Toshiba, further curious about the Cell, puts it in a laptop

by Nick Doerr { Jan 12th 2008 at 2:30PM }

The Cell processor, a key component in the PS3, has been making headlines all over the place this week. This latest bit of news for your mastication and consumption comes from Toshiba again. Remember how they put the Cell in an HDTV just for kicks? Now they've slapped the sexy processor in a laptop. It makes up the backbone of their new Spurs Engine -- a laptop that has motion-sensing, video-indexing, face-morphing, upscaling madness.

Imagine footage from a mobile phone or camera getting processed heavily from their crappy resolution into 1080p -- this laptop can do it and from the demonstrations, it doesn't look that bad at all. It's not going to look like it's 1080p, but it won't be blocky and horrid to look at. YouTube lowered our standards, after all. We'd talk more about it, but there's a video of the demonstration available -- check it out and get ready to wish for another electronic device to utilize the Cell Processor.

Tags: cell, cell-processor, toshiba

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Richie @ Jan 12th 2008 2:46PM

are these the same cell processors like in the ps3 or "better/faster" ones?

JerJerBinks @ Jan 12th 2008 3:14PM

From TFA:

"The system was demonstrated in modified Qosmio G45 laptops, each of which uses a standard Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a Cell chip with four 1.5GHz synergistic processing elements (SPEs). For reference, the PS3 has eight SPEs running at 3GHz, making it approximately 75 per cent quicker."

Its not like you would have had to read more than 5 sentences to get that information. Seriously, it was in the second paragraph. Lrn2read