The world-leading hardware IP provider, Chips&Media, pre-released the multi-standard HW IP named WAVE517, targeting 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD), which is the first in the industry to support almost every codec standards for the UHD in the market, including the MPEG standard HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) standard known as H.265, AVC/H.264, Google’s VP9, Chinese AVS2 and AOM's AV1 with optimized size and stable decoding performance.