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Toshiba Corporation announced today the beginning of sample shipping of the SpursEngine™ SE1000 (SpursEngine). It is a high-performance stream processor integrating 4 Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the “Cell Broadband Engine™” as used in the Playstation 3. Samples started shipping from today, and Toshiba is expecting sales of 6 million units within the first three years of its 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.

View the Press release