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Toshiba has taken the final step towards launch of a high-performance chip derived from the powerful Cell processor that powers Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. On Tuesday it began offering samples of the chip, called the SpursEngine SE1000, to electronics companies ahead of a commercial launch likely later this year.
The SpursEngine is a co-processor -- that's a chip designed to sit alongside a main processor in a system and handle heavy jobs like real-time graphics processing and video manipulation.
Inside the chip are four processor cores of the same type used in the Cell chip and a hardware codec for encoding and decoding high-definition MPEG2 and H.264 video streams. It runs at 1.5GHz and consumes between 10 watts and 20 watts of power, said Toshiba.
A demonstration of the SpursEngine at last October's Ceatec show in Japan provided a taste of the kinds of things it can make possible.
The chip was loaded into a laptop PC that was also receiving an image from a video camera. When someone sat down in front of the camera the SpursEngine was able to take the video image and in real-time simulate a new hairstyle or make-up. The system worked in three dimensions so as the person moved their head the computer-generated new hairstyle on the screen moved to match their head's angle and direction. Such real-time processing is difficult to do with a less capable processor.
With a supply of the sample chips companies will now be able to begin working on products that make use of the processor.
Toshiba anticipates a good market for the SpursEngine and has set a sale target of 6 million chips during the first three years on sale. The sample chip costs $98 and Toshiba expects the commercial chip will sell for about $50 in bulk quantities.
Among the first SpursEngine-based products are likely to be computer graphics cards. Toshiba said Tuesday that it has formed partnerships with Corel, CyberLink and Leadtek on hardware and software products that will make use of the power of the chip.
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