An exclusive look at Intel’s wild gaming laptop prototype

If I’m being honest, the phrase “Honeycomb Glacier” makes me think of a frosty dessert with a crunchy bee-produced treat on top, not a concept gaming PC.

But standing in a semi-secret lab deep inside Intel’s Santa Clara headquarters, I can’t help but think it’s the most convincing argument ever made for a beefy laptop with two screens.

You may know that chipmakers like Intel don’t just produce processors — they spend big bucks building new markets for those chips by figuring out what people want in their next computer and working with PC manufacturers to make those new features a reality. Sometimes, they build entire example PCs for the industry to crib, like we saw firsthand when Intel’s dual-screen Tiger Rapids prototype became the…

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