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Originally Posted by nevcairiel
Doubtful that it'll be in Haswell already.
The HEVC standard isn't even finalized yet, and content providers will take years to adopt it anyway.
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Let me correct that, not doubtful - impossible. Spec closes in 2013 about the same time Haswell hits the market...
Intel would need a time machine to pull this off
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Originally Posted by hajj_3
there is already an ARM chip that has HEVC support and that chip was released a while back. The final draft spec is out in july and ratified in january. Chip makers already have chips that can do HEVC hardware decoding such as qualcomm snapdragon and ziilabs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZfsULKG2Zo http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-n...ll-Android-SoC
So i'm pretty sure that intel could have support in haswell if they wanted to.
Yes it will take a while for software support for HEVC but if they have hardware that can support it then your pc will be future proofed (video-wise) with a haswell cpu.
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This ARM SoC has a DSP processor to do the decoding. DSPs are programmable so it's not an ASIC solution. This is not far from CUVID in concept. They can always rewrite the DSP code. It will suck a battery dry in no time...