Project Athena Open Labs to be set up in Taiwan, Chinese mainland

Source: Intel Corporation. Josh Newman, Intel VP and GM, PC Innovation Segments in the Client Computing Group, shares details of Project Athena with 500 members of the PC ecosystem at the Project Athena Symposium and Workshop on May 8, 2019, in Taiwan.

Intel has revealed plans for Project Athena Open Labs in Taipei, Taiwan, Shanghai, mainland China and Folsom, California in the US – marking a new milestone for Intel in readying the next wave of Project Athena designs for 2020 and beyond.

The three Open Labs sites, which will be located in key ecosystem hubs and operated by teams of Intel engineers with system-on-chip (SOC) and platform power optimisation expertise, will begin operating in June 2019 to support performance and low-power optimisation of vendor components for laptops built to Project Athena design specifications.

Project Athena was first announced at CES 2019. The initiative aims to deliver a new class of advanced laptops, and the first Project Athena devices will be available in 2H19.

Through the Project Athena Open Labs, independent hardware vendors (IHVs) will have the opportunity to submit parts for compliance assessment and Intel’s OEM partners can also nominate preferred component vendors for participation.