Sony Computer Entertainment today announced that a new version of PhyreEngine has been released to PS3 game developers and publishers. PhyreEngine is a graphics rendering engine provided under a license that allows it to be used by any PS3 game developers and publishers as well as Tools & Middleware licensees in their products. The engine uses sophisticated parallel processing techniques that are optimized for the Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU) of the Cell Broadband Engine of the PS3, but can be easily ported to other multi-core architectures.