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Pentium® II Processors at 350 and 400 MHz Take the Creativity PC to the Next Level
Creativity PCs give consumers the freedom to explore and expand their creative horizons. New capabilities in PC imaging, video editing, and audio remixing, among others, make the creativity PC the platform of choice for many.
With the introduction of Pentium II processors at 350 and 400MHz, and the boost in frequency of the system bus from 66MHz to 100MHz enabled by these processors, Creativity PCs provide blazing speed for the latest creativity software, enabling consumers to express themselves like never before. From everyday hobbies such as on-line photo albums and family trees with multimedia content, to creating and editing videos, composing music with orchestra-like sound, and creating Web sites with the latest effects, the latest Pentium II processors have the performance and headroom for power-hungry creative applications.
Compared to a Pentium II processor at 233MHz (1), these new processors are:
- Up to 58% faster on 3D intensive applications
- Up to 56% faster on multimedia applications
- Up to 33% faster on productivity applications
- New 100MHz system bus is 53% frequency boost over 66MHz
Some of the features that we expect to see in 2H'98 for creativity PC skus include video capture; audio and video in/out connectors; USB connectors; CD-recordable/ZIP drives; PCI audio (AC'97); POTS video conferencing cameras; software loads for video, image, and music editing.
Spotlight on PC Imaging
Thanks to new Pentium II processor-based PCs, digital camera technology and software, PC Imaging is becoming an exciting new experience for millions of PC users. Many people think of "digital cameras" as a replacement for standard film cameras, but PC Imaging goes a lot further. The true power of PC imaging is not only capturing photos digitally, but using the power of the PC to enhance them in creative new ways - then allowing consumers to instantly share them via the Internet with friends and family.
New technologies are emerging that make moving images to the PC faster and easier than ever before. Creative new PC Imaging software lets consumers quickly see their photos on the PC monitor, enhance the images, and then store them in a digital photo album. Affordable new photo printers let quickly create snapshot-quality copies, but your options don't end here. Check out the latest Creativity software titles at Intel's Software Showcase web site. Click on Create and Design for the latest Creativity software titles that are enhanced by the power of the Pentium II processor.
PC Imaging and the Internet are a great combination. At home, consumers are increasingly using their PCs to create digital photo greeting cards, calendars and party invitations and share them screen-to-screen with friends. They are also learning to add the latest family photos to their e-mail correspondence and conveniently share them with the entire family. PC Imaging is also helping small businesses look big on the Internet. Company Web pages, electronic catalogs and newsletters, and on-line ordering applications are all within reach.
The real power of PC Imaging is the power for consumers to picture their world in easy and affordable new ways.
Intel's PC Imaging Web site for developers provides details the latest info on Intel imaging technologies and products that are propelling the Creativity PC.
You can also find out what Intel is talking about to consumers on PC imaging at Intel's PC Imaging consumer site.
Intel Web Design Effects Software
Intel continues to break new ground with technologies that enhance the end-user experience. For example, Intel's Web Design Effects let Web developers quickly and easily create dynamic, realistic animated effects for their web sites. Web Design Effects give random, non-repeating animation that takes advantage of the client processor's computing power.
Unlike animated gifs, which play a defined number of cells over and over, Web Design Effects is a low-bandwidth solution providing a great way to use animation on Web sites. To see examples of what Web Design Effects can do for Internet content, check out a site from the Intel Architecture Labs.
How to Add a PC Camera to Your Product Line
The Intel 971 PC Camera Kit includes a comprehensive reference design that offers OEMs a quick time-to-market solution for the next generation of simple, easy to use and affordable PC cameras. The Intel 971 PC Camera takes advantage of Intel's CMOS Image Sensor and PC camera image processing. Also included is the Intel PC camera utility manager software, design documentation and a set of suggested manufacturing procedures. For more information, go to Intel's PC Camera Design site for developers
1394-Based Digital Content Protection: An Intel Proposal
Digital video sources such as DVD players, set-top boxes, DSS, and PCs are not currently permitted to exchange digital entertainment content with CE devices such as TVs and VCRs through any external digital bus. This includes the PC-to-CE "convergence pipe" of choice—the IEEE 1394 serial bus. Content protection now requires that such signals must first be sent through an analog conversion process.
Thus, the imminent arrival of new digital HDTV technology makes the need for a solution all the more important. Also, the same content protection requirements will apply to computer industry suppliers who want to integrate DVD drives into the PC platform or offer software-based DVD playback.
Intel has been working with industry associates to develop a new proposal to solve three protection problems. Recently, Intel made headlines when it was joined by Hitachi*, Matsushita*, Sony*, and Toshiba* in announcing this new proposal to the DTDG for digital content protection. The proposal solves three major problems:
How copyrighted and other valuable content can be protected from unauthorized copying.
How PC and CE suppliers can cost-effectively protect content without inconveniencing authorized users.
How digital ports (i.e., 1394) can be practically implemented between PCs and CE devices.
To read more about Digital Content Protection, check out the article from Brendan Traw on Intel Architecture Labs in Issue 7 of the Platform Solutions newsletter
(1) Comparison: 400MHz Pentium II processor and 233MHz Pentium II processor. Source: Intel Pentium II processor brief, 3/98. "3D intensive applications" measure by 3D WinBench 98. "Multimedia Applications" measured by Norton Multimedia Benchmark. "Productivity Applications" measured by Winstone 98.
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* Legal Information © 1998 Intel Corporation
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