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Microsoft tells UK it will license ‘Call of Duty’ to Sony for 10 years
9Mar By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft tells UK it will license ‘Call of Duty’ to Sony for 10 years

[ad_1] Microsoft said it would license Activision Blizzard's "Call of Duty" (CoD) to Sony for 10 years to address concerns raised by Britain over its $69 billion takeover of the games maker, according to a document published by the regulator. Microsoft last month struck a similar deal with Nvidia Corp's gaming platform, dependent on it getting the go-ahead for the much-contested acquisition. Microsoft President Brad Smith had said he hoped that rival Sony - which has strongly opposed the takeover - would consider doing the same type of deal. Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in February said the deal could weaken the rivalry between Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation, and stifle competition in cloud gaming. It suggested that structural remedies could be nee...
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Microsoft inks Nvidia game deal to assuage regulators over Activision merger
23Feb By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft inks Nvidia game deal to assuage regulators over Activision merger

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp has struck a 10-year deal to bring "Call of Duty" and other Activision games to Nvidia Corp's gaming platform if the Xbox maker is allowed to complete its much-contested $69 billion acquisition of Activision.Regulators and competitors like Sony have come out hard against the proposed Microsoft-Activision tie-up. The move may allay concerns by ensuring more ways for consumers to get games controlled by Microsoft, but regulators around the world have been skeptical about the acquisition. Britain earlier this month said the deal could harm gamers by weakening the rivalry between Xbox and PlayStation, resulting in higher prices, fewer choices and less innovation for millions of players, as well as stifling competition in cloud gaming. Microsoft President Brad Smith to...
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Nvidia fixes Discord update slowing down user’s GPU issue
6Feb By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia fixes Discord update slowing down user’s GPU issue

[ad_1] American technology company Nvidia has stated that there's a fix for a recently discovered issue where the Discord update being open in the background limited the performance of some graphics cards. The Verge, an American technology news website, has reported that according to a tweet from the company, the patch will download automatically when you log into Windows, so users won't have to go through the trouble of manually downloading a graphics driver or other software update. The problem, which appeared to be triggered by a recent Discord update, affected systems with cards such as the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti. It prevented GPUs from reaching their maximum memory rates, causing them to fall short by roughly 200 MHz. That came with a tiny performance hit when playing gam...
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Nvidia to Win Big From ChatGPT Hype, Wall Street Predicts
24Jan By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia to Win Big From ChatGPT Hype, Wall Street Predicts

[ad_1] In the weeks since the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool took the world by storm, Nvidia Corp. has emerged as Wall Street’s preferred pick for traders seeking to profit from its potential. In the weeks since the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool took the world by storm, Nvidia Corp. has emerged as Wall Street's preferred pick for traders seeking to profit from its potential.The chipmaker's stock has rallied 29% since the start of the year, placing it among the best performers in the S&P 500 Index. Contributing to the gains has been the hype around the chat bot released by OpenAI late last year that has demonstrated an uncanny capacity to mimic human writing. The rationale is simple: Nvidia dominates the market for graphics chips designed for complex computing tasks ne...
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Google, Nvidia Express Concerns to FTC About Microsoft’s Activision Deal
14Jan By adminNo Comments
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Google, Nvidia Express Concerns to FTC About Microsoft’s Activision Deal

[ad_1] The two companies joined Sony in raising issues with the $69 billion transaction, which the FTC has sued to block Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Nvidia Corp. have expressed concerns to the Federal Trade Commission about Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., adding fuel to the government's case against the $69 billion deal, according to people familiar with the matter.The companies joined Sony Group Corp. in raising issues with the transaction, which the FTC sued to block in December. The commission has argued that the deal would hinder competition in the video-game industry and has scheduled an in-house trial for August. Either company could be called to testify as part of the FTC trial. Google and Nvidia provided information that backs a key FTC contention — t...
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