That's a lot of die area for video decoding! It's substantially larger than their entire set of CPUs. I've got a feeling that full-hardware video decoding is g

That's a lot of die area for video decoding! It's substantially larger than their entire set of CPUs. I've got a feeling that full-hardware video decoding is going to die off, having worked on it myself. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave so much silicon idle most of the time, when you could just accelerate a more general purpose processor or GPU to have very wide integer paths.