Project Athena (Intel)
The Athena project, announced in mid-2019, represents Intel's successor project of the ultrabooks . The first devices in the Athena class are expected in early 2020.
Objectives of the Athena project
The guidelines for Ultrabooks , which were introduced in 2011, are out of date as of 2019. So mainly Intel is updating the minimum requirements for OEM manufacturers in order to be able to advertise with an Athena certification. These have been divided into three categories by Intel:
Focused (Focus)
- Modernized connected standby
- Biometric login or face recognition
- Wake up from standby in under a second
Always ready
- 16 or more hours of offline video playback (at 150 nit screen brightness)
- 9 or more hours of wireless Internet surfing (with 250 nit screen brightness)
- 4 hours of battery life should be achieved in less than 30 minutes of charging time when switched off (see also Quick Charge )
- W-LAN with 6 Gbit / s or more
Adaptive
- voice control
- WinML support
- OpenVINO AI
- Ultra-slim 2-in-1 housing
- Touchscreen with additional pen input
- Illuminated keyboards
- 12 to 15 inch screen diagonal with at least 1080p resolution
First generation devices (selection)
- 14 "Lenovo Yoga C940
- 13 "HP ENVY 13-aq1002ng
- 15 "HP ENVY x360 15-dr1234ng
- 14 "MSI Modern 14 A10M-615
- Dell Inspiron 14 5000
- Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1
- Dell XPS 13 2-in-1
- HP EliteBook x360 1040
- HP EliteBook x360 1030 G4
- HP EliteBook x360 830
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Rißka: Project Athena: Intel's largest mobile project since Centrino. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ The First PROJECT ATHENA Laptops have Arrived! | The Tech Chap. Accessed December 8, 2019 (German).
- ↑ HP Inc .: HP ENVY - 13-aq1002ng product data. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
- ↑ HP Inc .: HP ENVY x360 - 15-dr1234ng. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
- ↑ MSI: Modern 14 A10M-615 (PDF). Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Laptop Lineup Announced That Contain Intel's New 10th-Gen Chips. October 4, 2019, Retrieved January 7, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Dell XPS 13 - Powerful 13.3-inch notebook with InfinityEdge display . In: Hardware Blog . July 5, 2019 ( hardware-blog.de [accessed January 29, 2020]).