NGCodec supports H.265/HEVC and VP9, and will soon support H.264/AVC and AV1.
Xilinx has been a partner of, and strategic investor in, NGCodec since 2016, and the two companies have previously collaborated on next-generation FPGA-enabled video codec technology.
Xilinx said that it bought NGCodec in order to gain access to video IP and talent.
Cloud video is already a key driver for the company’s data centre group business, which it expects to grow by roughly 50% year-over-year through 2023.
The NGCodec team will report to Nazeem Noordeen, corporate vice president of data centre engineering.