Toshiba Cell Simultaneously Decoding 48 MPEG-2 Streams
Tech-On! reports that the Cell microprocessor jointly developed by Toshiba, Sony, and IBM, can simultaneously decode 48 SDTV format MPEG-2 streams. At the “COOL Chips VIII” in Yokohama a few days ago, Toshiba presented a demo movie in which 48 MPEG-2 streams stored on a HDD were “read, decoded and projected to a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution display divided into 8 x 6 cells, each of which showed a different video fitted to the cell size”.
They add that “of the eight synergistic processor elements (SPE) featured by the Cell, six are used for decoding 48 MPEG-2 streams and one is used for scaling the screen. The remaining SPE can be used for a completely different processing”. Which, Gizmodo noted, will allow Sony to follow their plan to putting a Cell processor inside each and every Playstation 3.
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