I4U News reports that Toshiba Corporation today announced the start of sample shipping of the SpursEngine SE1000 (SpursEngine), a high-performance stream processor integrating four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the "Cell Broadband Engine" (Cell/B.E.) - the Sony PS3 CPU.
Toshiba announced the SpursEngine last September.
SpursEngine is a co-processor that integrates a hardware codec for Full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams with four SPEs derived from Cell/B.E. These advanced processing elements offer high performance media streaming capabilities, with a clock frequency of 1.5GHz, while achieving low power consumption range of 10W to 20W.
The maximum performance of the SE1000 is 48GFlop.
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Break this down to dummy terms....what can this do for us gamers or what can this be used for period???
With the right middleware, there nothing to stop this been used for games development.
Technology like this is for upscaling graphics, or TV in real time, etc.
good stuff