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Intel Unveils New CE4100 Media Chip for TV Interaction
TVs that blend video, 3-D animation, graphics and interactivity. That vision of the future of television was described by Intel Thursday during its unveiling of the Atom CE4100 media processor. The announcement was made at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
The CE4100, also known by the code name Sodaville, is the company’s newest system on chip. Intel executive Eric Kim said the chip provides the processing power that is “the center of the TV evolution,” featuring high performance and high-resolution graphics capabilities.
Consumer electronics manufacturers and software developers, he said, “now have a platform for real innovation.” The new chip is intended for digital set-top boxes, networked media players, and digital TV sets.
Flash Player 10
High-end graphics and audio/video decoding are keys to Intel’s vision of TV’s future. As part of its push into this field, Intel said it is working with Adobe Systems to port Flash Player 10 to this new kind of media processor. This will mean, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said, that future consumer electronics devices will be optimized for playback of H.264 video, Flash-based applications, and graphics.
Intel’s vision of the future also includes high-quality 3-D video in the living room, which will impose huge new computation and bandwidth requirements on consumer electronics.
With the CE4100 chip as a step toward solving the computing side, Intel executives also discussed a new, high-speed optical I/O technology with the code name of Light Peak. Light Peak, they said, will improve bandwidth and flexibility while decreasing complexity and cost.
If you think the present offers an overabundance of programming choices on a TV or computer, wait until the future arrives. To help find content in a more personalized way, Intel pointed to the CBS-developed TV Widget, a small application that allows viewers to find content based on customized preferences. The Widget…
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