Tencent’s Canghai V2 chip enters mass production
TencentCloud announced that its self-developed 'Canghai' codec chip series, initiated in 2019, has entered mass production for its next-generation Canghai V2 chip. The V2 version is planned to fully launch services in the second half of 2026, building on over 100,000 deployed Canghai V1 chips used for live streaming, VOD, 4K transcoding, and cloud gaming. The Canghai chip also ranked first in a recent hardware video encoding competition by Moscow State University.
Key Takeaways
- TencentCloud says more than 100,000 Canghai V1 chips are deployed across live streaming, VOD, 4K transcoding, and cloud gaming.
- Canghai V2 has been powered on and entered its mass production cycle.
- The Canghai codec chip series started R&D in 2019 and entered mass production in 2023.
- Moscow State University’s hardware video encoding competition ranked Canghai first in the 30–240 range.
Why It Matters
Tencent’s move gives it a larger in-house codec hardware base for streaming workloads right now, with V1 already used in live streaming, VOD, 4K transcoding, and cloud gaming. The broader signal is that TencentCloud is continuing to internalize video infrastructure with a chip series that has already reached 100,000 deployed V1 units and now has V2 in mass production. The next concrete marker is whether TencentCloud follows through on the planned full service launch for Canghai V2 in the second half of 2026.
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