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movax
Aug 30, 2008

Do any other of the mobile vendors have hardware HEVC support? I was chatting with a friend about the lack of it on the new ATV and it's not really that surprising considering the format is just maturing. I think they made the right call not expending die area / validation effort on hardware HEVC decoding since no one spits out that content right now as far as I can tell.

A8 was on 20nm TSMC, I would think A9 is on the same lithography, potentially benefiting from any process improvements in the interim (high-k/low-k, etc).

e: also am I mis-remembering, or was the 'M8' a COTS Cortex-M4F running firmware? Wonder if that just got dropped wholesale onto the die of the A9.

movax fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Sep 10, 2015

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