New Intel chip to power Apple's iTV?
updated 06:15 pm EDT, Thu September 21, 2006
Intel chip to power iTV?
Apple's iTV media streaming device -- which was introduced on September 12th at the company's special event in San Francisco -- might use a new value chip from Intel which is set to launch within the same timeframe, according to Electronista. Walt Disney CEO Bog Iger recently confirmed the presence of a hard drive in the small wireless relay device, which would likely require a CPU powerful enough to decode H.264 high definition video using at least the 640 x 480 resolution of videos purchased from its own iTunes Music Store. The new Intel chip, currently codenamed "Pentium E1000," is a stripped-down version of the Core 2 desktop platform that uses only a single core and 1MB of L2 cache. This reduction lowers the costs and power requirements such that a device like Apple's iTV could make use of an E1000 variant without compromising Apple's desired $299 price tag.
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no HD for a while then
in some very informal tests i concluded that to play full 1080p video without any stutters or taxing the processor up the waz you need the core duo 2 2.0 Ghz machine.
obviously my tests were unscientific and the specs of iTV are unkown, but not being able to play HD would be a shame.