Intel and Microsoft push portable video
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Intel and Microsoft have teamed to help electronics makers expand the market for portable video devices. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft is developing a software environment, called Media2Go, for portable video players (PVPs)--small, portable machines designed to play video and other types of entertainment files, said Bryan Peebler, market development manager in the emerging platforms lab at Intel.
Intel, meanwhile, continues to develop reference designs for building these devices around Intel's Xscale (formerly StrongArm) family of processors. The company unveiled its portable video player design in 2002 and has been licensing it to consumer-electronics manufacturers. So far, Sonicblue and ViewSonic have agreed to market PVPs.