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[The Faceless Master]

PALO ALTO, Calif.--The Cell processor's developers want to make sure you never miss another TV show again.

Toshiba showed off a "super companion chip," or SCC, for the Cell that can record 48 separate MPEG 2 streams at once.

The chip, detailed at the Hot Chips conference taking place at Stanford University this week, is part of an effort by developers of the SCC and the Cell--IBM, Toshiba and Sony--to get the Cell into as many types of devices as possible.

The SCC is essentially a versatile, high-speed input-output port, according to Takayuki Mihara, an engineer with Toshiba. It receives regular and high-definition TV signals, audio and other data from set-top boxes, hard drives and similar items, and then forwards it to the processor.

"The Cell processor needs access windows to communicate with outside modules," Mihara said. "I think the Cell processor will be used in multiprocessor-centric systems such as digital TV. In reality, not many will try to record all that video at once, but it makes for a cool demo."

Source: c|net news.com

 

[Kleegamefan]

"Out there" theory time...

What *if*..........the SCC is actually that rumored CELL-based GPU that was originally designed to go in PS3 but got cancelled and replaced by the RSX??


If thats the case, this at least gives STI the chance to recoup some of the R&D costs of the ill-fated GPU....


It may not have been "good enough" for PS3, but that doesn't mean it was totally useless amirite???

 

[The Faceless Master]

"Out there" theory time...

What *if*..........the SCC is actually that rumored CELL-based GPU that was originally designed to go in PS3 but got cancelled and replaced by the RSX??


If thats the case, this at least gives STI the chance to recoup some of the R&D costs of the ill-fated GPU....


It may not have been "good enough" for PS3, but that doesn't mean it was totally useless amirite???

true, that would help with the losses and it should be more than enough for the uses they mention

 

[mrklaw]

"Out there" theory time...

What *if*..........the SCC is actually that rumored CELL-based GPU that was originally designed to go in PS3 but got cancelled and replaced by the RSX??


If thats the case, this at least gives STI the chance to recoup some of the R&D costs of the ill-fated GPU....


It may not have been "good enough" for PS3, but that doesn't mean it was totally useless amirite???

I thought the 'CELL based' GPU was a CELL? It just sat there doing vertex and pixel shaders on its SPEs, and wrote to a frame buffer?

 

[Fafalada]

It may not have been "good enough" for PS3, but that doesn't mean it was totally useless amirite???

I would lean more towards the totally useless if the one thing I heard about that GPU was true.

But anyway it doesn't seem their description of this SCC chip really matches a GPU at all to me. Although it's a bit vague so who knows.

 

[RuGalz]

I would lean more towards the totally useless if the one thing I heard about that GPU was true.

But anyway it doesn't seem their description of this SCC chip really matches a GPU at all to me. Although it's a bit vague so who knows.

SCC could be a by product of the Toshiba GPU. :lol