Cell Processor Expected to Appear in Upcoming Toshiba Notebook

The Cell Broadband Engine of Sony's Playstation 3 fame is expected to appear in Toshiba's upcoming Qosmio G40 notebook (sales to start in 2008).
The "SpursEngine SE1000," is a chip based on the Cell Broadband engine that leverages 4 cores instead of the Cell's 8 core design. It features high-definition video decoding and encoding of H.264 and MPEG-2 streams, and will most likely to be marketed more toward video applications than 3-D graphics acceleration. The specs look very promising, the SpursEngine1000 will have an on board memory controller that links each core to 128MB of Rambus XDR memory over a bus capable of pushing data at 12.8GB/s. Each core should run at a frequency of 1.5 Ghz.

The announcement of Cell technology in Toshiba notebooks comes in addition to Toshiba's upcoming TV's equipped with Cell processors they demoed at this year's CES.

--Ken H.

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