Since Apple TV’s debut in March it’s been widely speculated that Apple TV was being powered by an Intel Pentium M processor. Yet news coming from Intel’s Beijing’s Developer Conference today may contradict that assumption while explaining Apple’s true reasoning for the delay of their new device.
Today’s Intel press release states that the “Intel Corporation today unveiled a highly integrated media processor for the consumer electronics (CE) market segment that will power a new generation of devices, such as digital set top boxes and networked media players, and bring consumers advanced in-home information and entertainment services.”
The new “Intel CE 2110 Media Processor includes a powerful embedded 1 GHz Intel XScale CPU, MPEG-2 and H.264 hardware video decoders, DDR2 memory interface, 2D/3D graphics accelerators, and is supported by a modular software development environment. The platform architecture also allows CE developers and manufacturers to deliver pure IP or hybrid set top boxes designed to receive content from IP and digital broadcast pipes.
Intel’s new processor will provide the processing performance, flexibility and headroom needed to deliver advanced revenue-generating services, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), video phone, interactive gaming, enhanced karaoke and e-learning.
It’s Interesting to note that Intel’s statement concerning a modular software developer environment is in line with this week’s published Apple patent titled Multi-media center for computing systems which covers media components within a multimedia center.
Written and researched by Neo.
