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Smart VPU

ASIC Video Processing Unit powered by AI

Enabling streaming platforms to hyperscale profitably

We created a new category of Smart VPUs to disrupt the previous limitations of video encoding for streaming delivery platforms. It is unique because it’s dense, cost effective and AI-powered making it the smart technology for platforms to future-proof their services and hyperscale profitably.

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Greatest Density Throughput

Increase your throughput and scale your live stream bandwidth while eliminating 95% of your hardware footprint. AI-powered technology streams smarter with automated bandwidth caps to improve your throughput, your customer experience and your bottom line.
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Lowest Operating Costs

Gaming platforms can now engage 200 users per session per 1RU. Drop-in upgrade path means easy transition into Smart VPUs where you can introduce all the benefits of AI intelligence into your live streaming platform.
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AI Powered

Smart VPUs bulk process at lighting speeds with finer resolution enabling facial-priority enhancements and key object identification. Best part, storage occupies 80% less server space with smart lossless compression.

Real cost of live streaming

Cost comparison supporting 100 HD streams, 24/7, across 3 video encoding scenarios, over a three year period.

Companies that converted their software encoding to Smart VPUs realized 75-85% savings in their data center’s OPEX expenses.

NETINT Technologies - Real cost of live streaming

What it means?

If you have money to burn or need proof of concept, deploy in the public cloud.
But if you want to build a sustainable and profitable video streaming platform future-proofed with AI, base your hardware technology on Smart VPUs.

Our global customers are video content publishers and streaming service providers who require future-sustainable and AI-ready technology to deliver more for less.

Live Streaming Platforms

Get real-time, broadcast quality, high density encoding with 20X greater capacity while decreasing carbon emissions.
  • Real Time Interactive
  • Video Conference
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Cloud Gaming Platforms

With a Smart VPU architecture, cloud gaming becomes financially viable supporting more players at the lowest cost per session.
  • 360/VR/AR
  • Virtual Worlds
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Surveillance Platforms

Smart VPUs are AI-powered enabling advanced facial and object detection with lossless compression storage ideal for security providers.
  • NVR Monitoring Surveilance
  • Control Center Video Wall

This is why Google built a custom ASIC for YouTube

For everyone else who isn’t Google, we did the heavy lifting for you

We developed commercially available Smart VPU cards for easy drop-in replacement and immediate deployment.

NETINT Technologies - Server Density - This is why Google built a custom ASIC for YouTube
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Less investment means more profit

Corporations spend 80% of their annual capital expenses running or renting space in enterprise data centers. When you run with Smart VPU hardware and bring your encoding inhouse, you reclaim 80% of operating costs previously spent renting cloud server space.

Powered by AI

Ideal for applications requiring massive data sorting in real-time such as security surveillance, live streaming and high volume throughput:
  • Region of interest encoding
  • Scene detection
  • Background removal
  • Video enhancement
  • Facial recognition
  • Object detection
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VPUs are Green

Environmentally speaking, the benefits of Smart VPU technology are profound. In a data center, VPUs produce a tiny fraction of C02 emissions compared to any other technology.

Not only do Smart VPUs save your bottom line, but they save the planet too. That’s a win-win.

Smart VPU Products

Smart VPUs are engineered for live, high-volume streaming, interactive applications and the metaverse. They’re smart, inexpensive, capable, flexible, and exceptionally efficient. Best of all, Smart VPUs offer a simple upgrade path with drop-in replacement into enterprise-class NVMe servers.

Here’s a glance at all NETINT ASIC VPU products:

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NETINT Technologies - Quadra T1U VPU (Video Processing Unit)
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NETINT Technologies - Quadra T2A VPU (Video Processing Unit)
1st Generation VPU
2nd Generation Smart VPUs
Modules
Server
Server
Modules
ASIC VPU

T408

ASIC VPU

T432

G4 VPU

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G5 Smart VPU

Quadra

Smart VPU

T1U

Smart VPU

T1A

Smart VPU

T2A

Performance
ASIC Codensity chip
G4
G4 (4x)
G4, T408s (10x)
G5, T1Us (10x)
G5
G5
G5 (2x)
Price
$300
$1,200
starting at $7,000
starting at $19,000
$1,500
$1,500
$2,750
Form Factor
U.2
AIC, HHHL
1RU Server
1RU Server
U.2
AIC, HHHL
AIC, HHHL
Power Consumption
7W
27W
~400W
~500W
17W
20W
40W
Real-time Throughput Up to:
8x 1080p30
2x 4Kp30
32x 1080p30
8x 4Kp30
80x 1080p30
20x 4Kp30
320x 1080p30
80x 4Kp30
20x 8Kp30
32x 1080p30
8x 4Kp30
2x 8Kp30
32x 1080p30
8x 4Kp30
2x 8Kp30
64x 1080p30
16x 4Kp30
4x 8Kp30
Latency
12.8 ms
12.8 ms
12.8 ms
8 ms
8 ms
8 ms
8 ms
Encode Codecs
H.264, HEVC, YUV
H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, AV1
Decode Codecs
H.264, HEVC, YUV
H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, VP9
Audio Codecs
n/a
MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC
Features
Artificial Intelligence
n/a
n/a
n/a
150 TOPS
15 TOPS
18 TOPS
36 TOPS
New Capped CRF
Flexible GOP
Scaling
Cropping and Padding
Video Overlay
YUV / RGB Conversion
Configurable tuning of quality/throughput
n/a
n/a
n/a

Feature supported on VPU

Feature runs on host CPU

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1st Generation VPU
Modules
Server
ASIC VPU

T408

ASIC VPU

T432

G4 VPU

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Performance
ASIC Codensity chip
G4
G4 (4x)
G4, T408s (10x)
Price
$300
$1,200
starting at $7,000
Form Factor
U.2
AIC, HHHL
1RU Server
Power Consumption
7W
27W
~400W
Real-time Throughput Up to:
8x 1080p30
2x 4Kp30
32x 1080p30
8x 4Kp30
80x 1080p30
20x 4Kp30
Latency
12.8 ms
12.8 ms
12.8 ms
Encode Codecs
H.264, HEVC, YUV
Decode Codecs
H.264, HEVC, YUV
Audio Codecs
n/a
Features
Artificial Intelligence
n/a
n/a
n/a
New Capped CRF
Flexible GOP
Scaling
Cropping and Padding
Video Overlay
YUV / RGB Conversion
Configurable tuning of quality/throughput
n/a
n/a
n/a

Feature supported on VPU

Feature runs on host CPU

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NETINT Technologies - Quadra T1U VPU (Video Processing Unit)
NETINT Technologies - Quadra T1A VPU (Video Processing Unit)
NETINT Technologies - Quadra T2A VPU (Video Processing Unit)
2nd Generation Smart VPUs
Server
Modules
G5 Smart VPU

Quadra

Smart VPU

T1U

Smart VPU

T1A

Smart VPU

T2A

Performance
ASIC Codensity chip
G5, T1Us (10x)
G5
G5
G5 (2x)
Price
starting at $19,000
$1,500
$1,500
$2,750
Form Factor
1RU Server
U.2
AIC, HHHL
AIC, HHHL
Power Consumption
~500W
17W
20W
40W
Real-time Throughput Up to:
320x 1080p30
80x 4Kp30
20x 8Kp30
32x 1080p30
8x 4Kp30
2x 8Kp30
32x 1080p30
8x 4Kp30
2x 8Kp30
64x 1080p30
16x 4Kp30
4x 8Kp30
Latency
8 ms
8 ms
8 ms
8 ms
Encode Codecs
H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, AV1
Decode Codecs
H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, VP9
Audio Codecs
MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC
Features
Artificial Intelligence
150 TOPS
15 TOPS
18 TOPS
36 TOPS
New Capped CRF
Peer-to-peer DMA
Cropping and Padding
Scaling
Video Overlay
Audio decode / encode
YUV / RGB Conversion
Configurable tuning of quality/throughput

Feature supported on VPU

Feature runs on host CPU