An anonymous reader writes "So far the only uses for Cell chips have been research stuff and the PS3. But what would happen if you took a Cell chip and put it into a consumer laptop? Well, according to CNET, that's exactly what Toshiba has done. "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, the first of which transformed standard-definition video into 1080p. This takes any grubby-looking 640x480-pixel video — of the sort you might record with a mobile phone or digital camera — applies some hardcore image processing, and spits it out a few hours later as full 1080p. The effect was extremely impressive, and proves that you can, so some extent, polish a turd.""
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