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To: StanX Long who wrote (13595)	2/25/2004 10:25:28 PM
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Intel's Barrett sees digital home products by end of year By Yoshiko Hara, EE Times Silicon Strategies 02/25/2004, 2:45 PM ET TOKYO -- Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett, again stressing interoperability among consumer electronics devices for the "digital home," said the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG) will deliver its first technical guidelines in the second quarter with first products expected later this year. The announcement came during Barrett's presentation here Tuesday (Feb. 24) on Intel's digital home initiative. Barrett said PCs will not necessarily be the center of digital home but will be an inevitable part. Interoperability and the ability to have wide variety of home devices interact with each other is the key, "not that the PC is the center of the universe," he added. DHWG was formed last June and now has over 100 members. the group plans to release technical design guidelines soon, providing minimum standards for interoperability. It will include protocols and interfaces between different devices. Barrett said, "We expect to see actual devices in the marketplace in the second half of this year that satisfy the Digital Home Working Group standard." Barrett also demonstrated prototypes which appeared to be based mainly on existing technologies. One is code named "Florence," a portable PC. Another is an entertainment PC designed to provide functions and the look and feel of home AV devices. Florence has a detachable, wireless keyboard with a Bluetooth wireleess link. A remote control and an IP phone snap out of the system. Built-in camera and microphone enable video telephony. A built-in fingerprint recognition device recognizes users. The entertainment PC is equipped with Ethernet, USB and a wireless access points to deliver video.