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Design cycles of hardware is long. The person who benefits from a more efficient codec tends to be netflix/youtube (lower bandwidth costs), and they are far fa
by londons_explore 3y ago
Design cycles of hardware is long.
The person who benefits from a more efficient codec tends to be netflix/youtube (lower bandwidth costs), and they are far far removed from the chipmaker - market forces get very weak at that distance.
- nickpeterson 3y agoAlso, specialized hardware for a specific format feels like a really good way to have a useless part of a cpu if the format stops being used.
- imtringued 3y agoPeople never stopped using VP8. In fact, your screen sharing is probably wasting excessive amounts of CPU every day because there is no hardware support.
- kccqzy 3y agoYouTube makes their own chips: https://www.protocol.com/amp/youtube-custom-chips-argos-asics-2657907286 https://www.protocol.com/amp/youtube-custom-chips-argos-asic... Netflix doesn't benefit since their catalog is orders of magnitude smaller.