Suhit Gupta
08-29-2005, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.designtechnica.com/featured_article29.html' target='_blank'>http://news.designtechnica.com/featured_article29.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"We saw the next generation of Intel hardware during this week at Intel’s developer forum. This hardware promises vastly greater performance or vastly less power consumption in what could be a completely new class of devices... The most highly anticipated announcement was Viiv, which is similar to Intel’s Centrino effort but targeted at home entertainment PCs. Centrino was their mobile bundle; it included the chipset, the wireless subsystem, and the Pentium M processor. Increasingly and informally, it includes the Intel Graphics subsystem. Viiv officially includes the chipset, the wired networking subsystem (wireless is optional), and the Pentium processor family. Unofficially, it is likely to include the Intel graphics subsystem as Centrino does."</i><br /><br />We posted on Viiv last week (still pronounced as Five), and more details are beginning to emerge. Designtechnica has a good article on the issue, showing that Viiv is to home/consumer electronics asn Centrino is to mobile devices. One other thing to point out is that Intel isn’t alone in this market. VIA will be releasing a product set wrapped around their C7 processor, and AMD, along with NVIDIA, will be releasing an Athlon/NForce solution. It will be interesting to see how these all-in-one chipset solutions will help change the size and ability of future consumer electronic devices.