MediaTek has unveiled its Pentonic 2000 SoC, a 7nm design that it claims is the first commercial VVC chipset. The SoC will appear in 8K 120 Hz TVs in 2022, and is right on track with the titillating transcoding timeline from our research wing Rethink TV. The new chip includes AV1 support – something of a highlight from MediaTek’s Summit event. As well as VVC and AV1, the older HEVC and VP9 codecs are still highlighted in the datasheet. The China-centric AVS3 codec is there too, but this is unsurprising. Notably, AVC is not mentioned at all, such is its table stakes status. MediaTek is correct in framing this as an optimized global platform, which should allow the same OEM…