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日本Intel’s Meteor Lake to include AV1 support: Embracing the future of digital media
Video codecs are everywhere, as digital media consumption has become an integral part of our lives. Online media has already outmatched television and other old-school ways of consuming information, so finding quicker and better ways to store and transfer that information is vital. Currently, the most popular video codecs that are in use are Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H264 and H265, respectively.
However, here comes the Alliance for Open Media and their new AV1 codec, which is royalty-free and open source, so everyone can use it free of charge, regardless if it’s for personal or commercial use. This will save companies a lot of money, while also improving quality and compression, with FaceBook estimating about 50% higher data compression, which means better quality on the same bandwidth.
Now, an Intel Developers update is showing that Meteor Lake will come with AV1 encode and decode support, as the company switches their Xe-LP iGPU in favor of the new Xe-LPG iGPU architecture, which is a low-powered variant of the Arc discrete Graphics’s Xe-HPG architecture.
The AV1 support will also make its way into mobile devices, but it will be a while before we see them, 2024 at the latest, as Intel is to announce the 13th Gen mobile processors at CES in a few days, so we can expect the 14th Gen a year after. Meteor Lake will supposedly be built on a 7 nm process and have up to 14 hybrid cores, while the iGPU will have up to 128 Execution Units.
