Powerbook G40...

[satty]

NOT.

It's a Toshiba with a Cell processor: See Toshiba Qosmio G40 on CNet.

Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. It is derived from IBM's Power Architecture, which was once used in Apple notebooks and desktops. Today, IBM uses the Cell processor in a line of blade servers.

If it wouldn't look so ugly and if it could run Mac OS X... worthy to be named Powerbook G40

 

[iMpathetic]

Aw, it's not that bad, my dad has a Qosmio and I actually like it...

 

[mkrishnan]

What operating system is it going to run on the Cell?

 

[iMpathetic]

Wait, so the Cell isn't going to be used alongside an Intel processor?

Oh....

 

[Henriok]

NOT.

It's a Toshiba with a Cell processor: See Toshiba Qosmio G40 on CNet.

No! The SpursEngine IS NOT a Cell proessor. It's not a PowerPC processor. The SpursEngine is a accelerator chip that uses four SPEs, coprocessors that can also be found in the Cell processor. Since the SpursEngine doesn't have a host processor of it's own, it lacks the Power Architecture core. It's not a CPU and cannot run operatings systems (in any traditional sense).

To make an analogy: It would be like saying that a discrete SSE3 accelerator would be a Core 2 Duo. It would not be, they would not even run the same instruction set.

Sorry to burst the bubble.

 

[mkrishnan]

Sorry to burst the bubble.

So the engine described would be used for ... accelerating video processing?