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| "In
Frankfurt, Germany, last week at the Internationale Automobile
Ausstellung show, Intel gave car enthusiasts a glimpse of its
Connected Car PC technology, based on Pentium®
processors. The new technology can provide navigation and real-time
information to drivers and passengers. A demo was shown of a car
equipped with a DVD film and a Dolby* Surround Sound stereo."...
"On request, the car
picked up the driver’s incoming E-mail and, using a
text-to-speech converter, read it out loud. "
- Electronic News, 9/15/97 "French car maker Citroën has teamed up with computer giant Intel to give the public a sneak preview at this week’s Frankfurt Motor Show of what a PC entertainment and information centre will look like in the car of the future."... "The Citroën Xsara Multimedia is a conventional vehicle that sports a modified dashboard console containing a colour LCD monitor, Pioneer DVD player and a remote control unit."... "The PC - which will be located behind the dashboard in production models - controls a car radio and television tuner, hands-free cellular telephone, surround-sound DVD unit and Internet access."... "All of the functions are presented in an attractive iconic menu form on screen (using Windows 95-based software developed by Cap Gemini), making them simple to use. "... "Nor has safety been forgotten. In production cars the dashboard screen will automatically blank out over 3mph so as to avoid distracting the driver. Rear passenger screens will obviously be free from the restriction."... "The car also features a speech system which will read incoming e-mail out loud so that drivers can keep their attention on the road." -The Times of London, 9/17/97 "If you want to get on to the information superhighway from the ordinary highway, then Citroën and Intel have the car for you. Unveiled at last week’s Frankfurt car show was this concept car, packed with electronic goods. The vehicle has voice-controlled personal equipment that, when linked to a mobile phone, could collect your email, tap the Internet for news and play digital films in the back." - The Daily Telegraph London, 09/16/97 "...Intel and the Peugeot Citroën Group of France have test-produced an automobile with on-board multi-functional computer."... "The new Peugeot Citroën car uses the Connected Car PC specification promoted by Intel. Back-seat passengers can watch movies or play games on DVD and e-mail, and various types of information services can be accessed through an on-board cellular telephone." - Comline Daily News, 09/11/97 "...Ron Smith, vice president of Intel’s Computing Enhancement Group, said the computer would add about $2,000 to the price of the vehicle. He estimated there would be a market for 5 million of the devices in the coming three years."... " ‘This is not a futuristic concept,’ Mr. Smith said. ‘This is the same technology that entertains us at home, makes our business competitive at the office, and allows us to stay ‘connected’ while we travel. The automobile is the next logical venue to adopt this technology.’ " - International Herald Tribune, 09/10/97 " Advances in technology and investments in infrastructure, along with a pressing need for relief on Europe’s streets, are creating the potential for a new, multi-billion-dollar mass market in automotive electronics and related services that experts say will boom first in Germany and Britain and spread quickly to other markets in Europe. Long-term, the combination of navigation assistance, traffic information and digital communications promises to create thousands of jobs, to grease the wheels of the European economy by keeping people out of gridlocks,"... " ‘Many of the services people use today already run on Intel processors. We’re suggesting the car industry should use what’s already available, and most of what’s available is written for Intel chips,’ Mr. Ginman says. (Benny Ginman, European Marketing Director for The Computing Enhancement Group at Intel in Munich.)"... " ‘Our vision is that all those systems are built on Intel-architecture processors, the same as go into a PC. That’d be like adding five million more PCs in the world,’ which already has 80 million up and running, he says. (Again, Benny Ginman, European Marketing Director for The Computing Enhancement Group at Intel in Munich.)" - The Wall Street Journal Europe, 09/08/97 |
* Legal Information © 1998 Intel Corporation