Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 5, 2012 2:45 AM ESTHaswell Media Engine: QuickSync the Third
Although we still have one more generation to go before QuickSync can apparently deliver close to x86 image quality, Haswell doesn't shy away from improving its media engine.
First and foremost is hardware support for the SVC (Scalable Video Coding) codec. The idea behind SVC is to take one high resolution bitstream from which lower quality versions can be derived. There are huge implications for SVC in applications that have varied bandwidth levels and/or decode capabilities.
Haswell also adds a hardware motion JPEG decoder, and MPEG2 hardware encoder.
Ivy Bridge will be getting 4K video playback support later this year, Haswell should obviously ship with it.
Finally there's a greater focus on image quality this generation, although as I mentioned before I'm not sure we'll see official support in a lot of the open source video codecs until Broadwell comes by. With added EUs we'll obviously see QuickSync performance improve, but I don't have data as to how much faster it'll be compared to Ivy Bridge.
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Spunjji - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - link
Fuckwit.nirmalv - Sunday, October 7, 2012 - link
Anandtech being a hardware site,its more inclined to keenly flow hardware devices with new architecture and innovations. iphone brings in1, A new A7 chip design and a novel 3 core graphics core
2, A new 3 microphone parabolic sound receiving design(which likely will become the new standard)
3, A new sim tray design(which will also likely become the new standard)
4, New sony BSI stacked sensor (the 13 mpx version will likely be the rage next year).
5, The first time that we have a 32 nm LTE chip which will give all day usage.
6, New thinner screen with incorporated touch panel and 100 % RGB
I am not sure about samsung but can anyone enlighten me about S3's technical achievements?
nirmalv - Sunday, October 7, 2012 - link
Sorry make that a 28 nm LTE basebandcenthar - Sunday, October 7, 2012 - link
99.998% of iPhone users just don't care about that. Really they don't.Geeks like me who do, are too damn smart to sell our souls to the such a god damned, locked down and closed system to even bother to care.
Magik_Breezy - Sunday, October 14, 2012 - link
2nd thatSpunjji - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - link
3rdCaptainDoug - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
4th,solipsism - Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - link
Of course a company that releases one device per product category per year as well as one with the greatest mindshare is going to have more articles.But what happens when you add up all Samsung phones against all Apple phones in a given year?
What happens when you don't count the small blogs that only detail a small aspect of a secretive product but count the total words to get a better feel for the effort spent per company's market segment?
I bet you'll find that AT spends a lot more time covering Samsung's phones than Apple's.
Spunjji - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - link
This. I generally trust their editorial, but the focus on Apple prevails. One just has to read accordingly.Kepe - Friday, October 5, 2012 - link
Also look at any other Apple product review. They are all ridiculously in-depth with analysis about almost every single component in the product. Macbook Pro with Retina Display got 18 pages, the 3rd gen iPad got 21 pages. Don't get me wrong, I like a proper review with everything analyzed, but it's only the Apple products that get these huge reviews. But compared to those massive Apple reviews, it's like all other products are just glanced over in a hurry. The new Razer Blade got 9 pages. Asus Transformer Pad Infinity got 8 pages.