Some estimates claim the global video streaming market was valued at over $89 billion in 2022, with expectations that it would expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.5% between now 2030. As the industry expands, the demand for servers and appliances purpose-built to handle the workloads and optimize for latency, bandwidth, density and power will commensurately expand as well.

Highly optimized cloud software and silicon have begun to emerge with refined cloud-native platforms targeted at servicing the needs of global cloud compute workloads, the majority of which are straightforward applications like web hosting, database management, search, encoding and analytics. As such, a new class of “Cloud Native Processors” has emerged, highly tuned for data center workloads, and a fairly new but now well-established player by the name of Ampere Computing has begun to define this market segment of chips.

This past week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Machines featuring Ampere Altra processors, in 10 Azure regions globally. This marks another significant triumph for Ampere, which has landed wins with numerous leaders in the cloud space, including Google, Cloudflare, Tencent, and Oracle to name just a few.

Foxconn’s Industrial Internet division has launched a new AI-enabled machine vision platform called Gloria. Powered by Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 solution, the system is design to support up to 24 high-definition cameras for video analytics applications like traffic analysis, security monitoring and smart retail spaces.

Adaptive silicon solutions heavyweight, Xilinx, has just announced a new line of SmartNIC, or intelligent, adaptable Network Interface Cards, consisting of not only the physical Alveo SN1000 line, but broad platform solution frameworks and references designs to address major market opportunities like AI-powered video analytics and algorithmic financial trading. In addition, the company has launched an FPGA platform app store with ready-to-deploy solutions that address several key markets, such as data analytics, video and image processing, HPC, machine learning, networking and security.

“With today’s rapidly evolving business climate, enterprises are constantly looking for new ways to modernize their business while leveraging their existing infrastructure. Running Anthos on bare metal using servers based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors will simplify the deployment of a cloud-first approach, opening a wide array of new use cases across retail, telco and manufacturing industries,” said Jason Grebe, Intel corporate vice president and general manager the Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group.