Intel Cancels LCOS Development 138
kfstark writes "It looks like the sub $2000 42" flat panel TV has been pushed back for a while. Intel has announced they are cancelling their Liquid Crystal on Silicon development. Guess I'll have to pick out a different gift for for the umm... kids." Earlier we reported their plans to delay their launch of the LCOS chips. Sadly, now it would seem they've been scrapped altogether.
Reality Meet Intel. (Score:4, Interesting)
Hey intel, do what many of us said years ago, ditch the P4 crap, admit that it was a mistake and go the normal high IPC route already. K8's are already smoking you at "non-gaming" [re: serious work] tasks and at least as good if not better at the little fps's anyways.
So take your Pentium-M and advance it already!
Tom
Bad year for Intel, technology wise? (Score:3, Interesting)
With all the delays on the processor side of things, with only the Pentium-M still executing to plan (well, sans 533MHz FSB at the moment), and this new issue, what is going on at Intel?
What does this have to do with cheap flat panels? (Score:4, Interesting)
Back to back product cancelations? (Score:5, Interesting)
This doesn't bode well for Intel's R&D/Engineering leader image. They really don't need things like this at a time where AMD is eating their lunch for the first time ever, or at least starting to take bites.
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come from Intel.
-Pete
Re:Bad year for Intel, technology wise? (Score:3, Interesting)
With the explosion in laptop sales, it would seem that the Pentium-M was a good bet. They simply had options on a few other racehorses as well.
Re:I am curious as to what exactly the trouble is. (Score:4, Interesting)
And it's a market that already has an 800 lb Gorilla.
Sony has been manufacturing far more complex chips, figuring out how to make them uber cheap, and has brand name recognition in the consumer electronics industry. They also sell their cheap stuff under several other brands. If Intel started trying to eat into Sony's lunch pail, Viaos would probably start running a Sony designed x86 compadible.
Re:I am curious as to what exactly the trouble is. (Score:4, Interesting)
Intel can only be doing this because of AMD (Score:3, Interesting)
So now they have a crappy processor core and to save themselves they are throwing every resource available at making dual core chips because AMD is ahead of them on that by 6-12 months and it is going to kill their cash cow business.
LCOS and DRM (Score:2, Interesting)
Sony "black's out" the competition. (Score:2, Interesting)
Basically it makes placing a projector and screen in the solarium a viable option.
Brillian's LCOS engine looked nice at the show, but this screen got me more excited.
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http://www.insightmedia.info/emailblasts/InsightMe diaAnnouncesBestBuzzAwards.htm [insightmedia.info]
http://www.extremetech.com/slideshow_viewer/0,2393 ,l=&s=1005&a=128243&po=10,00.asp [extremetech.com]
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB108742977 261939595-IRjg4Nllal3nZyva3qHbqyCm4,00.html [wsj.com]
What??? You're a troll. (Score:3, Interesting)
Basically AMD has the better server option over Xeon for the next year or two
Really? Please... substantiate this with facts. What the hell are you talking about?
Canceled - Next versions of the P4, Tejas
Tejas was cancelled. Next version of P4 will still come out. There will definitely be a dual-core solution out early next year to fill the void that the 4GHz P4 left.
Canceled - The Alviso chip for notebooks
Really? I heard it was only delayed. Here is a press release [intel.com] from a month ago indicating the Alviso chip set will be released with Dothan, the second generation Centrino, later this year. Since AMD chipset business is stagnated, and AMD has failed to gain market share in laptop processors, this will be a big win for Intel.
Realized they had to extend 64-bits to the Xeon/P4 line
They obviously realized this years ago. They just didn't tell you about it because they wanted to give more momentum to 64-bit Itanium.
Realized they had to make Itanium run x86-64
This is still a rumor, probably true, though. But since Itanium has always been able to run all P4 code in legacy mode, would x86-64 be an exception?
So go back to how is any of your FUD relevant to LCOS? It's not. Intel is obviously getting down to the fundamentals across the board. Trimming off projects that will not be successful, refocusing those that could, and pursuing only those that have growth potential in the future. LCOS is just another part of that.
This demonstrates that Intel is willing to play the survival game the way that AMD and other competitors play. What mileage will AMD get out of saying "we were the first ones to publicly announce an x86-64 solution"? Big deal. If they fail to execute on it, they got nowhere. If anything, AMD has more to be concerned about than before.