14 DAY TRIAL // Even though Intel is mostly a provider of semiconductors, it has fingers in a few other pies too. The display industry is one of them, although, to its credit, Chipzilla does seem to realize it can't do anything on its own there yet.
So it has teamed up with Samsung to attain its latest goal, which is to somehow bring down the prices of displays with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels.
That resolution, otherwise known as 4K, is the latest advancement on the LCD market, any display market really.
4K screens are queer things. They started out as huge monstrosities priced at over one hundred thousand dollars. You read it right.
It took two years for prices to be dragged down, but even then, the things sold for fifty thousand dollars or so. At least until the panels started coming out in sizes below 70 - 110 inches.
Over the past year, things got even more reasonable, with some 40-inch 4K displays selling for as little as $2000 / €2,000.
Then, TV and monitor makers finally felt brave enough to put together screens of under 30 inches. So now you might be able to find 4K products selling for $800 / €800 - $1,000 / €1,000.
Intel still thinks the price is unreasonable though, so it's working with Samsung to pull the lever even further.
Soon, Samsung should release a 23.6-inch PLS 4K monitor with a price of $399 / €399 (PLS is actually a better than average display technology).