Elemental Technologies’ super-fast video processing could slash costs of video web sites
Web sites such as YouTube get so much traffic for their videos that the processing load can be crushing, leading to huge server and bandwidth costs.
To deal with that, Elemental Technologies is announcing new servers today that take advantage of the computing power of graphics… Continue Reading
Elemental launches its “Badaboom” video conversion software
As I write this, I’m waiting for a long upload to YouTube to finish. It’s taking forever. If you’ve ever tried to move a movie or home video from a computer to a portable device, you know the feeling. That’s what Badaboom is for.
Elemental Technologies… Continue Reading
Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups
I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth in 1995. Since 3-D games didn’t exist back then, Huang described his graphics chip as the ideal “Windows accelerator.” And if… Continue Reading
Elemental Technologies raises $7.1M for video software
Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Ore. provider of parallel video processing software, has raised $7.1 million in new funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital.
Elemental says its software can perform video encoding, transcoding and filtering at unprecedented speeds without sacrificing quality by using general… Continue Reading