Intel Says a Foldable Laptop Could Be Here in Two Years

[The AchieVer]

Intel Says a Foldable Laptop Could Be Here in Two Years 

 

Intel is looking at foldable screen technology, and the company thinks that we might be just a couple of years away from seeing something on the market.

 

Folding a screen could have been considered pure science fiction just a couple of decades ago, but slowly it’s starting to show up in various ways. For now, this type of technology was usually demonstrated during some expos and then it was gone.

Rumors about a foldable Samsung phone have been floating around for years, and then we finally got something. It turns out that folding your phone day in and day out is not such a great idea after all, and some users reported that the new Samsung phones were breaking after just a couple of days.A couple of years is a lot of timeTechnology time is just like dog years. A lot of stuff can happen in a couple of years, including the Intel arriving to the realization that a foldable laptop is actually unachievable and it’s not worth investing it.

According to a report on Nikkei Asian Review and to a senior Intel executive, we might be just two years away from such a product. interestingly enough, Intel's general manager of mobile innovation Joshua D. Newman was cautious when providing timelines and says it's early pathfinding now, and we are trying to understand the capability and the limitation of the [foldable] technology.”

An equally interesting statement is the fact that Intel could technically accelerate the timetable right now, invest in the technology, and have it here much faster. But neither the industry or the user community at large are asking for it.

Simply put, we would have foldable screen if people actually wanted them, and for now, there is no such drive to push this particular technology forward. To be fair, there are a couple of foldable phones on the market right now, but they are not doing great, and it’s easy to see that foldable screens need to spend more time in the lab.

 

 

 

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