News and Updates

Posts by:

Bob F.

ASIC, Hardware Encoding, ARM, AV1, Quadra, Video Transcoding

PRESS RELEASE: NETINT Announces the World's First Commercially Available Hardware AV1 Encoder for the Data Center

Vancouver BC - March 16th, 2021. The move to advanced video codecs like AV1 has created a software squeeze as codec complexity is increasing faster than the performance optimization of software encoders. To counter this, NETINT Technologies announced today that it achieved a first for the video streaming industry by unveiling a family of ASIC-based AV1 encoders packaged in a 2.5" U.2 NVMe and PCIe Add-In-Card (AIC) form factor. This unique solution is designed for video operators unwilling to abandon their existing x86 or Arm-based servers in their quest to upgrade from software to hardware video encoding.

Bob F.
Read More