Samsung and Toshiba to Receive Intel CE 3100 SoC

To answer the expected growing demand of internet-capable consumer electronics devices, Intel developed a system-on-chip (SoC) known as CE 3100. It was specifically designed to provide low-power consumption while offering multimedia-rich abilities:
- Internet connection
- multichannel HD audio
- video HD, including H.264 and Blu-ray decoding
- Video encoding
- 3D display
- TV signal and internet video decoding
In summary, this SoC could manage all functions of the current Apple TV, so it might well be the chips Apple was waiting for to update its device.