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After teasing us back in January with a working prototype but no plan to implement it, Toshiba have changed their tune over their graphically marvellous SpursEngine. Based on the same Cell CPU that gives the PlayStation 3 its graphical grunt, their SE1000 chip in fact contains four of those processors. Toshiba have now confirmed that the SE1000 will be included in their own high-end multimedia laptops later in 2008, presumably the Qosmio G40.
Intended to turn around Toshiba’s ailing fortunes following the collapse of HD-DVD, the confirmation was included in a strategy outline from company management this week. The SpursEngine’s strength is its abilities in MPEG 2 and H.264 encoding and decoding at high-definition 1080p resolution. Toshiba are calling it “Super-resolution”: upscaling standard definition media far more efficiently than with current technology.
Super-resolution is not only for notebooks, however. Toshiba have plans to put it in their upcoming TV, DVD and PC lines. They, however, won’t be available until 2009.
[via Register Hardware]
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Toshiba Faqs June 29, 2008
The Qosmio G50 and F50 series products can perform diverse kinds of image processing with the SpursEngine SE1000. They feature the (upconvert) capability that supplements the image quality of SD video and converts SD video into HDTV video in real time. Its Cool.
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