Gadget & Tech News

Toshiba has been touting its Cell-based SpursEngine graphics chip for some instance now, but it looks like its finally starting to get a bit more specific about when we can expect to see it in actual products. According to Register Hardware, Toshiba will start offering the chip in some of its multimedia-oriented notebooks sometime that year, with TVs and DVD players set to get it by the fall of 2009. The chip itself, for those not up to speed, uses its Cell-based technology (specifically, four of the Cell’s Synergistic Processing Element cores) to handle some heavy-duty graphics processing, including upscaling standard definition composition to high-def levels, something Toshiba has apparently taken to calling “super-resolution.” Now word on what sort of premium (if any) we can expect to pay for such wonders, but Toshiba is apparently betting pretty heavily on the technology as part of its post HD DVD strategy.