HW vendors have already/are implementing AV1 because they were on the big consortium and the industry is a bit more grown up now. AV1 is a big compromise betwe

HW vendors have already/are implementing AV1 because they were on the big consortium and the industry is a bit more grown up now. AV1 is a big compromise between a bunch of vendors. It is definitely the future, the powers that be have already decreed this, but these things move slowly.