Intel kind of gets beat at its own game, briefly
- June 9th, 2008
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Recently, Corel showed off a Cell-optimized version of DVD Movie Factory on a Toshiba’s SpursEngine 1000 (SE1000). The board transcoded 1080p H.264 video to a smaller resolution in about half the time as an Intel Core2 Quad. It’s even more impressive when you read that the li’l Cell is about half as powerful as the big daddy Cell found in the PS3.
If you’re thinking, “Wow, how does that happen?” remember this was a situation where the application was optimized for that specific board. So you wouldn’t get results like this in every situation. Still, it shows that Intel is far from untouchable and while they may rule the desktops right now, these little optimized processors are still excellent choices for more specific systems.
Jon (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Corel? Wow! Never thought processor and Corel could possibly be synonymous with one another… the future “processors” is a mix of cell, traditional CPUs, SSD and multiples of each on one board with GPU and DDR all on one board. They each have their + and - but by putting them all together… you get the best of all worlds. AMD is “half-way” there already, Corel seems to be “half-way” as well (software wise) but Intel isn’t there yet though they have the resources to really push these things forward.
Jon
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