New Intel Core chips will break cover at CES and the processor powerhouse has revealed plans to build anti-film piracy smarts into the new silicon. A new feature called Insider is designed to fight the trend for grabbing films to save to your hard drive from online streaming services. The upside will be giving users access to more 1080p streaming as studios are made more confident that Intel has made it much trickier for pirates. Read on for more details and a rather disappointing surprise…
Intel has palled up with Warner Bros to create a library of 300 HD titles that will only play on the new Intel Core chips. Intel also promises suped up graphics and hardware acceleration to speed up video encoding and decoding. But Intel is a step behind AMD which has new Fusion chips on the way.
While the AMD Fusion chips will support Direct X 11 graphics, the new Intel Core chips can’t play nice with them. That could be bad news for you if you’re obsessed with the sort of titles that make our best PC games list. Still, we’ll be hunting down Intel for some answers as our team descends on CES 2011 tomorrow. Keep your eyes on Electricpig for all the latest CES 2011 news.
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