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The Cell processor architecture developed by IBM Toshiba and Sony is said to start sampling under the name of SpursEngine 1000 or SE1000. The processor design was originally used on the Sony PS3 using seven cores synchronously.

Their targeted market is set to be for the consumer electrical products. The powerful design and advanced capabilities of the cell processor is to target video processing capabilities in particular. The cell processor will ideally be used for the growing high definition market especially with high resolution encoding/ decoding.

The SE1000 co-processor will include four slave cores used for the streaming of media. The chip is built on a 65nm process using 10W to 20W of power. The team are considering shrinking the die to reduce the power consumption.

You can see the SpursEngineis implemented into a PCI-E board which runs at a X1 bus speed. Toshiba are also working with third party companies to create applications and the development of HDTV set top boxes.

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