Tencent says its self-developed video transcoding chip will go into mass production
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings said on Monday that its self-developed video transcoding chip Canghai has entered mass production and currently supports services from cloud gaming to video streaming.
The Shenzhen-based company, best known for its popular messaging platform WeChat, said in a post online that tens of thousands of its Canghai chips announced in 2021 have served customers from cloud gaming to streaming.
The Canghai chip “focuses on solving the impossible triangle of high image quality, low latency and low video encoding and decoding costs,” the company said in a post.
Known mostly as a software company, Tencent unveiled three self-designed chips in 2021, joining other Chinese tech giants in Beijing’s call to help China develop its own semiconductor industry amid increasing US sanctions.
In addition to Canghai, Tencent has also designed an artificial intelligence chip called Zixiao and a network interface controller chip called Xuanling.
“Tencent has a long-term plan to research and develop and invest in semiconductors,” the company said.
“Several chips have entered the market on a large scale.”
The company said that its artificial intelligence reasoning circuit Zixiao, which aims to speed up computing power, has been implemented in the processing of internal business operations.
Meanwhile, its Xuanling chip is now helping the company “build the next generation of high-performance network infrastructure.”
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