New Intel Chip To Improve Audio & Video
Intel will unveil a new chip today that is at the heart of the biggest change in personal-computer design in a decade, promising better graphics, audio and video.

The Santa Clara semiconductor giant is rolling out a chipset family, code-named Grantsdale, that handles communications between the core PC processor and memory chips and cards for audio, video and graphics.

Among Grantsdale's features are the ability to play high-quality audio or surround sound on a PC, feed audio to a consumer stereo system or TV and play back video in broad wide-screen or high-definition TV formats. The chipsets also will include technology to let consumers set up a wireless network at home.