TEMPE, Ariz. -- Artesyn Embedded Technologies today announced that its next-generation SharpStreamer Pro add-on video acceleration card, based on the new Intel Xeon E3-1578Lv5, which uses the Skylake-H microarchitecture, is now available for customers to evaluate through a secure remote access lab.

Developers can now evaluate the performance of their specific applications on the SharpStreamer Pro card, which offers a significant performance and functionality boost in a standard PCI Express form factor for compatibility with industry-standard servers. It targets 4K and HD HEVC encoding and transcoding requirements in demanding linear broadcast and high-density OTT multiscreen applications.

The SharpStreamer Pro card is available in full- or half-length versions with one or two processors, each of which is capable of up to eight streams of 1080p30 H.265/HEVC transcodes, or four streams of 1080p60 H.265/HEVC transcodes. Each processor can support one 4KP60 HEVC, or up to two 4KP30 HECV transcodes.

Artesyn Embedded Technologies Inc.