MulticoreWare

MulticoreWare Inc is a software development company, offering products and services related to (i) HEVC video compression, (ii) machine learning (specifically, convolutional neural networks), (iii) compilers for heterogeneous computing, and (iv) software performance optimization.[1] MulticoreWare's customers include Amazon, AMD, ARM, Microsoft, Google, Telestream and BBright Technologies. MulticoreWare was founded in 2009 and today has offices in 3 countries – USA, China and India.[2]

MulticoreWare Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware Products & Services
Founded2009
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
USA
Number of locations
6 (2015)
Key people
A.G. Karunakaran (CEO)
Prof. Wen-mei Hwu (CTO)
Productsx265, UHDcode, MxPA
Servicesvideo/ image processing, convolutional neural networks, software performance optimization
Number of employees
250+
Websitemulticorewareinc.com

MulticoreWare was placed at 110 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America for the year 2014.[3] St. Louis, Missouri based technology start-up accelerator ITEN listed the company in its list of top ten tech startups in the St. Louis area[4] for three consecutive years (2012–2014). MulticoreWare was ranked the 22nd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Business Journal in October 2014.[5] In July 2014, MulticoreWare was named to EE Times Silicon 60, a list of hot startups to watch.[2] MulticoreWare Inc. was a Tie50 Awards Finalist[6] at TiEcon2014.

In May 2020, MulticoreWare entered the AMD embedded platform ecosystem with its AI technologies that address workloads for machine learning, neural networks, image and video processing applications that involve low cost, low capacity, and long contract life to meet a range of market segments.[7]

Products

x265

MulticoreWare leads the development of the x265 HEVC encoder. x265 is based on the x264 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder with a similar command-line syntax and feature set. x265 is offered under either the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2 license or a commercial license.[8] In February 2014, Telestream's Vantage Transcode Multiscreen became the first commercial product to introduce x265 encoding technology.[9] In October 2015, the Video Group at Moscow State University identified x265 as having the highest overall efficiency (i.e. the lowest bit rate at any target quality level) in its first comparison of HEVC encoders.[10]

LipSync

LipSync is a tool that automatically detects audio-video synchronization errors in video. By using machine learning and deep learning technologies, errors can be detected without digital fingerprinting or watermarking.

UHDcode

MulticoreWare offers the UHDcode[1][11] HEVC video decoder API, available on x86, ARM, Xbox 360 and PS3. It has been OpenCL accelerated and supports HEVC Main/ Main10 profiles.

x265 HEVC Upgrade

In March 2015 MulticoreWare launched x265 HEVC Upgrade,[11] which includes the x265 Encoder application and the UHDcode DirectShow filter, allowing HEVC video playback on 64-bit Windows Media Player.

Multicore Cross Platform Architecture

Multicore Cross Platform Architecture (MxPA) is a heterogeneous computing stack based on the LLVM framework, capable of supporting OpenCL, RenderScript, CUDA and C++ AMP.[12][13]

HCC C++

HCC[14] is an open source parallel C++ compiler for HSA and OpenCL 1.2. HCC provides compiler frontends for C++AMP, C++ source with parallel STL and OpenMP.

Software development services

MulticoreWare has one of the world's largest heterogeneous computing teams across the globe and offers accelerated software development services.[15] MulticoreWare is a Contributor Member of the Khronos Group[16] and is active on several standards. Its full range of services include:

  • GPU-accelerated software development[15][17]
  • Multicore CPU application development[16]
  • CUDA acceleration services for Nvidia GPUs[18]
  • C++ AMP software development services[19]
  • RenderScript Android acceleration[17][20]
  • Xilinx Alliance Partner services[21]
  • Convolutional neural networks

References
  1. MulticoreWare: Powering Disruptive Solutions
  2. EE Times Silicon 60: Hot Startups to Watch
  3. The 2014 Inc. 5000
  4. Here are St. Louis’ top 10 tech startups
  5. The 50 fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley
  6. Tie50 Awards Finalists 2014
  7. "MulticoreWare Joins AMD Embedded Ecosystem With AI Solutions Software". businesswire. May 14, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  8. "x265 HEVC Video Encoder Project". Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  9. Telestream Announces Availability of HEVC Transcoding
  10. Tenth MSU Video Codecs Comparison
  11. MulticoreWare launches H.265 Encoders and Decoders
  12. MulticoreWare Inc. Introduces Multicore Cross-platform Architecture (MXPA) for Portability
  13. MulticoreWare Brings Unprecedented Performance and Productivity to New Processor Platforms
  14. HCC : An open source C++ compiler for heterogeneous devices
  15. AMD Profile: MulticoreWare Inc
  16. Khronos Contributor Member
  17. Accelerated Image Filters using GPU Compute on Mali-T600
  18. NVidia CUDA Training and Consulting Partners
  19. Bringing C++AMP Beyond Windows via CLANG and LLVM
  20. MulticoreWare Accelerates VP9, Google’s Next-Generation Open Video Codec
  21. Xilinx Alliance Program Partner Page
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