Intel Pushing "More Than FullHD" UHD Resolutions

Intel has shared its vision of Ultra High Definition displays at the Intel Developer Forum event in Beijing, China. Ultra High Definition (UHD) displays are screens that have a pixel density of more than 220 pixels per inch (PPI).

In a second move that makes the company appear like it’s a driving force for quality enrichment of the user’s experience, Intel has presented its expectations for higher quality displays for any digital display devices, from smartphones to tablets and AIO computer systems or monitors.

Put this next to the company’s plan to have optical disk drives thinner than 7mm and hard disk drives with just 5mm thickness, and it may seem like Intel has become a forward-looking, trend driving, consumer enthusiast company like Apple is.

For those who don’t know, Intel has always been a very conservatory company. They like things to move very slowly, and to charge everybody an arm and a leg for every small increase in quality or performance.

For almost seven years, Intel has advertised that its hot and low performance Pentium 4 processors should be the way forward. The obvious motto of its integrated graphics division was “It’s good enough” and its mainboards have been and still are lacking very useful features and options that almost all other respected motherboard makers include with their products.

It’s a very nice surprise Intel is telling display manufacturers that screens should have such a great pixel density so that the human eye should never be able to distinguish a single pixel on the display.

In Intel’s view, the PPI density will vary according to the viewing distance characteristic of that certain display. 

A handheld smartphone or tablet should have 300 PPI for a typical viewing distance of 12” to 16”.

Furthermore, a notebook with a 11” or 13” diagonal display should be ok with a density of around 250 PPI because its viewing distance is ranged between 16” and 24”.

Monitors or displays on AIO systems with diagonal sizes of more than 21” would need to have only a 220 PPI for the typical viewing distance of  24”to 30”.

This means that the future notebooks will come with standard resolutions of 2560 x 1440, or even 2800 x 1800. 

Future monitors will display a 3840 x 2160 resolution as standard, and we will be able to admire the beauty of a good 8 MP photo in full screen without having to resize it.

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