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Intel updates its Visual Compute Accelerator

Bigger, better, faster Intel introduced the three-chip Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) quietly in Q4’15. It was equipped with a 3.5 GHz Xeon E3-1200 v4 series processor with 6 MB cache and Iris Pro Graphics, plus two 3.2 Ghz Xeon E5- 2600 v3 series processors with 30 MB cache. The processors were packaged in a slick looking PCIe AIB, and the ...

Jon Peddie

Bigger, better, faster Intel introduced the three-chip Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) quietly in Q4’15. It was equipped with a 3.5 GHz Xeon E3-1200 v4 series processor with 6 MB cache and Iris Pro Graphics, plus two 3.2 Ghz Xeon E5- 2600 v3 series processors with 30 MB cache. The processors were packaged in a slick looking PCIe AIB, and the terminology was curiously close to Nvidia’s Visual Computing Appliance (VCA). In 2017, at the NAB conference, Intel introduced the second generation VCA, the aptly named, VCA 2. The new and improved VCA 2 features: HD and UHD video in the
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