also time for
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hp has shown off the world's first gaming laptop with a 240hz display but
that high refresh rate comes with some drawbacks the hp omen 15 has a 15 point
inch 1080p tn panel with no g-sync but
it's powered by an rtx 2070 max q and an Intel 8th gen core i7 it's launching
next month so you don't have long to wait if 120 frames just aren't good
enough hey look it's that folding phone from the company no one's heard of yet
before now the grainy video we all saw of the royal flex pie made this thing
look kind of sketchy but in person it looks a little better because royal
developed this thing on its own it doesn't have google's software optimizations that are coming out for
folding phones but it seems to do okay by itself a company called unreal is
looking to one-up microsoft's hololens and the magic leap by making augmented
reality glasses that don't look like a giant computer strapped to your head
which always always good dennis the n-real light glasses have 1080p laser
projectors that display images at 60fps with a 52 degree field of view better
than the magic leaps but like the magic leaf it has a separate box for
processing a side benefit that i'm surprised they haven't mentioned is that
they make you look like a straight baller while you wear them dude
and in the future straight ballers will get their snacks and drinks from robot
butlers or that's what ubtech thinks anyway they're showing off the walker
which can do everything from fetching you treats to opening doors for you and
dancing obviously it's early days but the fact that walker can do that much is
amazing i mean i think i even saw him at the party last night were you there dude
walker was going ham walker was bonkers and speaking of
walkers and a story that makes my inner star wars nerd get much too excited
hyundai has given a look at a real-life walker like a at-80 thing except not as
big the hyundai elevate is a prototype of a vehicle that would be able to go
truly off-road by extending four legs locking its wheels in place and climbing
over whatever is in its path it would be very useful for emergency crews
accessing hard to reach places or for empires attacking snow-covered rebel
bases
yeah you tried to duck at least i mean come
on i know it's a prototype but like this is really exciting this is really
cool dennis have you seen it it's a walking car
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