TECH NEWS – Emdoor’s solution takes a different path from the devices announced so far. The emergence of the company in this market itself sounds interesting…

Emdoor is a manufacturer of mainly industrial equipment, so it makes laptops that can withstand a thing or two due to their rugged nature, because they are designed to be strong so they won’t break if you drop them. But now they are entering the handheld PC market. This was spotted on Twitter by @harukaze5719. The device has an 8″ display, 1920×1200 resolution, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and up to 2TB of storage via the M.2 slot. But it’s not just the specs that make it unique.

It’s no coincidence that we’ve talked about the APU (processor and graphics chip on the same die) up to now, because up to now we’ve mostly seen AMD’s solution: the Steam Deck has a custom AMD solution, the Asus ROG Ally has a Z1 or Z1 Extreme APU (custom Ryzen 7 7840U), and so on. Except that the EM-GP080MTL (the name is weak, let’s not deny it) has opted for an Intel Meteor Lake-based option! This is Intel’s next CPU architecture for portables, with XeSS upscaling.

In a video that has since been made private, the 20-35W Meteor Lake-H processor was clocked at 1358 MHz, while the Arc Graphics 5 GPU was clocked at 3058 MHz, but these can be adjusted. If we stay in this power category, the current solution would be Raptor Lake-U, where the P-cores run at 1800 MHz, but the GPU in them runs at 1300 at the most, so the Meteor Lake generation could give the graphics chip much higher speeds… The program in the video showed a power consumption of 5W, but the Meteor Lake-H’s minimum power consumption of 20W is higher than the Steam Deck’s maximum (15W). If you have a higher GPU power, the Emdoor’s battery can drain quickly.

So, Emdoor’s device is promising, but it’s a shame we can’t see the video of it yet… so until then, we can’t see the Intel-based handheld PC in action.

Source: PCGamer