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TOKYO--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.™). Sample shipping
started from today, and Toshiba expects sales of 6 million units within
the first three years of the SpursEngine's release.
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.
"We are very pleased to have started sample shipping of SpursEngine"
said Yoshio Masubuchi, Director of Toshiba's System LSI Division,
Advanced SoC Development Center. "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. We are sure that SpursEngine will accelerate
the market for full-HD applications."
Toshiba will support developers working on SpursEngine applications
with a comprehensive reference kit that includes a reference board and
essential middleware APIs. The reference board has a PCI-Express edge
connector that can connect to an x1 layer slot in a PC. Toshiba will
also provide an integrated development environment (SPE compiler, SPE
debugger, and performance monitor) and sample applications that
demonstrate how to use the provided middleware. With the reference kit,
customers can quickly and easily construct an evaluation and
development environment and accelerate product development.
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