Toshiba Starts IBM Cell-Based for Blu-Ray Device
Toshiba did not wait long to jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon. Tom’s Hardware reports Toshiba has a joint venture with Samsung that gives company access to Blu-ray technology and leverages its Cell processor, which has been designed, developed and manufactured in collaboration with Sony and IBM. Toshiba transforms it to a video co-processor called the SpursEngine. The architecture will be used for the acceleration of video streams and 3D effects in upcoming Consumer Electronics devices.
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Toshiba said it took four SPE units to create the SpursEngine, a co-processor used for the acceleration of video streams and 3D effects in upcoming Consumer Electronics devices. The chip features full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams. Toshiba mentioned that it has started shipping the reference kit, consisting of a reference PCI Express board and middleware APIs, to customers. The reference card utilizes PCIe x1 slots. |
Consumer should expect to see devices using this architecture by next CES.[Source Tom's Hardware]
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