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Old 8th May 2019, 19:35   #1653  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by soresu View Post
I'd be less interested in faster playback using GPU in favor of lower power for phones prior to decoder ASIC rollouts, which probably wont be until at least next year.

I think Rockchip's recently announced RK3588 SoC for 2020 has an AV1 decoder, but details were sparse in the announcement.

The thing which concerns me most is the lack of any announcement from Qualcomm in support of AV1, considering their huge market share in Android devices
I've heard indications that the extra transistors required for AV1 decoding are a lot higher than anticipated, and higher than the delta for HEVC. The cost in increased die size is a lot more than the savings from not paying MPEG-LA fees.

That would indicate a trend towards AV1 decode launching in high end chipsets first, and taking longer to get into lower-cost handsets.
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