SpursEngine proven to be twice as fast as 3Ghz Core 2 Quad for editing video.

I've been watching the announcements on Toshiba's SpursEngine and waiting to see if it would be a viable option for decoding and encoding video. TG Daily posted an article from Computex 2008 where Corel tested the PCI express 1.0 card against a Core 2 Quad at transcoding 1080p H.264 video to a smaller resolutions such as 480p. The SpursEngine is basically a Cell processor with only half the power (1/2 speed, 1/2 the memory and 1/2 the SPE units) and the Core 2 Quad was a 3GHz version. The SpursEngine finished in half the time of the Quad and only uses 10 to 20 watts.

Unfortunately they still haven't announced a price. Too bad Dell isn't paying attention to my idea, maybe someone else is paying attention and building one into a notebook.