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Toshiba Uses Cell Chip In Consumer Laptop

Posted by kdawson on from the thinking-outside-the-cell dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to CNET UK's Crave blog, where they report on a demo from CES. So far the only uses for Cell chips have been research stuff and the PS3. Now Toshiba has put a Cell chip into a consumer laptop; they are calling it the Spurs Engine. "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). Toshiba had four demos running... Demo 3... scans all your movie files, recognizes faces, and creates thumbnails of those faces. You can then click the thumbnails to watch scenes with those faces in, or compile them in a separate playlist."

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  1. Not a good name by Sciros · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Calling it the "Spurs Engine" implies it's nice and consistent, gets the job done, but is pretty slow. Yes Tim Duncan is one of the best players ever but really the Spurs are one of the oldest teams in the league and at this point naming something after them that's supposed to be "new tech" just is silly.

    The "Suns Engine," though, that means lightning speed. Plus it's fun cause then you can refer to the control CPU as "Steve."

    If this doesn't get modded "offtopic" that's just lazy

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    I like basketball!!1!
  2. THEY, you pillock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone read these before pressing the submit button?

    (s/so far the only/so far they only/)

  3. This is cool, but DO NOTO BUY Toshiba Laptops! by Bpa · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Toshiba laptops are terrible and overheat all the time. I have a 3500 dollar brick sitting at my house that has an overheating graphics chip, and there is nothing I can do about it, because the warranty ran out. I recommended my friend buy a laptop before mine self destructed, and he has had to send his back to the manufacturer 3 times now for overheating problems. Pretty much everyone I have ever talked to who has owned a Toshiba has had this same problem. The worst part about this whole situation is that Toshiba is completely insensitive to this problem and refuses to acknowledge that it exists.