Tencent says its self-developed video transcoding chip enters mass production

Chinese tech large Tencent Holdings mentioned on Monday its self-developed video transcoding chip Canghai has entered mass manufacturing and is presently supporting companies from cloud gaming to video reside streaming.

The Shenzhen-based firm, greatest recognized for its widespread messaging platform WeChat, mentioned in a submit revealed on-line that tens of hundreds of its Canghai chips, first revealed in 2021, have been serving shoppers in areas starting from cloud gaming to video reside streaming.

The Canghai chip “focuses on solving the impossible triangle of high image quality, low latency, and low cost in video encoding and decoding”, the corporate mentioned within the submit.

Mostly referred to as a software program firm, Tencent unveiled three self-designed chips in 2021, becoming a member of different Chinese tech giants in answering Beijing’s name to assist China develop its personal semiconductor business amid a rising variety of U.S. sanctions.

Besides Canghai, Tencent has additionally designed a man-made intelligence chip named Zixiao and a community interface controller chip known as Xuanling.

“Tencent has a long-term plan to research and develop as well as invest in semiconductors,” the corporate mentioned，

“Several chips have entered the market at scale.” The firm mentioned its AI inference chip Zixiao, which goals to speed up computing effectivity, has been deployed in dealing with inner companies.

Meanwhile, its Xuanling chip is now serving to the corporate “build the next generation of high-performance network infrastructure”.

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