Toshiba to launch Cell chip-powered TV in 2009
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp will launch an advanced TV powered by its Cell high-performance microchip this year, to better compete with larger rivals like Samsung Electronics Co.
The Cell, now used in Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 game console, was developed by International Business Machines Corp, Toshiba and Sony and is dubbed a "supercomputer on a chip".
The Cell enables a TV to simultaneously show up to 48 separate moving pictures on one screen, and offers ultra high-definition graphics.
The price and sales target for the Cell TV have not been fixed, Toshiba executives said on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Bernard Orr)
© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved.
Internet red letter day
The body in charge of assigning the world's Internet users their online addresses agrees to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet. Full Article
UK remembers fallen