In a nutshell: Google just released AV1 3.5, the newest version of the video-encoding technology, which threatens to be a major player in the content and media industry. The codec now has much more ...

It’s been a little while since we last dove into CPU workstation testing in a meaningful way, so we’re going to get things up to speed here, and see where things stand in early 2021. With Intel’s 11th ...

In a world increasingly concerned with sustainability, the energy demands of digital infrastructure are coming under scrutiny—especially in streaming, where encoding and decoding dominate processing ...

I know my brand new 4600+ x2 is a great lil CPU and all, but not <i>that</i> great -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon ...

hi all, pretty sure this is the proper venue for such a question, apologies if not...<BR><BR>i need to build a couple smallish systems for video encoding tasks primarily, and was looking to purchase ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Two embedded-processor vendors claim their newly introduced devices can encode and decode bandwidth-intensive video applications natively while keeping power consumption within the ...

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The DMN-8653 is presented as the first single-chip HDD/DVD recorder system processor to integrate dual encoding for the dual-tuner recorder platform. Dual encoding allows features such as the ...

This is the first part of an investigation into game streaming, a topic that we've been requested on before – particularly after we review CPUs – but that has purposely been left out because it's ...