 One of the supporting firms was PeakStream (acquired by Google in June 2007), who was first to provide an open beta version of software to support CTM and AMD FireStream as well as x86 and Cell (Cell Broadband Engine) processors.The FireStream was claimed to be 20 times faster in typical applications than regular CPUs after running PeakStream's software .RapidMind also provided stream processing software that worked with ATI and NVIDIA, as well as Cell processors.