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by ksec 1316 days ago
In 99.99% of cases for Smartphones, you are going to sign and pay Qualcomm for all of its license anyway. Including all patent in 3G/4G and 5G, as well as other wireless tech, Image, Sensor, Battery and of course including Video Codec patents.

What is interesting ( to me at least ), their new Video Engine IP in Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 did not include H.266 / VVC.
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videoborat 1316 days ago
Agree that's odd. I initially thought they'd delayed AV1 integration to match the VVC timeline but it seems the QC engineers are just generally slower than the ones working at Mediatek...
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ksec 1315 days ago
AFAIK, the VVC Decoder in Mediatek are for TV only, not Mobile. So the power usage is quite different. But I did expect Qualcomm to have VVC since they promised it in 2020 and 2021.
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