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SpursEngine SE1000 in a laptop
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Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on May 13, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/13-05-2008/#9641

In a 54 page PDF document titled "Strategies for Growth: 2008", Toshiba presents in black and white its intention of integrating the SpursEngine SE1000 in certain "media center" type laptop PCs.

You may recall that the desktop version of this card in PCI Express x1 format has 128 MB of XDR DRAM and a processor derived from the Cell (which equips the Sony PS3)set at 1.5 GHz which enables it to encode and decode MPEG-2 and H.264 in Full HD in hardware. While this may seem like a risky bet, Toshiba should have its reasons for believing there is a market for such a laptop, and if it is the case, big industry names such as Corel and CyberLink should help them to break into it.