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

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 2:40PM]

Will we see these for our HTPCs?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 9:15PM]

I'm not sure what these cost but would it be feasible to build a low cost media center extender around it?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 2:36PM]

An example is the YuiXX (www.yuixx.com) coming out this year with the CE 3100. Thet should be crazy if they will not use the CE 4100 in the future..

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 6:15PM]

This is a nasty dog...damn! Bring it to the people!