Faultline has been following the progress of video delivery deep learning start-up iSize Technologies since NAB 2020, when the company caught our eye with a demo of its pixel-to-pixel neural network for optimizing video frames at the video pre-encoding stage. Approaching three years later, iSize has achieved a feat that was previously impossible without a specialized GPU or other accelerator hardware. Naturally, Intel’s fingerprints are all over this breakthrough. However, the timing is intriguing, coming just two months after iSize was lauding AMD’s new Epyc CPUs, in conversation with Faultline. Thanks to Intel’s latest Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) technology, available on the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor, iSize’s AI-based BitClear products – for noise reduction and upscaling – can…