http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/ Engadget Comments for Apple marrying Intel for their DRM chips? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/
]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/May 26: Computerworld Today Australia story incorrectly reported that the Intel Pentium D processor and Intel 945 Express Chipset includes unannounced embedded DRM technology.

The Intel Pentium D Processor and the Intel 945 Express Chipset family do not have unannounced embedded DRM technologies.

The DRM technology referred to in a recent report was not a secret or an embedded DRM from Intel. Intel does support various content protection technologies including DTCP-IP technology, which is publicly offered by a number of companies in the industry to enable protected transport of compressed content within a home network.

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Imagine:
Intel chip with built-in DRM
new ATI chip with hardware-accelerated H.264
All as part of the new Apple High Def Home Media Hub

Since it would be a relatively closed system, Apple could deploy OS X on Intel and not have to worry about developers recompiling code.
Any Dashboard widgets would work since they are written using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. That would allow for customization without significantly impacting the OS.

iTunes and Quicktime are already working under windows, move iPhoto and iMovie over as well and there you have it. A new device to view all your media that allows Apple to sell high def movies to you at home.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/could it be ...
... that Intel will make the chip for the Apple Media Center?
Like, kind of a mac mini for renting buying Video & Audio, living room only, with that Intel DRM chip, a stripped down version of OS X, and only Apple will distribute programs, and no other apps run on it / are supposed to run on it?
therefore, a true additional CPU for your household - file swapping with your primary computer is not possible (aside from maybe feeding it your existing MP3 collection, file "export" will be impossible) so no-one else has to write / change / recompile applications (obviously some geeks will find a way sooner or later, Apple will voice itīs anger publicly, but at least itīs wonīt have to pay programmers nor p*** off itīs core customers / programmers)

my €.04
Matt]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/I'm dying to see the logo on the new macs.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/
Apple rolls out a media center based off of the G5 and a modified Pentium D (used for media DRM) that will accept movie and music files from the iTunes Store on a rental and/or purchase basis.

:: crosses fingers ::]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/
Odd that people fall for something that obvious.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/As for moving to x86 processor I think it is higly unlikely - reporting all software is a huge task and not something taken lightly (just remember how long it took Quark to make OSX version of QuarkXpress - and that was still the same processor!).

Of course it is also possible that this is Apple spin doctors have launched this as a sure-fire "news" intended to draw maximum media attention to the WWDC and to discredit rumor-sites! I can only imagine Steve laughing his pants off. Steve, if you have pulled this one off and are reading this - I want you to know that you are one sick (=clever) bastard! ;-)]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/
Apple needs to expand the number of users that have access to the iTunes Music Store

They also need to have a broader base of users with broadband before they could launch an iMovie store

WIMAX is touted as broadband for the rest of us - it's the broadband that will go the extra mile and twice as fast as cable modems!

I see Apple jumping on this early ... just like they did with Airport - calling it AirportMAX and announcing a partnership with INTEL for a huge nationwide deployment - BOTH companies have the cash to fund this.

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Next product from Apple - a tablet Mac at $2000 price point. Can you imagine a Mac tablet with OS X?

Jobs is by far the best strategist of the current times.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/
It's not a prediction and actually I said it 8 days ago - just reiterating it here. And if you could ... point to another forum (where I had not said it first) that this is over WIMAX?

Anyone who thinks Apple is switching to Intel chips is an idiot. Apple sales would PLUMMET - they won't be able to clear the channel for months!!!

If anything, this will be a new partner in the AIM partnership possibly I-AIM ... but I doubt it's anything of the sort.



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I know one thng: Apple has not refreshed their PC lineup in a LONG time. Their inventory must be at an all-tme low - pretty much as low as it will ever be, actually. If they're going to do something like this, there's no better time than right now.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/
Apple updated their "PC lineup" (which I assume you mean Desktop lineup) on April 27th, 2005. This was just a modest speed bump, but that's all that was expected.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/06/apple-marrying-intel-for-their-drm-chips/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM