A most interesting point, this chip could make for an even more interesting HDMI adapter. As far as time capsule and Airport Express, right now I believe third parties can supply chips better optimized for those products.
Apples leadership is interesting here though, such a chip could easily be sold to general industry. Frankly I don't know of anything that has this size and capability built into it. You could build one excellent single board computer, for embedded use, on a little 5 cm square board.
Actually we don't have a handle on that GPU, if it supported GPU Compute or has other modifications it could be useful of other acceleration duties.Maybe also an updated Time Capsule and Airport Express using the chip? The GPU would be wasted. But I believe both products are based on ARM already.
Again, revisiting the HDMI converter... they currently decompress the HD video in software... the A5 has hardware decoding; they could be using it for an updated adapter that has higher quality.
Apples leadership is interesting here though, such a chip could easily be sold to general industry. Frankly I don't know of anything that has this size and capability built into it. You could build one excellent single board computer, for embedded use, on a little 5 cm square board.