Chuwi CoreBook Xe – 15-inch portable laptop with Intel DG1 graphics

Chuwi are stepping out of the segment they normally target with this next launch, the CoreBook Xe, and that’s because this is a full-size 15-inch laptop built on recent Intel hardware, and not a smaller laptop with older specs, as pretty much all the other available Chuwi laptops are.

The major novelty is the fact that the CoreBook Xe is one of the first notebooks built on Intel’s DG1 dedicated graphics chip, a design meant for competitively-priced mid-sized laptops and supposed to offer similar encoding and gaming performance to an Nvidia MX450 or a GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q. Specs-wise, the DG1 chip has 96 EUs, clock speeds of up to 1.65 GHz , 4GB of efficient video memory, and a design TDP of 25W.

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