Release of folding screen PC Lenovo seeks breakthrough

Folding screen industry has been hot recently. On August 20, Lenovo’s ThinkPad official wechat released a video advertisement of ThinkPad x1fold, warning that the world’s first folding screen PC will be launched in China. Liu Jun, executive vice president of Lenovo Group and President of China region, forwarded the article, saying that “Lenovo thinkpadx1fold, the world’s first folding screen PC, will redefine PC and lead industrial change”. < / P > < p > the folding screen PC was first shown in May 2019, and then officially released at CES 2020, with a price starting from $2499. It is reported that the folding screen PC may be officially released in the domestic market in September or October. < / P > < p > Tom Butler, executive director of Lenovo’s global commercial product portfolio and product management, previously introduced on CES that ThinkPad x1fold weighs less than 1kg and can be folded into a portable bag, with a service life of about 11 hours. The main target users are technology enthusiasts who are keen to experience the latest products and business people who will need portability. < / P > < p > in addition, thinkpadx1fold is equipped with a foldable 13.3-inch OLED display, a 4:3 aspect ratio, a bracket, a docking station, and a Bluetooth mini folding keyboard that supports wireless charging. The laptop is made of lightweight alloy and carbon fiber, and uses Intel processor and uhdgen11 core display, with up to 8GB of ddr4x memory and frequency Rate 4267mhz, up to 1tbpice-nvmem.22242ssd SSD; it also uses a unique multi link torque hinge structure. < / P > < p > in terms of folding screen, Lenovo and lgdisplay have worked together to develop a new standard for folding screen protection technology. David Rabin, vice president of business marketing for Lenovo’s personal computers and smart devices, revealed that the ThinkPad x1fold will pass 30000 fold tests, so consumers can rest assured to use it. < p > < p > the Beijing Business Daily reporter has experienced this kind of folding screen PC. this product adopts the way of folding inside. When unfolded, it is a large screen, which can be used as a tablet computer. When folded up, it is half a screen and half is a virtual keyboard. It is small and easy to carry. According to a report on global PC shipment released by canalys, a research company, the global PC (including tablet PC) shipment will drop by 7% in 2020, and the PC market is expected to remain stable in 2021 and resume growth in 2022. In fact, from the third quarter of 2019, the global PC shipment shows a downward trend. In such a market environment, breakthrough products are urgently needed to drive consumption. Over the past decade, personal computers have not changed much except for the improvement of details and performance. The folding screen PC has been regarded as the biggest innovation in the form of personal computers. The folding screen is also a new force in the consumer electronics market in the past two years. From mobile phones to computers, and then to television, there are folding screens. < / P > < p > this month, Samsung Electronics officially released the galaxy zfold2 folding screen mobile phone, and Rouyu technology also revealed that it would launch the second generation of flexible foldable mobile phone in September. Strategy analytics, a global research organization, believes that the global sales of folding screen mobile phones are expected to grow from less than 1 million last year to 100 million in 2025, becoming the fastest growing segment of the high-end smartphone market in the next decade. < / P > < p > a person in the industry told the Beijing Business Daily that “the popularity of folding products should be within one to two years in the future, when the mass production capacity and process capacity of folding screen will be improved, and the whole market will have better performance”. However, from the perspective of morphological innovation, folding screen PC and folding screen mobile phone are valuable, and there are some specific use scenarios. However, the cost of folding screen is high, the technology is still improving, and the application ecology needs to be improved. At present, it is only a small number of products. “PC, like mobile phones, has entered the bottleneck period of innovation, and enterprises’ exploration in folding screen is still worth encouraging.”