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Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project (www.phoronix.com)
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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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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 12 points 3 months ago

Intel might not even be around in 10 years unless they can suddenly release revolutionarily reliable and efficient yet capable chips to compete with ARM. If I were in charge over there, I’d switch course to RISC-V and skate to where the puck is headed. Perhaps I’m a fool for that idea but the future certainly ain’t x86 …that’s for SURE.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

I’d switch course to RISC-V

And give up their only advantage? That would be insane. RISC-V isn't quite mature enough to replace x86 anyway.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

They could, perhaps start investing in the maturity of RISC-V was my point (a pipe dream). I know it’s not there yet but that’s simply because there’s so much money to be made by licensing closed architectures like x86 and ARM. If RISC-V had parity with x86 or ARM, it would be able to best them someday, IMO.

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