Intel announces Atom CE4100 for insanely powerful cable boxes and Blu-ray players

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Intel’s CE3100 media chip has been behind some of the cooler demos they’ve done here at IDF, and it’s just gotten a big brother, the Atom CE4100. As you’d expect, the big change is the replacement of the CE3100’s Pentium M core with an Atom core, but this thing is actually kind of a monster — it can decode two 1080p video streams with various high-end audio codecs, it adds MPEG-4 support and 3D graphics capability, and it can even capture uncompressed 1080p video. Of course, it’s up to manufacturers and cable companies to actually put all this power to use, but Intel’s promised us some hardware demos from partners — stay tuned. Continue reading Intel announces Atom CE4100 for insanely powerful cable boxes and Blu-ray players Filed under: Home Entertainment Intel announces Atom CE4100 for insanely powerful cable boxes and Blu-ray players originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments
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