Good morning. Thank you for dropping in and taking time to join us from wherever you are around the world. We had hoped to be here in person, but instead, we're hosting this event virtually as we continue to navigate COVID-nineteen. As I've reflected on the past several months, one of the things that's become clear is the role technology can play in helping us overcome challenges and adversities such as this one. So for us at Intel, our mission of delivering breakthrough technologies to help enrich the lives of every person on earth has never rung more true.
And the PC is a critical part of that. It has emerged as the platform of choice to help people focus, to help them create and obviously now in the current environment to help them connect and collaborate with friends, family and coworkers all around the world. So we've challenged ourselves working with our partners in the industry to advance the PC platform and make it better. With that, I'm excited to be here to share several groundbreaking updates on how Intel is committed to doing just that. You're going to hear from several guests on how we're leading the ecosystem forward to deliver new PC experiences.
So let's get things started by hearing from some of our partners.
The role of the PC is probably never going to be the same.
From the pandemic, we see demand of different working and learning. CAM2 CAM seems to become the new way of face to face.
When it comes down to it, it's about bringing the best we can to people to achieve what they want to accomplish.
For us, the PC is really an essential device to help people connect and collaborate with friends and families and coworkers
all around the world. And when everything comes together seamlessly, And when everything comes together seamlessly, you're basically having technology disappear 100% into the background.
And ultimately, whatever my passion is, it's there for me. Without Intel, none of this would be possible.
The next era of compute is all around shifting more to experiences, more to use cases. A great renaissance of a device that is tuned to the things that you want to go and do.
It is just effortless and it is unassuming, but that's what makes it really cool.
It takes a leader like Intel to be able to create sort of the rules of the game.
Tiger Lake is the dream come true of a great combination of CPU performance, traffic's performance, media performance and also IO. This is the totally new customer's experience. We can smoothly stream analog resolution videos like 4 ks or 8 ks.
There's this magic moment when you get a new piece of hardware, all of a sudden your computer can do things that
it couldn't do before.
We want to reduce the barrier between the human
and the work they're doing.
AI can liberate creativity. More energy and time can be spent on the most genuinely creative parts of the process. I think all the adjacent technologies that make PCs go have become even more important. People will use voice, pen, gesture, computer vision. These are new technologies.
I'm really proud of all the
work we've done and our partners have done. We continue to stretch those boundaries and do things that people didn't think were possible before.
Our devices are essentially an extension of our intelligence.
It's been outstanding to be on this journey with Intel and I'm excited about what we're doing today and what we will do together in the future.
We've been working across the industry with the partners you've just heard from to advance the PC platform and bring new experiences to life. And that all starts with a world leading CPU, the heart of every PC. And today, we're excited to launch the world's best processor for thin and light laptops, our 11th Gen Intel Core Processor. In total, we're introducing 9 new high performance mobile SKUs scaling from Core I3 to Core I7. And when we say it's the world's best processor, it isn't an exaggeration.
The 11th Gen Core Processor is the best processor Intel has ever built. It's the best processor on the market and it certainly rises above all the imitators. And today, we'll prove it to you. We'll look at the benchmark performance. And not just that, we'll put the processor through the paces of all the things you want to do with your PC without compromise: productivity, creation, gaming, collaboration and entertainment.
But first, let's talk about what makes this the best CPU for laptops. The 11th Gen Intel Core Processor brings together a new CPU that delivers industry leading performance and frequencies up to 4.8 gigahertz. It's got a new integrated GPU designed on our Xe Graphics architecture, industry leading AI performance as well as new integrated Thunderbolt 4 and the best connectivity with integrated Wi Fi 6. And of course, it also includes all those deep software optimizations resulting from our work with leading developers all around the world. And all of that comes in super sleek, ultra thin and light designs like you see here from 6 of our top OEM partners, including Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo.
And this, the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 5 gs, the first 11th Gen Core based PC enabled with Samsung's 5 gs solution. It features a 13.3 inches QLED display that's vivid and immersive. And this, the ASUS ExpertBook. With super slim bezels, you get a 14 inches display and it's feather light, only 8 70 grams, making this one of the world's lightest business notebooks. Now you can see all of these and more than 50 new designs powered by the 11th generation core processor in market in time for holiday, and over 150 designs are expected in total.
All right. Now without stealing too much thunder from our other guests, I'll just share some of the breakthroughs we've made possible with the 11th generation core processor. It's 4 times faster than the competition for creator usages that include common tasks like upscaling photos. It's more than 20% faster than the competition on productivity workflows using popular applications like Word and PowerPoint. And it has blazing fast performance with Iris XE, better than 90% of the ultra thin and light notebooks sold last year with discrete graphics.
And now to share how we were able to accomplish all of this, I'm pleased to introduce and hand it over to our first guest, Corporate Vice President of Client Engineering, Boyd Phelps.
Well, thanks, GB, and welcome to the Intel Lab, the birthplace of the 11th generation Intel Core Processor. It's taken thousands of engineers around the world working together to fundamentally redesign our process and create this new technology. And the great news is that all of that work is already delivering real world leaps in both performance and capabilities. So how did we make 11th Gen Core happen? We did this by making 3 fundamental moves.
First, we started from the ground up by redefining our 10 nanometer process for greater performance with our new SuperFin technology and redesigned the CPU architecture to take advantage of the processor gains. SuperFin is a new high performance 60 polypitch transistor that increases drive current, thanks to an improved gate process and gives us higher mobility and lower source strain resistance. What's important to understand is this new transistor design delivers much more bang for the buck. 2nd, we optimized our existing high BT transistors to improve leakage, performance and variation and then use them for non high frequency and leakage sensitive critical IPs. By paying special attention to the high performance transistors, we were able to lower the voltage of operation across the board.
This means we get all the performance of previous generations at lower voltages than most folks ever believed possible. But you know how engineers are. We said we can't just stop there. We need a way to get the full benefit of the new high speed transistors all the way out to the product. So the 3rd and final step we took was we completely redefined the metal stack.
And you could easily say that the metal stack is the true secret sauce for Tiger Lake. We greatly improved the resistance of the lower to mid layers and vias, which are heavily utilized. We also added 2 additional high performance layers at the top to ensure we could reach peak frequencies with little voltage roll off. We also dramatically enhanced the MEMCAP capabilities by greater than 4x to ensure a rapid and solid power delivery response for high CPU intensity workloads. But here's where it gets even better.
We decided to take full advantage of the new power efficiency to enhance the capabilities of all Tiger Lake platforms with many new features. And by combining the benefits of our metal stack and transistor innovations, we created a bit of magic, the ability to operate at much lower voltages. This allowed us to unlock the power headroom in areas that matter the most in compute, resulting in greater than 20% CPU performance improvement, up to 2x the graphics performance with new Xe graphics architecture and 5x better AI performance with new DP4A instructions on the GPU. Pair those improvements with world class platform capabilities like nearly 3x faster and more reliable connectivity with Wi Fi 6 and new Thunderbolt 4, which adds USB4 compliance while also doubling the minimum requirements for data bandwidth and video over Thunderbolt 3. And we're the 1st mobile processor with PCIe Gen 4 integrated, enabling direct SSD attach with up to 32 gigabits per second.
Tiger Lake also delivers display engine support for up to 4 4 ks displays. Tiger Lake supports multiple memory technologies for those most common today and those to come in future platforms. All of this adds up to something special, a processor evolved, a processor that was designed, built and tuned by thousands of Intel engineers. Take a look.
We're really proud of the performance that 11th generation Core delivers. But we know that in order to deliver the most impactful computing experiences, we have to push our technology forward in new ways. That means delivering experiences that were previously unimaginable in these types of thin and light devices and experiences not possible at this caliber with other processors on the market. Now here to show you the 11th Gen Core Processor in action is our product marketing engineer for AI and Media, Ksenia Chishtakova.
Thanks, GB. In today's demanding environment, PCs need to be more powerful, portable and versatile than ever before. And that requires more than just high core counts or high compute frequencies. It is achieved by delivering the best combination of compute engines and technologies that work together seamlessly in multiple environments. As GB mentioned, we are measuring more than benchmarks.
What's important is the performance on the actual applications that people use every day. So we create scenarios that simulate those common workloads. For example, here you see 2 systems. This one is powered by AMD's 4800 U Processor. And this is our 11th Gen Intel Core Processor.
Both systems are running light content creation by taking 100 year old photos, colorizing them in Photoshop Elements and up scaling using Topaz Gigapixel AI. In other words, providing fine detail by adding extra pixels, increasing the image quality from 0.3 megapixels to 5 megapixels. As you see, Intel is over 200% faster than AMD. Instead of taking over 2 minutes to complete this task, we're able to complete it in under 40 seconds, thanks to DL Boost technology on Iris Xe Graphics. Not all cores are created equal.
The Intel system is faster because of its integrated platform approach. The 2nd pair of systems are running a script that represents a heavier type of creator workload, video processing and exporting in Adobe Premiere Pro. As you can see, both AMD and Intel systems are in the export stage of the workload. But look at the difference when it comes to converting the video into the HEVC codec. That's nearly 100% better performance with 11th Gen Core and Quick Sync Video.
Think of it as rendering a 1 minute 4 ks video edit in half the time. Part of this is due to the limitations of the VCE hardware accelerator getting bottlenecked by the CPU performing a majority of the computations.
Like a
lot of people, I'm working from home right now and my PC has become an essential tool to get things done and for collaborating with my coworkers. I'm going to quickly make a call to my teammate via Microsoft Teams to finish up a project. Hey, Chuck, welcome to our launch.
Hey, Ksenia. Sorry, I couldn't be there in person. I hope everything's going well.
Things here are going great. How are things back in the office?
Things here are going pretty good, but Yuri is vacuuming.
Yes, I see him vacuuming, but I don't hear him at all. I hear you loud and clear.
That's the power of 11th Gen Core paired with AI.
Awesome. Thanks, Chuck. No matter what the distraction might be, your device can use AI to identify your voice or the voice of your conference call participants so you can stay focused. Now to my favorite part, what's amazing about 11th Gen Core is you don't need to compromise. We're not just the best at one thing.
We're the best at everything you do most creating, collaborating and ultra portable gaming. Here we have Grid running on the 3 best graphics solutions in the thin and light segment. AMD's 4,800 U based system with integrated graphics, our 11th Gen Core Processor with integrated Iris Xe Graphics and a system with NVIDIA's MX350 discrete card paired with a 10th Gen Intel Processor. If you look at the frame per second counter in the upper corner of each screen, you can see that AMD is doing okay with about 35 FPS, while the system with NVIDIA's discrete level card is hovering at around 30 FPS, which is barely playable. But our Iris Xe graphics paired with the 11th Gen Core is well into the 55 FPS range.
That's up to a 66% better performance on Intel. Now let's switch gears, pun intended, into a different style of gameplay called Gears Tactics from our friends at Microsoft, The Coalition. To remain consistent, we once again have AMD, NVIDIA and our very own 11th Gen Core. Let's see how this game plays out. This time, AMD is barely playable.
NVIDIA is measuring in the high 40 FPS range, and our system is again running at about 55 FPS. It's incredible to see the difference. As you can see, we've built the best processor, a processor with compute power to unlock new experiences, things previously unimaginable in these types of thin and light devices. Back to you, GB.
Pretty incredible, right? To quickly recap what you just saw, the 11th Gen Intel Core Processor delivered the best creation experience by leveraging built in AI to accelerate creator workflows up to 2.7 times and the best ultra portable gaming experience, giving users up to 2 times higher frame rates on popular games like Gears Tactics and demanding games like PUBG that are finally playable on ultra thin and light devices at 1080p. And in a world where we're all relying heavily on digital collaboration, we're delivering a built in AI engine for more immersive video conferencing solutions like background blur and noise removal, but at much lower power. Yet we know there's even more we can do to transform the PC experience, and that's why we created the Project Athena Innovation Program. So here to share more on that program is our Corporate Vice President of Mobile Computing, Chris Walker.
Thanks, GB. Last year, we set out on a mission to deliver the world's most advanced laptops through our multiyear innovation program, Project Athena. This program is a true industry first. With Project Athena, we're partnering with the entire ecosystem to innovate beyond the CPU, proving almost every technology that is integrated into the PC platform. This includes board component and cooling design technology, enabling miniaturization that allows us to deliver new form factor designs with better performance and battery life.
Edge to edge displays with compact antennas, meaning strong connectivity in all modes from laptops to 2 in ones. Wi Fi 6, a gig plus speeds providing best in class wireless connectivity with enhanced reliability. Thunderbolt 4, a fast, versatile port for single cable connectivity and intelligent performance throughout, harnessing the power of AI. Yet Project Athena is more than just technology innovation. We've rooted the program in 1,000 of hours of firsthand research, deeply engaging with laptop users and go getters across the world to develop people first performance and capabilities.
This has helped Intel achieve an accelerated pace, creating the best laptops that help people do wonderful things. We could not do this alone. We're proud that more than 150 partners are now part of the program. This includes component vendors, ISVs, OS partners, ODMs and OEMs. And as a result of this collaboration, we delivered to date more than 50 verified designs to the first specification across Windows and Chrome.
These devices span consumer and commercial from partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung. And we're not stopping here. With today's launch of our 11th Gen Core Processor, I'm thrilled to announce the next edition of our Project Athena based laptops. Designs tested and verified under an intensified methodology based on true to life key experience indicators of uses and applications, taking those use insights into 25 performance and responsiveness tests in all. Experiences that reflect how we use our laptops every day.
Responsiveness while using WiFi. Performance when running on battery, not just plugged in, all while multitasking, logged into your multiple cloud based accounts, toggling across creating, collaborating, streaming and browsing apps. So when people purchase a laptop verified to meet the 2nd edition Project Athena specs, they can have confidence that it delivers altogether consistent responsiveness, whether plugged in or on battery, waking in less than a second like this Lenovo Yoga 9i. 9 hours or more of battery life in typical real use and screen brightness with laptops featuring full HD displays like this amazingly thin HP Spectre. And when you need to go longer, fast charging delivers 4 hours of charge in less than 30 minutes.
Finally, every system is guaranteed to deliver Thunderbolt 4, Wi Fi 6 and high quality audio and video subsystems for great connectivity and collaboration experiences. With the stunning performance of the 11th Gen Intel Core Processor and through the Project Athena program and industry wide cooperation, we've delivered the best laptops available, the laptop evolved. It's all about what our technology can do for people. To provide a glimpse of this experience in action, I'm excited to introduce one of the world's most famous producers and DJs whose Intel based laptop is essential for his everyday life and his music. Welcome, Diplo.
A lot of people don't realize that a laptop is my instrument. When I was going to school in Daytona Beach, my last year of high school, I drove every day 30 miles to the only high school that had computers, just absorbing what I could. I saw like the vast open world that was being created now through the Internet, through people connecting and trading music. And it became huge. Last summer, I was on the road, probably 150 shows.
Fast forward to now, I haven't done one show. When Turing shut down, we didn't say like, we'll just wait or we just sat home being sad. We said like, let's keep it moving. Let's keep the energy going and put together a team that streams. So we saw an opportunity for people to see us and hear us, and it became like a production.
We were getting 20000 to 30000 people consistently watching us on Twitch. It gave me a little bit of like joy because you saw people really enjoying themselves. It felt good. It felt like you're really connected with people. I've always stayed connected to technology and and creating something that no one else does.
Peace and love, Intel.
Project Athena the industry needed and people demanded by pairing top engineers at Intel with partners from across the ecosystem to innovate and deliver PC platforms with the industry's most advanced components and technologies, we can guarantee the most advanced PC experiences available on the market. Add to this the power and performance of our 11th Gen Core Processors and you get something truly special. Ksenia is back to show you.
First, let's talk about PC gaming, one of today's fastest growing segments with more than 1,200,000,000 gamers worldwide. As you saw earlier, systems powered by 11th Gen Intel Core allow you to seamlessly transition from work to play. With advanced integrated Iris Xe graphics, Emmy is achieving up to 60 frames per second while honing her skills. A couple of years ago, playing popular esports games on laptops like this was nearly impossible. And sharing and streaming with your friends was simply unheard of.
But with the 11th gen Intel Core powered devices, gamers can now game, stream and record. Emmy's dad is using the latest laptop from the competition. She knows peak PC performance is the key to victory and the 11th Gen Intel Core Processor delivers. Let's look at their streams. You can see how fluid and smooth the stream is on ME's system, while the competition can't keep up despite having more cores.
Simply incredible. So whether you're playing the hottest new title or gaming and streaming in high stakes esports games, our new 11th gen core processor delivers the best gaming experience on a thin and light laptop. Next, let's talk about how PCs can help us stay productive, especially in today's environment. Veronica is a college student who spends most of her day studying or in class. So features like longer battery life and blazing fast connectivity are essential.
She is also benefiting from up to 22% faster web browsing gen over gen, helping her easily navigate multiple tabs and applications all at once. And with Project Athena based devices, we deliver far more, like a 4 hour charge in less than 30 minutes, narrow bezels delivering 12 inches to 15.6 inches touch displays, precision touchpads, pen and voice capabilities and more. These features make it easy to work anywhere you like and never miss a beat. Every Project Athena based laptop wakes in less than a second, so you can get right back to work and stay focused and productive. And finally, these laptops are great for content creators too, like Nick.
He wants to view some 4 ks footage he captured. Since he's using one of the latest Project Athena based devices, he's confident in his battery life lasting long enough for his trip. And when he gets home, his laptop transforms into a serious workstation. With a single Thunderbolt 4 cable, he can connect multiple 4 ks monitors, each at 60 Hertz with HDR capabilities, along with an attached high speed drive, delivering speeds of up to 40 gigabits per second and with generational improvements of up to 80% faster for auto reframe. That's enough power and performance to inspire anyone's creativity.
We know that people aren't trying to use their PCs. They're trying to get something done. And our job to build technology that doesn't get in their way. That's why we're so excited about these new devices. Best of all, these PCs are launching on ultra thin and ultralight designs.
Take a look.
Powerful platforms with industry leading performance. These devices set the bar and deliver real world experiences that were purposely designed with the end user in mind, a person who relies on their laptop to help them achieve their goals through creating, connecting and more. And now that we've delivered that PC experience that rises to the occasion, we want to make it more easily recognizable. And with that, our Chief Marketing Officer, Karen Walker, is here to share our plans.
Hi, everyone. I am so happy to be here with you to celebrate this moment. As GB and Chris just shared, we are delivering dramatically new technology and experiences with our 11th Gen Intel Core and Project Athena Innovation Program. These advancements are not just steps. They are leaps resulting from a new approach to engineering.
With 11th Gen Core and Project Athena, we have set a bar for laptop experiences that allows people to get things done without compromise. Separately, the impact of 11 Gen Core and Project Athena are profound. But together, they are exceptional, so exceptional that they deserve their own platform brand. Today, I'm thrilled to introduce Intel EVO. Intel EVO is something entirely new.
It starts with a product foundation, 11th Gen Core, and then we layer on thousands of hours of co engineering work via Project Athena. The result is EVO. You'll see the Intel EVO brand come to life through a fabulous new campaign that we're launching this fall with our global partners. But we're not only adding a new platform brand to the family. We're celebrating a new era for Intel, an era that signaled it was time to embrace and celebrate the future of our iconic brand.
Intell has only had 2 major brand transitions in its entire history, the first in 1969 and again in 2006. And we strategically chose those times to represent pivotal moments in our history. And today, we're doing it again. Say hello to the new Intel. You've already seen some of the key elements of our modernized look, the new Intel logo, and hopefully, you're liking it.
Our new look represents our role as a catalyst for technology that moves the world forward. We want our new brand to serve as an indicator to our customers and partners that they can count on Intel to deliver leadership and drive the industry forward. And as you can see around me, from Xeon to Core to everything in between, our entire portfolio of products is getting an updated look. I am so excited for the future of Intel as I believe we will continue to deliver world changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on this planet because all you need is an idea and intel inside to go do something wonderful. GB, I'll pass it back to you to close out the show.
Thanks, Karen. What you really see here today is the breadth, scale and commitment of Intel to lead the industry forward. Only Intel has the unmatched assets to do this. Thousands of world class engineers who touch thousands of designs annually and develop hundreds of patents. Pair that with a strong ecosystem partnership and the result, we're able to deliver new experiences that were previously unimaginable.
Now I opened this event with a promise to show you and prove to you how we're advancing the PC platform and bringing new experiences to life. We did this with the launch of the 11th generation core, the best CPU for thin and light laptops. We did this with the launch of the 2nd generation of Project Athena, now represented by Intel EVO, a badge that signifies the most advanced laptops available in the market. And now that we've delivered the technology, it's your turn to go out and do something wonderful.