Wednesday, June 25th 2008
Toshiba's Newest Notebooks to Feature Modified CELL Processor
The first thing that comes to your mind when you talk about CELL Broadband Engine is probably the Sony Playstation 3. Toshiba, a prominent player in ultra-portable computing have announced that a new pair of laptops, the Qosmio G55 and Qosmio F40, which will feature processors derived from the CELL design methodology. Processing will be composed of a two-stage processor, the modified CELL processor SPE cores will handle the heavy calculations required to handle processor-intensive duties like processing HD video. The main processor in the pair of notebooks will be an Intel Core 2 Duo. The World's most powerful supercomputer, the IBM Roadrunner, incorporates CELL technology. The CELL variation used consists of four SSP's apart from the arbiter, Toshiba brands this chip as Toshiba Quad-Core HD processor.
The G55 which has an 18.4-inch high-definition screen, 500GB of hard-disk space, NVidia GeForce 9600M graphics processor, dual digital TV tuners and wireless LAN including 802.11n will be priced from USD 2,700 and the F40, which has a 15-inch screen and 250GB hard-disk drive, from USD 2,320. Toshiba plans to put the machines on sale overseas but has yet to announce launch details.
Source:
PC World
The G55 which has an 18.4-inch high-definition screen, 500GB of hard-disk space, NVidia GeForce 9600M graphics processor, dual digital TV tuners and wireless LAN including 802.11n will be priced from USD 2,700 and the F40, which has a 15-inch screen and 250GB hard-disk drive, from USD 2,320. Toshiba plans to put the machines on sale overseas but has yet to announce launch details.
22 Comments on Toshiba's Newest Notebooks to Feature Modified CELL Processor
Using them as an overall co-processor for media work sounds like a good idea, i wonder how this will pan out.
But ofcourse, we're looking at two different things. While the Atom is a measure to save energy when computational power isn't needed, CELL is all about getting the most out of available energy when high-levels of computational power is needed.
and from my point of view, every hardware is useless when no software is availible :rolleyes:
i 'am waiting for good powerpc hd codecs to run on vist/xp :D
The G50 only contains the cell, and a 9600M GT
The F50 only contains gps, and a 9700M GTS
And there is the X305...which contains the 9800M GTX, and other high end goodies (but no gps, or cell).
:o
Meh, could be possible that Toshiba is not fully advertising the rest of the series to have the Cell.
Again, it's important to note that PCW gets the information from Toshiba in the Japanese market and not out of it. They (Toshiba) maintain totally different SKU's there (much like Creative does, with a few models of Sound Blaster available only in Japan). The last line in the news also says that they've not finalised the product line outside of Japanese market.