Transition into consumer electronicsThere's a small but interesting piece on DigiTimes about Intel's 854 platform - it's an entry into the consumer electronics market, maybe Intel's first physical move into the digital living room.?
Products using the Intel 854 chipset include set-top boxes (STBs) from Tatung and HDD (hard disk drive) DVD players from Toshiba, said Dorchak. Both products were showcased at IDF Taiwan. The 854 platform is built using an integrated graphics core offering support for up to 2GB DDR333 and the platform supports Celeron CPUs. The platform also features a 10/100 LAN controller and the chipset integrates six USB and two ultra ATA/IDE connectors. For shortening time-to-market, the platform supports various software encoding/decoding and Microsoft Windows CE 5.0.1 support.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. ATI is going after the set top box market aggressively and I do not doubt that NVIDIA is too far behind. Both camps have pushed video enchancement technologies quite heavily and with the transition to a very visual platform, the latter two might have an edge on Intel
