Microsoft Seeks to Push Activision Deal at EU Hearing for Market Competition

Microsoft Seeks to Push Activision Deal at EU Hearing for Market Competition

Microsoft President Brad Smith on Tuesday will seek to convince EU antitrust regulators at a closed hearing that the US software giant’s $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,800 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard will boost competition. Smith will lead a delegation of 18 senior executives, including Microsoft Gaming Chief…

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Launched, GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs Announced at CES 2023

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Launched, GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs Announced at CES 2023

Nvidia has announced its new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti desktop GPU, which is pretty much identical to the previously announced but “unlaunched” GeForce RTX 4080 (12GB). The company had to backtrack and postpone its previously announced product because its name was confusingly similar to that of the GeForce RTX 4080…

JioGamesCloud: Reliance’s New Cloud Gaming Service Now Available in Beta to Everyone

JioGamesCloud: Reliance’s New Cloud Gaming Service Now Available in Beta to Everyone

JioGamesCloud is now available for beta early access to everyone. Announced three years ago at a Reliance AGM event, the Indian cloud gaming service attempts to bring high-quality titles to its platform, including the likes of Saints Row IV, Kingdom Come Deliverance, and more. Though to be fair, most of…

China Lashes Out Against New US Chip Export Rules Aimed at Hobbling Its Semiconductor Industry

China Lashes Out Against New US Chip Export Rules Aimed at Hobbling Its Semiconductor Industry

China on Saturday criticized the latest US decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the US. “Out of the need to maintain its…

China Chip Manufacturing Industry Targeted With Sweeping New US Semiconductor Export Rules: All Details

China Chip Manufacturing Industry Targeted With Sweeping New US Semiconductor Export Rules: All Details

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. The rules, some of which go…