The popularity of mobile devices increases the urgency of ordinary operation as transcoding - conversion of video file in one format to another, for example, in order to transfer it from computer to smartphone.
NVIDIA company within the platform CUDA already works at the hardware acceleration of video transcoding process , using for this task resources of its video chip. As reports associate Intel company is ready to allot the processors of sandy bridge generation by special functional blocks, which accelerate the process of video transcoding at the hardware level.
It is remarkable, that the corresponding functional blocks will relate neither to the computational core nor to the graphic core, which in the processors sandy bridge for the first time will be placed on one piece of silicon. On IDF 2010 Intel representatives will describe about the processors generation sandy bridge.