Intel’s Project Firefly promises thinner, cheaper laptops with Wildcat Lake

Since the MacBook Neo was released, laptop manufacturers are trying to offer a solution that can compete with this hardware and price offered by Apple. One of the possible solutions are Laptops with Intel Wildcat Lake processorswhich help to obtain this low cost sought to offer cheap laptops in the current crisis RAM memory. To further reduce the cost of these laptops, Intel has submitted the call Project Firefly.

Intel wants to reduce the cost of Wildcat Lake laptops with Project Firefly

This project presented by Intel wants to focus on offering a more economical manufacturing for laptop manufacturers with Wildcat Laketaking advantage of the mobile phone supply chain in china. The manufacturer wants to use a standard interface to be reused in different designs, and a design of the more standardized barebone for better adoption by final laptop manufacturers.

During this presentation, a Intel reference laptop using these designs. The design, called Clean Dhas a chassis just over 11 mm thickoffering in addition to a low cost a thin and light laptop.

Wildcat Lake will opt for simpler configurations to reduce the price

In addition to this savings in manufacturing costthe platform is already built to offer a economic cost. Single Channel LPDDR5X Memoryfor example, but managing to make the jump from the DDR4 to DDR5 more current. The processors also have a Simpler single CCD design with a maximum of 6 cores (2+4)along with slower storage drives that allow euros to be subtracted from final price for those looking for a lower cost vs. improved performance.

CHUWI UniBook shows the potential of cheap Wildcat Lake laptops

As an example we have seen today the CHUWI UniBooka laptop that has a Intel Core 3 304he slowest processor in the rangebut that offers an incentive of only cost 449 dollars.