Offer the SpursEngine graphics co-processor in Dell systems

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Offer the SpursEngine graphics co-processor in Dell systems

180 points posted to Monitors and Displays, Desktops and Laptops by jervis961 Apr 8

"Toshiba just pushed its SpursEngine co-processor chip out the door for sampling. Derived from the Cell processor at the heart of Sony's PS3, the SpursEngine SE1000 contains 4 processor cores (not 8 like the Cell) and a hardware codec for encoding and decoding MPEG-2/H.264 video. It's designed to manhandle real-time graphics processing and video manipulation when used in a potent three-way with your computer's CPU and GPU. The processor is expected to cost as little as $50 by the time it appears in the first consumer electronics devices -- likely graphics cards -- early next year. A very good thing if the production experience is anything like the demonstrations we've seen."

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/08/toshiba-releases-spursengine-graphics-co-p...

ward733 Apr 8	Is this sort of like agia graphics booster?
jmxz Apr 8	Quite interesting. Wonder what the development environments for it will look like.
jervis961 Apr 9	This would handle the video processing for video files. It would improve video editing, playback and take a lot of work off the graphics card. I think if Dell combined this with some good software they could thumb their noses at Apple. :D
jervis961 Jun 9	Spurs Engine is twice as fast as a 3 Ghz Intel core2 quad!! http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37845/135/
jervis961 Jun 14	Toshiba is putting it in a notebook. http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-vi...

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