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Strange bedfellows: Tencent and ByteDance, two of China’s top digital giants, have been legal rivals for years. However, an advertising expenditure analysis shows that the former’s gaming aspirations have taken precedence over any hard feelings as Tencent tries to take on one of 2023’s most popular mobile games. Analysts have observed that most of Tencent’s […]

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In almost every discussion about RISC-V’s position in the ecosystem, the instruction set architecture (ISA) is often seen as a direct competitor to Arm. Most people view the two ISAs as being engaged in a winner-take-all, zero-sum contest, where only one can prevail. However, we believe that, at least for the foreseeable future, the industry

Forward-looking: In an era where it’s clear that PCs still matter, Intel is making a statement about the future of the PC category with the much-anticipated launch of the Core Ultra chip (codenamed “Meteor Lake”). Not surprisingly, the direction is straight towards AI. During Intel’s “AI Everywhere” event in New York City this week, the

Why it matters: This is the second largest settlement that the California Civil Rights Department has negotiated and originally it had wanted Activision Blizzard to pay far more. But since the suit was filed two years ago, Activision has taken a number of steps to create a culture of inclusivity and diversity at the company

In context: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has come out with the bold statement that the industry is better off with inference rather than Nvidia’s CUDA because it is resource-efficient, adapts to changing data without the need to retrain a model and because Nvidia’s moat is “shallow.” But is he right? CUDA is currently the industry

WTF?! If you find raw power is the most important element in a laptop and care little about size, weight, looks, and noise, then the REV-9 could be for you. Its industrial design isn’t going to compete with the Razer Blade when it comes to sleekness, but it does pack a 64-core AMD Epyc CPU,

Why it matters: Allowing companies access to your private information has been a contentious issue since the rise of the internet. It’s especially concerning when that information is related to location data, which is partly why Google has changed its policy regarding access to users’ location histories in Maps. The move means it can no

Bottom line: Two leading motherboard makers have announced support for memory capacities up to 256 GB. It’s only a matter of time before competing board makers also expand their memory capacity support. Fortunately, there is no hurry for it to happen as most folks building a new system these days for general purpose use or

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