Quad Core HD Processor: SpursEngine™
The SpursEngine is a highly efficient stream processor. The SpursEngine incorporates 4 SPEs, which are the high-performance signal processing processors of Cell Broadband Engine, and hardware video codecs such as MPEG2/H.264.
What is SpursEngine™?
- SpursEngine's DNA
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SpursEngine™ is an LSI which has SPEs (Synergistic Processor Elements), the cores in common with Cell/B.E.™ (Cell, hereafter) used in PS3.
SpursEngine incorporates four SPEs and dedicated image compression/decompression circuits and inherits software's flexible processing which is an advantage of Cell. In image processing, the performance level is the same or greater than that of Cell with drastically lowered power consumption.
SpursEngine™ Introduction
The SpursEngine is a highly efficient stream processor. The SpursEngine incorporates 4 SPEs, which are the high-performance signal processing processors of Cell Broadband Engine (abbreviated as "Cell/B.E." from now on), and hardware video codecs such as MPEG2/H.264. Therefore you can quickly handle operations (for example: compression/decompression of video images, physics operations, or computer-graphics) that can not be executed satisfactorily by a single processor. By using the SpursEngine, you can accelerate the processing of these operations that video applications need.
SpursEngine™ Partners
SpursEngine™ Partners supports the product development using SpursEngine™ in various ways. SpursEngine™ Partners consists of software/hardware development vendors, development tool vendors, application development vendors and system integrators. The purposes of the Partners are to provide opportunities to connect customers with the partner companies, or to conduct collaborative marketing and PR activities.
News Release
News releases of Toshiba are posted.
- Toshiba starts sample shipping of SpursEngine™ SE1000 high-performance stream processor ( 08 Apr, 2008 )
- Toshiba to demonstrate prototype of new "SpursEngine™" processor at CEATEC JAPAN 2007 ( 20 Sep, 2007 )
Links
Links about SpursEngine™
- Innovative Technologies for AV Notebook PCs with SpursEngine™ (TOSHIBA REVIEW： 26 Nov, 2008 )