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This hardware solution helps YouTube to transcode a single video in addition to one of the dozens of versions it needs to optimize bandwidth and quality of service depending on the targeted end user (PC, TV, telephone…). YouTube’s technical team claims to have created a ” VCU ” or ” Video (trans) encoding unit “. There were GPUs, but now we’ll have to get used to hearing about VCUs.

The company therefore decided to create its own solutions called Argos. For a while, the inflation of the need for computing power for video encoding was a topic within Google.

Google’s subsidiary, Youtube, has seen the demand on its resources explode during the pandemic like most streaming players.