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As said below, you already have that HW in many Intel CPUs and all AMD/Nvidia GPUs. Dedicated HW for specific computing applications are nothing new, back in t
by joefourier 6y ago
As said below, you already have that HW in many Intel CPUs and all AMD/Nvidia GPUs.
Dedicated HW for specific computing applications are nothing new, back in the 90s you had dedicated MJPEG ASICs for video editing. Of course, they became paperweights the moment people decided to switch to other codecs (although the same thing could be said for 90s CPUs given the pace of advancement back then).
Thing is, your encoding block takes up precious space on your die, and is absolutely useless for any other application like video effects, color grading, or even rendering to a non-supported codec.