Toshiba has revealed a high-performance stream processor integrating four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the “Cell Broadband Engine”, the Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000. Toshiba SpursEngine is a co-processor with a clock frequency of 1.5GHz, integrates a hardware codec for Full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams with four SPEs. With low power consumption range of 10W to 20W, the design of this powerful co-processor is dedicated to bringing the advanced capabilities of the Cell/B.E. to consumer electronics, particularly video processing in digital consumer products.

Toshiba expect to accelerate the market for full-HD applications using SpursEngine, with sales of 6 million units within the first three years of the SpursEngine’s release.

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