Intel has a brilliant idea to enhance home broadband services - Turn modems into virtual servers

05/01/2015 - 00:00

By  Simon Sharwood -

Intel has assembled a stack of technologies it thinks can give broadband modems a brain implant and change the nature of home broadband services.

At the core of Chipzilla's ambition, as Intel folk have explained to The Reg, is a plan to put x86 chippery into customer premises equipment (CPE) – the modem/router homes and smallish businesses use to connect to the internet.

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