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title: "PRESS RELEASE: NETINT Announces the World's First Commercially Available Hardware AV1 Encoder for the Data Center"
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# [PRESS RELEASE: NETINT Announces the World's First Commercially Available Hardware AV1 Encoder for the Data Center](https://blog.netint.ca/news/press-release-netint-announces-the-worlds-first-commercially-available-hardware-av1-encoder-for-the-data-center)

 Written by [Bob F.](https://blog.netint.ca/news/author/bob-f) | Mar 16, 2021 2:37:43 PM

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.

[Read the Full Release Here](https://www.netint.ca/netint-announces-the-worlds-first-commercially-available-hardware-av1-encoder-for-the-data-center/)

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