YouTube is now building its own video transcoding chips | GeekComparison
Enlarge / A Google Argos VCU. It transcodes video very quickly. Google has decided that YouTube requires such a massive transcoding workload that it needs to build its own server chips. The company detailed its new “Argos” chips in a YouTube blog post, a CNET interview, and in a paper for ASPLOS, the Architectural Support … Read more