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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st Generation VPU | 2nd Generation Smart VPUs | |||||||
Modules | Server | Server | Modules | |||||
ASIC VPU
T408 | ASIC VPU
T432 | G4 VPU
Logan | 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
| | | |
|---|---|---|---|
1st Generation VPU | |||
Modules | Server | ||
ASIC VPU
T408 | ASIC VPU
T432 | G4 VPU
Logan | |
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
| | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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
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