Stefan Mileschin

SM8550 - will support AV1

Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec next year with the SM8550" supporting it.

For those who came in late AV1 is the web's next open, royalty-free video codec, but it needs hardware support from the world's chip vendors.

Qualcomm's 2022 flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, doesn't support AV1 but Samsung's Exynos 2200 and the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 SoC do.

Amusingly Apple is a founding member of the AV1 Alliance, but its devices don't support the codec yet.

Now it seems that Qualcomm's "upcoming flagship Snapdragon mobile processor" -- model number "SM8550" -- will support AV1. That would probably be called the "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" SoC, due out in 2023.

Adoption of AV1 seems inevitable, though it is taking longer than expected.

The codec is a successor to Google's VP8 and VP9 codecs and is being built by the Alliance for Open Media. The alliance's lineup is a who's who of tech companies, with founding members like Amazon, Apple, ARM, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung.

https://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/5...v1-video-codec