Acer to launch laptop on Intel Evo platform in India by November

New Delhi, September 3

Taiwanese PC company Acer on Thursday announced plans to launch a new laptop based on Intel’s latest Evo platform that is based on 11th Gen Intel Core processors.

The computer processor giant Intel unveiled 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics.

“We should be launching this product during the festive season, sometime in October and November, to start on the Aspire Z series,” Acer India Chief Business Officer Sudhir Goel said at an Intel virtual conference.

According to Intel, more than 150 designs based on 11th Gen Intel Core processors are expected to be made available from partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, Dynabook, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSI, Razer, Samsung and others.

“More than 20 verified designs are expected this year,” Intel said in a statement.

Intel India Vice-President and MD (Sales, Marketing and Communications) Prakash Mallya said the new processor was 28 per cent more efficient than the nearest competition in productivity performance. It was 67 per cent better in graphics improvements and 4 times improvement in artificial intelligence, he added. PTI