Intel Viiv, the CExxxx series and the history of the Multimedia Desktop Computer When desktops computers first emerged in the early 80’s their primary functions where spreadsheets and word processor functions. First in the early 90’s came the rise of the desktop PC as a platform for multimedia experience. People began adding sound cards to their pc’s , pc games become realistic. The invention of the mp3 format lead to a revolution in music consumption where consumers mainly the youth started to listen to music on their PC's instead of the old hi-fi sound system. Then in the middle of the nineties the internet sweet up and the most important function of the pc became to use it with internet surfing. Around the end nineties graphic cards were becoming so fast and their price were now often higher than the price of the main CPU in the desktop system. Consumers were using their desktop pc for high intensive gaming that before hand could only be experienced at special entertainment halls. At the end of the nineties the DVD format was cracked and the popular DIVX format that made it possible to rip and download DVD movies came about, suddenly consumers where staring to watch movies on their desktop pc's, instead of their old TV’s. the true multimedia experience of sound visual and audio has been encompassed. In 2000 TV tuner became popular and companies such as Pinnacle, Tivo and Haugpage launched software and hardware that made it possible to record , watch and more importantly time shift the viewing of TV channels, people were now using their pc’s for watching TV also and when then would like to watch it, cutting out commercials at the same time too. Timeline of Intel’s entry into the digital home for micro processors.
Following Intel over 5 years from announcement, to market entry and exist.
2002 Intel(R) Media Center Reference Design at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_May_6/ai_85472822 2005 May Announces strategy for Viiv at IDC October 24 Intel announces Viiv and OLO River for appliances in Taiwan newspaper. 2006
January
Intel presents the Viiv PC concept the first time at the computer fair CES in Las Vegas Businessweek article on CE versus PC fight for the digital home The Economist Players in the industry from reports Intel report on Digital home conducted on competitors at CES Conference in Las Vegas, Internal Vision paper on the digital home, new market opportunities and challenges
March 6 First Internal critique to Viiv Concept on internal company blog March
rumors over Viiv viability April
Internal ISMC conference: Digital Home Platforms and Strategies Selling Intel Consumer PC Platforms to OEMs April
Article in Washington Post; Intel's Hard-to-Define Viiv Doesn't Live Up to the Hype
June 5
AMD launches the competing Live concept for their CPU’s
July
Don Macdonald is replaced by Eric Kim,as President of the DHG division August 6
Slate magazine article on Viiv, Negative August
Technologies for Entertainment within Digital Home, Intel Market overview of new industry
November Vertixal versus horizontal platform apporcah internal blog December
Viiv branding is ended, December 11
Internal Company Webcast With Eric Kim Senior Vice President, Digital Home Group Expalians new approach for Intel digital home strategy Going from Viiv to Soc design "Quote from Eric Kim" Most sharing is done through pc, but from a pure consumer experience, it is properly the most unreliable CE device in the home, and more expensive than other CE devices. 2007 April
Introduces CE 2100 a SOC approach to the digital home (first generation) XScale tech
August
Intel announces that it will remove its Viiv brand by January 2008 December
Article on the decommission of Intel Viiv on the new Windows Operating system
2008 August 20 Intel introduces Canmore CE 3100 a SOC approach to the digital home X86 tech 2009January August
| Timeline of Intel’s entry into the digital home for micro processors.
Following Intel over 5 years from announcement, to market entry and exist.
2002 Intel(R) Media Center Reference Design at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_May_6/ai_85472822 2005 May Announces strategy for Viiv at IDC October 24 Intel announces Viiv and OLO River for appliances in Taiwan newspaper. 2006
January
Intel presents the Viiv PC concept the first time at the computer fair CES in Las Vegas Businessweek article on CE versus PC fight for the digital home The Economist Players in the industry from reports Intel report on Digital home conducted on competitors at CES Conference in Las Vegas, Internal Vision paper on the digital home, new market opportunities and challenges
March 6 First Internal critique to Viiv Concept on internal company blog March
rumors over Viiv viability April
Internal ISMC conference: Digital Home Platforms and Strategies Selling Intel Consumer PC Platforms to OEMs April
Article in Washington Post; Intel's Hard-to-Define Viiv Doesn't Live Up to the Hype
June 5
AMD launches the competing Live concept for their CPU’s
July
Don Macdonald is replaced by Eric Kim,as President of the DHG division August 6
Slate magazine article on Viiv, Negative August
Technologies for Entertainment within Digital Home, Intel Market overview of new industry
November Vertixal versus horizontal platform apporcah internal blog December
Viiv branding is ended, December 11
Internal Company Webcast With Eric Kim Senior Vice President, Digital Home Group Expalians new approach for Intel digital home strategy Going from Viiv to Soc design "Quote from Eric Kim" Most sharing is done through pc, but from a pure consumer experience, it is properly the most unreliable CE device in the home, and more expensive than other CE devices. 2007 April
Introduces CE 2100 a SOC approach to the digital home (first generation) XScale tech
August
Intel announces that it will remove its Viiv brand by January 2008 December
Article on the decommission of Intel Viiv on the new Windows Operating system
2008 August 20 Intel introduces Canmore CE 3100 a SOC approach to the digital home X86 tech 2009January August |