ABOUT NETINT

Creator of the VPU.

The only silicon purpose-built to scale 4K video to billions.
200,000 VPUs shipped. Over one trillion minutes encoded.

2024 Design & Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud

INDUSTRY TIMELINE

We built video silicon before the hyperscalers.

The walled gardens built their own because they could afford to.

Everyone else builds on us.

Why we started

Two engineers. One bet.

In 2015, Alex Liu and Tao Zhong looked at the trajectory of streaming video and saw what was coming: codec complexity was about to compound faster than general-purpose silicon could keep up. The walled gardens would build their own ASICs. Everyone else would be left running modern codecs on borrowed hardware.

They started NETINT to build the silicon the rest of the market couldn’t build for itself. Ten years and more than 200,000 VPUs later, the bet is paying off and the open market finally has the chip nobody else was going to give them.

2015

Company founded to
develop next-gen VPU

160+

Senior Engineers from top-tier IC design companies

20+

Average years experience for our engineering architects

Vancourver, HQ R&D
Toronto, R&D

VPU.

Created the category.

NETINT was founded to design purpose-built video silicon. The category was an idea before we were a company. Complete with award-winning hardware design alongside Google & Meta.

First.

Available and shipping for the open market.

Where hyperscalers keep their silicon internal, NETINT supports the open market. Standards-based integration, no proprietary lock-in. Anyone who can’t build their own ASIC, builds on us.

Persistent.

Over a decade strong and growing fast.

Two generations of silicon with a third on the way. Production deployments at scale. We’ve been here when other ASIC bets quietly walked away. The category needed a cornerstone of strength and we’re here to stay.

our team

Executive leadership.

Joshua Zhu, CEO

Joshua leads NETINT as Chief Executive Officer, setting the company’s direction and the long arc of its category-defining work in video processing silicon. [PLACEHOLDER, two sentences for Patti to swap in: Joshua’s prior career — semiconductor leadership, video infrastructure scale, founder track record, or named companies. Mirror the credibility cadence of the bios below.] Under his leadership, NETINT shipped the world’s first commercial ASIC-based video transcoder, launched the Smart VPU category, and earned the 2024 Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud.

Randal Horne, Chief Revenue

Randal leads the global revenue organization at NETINT and is responsible for sales, channel, and customer expansion across hyperscale, broadcast, surveillance, and OEM markets. He brings more than twenty-five years of leadership in media and communications, with senior sales roles at Ericsson and at Alpha Technologies, where he served as Vice President of Sales for Canada. He has built and scaled revenue organizations in markets where deployment trust matters more than benchmark numbers.

Daniel Zhou, Principal Engineer

Daniel is part of NETINT’s senior engineering leadership and contributes to the architecture of the company’s video processing silicon. He brings more than thirty years in integrated circuit and systems engineering, with a Master’s degree in Communication and Electronic Systems from Southeast University in Nanjing and deep technical expertise spanning digital signal processing, video coding, and communications hardware. His work sits at the heart of the Quadra VPU family, the architecture that lets a single 1RU server replace racks of CPU-based encoding.

Mark Donnigan, Chief Marketing

Mark leads global marketing at NETINT and is the architect of the company’s category strategy. He brings more than two decades in video streaming and digital media, including early work at VUDU, one of the first video-on-demand services, and a long record of advancing industry adoption of HEVC and AV1. Before NETINT, he served as a growth advisor to V-Nova, Beamr, and more than twenty other video technology companies. He hosts Voices of Video, the industry’s conversation on the engineering and economics of video streaming at scale.

WHAT THE INDUSTRY IS SAYING

Proof, not just press.

"NETINT's purpose-built silicon redefined what was economically possible at the edge — Akamai built our VPU-powered encoding tier on it because nothing else delivered the math."

Akamai Cloud · Engineering Blog, 2024

"Scalstrm's just-in-time transcoding architecture works because NETINT VPUs collapse the compute and power cost in a way no general-purpose silicon can match."

Scalstrm · Industry Press, 2025

"Tech Emmy 2024 Winner — Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud."

National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

"The reason hybrid VPU-native architectures are becoming the dominant deployment pattern is NETINT — they were three years ahead of every alternative."

The State of Video Encoding 2026 Report

we’re hiring

The category isn't built yet.
We're hiring the people who'll finish it.

Roles available in engineering, operations and sales.

Press

NETINT In the News

Real-world deployments, press coverage, and industry recognition highlighting how partners build, scale, and differentiate with NETINT VPUs.

How LCEVC Works

Discover how MPEG-5 LCEVC and VPUs work together to reduce bitrate, improve video efficiency, and

How to Specify a VPU: The 2026 Buyer’s Guide for Video Infrastructure Leaders

Download NETINT's 2026 VPU Buyer's Guide to compare Quadra VPUs, AV1 hardware encoding, video transcoding

Transforming Live Streaming TV, One Rack at a Time

Discover how Zapping scaled Live Streaming with NETINT VPUs, cutting server count, reducing power consumption,

From Concept to Production: A Field-Proven Methodology for Deploying NETINT Quadra VPUs

Learn how Video Efficiency combines VPUs and MPEG-5 LCEVC to reduce bitrate, lower CDN costs,

Pairing VPUs with MPEG-5 LCEVC Delivers The Next Layer of Video Efficiency 

Learn how Video Efficiency combines VPUs and MPEG-5 LCEVC to reduce bitrate, lower CDN costs,

Maximizing Encoding Efficiency in Live Streaming Workflows

Learn how Wowza Streaming Engine and NETINT VPUs improve Live Streaming Encoding Efficiency with scalable

Why choose NETINT

Executives want confidence,
not complexity.

  • Award-winning hardware design,
    along with Google and Meta
  • Radically lower TCO

Engineers want proof,
not another project.

  • Industry-leading density proven
    with real deployments
  • Automated FFmpeg integration 

Talk to the team that built the category.

Whether you’re evaluating VPU-native encoding, joining the ecosystem, or thinking about a career — there’s a real human on the other side of every form.