As part of Intel’s Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors. But recently they’ve changed course and the project has been officially discontinued.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•3 months ago

      That’s fair. Please elaborate. I think others have made valid points refuting my hypothesis so please, if you will, pile on. I really don’t mind being wrong.

      The points someone else made about servers was an excellent one. That was a blind spot in my hypothesis.

      • @Lumisal
        1•2 months ago

        If I’m not mistaken, isn’t the N100 chip actually pretty good? It uses like 5 more watts than similar ARM equivalents while still having plenty of power.

        At least when it comes to mind pcs