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...It was a household name only to the most dedicated PC gamers....
...The move would bring Nvidia into closer competition with Intel, whose CPUs have long dominated the PC and data centre markets....
...That move, which is likely to dent the industry’s long-term sales growth, was barely mentioned on the latest round of earnings calls....
...If AI turns out to be as disruptive as many in the tech world believe, the new PC chip wars will change the computing landscape. But it is likely to be a very long campaign. richard.waters@ft.com...
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...apparently long remained unanswered. Clearly no one could agree because the answer appears to be both....
...West coast editor Richard Waters says the magnitude of the EU’s giant test in micromanagement is hard to overstate....
...There was just the PC and Microsoft’s monopoly of software on the PC. And the way they used that in the tech industry made them a lot of enemies. Michela Tindera Right. Of course....
...Chip wars are coming to PCs: A spate of new products are about to hit the market that will put Intel under increasing pressure, writes Richard Waters....
...Richard Waters Intel has been very, very successful and its entire fortune has been built on PCs. The PC world was Intel’s foundation. Michela Tindera That’s the FT’s West Coast editor Richard Waters....
...Sales of PCs — still Intel’s main market — have fallen back after a pandemic-era boom, and many Wall Street analysts believe the company’s predictions about the market in the long term are unrealistic....
...Pure cloud gaming platforms, on the other hand, have been slow to take off — despite long-running predictions that they will one day dominate the gaming world in the same way that streaming video is swallowing...
...That's one side of the coin, and that's going to fix the medium and long-term....
...The rest is set to come in the form of an expected cash bonus and long-term incentive equity award....
...Microsoft’s second weapon is a familiar one: its ubiquity on PCs. The battle this week has been cast as a rerun of the long-running — and one-sided — Google vs Bing rivalry....
...But, while sales of PCs and smartphones have fallen back, tech demand more generally has remained robust. A sharper downturn would change that....
...Goodbody’s O’Donnell goes on to say: This is a stand out transaction in the UK games industry and continues to demonstrate the high water mark valuation for evergreen live-service IP....
...But the company’s design team succeeded in constructing a road-legal car, 3.6m long, which to all intents and purposes is a Wild One replica....
...‘Bramble: The Mountain King’ is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X...
...We have no intention of leaving China, we intend to be there as long as the government in China allows us....
...The announcement comes a week after Micron slashed its financial forecast for the current quarter in the face of slumping PC and smartphone demand....
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