Case Studies Contributing to Standards Innovation

Intel Contributions to Industry Standards

• Intel and The HomeGrid Forum

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  Helping unify the home networks market by accelerating development and acceptance of the ITU-T G.hn standard.
• Intel and Floating Point

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  Today you would never expect different answers to the same mathematical calculation performed on different microprocessors. But prior to 1985, it happened all the time—that's because there was no standard for floating point numbers.
• The Digital Home
  The goal of allowing consumers to access digital content from a myriad of electronic devices at home or on the road, while enabling all these devices to communicate with each other.
• Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP)
  The specification that defines a cryptographic protocol for protecting audio and video entertainment content from being illegally intercepted, copied, and tampered with.
• Intel and CPRM/CPPM
  Another specification that enables both innovative protection for premium entertainment content and flexibility in protected copying for consumers.
• Ethernet
  The industry networking standard that Intel helped cofound has become the network technology of choice for homes and enterprises.
• IEEE 802.11
  The wireless standards that specify an "over-the-air" interface between a wireless client and a base station, opening the door to the wireless Internet.
• Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
  The specification defining the local bus system within a computer for use by expansion cards.
• Universal Serial Bus (USB)

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  The connectivity specification for connecting peripherals to computers.