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Friday, May 9th, 2008

Toshiba will put Cell processors in select 2009 laptops

This is really cool – Toshiba is putting Cell processors into its 2009 laptops.  It looks like they’re targeting video decoding similar to what they’re doing with the Cell processor in TVs, but I’m sure some crafty Linux developers will have a lot of fun using it to power 3D graphics. The Toshiba cell chip will only use 4 SPEs vs the 8 used in the PS3 but it should be quite powerful nonetheless. This could be a huge step forward for video editing and it looks like they’re already partnering with Corel (could we see VideoStudio accelerators?).

I’d like to see Toshiba sell a desktop card now…

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/09/toshiba_cell_strategy/