Intel presents processor for in the living room
Viiv is a name for a dual-core processor, chip sets and network possibilities. Pc's with this technology on board have been directed on the digital living room in combination with the new generation televisions, as reports the AP.
Intel set to conquer with this a frontal attack in a spot in the living room. Microsoft and other parties set heavily in on the Media Center-draft. Analysts expect that on term the pc as we that now know, will disappear and place will make for a digital entertainment-system in the living room.
Viiv-pc' s will at and from to set be through means of a pressure on the button, as by for instance televisions close, to respect of the customary manner of via the start-button. Also the platform standard surround-sound supports.
Means the optionele Tv-tuner can be taken up programs, rinsed away and again and getimeshift. Also promises Intel that such pc's easy online connectiviteit offers with music and movie services.
Heavy competition
Viiv is seen by Intel as a position alone-platform and must save it in being a. Hereby experiences the heavy competition of dvd-recorders with hard disk that with the day more popularly become.
Dell, HP and Gateway will systems with Viiv in the first quarter of 2006 will offer. The prices are yet strange.