AMD’s Lisa Su somewhat dodges a question about whether a cloud gaming shift is underway: “I see PC gaming strong, I see console gaming strong, and I see cloud gaming also having legs. They all need similar types of technology but they obviously use it in different ways.”
AMD’s Lisa Su is happy with CHIPS subsidies, but thinks we’re maybe a teensy bit behind the curve.
Meta doesn’t just need another hardware building block — it needs games.
Tomorrow, Meta will explain why you should pay $500 for a Quest 3 at Meta Connect... and I’m starting to wonder if Lego will be part of the pitch. See the blocks in Zuck’s image below? They’ve got trademarked Lego logos on top!
But Zuck has since yanked his video, and Microsoft’s similar teases with Minecraft have yet to produce a killer app.
Hideki Kamiya, who directed Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Ōkami, Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101 and Scalebound (before it got canceled), announced yesterday that he’s leaving PlatinumGames. He co-founded the studio in 2006.
He’s not retiring, though. “As long as I have everyone’s support, I’ll keep making games, so I’ll do my best not to disappoint,” reads part of an auto-translated thread at X.
Last week, I told you how 42 Dough customers accused the company of stringing them along for months or years without shipping their products or issuing refunds.
Since then, 35 more customers have stepped forward — only two of which say they got satisfaction.
I have now sent Dough a partial list of order numbers that are waiting for fulfillment, with our readers’ permission. Dough owes those people as much as $50,000.
Scott Herkelman ran the Radeon business unit since 2016, getting AMD back in the game.
He’s not the only AMD graphics boss to leave this year, as “Computing & Graphics EVP” Rick Bergman recently retired too. Bergman was replaced by Jack Huynh, whose previous division helped AMD dominate two generations of game consoles (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series) with semi-custom gaming chips.
Microsoft’s spec sheet shows it’s a “Intel Gen3 Movidius 3700VC VPU AI Accelerator.” Intel’s website reveals that it’s a discrete chip roughly the size of my pinky’s fingertip at 14mm x 14mm.
It’s a PCIe Gen 3 device, so don’t be surprised if it comes on its own tiny SSD-sized M.2 expansion card. Here’s a whitepaper about its siblings. Meteor Lake won’t need a separate NPU like this:
