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The 2020 iPhones are rumored to have hardware AV1 decoders.

• ksec 7y ago
  I seriously doubt that.
  • clouddrover 7y ago
    I wouldn't seriously doubt it. It will be fast enough to do it in software anyway. Netflix has rolled out AV1 to Android and you can opt-in if you want: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-now-streaming-av1-on-android-d5264a515202 https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-now-streaming-av1-on-and...
  • sjwright 7y ago
    Let's look at the basic facts: Apple is a governing member of AOM (Alliance for Open Media). A patent-free implementation of a hardware AV1 decoder is available right now. Apple makes its own chips with significant revisions every year. Apple seems to like being on the forefront of mobile silicon and already stuffs its chips full of things orders of magnitude more elaborate than this. Apple now runs their own streaming network and being able to offer AV1 encodes stretches their bandwidth further. Consider also that iPhone chips of today inevitably become the Apple TV chips of tomorrow. But most importantly of all, there's no commercial or competitive incentive for Apple not to do it. All of its serious competitors license the patent encumbered codecs and would need to continue doing so indefinitely just like Apple.
    • mekster 7y ago
      Depends if paying the license fee means much for Apple or not but if they're doing their own streaming, perhaps it does.
      • ksec 7y ago
        There is no license fees for streaming HEVC content online. License fees are only paid to Blu-Ray / disc and Encoder / Decoder per Unit.