Intel Canmore

The Intel Canmore (CE 3100) is a system on a chip for DTV. It includes an 800Mhz processor, security hardware, dual 300Mhz DSP decoders for video, PCI Express, ATA, USB and Wifi. Phew! There is an in-depth article over at EETimes.

The important thing for this blog is the chip also includes a 3d core - the PowerVR from Imagination Technologies. It is OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG compatible. Here is a video of Yahoo widgets running on a Canmore device.



The widgets are not entirely smooth, but perhaps this is an early demo. In the meantime, a real set top box was launched by Gigabyte back in June 2009 using the Canmore.



Here we see a video the set top box running a game using two controllers!



And this month sees the launch of Metrologicals Mediaconnect TV, also powered by Canmore. I hope to see this at IBC and do a more in-depth report on the device.

So Canmore is gaining some market traction in DTV at last but its fair to say these are high end devices and Canmore remains a high end device.