Intel will provide processors, chipsets, and software for the Philips Showline Media Center device that will allow customers to share photos, video, and music.
While the first products are closely related to personal computers, running Microsoft Windows software, Intel aims to expand into chips for a broad range of networked consumer electronics devices, including advanced televisions, in a journey that will take the company several years to complete.
“We will hit the market with the right products and price points in 3 to 5 years. We still have some room to improve, but we are patient. Not too patient, but patient enough,” Intel’s head of Digital Home Group, Don MacDonald, said in an interview.
(While this doesn’t seem to be much more than a glorified Media-Center PC, it does show that Intel may be reacting to the AMD 64’s higher suitability for such tasks by cutting straight to the end-user market)
Source: Reuters
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