With more and more manufacturers looking to use ARM's range of low-voltage RISC processors, the diminutive chips could be heading to a living room near you thanks to plans by LG Electronics.
According to an article over on VentureBeat, the company is planning to integrate the ARM11 MPCore multi-core processor into its next-generation range of TVs in order to offer seamless integration with web-based content.
The plans – which involve pairing a dual- or quad-core ARM11 chip with an ARM Mali graphics chip – will bring web-based content into LG TVs, allowing for greater levels of interaction than is currently possible – and without the need for any additional hardware.
It's already known that the ARM processor and graphics chips are more than powerful enough to play back Flash-based content, offering up the possibility of rich multimedia functionality – a must for a TV, really. Fully-featured web browsing is also likely to make an appearance, with sites accessible with “one or two clicks of the remote.”
It's difficult to see the feature taking off, however: most households that can afford a new, feature-rich HD TV will already have at least one computer on which they can browse websites, and without a dedicated keyboard peripheral text entry and website navigation could prove to be a pain.
Despite doubts over LG's implementations, it's certainly a win for ARM – and a worrying development for market leading rival Intel, which has previously admitted that its low-power chips have quite some way to go in order to fully compete with ARM's offerings.
Do you think that interactive web content on a TV is the way to go, or do you still have bad memories of the travesty that was WebTV? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
According to an article over on VentureBeat, the company is planning to integrate the ARM11 MPCore multi-core processor into its next-generation range of TVs in order to offer seamless integration with web-based content.
The plans – which involve pairing a dual- or quad-core ARM11 chip with an ARM Mali graphics chip – will bring web-based content into LG TVs, allowing for greater levels of interaction than is currently possible – and without the need for any additional hardware.
It's already known that the ARM processor and graphics chips are more than powerful enough to play back Flash-based content, offering up the possibility of rich multimedia functionality – a must for a TV, really. Fully-featured web browsing is also likely to make an appearance, with sites accessible with “one or two clicks of the remote.”
It's difficult to see the feature taking off, however: most households that can afford a new, feature-rich HD TV will already have at least one computer on which they can browse websites, and without a dedicated keyboard peripheral text entry and website navigation could prove to be a pain.
Despite doubts over LG's implementations, it's certainly a win for ARM – and a worrying development for market leading rival Intel, which has previously admitted that its low-power chips have quite some way to go in order to fully compete with ARM's offerings.
Do you think that interactive web content on a TV is the way to go, or do you still have bad memories of the travesty that was WebTV? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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