Sean Hollister

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, once the most important video game show, got axed forever in 2023 — now, its former hosts have announced the Interactive Innovation Conference (“iicon”) this April. It’s invitation-only, billed as “A first-of-its-kind event bringing together leaders across industries to harness the transformative power of interactive entertainment” — even though the similar DICE exists.

”Arm recently notified us that it was withdrawing its October 22nd, 2024 notice of breach and indicated that it has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm Architecture License Agreement,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on today’s Q1 2025 earnings call. (Qualcomm reported record quarterly revenue, and Amon says Snapdragon now has 10 percent share of $800-plus Windows laptops at US retail.)

AMD announced the new RDNA 4 cards at CES without a release date beyond “Q1,” and AMD exec David McAfee later narrowed that window to “March.” Now, we just heard AMD CEO Lisa Su narrow it further to “early March” on the company’s Q4 earnings call. The company’s reportedly planning an RDNA 4 event at the end of this month.

Its Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings boast record revenue for both data center and client divisions — where “client” equals its Ryzen chips with their Intel-beating gaming CPUs and impressive integrated graphics. While AMD’s gaming biz has been cut in half year-over-year as game console sales dip, AMD says it’s cumulatively shipped 100 million units into current-gen consoles.

Even if you managed to buy one — statistically, you couldn’t — owners have discovered Valorant and ARK Survival Evolved can crash on launch due to driver issues, with Valorant developer Riot blaming Nvidia. Some are reporting performance mode crashes with Fortnite and “unknown error” crashes with PUBG too.

“I am not happy with where we are today,” Intel interim co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus says of the company’s AI server business on today’s earnings call, a business which has not met its promises with Gaudi.