Mishaal Rahman: The Tensor G3 is the first smartphone SoC to support hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. It supports AV1 encoding at up to 4K60.

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Interesting. Do we know why? Av1 is around for quite a few

Because there is no need for now compared to cost and efficiency.

Decoding - yes and I believe the last gen has that because streaming services are switching to AV1. However, only creators really would stream and make use of the encoding features.

Sorry, that was just a quote from the article. You'd have to ask Chip manufacturers why they're not including this hardware encoder/decoder.

its computationally intensive, so for platforms where battery life is a significant factor, its prioritized less.