Intel Horseshoe Bend, the foldable notch laptop prototype

If the folding screens came first with smartphones (Royole, Samsung Galaxy Fold, Huawei Mate X …), their concept should soon extend to laptops and the Lenovo brand has already confirmed the upcoming commercialization of a Thinkpad x1.

The group Intel He too sees a possible outlet for the years to come and he predicted last May the arrival under two years of laptops with foldable screen, even if everything remains to be done in terms of ergonomics and that some hardware issues still need be resolved.

Intel Horseshoe Bend

Intel Horseshoe Bend (credit: Tom's Hardware)

Putting this vision into practice at CES 2020, lntel presented a concept Horseshoe Bend inch laptop PC made of a large screen that folds in half.

No physical keyboard or trackpad here, everything is controlled from the bottom surface of the screen, even if an additional wireless keyboard can be added. The Horseshoe Bend concept takes advantage of this to integrate a processor Intel Tiger Lake engraved in 10 nm and includes a stand to stabilize it.

According to those who could approach it, Intel did not allow to try to fold it in half and did not directly demonstrate it. Horseshoe Bend is and will remain a concept, while waiting for a manufacturer to risk making one, but it does give an idea of ​​what could await us in a year or two.