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  • - We started this whole video series

  • that you're watching out by asking

  • a seemingly simple question, what's a computer.

  • And, I'm kind of obsessed with that question or,

  • more specifically, with how PCs are changing.

  • We know that Microsoft has a Surface

  • and Apple has the iPad, and the Mac,

  • and Google has Chromebooks, but that leaves out

  • one really important company, Intel.

  • So, here's a question.

  • What does Intel think the future of PCs looks like?

  • To answer that question, I went to Intel's headquarters

  • in Santa Clara, California.

  • We went inside the room that Intel calls

  • The Client Experience Center, which is a boring name

  • for actually not a very boring place.

  • It's where Intel works on prototypes

  • for entirely new kinds of computers.

  • This is Murali Veeramoney, a Senior Director

  • here at Intel.

  • Veeramoney is one of the people in charge

  • of making stuff like what you see spread out on this table.

  • So at this table we're looking at the,

  • looks like almost a whole development process,

  • microcosm for Tiger Rapids?

  • This is the Tiger Rapids prototype.

  • You might have seen it before, Intel's actually

  • been showing it off for a few months now.

  • It has an LCD screen on one side

  • and an e-paper display on the other

  • where a keyboard would usually go.

  • You've got the idea, and then you start

  • moving on to actually like 3D printing stuff

  • and building boards?

  • - Exactly, so then comes the electronics of it,

  • which is, you know, how does all of these fit

  • into the form factor that we have,

  • so we do different kinds of motherboards

  • and here's an example of another Motherboard we did.

  • It's a whole computer, the whole laptop is this size.

  • - So, yeah, Intel makes computers,

  • sort of.

  • Intel has to do more than just come up with the idea,

  • it actually has to build it to prove out

  • that it's even possible.

  • Intel goes 90% of the way

  • towards creating a finished product.

  • It builds the boards, checks the thermals,

  • and even develops a little bit of the software on Windows.

  • But, you can't go into a store and buy an Intel computer,

  • they don't sell stuff.

  • What you will be able to do is go into a store

  • later this year and buy the Lenovo Yoga Book C930,

  • which is sort of like a bigger version

  • of this prototype device.

  • You can see that the two things here

  • are basically the same idea, one side's an LCD panel

  • and the other side is an e-paper display.

  • - We work very closely with Lenovo

  • to get their product to market using our learnings

  • and our engineering collaterals to the things they want,

  • and then they say, okay, that's pretty good,

  • let us now do it our way.

  • - You kind of give them like a blueprint

  • and then they modify it to their own needs.

  • - We just have to work with them

  • and realize it's their product.

  • - Right. Correct.

  • And make sure that we can satisfy our eventual requirements,

  • which is all silicon.

  • - You have done a huge amount of work

  • to even get to this point.

  • How does it feel?

  • Like as to basically be making nearly consumer-ready

  • products and then not finishing that last mile?

  • What's that like for you?

  • - It's a tough thing, and I tell my team,

  • the analogy I give is like, bringing up your kids.

  • You want them to grow, want them to have

  • a successful life, but we don't get to live their life.

  • - Right.

  • - So it's the same thing like us,

  • we don't get to put our product

  • because that's not our business goal.

  • - So, hang on, we got to stop here

  • because there's a thing that we haven't

  • really talked about yet.

  • Intel has had a

  • garbage year.

  • It started with Spectre and Meltdown

  • which were two huge security vulnerabilities

  • that required everybody to slow down their chips,

  • and then, ah, Intel CEO resigned in July

  • after disclosing an improper relationship with an employee

  • and as of right now, it still only has an interim CEO,

  • and the other thing to say is that

  • for a long while now, Intel has been facing

  • kind of a downturn in its core business.

  • So it's spent the past couple of years

  • trying some really weird stuff.

  • We went behind the scenes at CES is here

  • and we saw drones, and voxels, and self-driving cars,

  • and back in January, we also went to Intel's office

  • to see some normal-looking AR glasses

  • that they called Vont, and that project got canceled

  • because Intel couldn't figure out

  • how to get it from prototype to product.

  • So, you know, yeah,

  • garbage year, not great.

  • All of which means that, right now,

  • I think Intel is trying to refocus

  • on the PC, and specifically on what the PC

  • is turning into.

  • - My grand theory of Intel is

  • PCs are great, smartphones came along and argh,

  • but then you hit Ultrabooks and that

  • was a really big moment, and then

  • there was a bunch of weird stuff that you made,

  • glasses, and balls that charge things and,

  • you're making drones, and all that stuff,

  • but it feels like it's time for the next generation

  • of PCs to happen again.

  • - It's fair to say we do experiment with things.

  • But I would say the magic that we have

  • in our engineering capability

  • when married to our customer's engineering capability,

  • is we bring practical innovations

  • that can change or allow people to use

  • computers in new ways, but also can scale into the market.

  • - Now, Intel's real goal with making all these prototypes

  • is to create something that's actually possible

  • for an OEM to make and it'll

  • actually get sold on the market.

  • Now, Tiger Rapids was one thing, but the next thing is this.

  • A dual-screen device called Copper Harbor.

  • It's a cool prototype, but it's also really prototypy.

  • The software is more proof of concept

  • than actually usable thing.

  • - In Copper Harbor the whole idea is to have two

  • symmetrical screens of similar capabilities coming together

  • and that opens up a completely new landscape.

  • - Okay, two screens, but if I want to use it

  • as one big screen, like it's just like a,

  • I don't know, a tablet, I could open up Excel here,

  • Excel pops up and voila, we've got 46 rows.

  • One other demos you showed me was PowerPoint.

  • - You have the speaker notes on one side

  • and you're presenting on the other side,

  • so you could be presenting this to me,

  • so this is showing the use case of having

  • a Tiger Rapids like, but much more powerful

  • because this whole side is color.

  • - Why is this better than just having

  • a big old tablet with two windows open?

  • - The whole idea is that it can fold,

  • it can be a portable device,

  • - Right, okay,

  • sure - multiple modes

  • like for example, you couldn't do the temp mode

  • on a tablet.

  • Of course, the tablet has its own capability that,

  • until we get screens which kind of span across,

  • you know, there are benefits of the tablet, as well.

  • - Right.

  • And I guess the other thing, not only does it fold up

  • smaller to carry it, but it could also fold this way

  • so that you've got a nicer reading experience or something.

  • - [Murali] Yeah, yeah.

  • - Whether we actually see this dual-screen thing

  • turn into an actual product, is still an open question,

  • but if you want to know what Intel thinks

  • the future of PCs looks like,

  • it looks a little bit like this.

  • - We have driven the thickness of PCs

  • to single millimeter thicknesses, I mean, super thin.

  • What's gonna happen is as you carry your thin machine

  • around, you're gonna be able to use it

  • more, and more, and more, to do the things you want.

  • You'll have the different surfaces,

  • you'll have amazing screen technology to do,

  • not only screens and keyboards,

  • but you can imagine other things you can do

  • on a second screen.

  • - After everything that I saw at Intel,

  • here's what I think its idea of what's next

  • for the PC actually is.

  • That they're gonna look and act

  • a little bit more like phones.

  • That you're gonna be more willing to carry them around

  • with you wherever you go.

  • Intel, it missed out on the first 10 years of smartphones,

  • so now it has to be hyper-focused

  • on what it's good at, to make sure

  • that it doesn't miss out on the next interesting thing.

  • And you know what that might be?

  • Computers.

  • Hey everybody, thanks so much for watching

  • and let me know, would you use a device

  • that has a screen here, another screen here,

  • and then it folds and folds the other way?

  • Let me know on the comments, and if you want to know

  • how to actually use all of the weird technology

  • we keep talking about, we've got a great

  • tip series called Workflow, you should check that out, too.

- We started this whole video series

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