The consumer electronics industry is changing rapidly as consumers develop a taste for IPTV, video-on-demand, music, personal content—and new services for entertainment and communications. As they work to capture these new opportunities, OEMs and service providers each face challenges. Service providers need innovative services to win and retain subscribers and increase ARPU, while adding a steady stream of differentiated services to maintain a competitive advantage. OEMs need to provide service providers with flexible, powerful home devices to support compute-intensive applications. Emerging usage models require powerful platforms.

In this one-on-one video, William O. Leszinske, Jr., general manager of Intel’s Consumer Electronics Group, describes Intel’s powerful new platform solutions for CE.