Sunday, April 25, 2021

YouTube building its video-transcoding chip: Report

Google has developed a custom chip, Argos, for YouTube to process videos much more efficiently. Google's Jeff Calow said the Argos chip has brought "up to 20-33x improvements in computing efficiency compared to our previous optimised system, which was running software on traditional servers." https://ift.tt/3tSHb4E

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