Video: Intel’s CES press conference highlights

Smartphone platforms, ultrabooks, touch and gesture control were all on Intel’s CES 2013 agenda, with the firm ramping up the rhetoric around mobility at this year’s show. In a string showing, Intel announced product pull-ins, lower than anticipated power margins and showed off some impressive demos.

Here are the video highlights:

Mike Bell talks new Atom platform for value market smartphones
Intel pulls in processor generation

Intel made a surprising announcement to the effect that the firm had pulled in its fourth generation chips by a few months, bringing them into the third generation effectively. The firm also said its 4th generation Core processors would be able to reach a low 7 watts of power, less than the 10 watts previously announced. Kirk Skaugen also said that when it came to the mobile computing space, the lines were constantly blurring, which means the firm is always having to strive towards bringing down power while maintaining performance.

Intel mandates touch, voice control for Ultrabooks

Intel said all OEMs making fourth generation core Ultrabooks will have to incorporate touch and voice control features in the device.

Showing off a range of touch, eye tracking and voice demos at CES, Intel certainly seems to want to make good on its claims to change the way consumers interact with machines, now it just remains to be seen whether everyone will take to the notion with as much enthusiasm as Intel.