ARM reveals some details of Egil video processor

ARM has announced a new video processor codenamed Egil. The video processor will probably be available in about six months. As a single core, the soc part can handle full HD at 80 frames per second and with six cores 4k video at 120 frames per second.

The current Mali-V550 video processor was ARM’s first video processor that could encode and decode h.265 and display full HD at 60fps with a single core. To display a 4k image at 120fps, two more V550 cores are needed than with Egil. Egil will also hardware-wise encode and decode Google’s VP9 codec with VP9 profile 0 and 2, or 8 and 10-bits per sample, respectively.

Egil’s ability to fully encode VP9 means that the processor can compete with Intel’s Skylake platform in that area as it is the only processor that can now fully encode and decode VP9. There are no other mobile processors that can handle the full encryption of VP9, ​​Hexus writes, based on the sparse information from ARM.

Other than that, not much more is known. The video processor will probably be referred to as Mali-V650 because the Mali-DP650 image processor already exists. According to Androidauthority, this would be a logical step. It is not yet known when the processor will actually be announced.