In addition to HD video content, solutions using the Intel Atom media processor CE5300 series can also store and share personal multimedia and documents.
ENGADGET: Intel launches Atom CE5300-based storage platform with multiple streams, smart scaling
With its low-end workstation and server markets coming under attack from economy-class machines using off-the-shelf Intel chips and Microsoft NT software, Palo Alto, Calif.
SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ) will manufacture the device, using Intel's chip, and will release it under its ReplayTV brand name sometime next year.
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no question that tablets aren't capable of handling the same rigors (with the same efficiency levels) as a full-on laptop, and Intel's using that very point to promote the Ultrabook category as a whole.
ENGADGET: Intel's Ultrabook portal jabs at limited functionality of tablets
Based on some of the tech demos we've seen and earlier rumors, Intel's plans could include using facial recognition to personalize the experience for (and target advertising towards) different viewers, and offering smaller, cheaper bundles of channels than traditional providers.
ENGADGET: Intel rumored to launch set-top box, 'virtual cable TV service' at CES
The surprise: how Intel is using that power to secure high-definition video for users, and some exclusive Hollywood deals for itself.
The case follows a March ruling by the Fair Trade Commission of Japan, in which the Japanese regulator warned Intel against using its market dominance to pressure computer makers to accept its chips.
Processor loyalties could be split across the wider group, though: ASUS is said to be spreading the love by showing both an Intel-based tablet as well as one using NVIDIA's ARM-powered Tegra line, but Acer's previously rumored tablet is poised to go the Intel-only route, and Toshiba's may exist solely in a TI OMAP-based ARM camp.
The Altera deal is the latest sign that Intel is moving ahead with a serious effort in the chip foundry business, using capacity and its manufacturing expertise to build chips for others.
Intel deferred the day of reckoning by using other tricks to shrink circuit sizes.
According to Intel, Apple has apparently committed to using the company's 45nm Silverthorne chip in multiple products slated for 2008.
ENGADGET: Apple prepping devices based on Intel's Silverthorne chip
That should let these chips do more work, using less power, as Intel looks to push into the heart of the tablet and smartphone market.
For a moment, it appeared as if Intel Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
For a moment, it appeared as if Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
The computer Brownell came up with was built using general-purpose Intel chips and Windows and Linux operating systems.
"Altera's FPGAs using Intel 14 nm technology will enable customers to design with the most advanced, highest-performing FPGAs in the industry, " said John Daane, president, CEO and chairman of Altera.
ENGADGET: Intel lands Altera as its biggest chip manufacturing customer to date
By using its dominance to gain access to competing firms' intellectual property, Intel diminishes the incentive for companies to develop new PC chip technologies, thus harming competition and cementing its own dominance in the industry, the FTC argues.
Intel is planning to announce a plan to attack the tablet PC market using software from Google in the third quarter of this year, trade publication DigiTimes reported Thursday.
Over the past year about half a dozen Intel-based smartphones have hit the market, a drop in the bucket compared with the hundreds of designs using ARM-based technology, but still a half dozen more than Intel could claim last year.
AMD's real answer came in the form of a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses Intel of a litany of abuses, including using rebates to bribe computer makers into limiting their AMD purchases and threatening uncooperative customers with delayed shipments.
Using this, developers will come up with apps that can "introduce themselves, " automatically installing themselves on 1 or 100 servers at once using the Internet-era language XML. Such automation and, of course, the power of cheap chips from Intel is supposed to be the last nail in the mainframe's coffin.
For instance, although Intel's practice of providing rebates to retailers who sell PCs with Intel chips inside, could be interpreted as an innocent discount, Balto says he expects to see courts scrutinize the policies to assess whether Intel deliberately took measures to hamper AMD's ability to get PCs using its chips displayed and sold by retailers.
Intel is reportedly making this technology a centerpiece of its new push into the commercial TV sector, using it as leverage to bring reluctant media companies on board to their platform.
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