CES 2018 and the news
This international electronics fair in Las Vegas was held earlier this month between January 8 and 12, showing several technology launches, ranging from TVs to state-of-the-art handsets, but the area of business and chips is promising further progress.
Following the security flurry of Intel chips, now associated with AMD, the company unveiled details of a new processor called Intel Core 8th. Generation, special with models to process Radeon RX graphics See M, being able to work with heavy loads of graphics and virtual reality.
Intel and AMD have revealed more details of the new processor they are working on together. Called “8th-generation Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M graphics,” the chip will be targeted at PCs and laptops, focusing on graphics-heavy workloads such as Virtual Reality (VR).
Another highly commented issue at CES 2018 was Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa (photo), which can already be used in cars, smartphones and also in offices, is likely to be incorporated into laptops and PCs soon.
Variations in laptops include thinning, the new version of Dell, the XPS 13 weighs 1.21 kg and is less than 12 mm thick, with a 4k almost borderless screen (called an infinity edge) and with a touch-sensitive version ( touch screen).
The ThinkPad X1 tablet from LeNovo was another novelty, a 12-inch display with a resolution called 3k (2160 x 1440), the battery also grew in power, which gives 10 hours of use, but with this it became heavier with 1.26 k (that is, not so much).
No hybrids appeared attacking people or androids controlling mankind (of course it is to remind some who have too much fantasy on the subject).