Thursday, 4 October 2007

Toshiba Shows Improved Qosmio Notebooks

Toshiba, a company that is trying to make it big in the notebook computers has unveiled several prototypes of its popular Qosmio notebooks at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan....

Toshiba, a company that is trying to make it big in the notebook computers has unveiled several prototypes of its popular Qosmio notebooks at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan.

The notebooks include a multimedia co-processor, called SpursEngine, based on the Cell Broadband Engine processor core.

Announced on Sept. 30, the SpursEngine aims to offer better video-processing capabilities for computers and works with high-speed XDR memory from Rambus.

The SpursEngine runs at 1.5GHz and consumes from 10-20 watts of power. The SpursEngine has four cores and is made using a 65-nanometer process.
Toshiba said it is yet to decide on prices of the SpursEngine. It also did not speak on how and when it will commercialise the technology.