Intel Chip Chat

In this livecast from National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Muzaffer Beygirci, CEO of nablet and Sven Düking, SVP of Engineering for nablet chat about the company’s current focus on cutting edge video codecs, video transcoding, and image processing technologies on Intel hardware optimized for the broadcast market. They discuss their integration of the Intel® Media SDK (Intel® Media Software Development Kit) with nablet and how it greatly advances their transcoding capabilities including decoding and encoding in the hardware delivering significant improvements in performance. Muzaffer goes over the incredible advantages that these new tools will provide the industry including tailored transcoding for very specific purposes. For more information go to www.nablet.com or follow nablet on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nablet_gmbh

Joe Spisak, Director of Strategy and Business Development and Machine Learning at Intel discusses machine learning (ML) and various factors such as bigger data, advances in scale compute, algorithmic innovation, and apps that can take advantage of data explosion to advance the ML industry. Joe notes that ML and deep learning (DL), provide excellent approaches to structuring massive data sets to generate insights and enable monetization opportunities. He highlights the advances that ML has led to including the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor and the Intel® Math Kernel Library, which have all changed the complexion of the industry. To find out more go to www.intel.com/machinelearning, or follow Joe on Twitter at https://twitter.com/josephspisak

Steve Scott, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cray joins us on Chip Chat to discuss the collaboration between Cray and Intel on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor for supercomputer integration. Steve highlights that Cray chose to implement the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor for its supercomputers because of the potential to support a diverse array of customer needs and deliver the best performance per application. He emphasizes that Cray develops software tools to optimize silicon innovations of Xeon Phi processor’s and code execution performance. To find out more go to www.cray.com

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Jiri Matela, CEO and Co-Founder of Comprimato discusses new JPEG2000 plugin for Intel® Media Server Studio. Comprimato focuses on high quality video decoding and encoding that is precisely optimized for CPU’s and GPU’s. Intel and Comprimato have teamed up to create the best video encoding technology to date. Jiri highlights how the JPEG2000 plugin will be able to handle 4K, 8K, and high frame rates for HDR by combining the massive power of Intel GPUs and advanced analysis tools that help video solution providers deliver fast, high-density media transcoding. To learn more and get a free demo visit www.comprimato.com

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Intel’s Media Segment Director, Nagesh Puppala discusses the enormous growth that visual cloud technologies will bring to various media services. He chats about the growth in media services and the future of video on the internet. Many service providers are seeking high quality content, such as 4K and 8k viewing, which can be delivered to any device anywhere. Intel has been providing solutions across the board, from content creation to content consumption, in order to create an agile infrastructure and employ new service quickly, cost effectively, and efficiently. Nagesh highlights some of the solutions that the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1500 v5 will bring video delivery, both live and streaming. To learn more go to: www.intel.com/visualcloud

In this episode of Chip Chat Randy Meyer, Vice President & General Manager at Mission Critical Systems at HPE and Peter Schrady, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Proliant Servers at HPE discuss the HPE Integrity Superdome X, HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9, and HPE Integrity MC990 X Server that will be leveraging the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v4. Randy and Peter chat about the demand for mission-critical computing that has driven the collaboration of Intel’s processing power and HPE’s “digital core” strategies. These products have been praised for their performance, reliability, availability, and compelling consolidation/virtualization efficiencies. To learn more go to www.hpe.com/servers or follow Randy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/meyer_randy.

Rob Enderle, Owner of the Enderle Group joins us to talk about the transformation of how companies are using analytics to make better business decisions and how businesses are using data to drive new insights. He describes how many businesses struggle to utilize the insights that they derive from data analytics because of the proliferation of traditional bad practices around analytics decision making. Rob calls for businesses to rethink the way that they make decisions and highlights how the reliability and performance of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v4 enables businesses to more quickly achieve actionable insights from their data and ultimately make better business decisions. To learn more, visit http://www.enderlegroup.com/ or follow Rob on Twitter https://twitter.com/Enderle

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Vladimir Plichko, Product Manager for Intel® Media Server Studio chats about the advances that have been made to Intel® Video Pro Analyzer (Intel® VPA) and Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder (Intel® SBE). These capabilities will bring fast performance for media processing and enable encoding and decoding for 10-bit AVC, without compromising quality. This technology will be perfect for content developers, video professionals, and researchers that want to save time in encoding, decoding, and validation time. Vladimir explains that the new media software capabilities will innovate optimized video and media processing by providing users with a software development kit tailored to enhance video performance. To learn more visit https://software.intel.com/en-us/

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Neal Forse, Strategic Marketing Manager for CODEC at Altera chats about the advantages of integrating general purpose servers and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and how FPGAs are helping to drive incredible acceleration with Intel x86 technologies. He discusses how performance intensive FPGA integrations with Intel® Xeon® processors allow equipment vendors and manufacturers to build out best-in-class algorithms to achieve incredibly high quality video compression and performance while enabling highly increased density. Neal highlights how the Altera booth at NAB showcased their new video IP and reference design called UDX 10 that is helping customers to build very high quality baseband video processing. To learn more, visit https://www.altera.com/

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Mark Buxton Intel Media Software Development Products Director at Intel stops by to talk about how Intel is delivering new and improved video analytics and HEVC (high efficiency video coding) encoding tools as well as SDKs (software development kits) and run time components through the Intel® Media Server Studio to enable software developers to drive the next generation of video. He highlights how Intel has made available a free community edition of the Intel® Media Server Studio in addition to the professional version which provides advanced analysis tools to enable an easy transition to HEVC. Mark also presents some new releases including the Intel® Video Pro Analyzer (Intel® VPA) and the Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder (Intel® SBE) which are high end tools designed for coding experts and video engineers to really tune up the video quality and robustness of their video decoders. To learn more, search online for Intel® Media Server Studio.