Away from the CES noise, media technology engines are whirring into life, giving early indications of trends to keep tabs on through 2022. One of the earliest moves of the year has come from data center darling Xilinx, investing in a parallel compute platform provider called Bodo – with the aim of simplifying access to efficient media processing on FPGA-enabled clusters. Most of us will have heard of Python, the high-level programming language considered a suitable starting point for wannabe coders, yet Python and FPGA being used in the same sentence is a new one for us. This is because field programmable gate arrays are integrated circuits, so are created by hardware description languages rather than programming languages. However, the…