By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), July 2, 2013 1:20 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
hi (hi.delete@this.hi.hi) on July 1, 2013 8:15 am wrote:
> Exophase (exophase.delete@this.gmail.com) on July 1, 2013 12:44 am wrote:
> > The prospect of in-order FEC units on Silvermont led to a big discussion about the relevance
> > of FPU performance in mobile CPUs (or is it CPUs in general?), but those units almost certainly
> > handle all SIMD operations. So is integer SIMD (and shuffles, etc) also pointless?
>
> I have seen them used mostly in video decode/encode. Where else are they used?
Skype uses SW codecs due to the adaptive nature of the internet connectivity (I believe quality is scaled with bandwidth/latency, etc.). It's also a pretty darn popular app.
David
> Exophase (exophase.delete@this.gmail.com) on July 1, 2013 12:44 am wrote:
> > The prospect of in-order FEC units on Silvermont led to a big discussion about the relevance
> > of FPU performance in mobile CPUs (or is it CPUs in general?), but those units almost certainly
> > handle all SIMD operations. So is integer SIMD (and shuffles, etc) also pointless?
>
> I have seen them used mostly in video decode/encode. Where else are they used?
Skype uses SW codecs due to the adaptive nature of the internet connectivity (I believe quality is scaled with bandwidth/latency, etc.). It's also a pretty darn popular app.
David