Clarkdale, Intel's Core i3 and Core i5 32nm processors with 45nm stitched graphics can support Blu-ray in 3D stereo. We saw a live demonstration back in January 2010 at CES but in this particular case, you needed a special 120 Hz monitor to make it possible.

The hardware capability is there and we can only hope that Core i3 and Core i5 CPUs based on Clarkdale and Arrandale 32nm cores and 45nm graphics will be able to push Blu-ray 3D to a TV set near you. The bad thing about it is that this 3D TV set will feature hardware capability to play Blu-ray 3D on it's own, making Clarkdale quite useless.

Still there will be a chance that you go out and buy 3D monitor and in this case Clarkdale will do just fine in playing the Blu-ray 3D on your Core i3 / Core i5 computer.

We already told you that the next generation, Sandy Bridge CPUs will also continue with Blu-ray 3D support. I guess you won't need Nvidia's Geforce to get yourself some decent 3D playback, Intel finally came to the point that it doesn’t lag with multimedia performance and it can even accelerate video streaming experience with Adobe Flash player 10.1. If only you could play games on Intel’s HD (cough) graphics.