Considering everything that’s going on, I thought this was kind of amusing. Not that the products do the same thing, but two companies taking two different approaches end up with the same technology. It probably happens more than what we’ll ever know.

GoogleTV is manufactured by Logitech and Sony and contains a System on Chip (SoC) designed by Intel. The iPad’s SoC is an ARM design made by Apple (though manufacturing is outsourced to Samsung). However, both of these SoCs use a PowerVR graphics processor from a small UK-based company called Imagination.

GoogleTV and iPad share the same graphics processor technology [Fortune]