Intel, Yahoo to Build Internet into HDTVs

By Geoff Duncan
August 21, 2008

Yahoo has announced a new partnership with Intel to build support into HDTVs that embed Web-enabled "channels" that run alongside TV shows.

At this week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Yahoo and Intel announced a new initiative aimed at building support for Web-enabled channels directly into high-definition televisions, so Internet-based content (and, no doubt, advertising) can run alongside television programming. The initiative, dubbed the "Widget Channel," will offer a television application framework developers can use to deploy Internet-based applications designed to be viewed alongside television content. The whole thing will be powered by Yahoo's Widget Engine, and run on Intel's new C3100 chips, due in the first half of 2009, that are specifically aimed at consumer electronics devices.

"TV will fundamentally change how we talk about, imagine, and experience the Internet," said the senior VP of Intel's digital home group, Eric Kim, in a statement. ...

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