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Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors. But recently they've changed course and the project has been officially discontinued.

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[–] BarbecueCowboy 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do think they're on a decline, but enterprise moves SLOW and that's big money. ARM is going places, but the x86 market could almost just freeze entirely and still be worthwhile for legacy applications for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And from what I've read, ARM has a way to go to best x86 for all-out performance, which is primary to servers. Reduced power consumption is nice, but we're already maximizing clock cycle usage (power utilization) with virtualization. If you have to install even 5% more servers to meet demand, there's no value in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's not that black and white. In cloud computing ARM already beats Intel and AMD at single-core workflows and are more price competitive even with higher RAM requirements. They also beat Intel in multi-core workflows, but AMD is far ahead yet.