Toshiba also announced a new SSD to IP hardware engine called NPEngine, just in time for the 2012 NAB Show.

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Toshiba believes that this product can create a dedicated flash based hardware engine for content delivery that reduces the costs and lowering power usage and data center footprint when the product is available later this year.

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The solution includes an Audience Advanced Voice Processor core and a hardware accelerator engine, optimized to run computationally intensive audio algorithms with low power consumption.

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But it's military hardware that really revs his engine.

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Its engineers are exacting when it comes to the user experience with their beloved search engine, but its hardware has rarely matched those standards.

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For example, all handsets will be multi-touch and will come with a dedicated hardware button for Microsoft's search engine Bing.

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We were able to use Unreal Engine 3 and all the latest hardware to bring all of that to life.

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Another interesting thing about the development of this engine is the role of software in high-end hardware design.

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