Intel patronizing Web TV
The world’s largest computer chip manufacturer is now stimulating the market for Web TV. Web TV is now not a very new concept, but has been implemented ago and hasn’t generated very high consumer traction. Intel Corporation is now backing the concept of Internet enabled Televisions, rather than only manufacturing microprocessors. The company has been reached the acme of computer chips and now inventing chips for other mini purposes also to add more thrills to their profile.
The Santa Clara based company is heard to be in partnership with the second web giant Yahoo, to enable Internet features into the televisions. For this purpose Intel will be developing mini computer programs which they are calling as Widgets. By this time Intel’s new Centrino 2 chip renders high-definition video and sound outputs.
Heather Dixon, Intel spokeswoman, revealed the fact that the company has helped much in the making of a Television series named Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson. This will be the first television production which will be made for the Internet.
In a way Intel is betting on this concept with a strong belief that consumers need a non-customary device for accessing the Internet. The company is now focussing more on mobile internet devices i.e. MIDS rather than the only prevailing computer chips. Intel is now a part of developing the standards for those devices, which has been proved by their recently introduced chip called Atom, The Atom chip had been made in Chandler.
Presently Intel Corporation is playing an active roll in developing the market for this new product. Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts Co., a semiconductor-industry research firm from Tempe understand and confirms these thoughts. Strauss commented further that Intel is trying hardly to get into the cell phones. It is noticed that the Company has already spent $5 billion over the last 6 years to produce chips designed specially to incorporate communications features on cell phones. The company stopped a giant effort for 2006 and the business was sold to a technology company known as Marvell Technology Group.
Now Intel is trying to be back in the business of cell phones. But this time Intel is now powered by Internet chips rather than those communications processors. Intel is now providing more resources and efforts to the concepts of WiMax and Web TV. Though there are some WiMax networks in the U.S. which are serving the remote rural areas, they are not featured with traditional communication services.
Earlier Intel decided to invest in a Sprint/Clearwire venture, an amount of $2 billion for a national wireless network which will be based on the WiMax systems. It seems that Intel is now determined to instantiate the age-old concept of Web TV very soon.
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