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News Patch 3.16

ARM Amputation

Even since the final “cut” was made in the Softbank/nVidia deal last month, ARM is having to make some severances
Due to the $40B acquisition’s fall-through, ARM is cutting between 12-15% of its workforce to become one ARM. Yes puns, but those are their words.
With a global workforce of ~6,500, most of the cuts will be taking place in the US and UK to reduce costs and remove duplication in their work
Hopefully ARM’s new focus will boost the semiconductor tech in a new, beneficial direction for us all

RTX.. ASUS

A quick quip on GPU prices, which seem to be a big topic here at SSH
ASUS is slashing their GPU prices on RTX 30-series by up to 25% in Australia thanks to declining demand
Although it doesn’t help us much here in the U.S., this seems to be following a slightly lesser global decline in prices due to production gradually ramping up, bitcoin mining falling (not going into that here), and gamers, as usual, holding off from committing while prices are high. Prices are still up 41% over RRP, but the future is looking better than it has for some time!

Intel Inside.. Everything

Intel’s previously veiled Project Endgame has had some light shed on it. To keep it quick, we’ll just drop one, fat quote and move on
“Project Endgame is a unified services layer that harnesses computing resources everywhere – cloud, edge, and your home, to improve your gaming, and non-gaming, PC experiences. With Project Endgame, we can untether our users from their local hardware specs. Project Endgame is paving the roads for the next decade of real-time GPU experiences for Intel, with the goal of petaflops of compute accessible at a few millisecond latency, and starting in Q2 of this year we will take our first public steps.”
Yes. Their GPUs were just their foot into our wallets.. And the cloud market

Since Mando Loves Hideo Kajima..

Hideo Kojima was awarded the annual Japanese Minister’s Award for Fine Arts, in the Media Arts category. This is one of the country’s most prestigious cultural awards.
The ceremony was held today in Tokyo and, of course, Hideo had some words of appreciation.
He has been making video games, some of which are the most influential in the industry, for 36 years!

Elden Ring-ing Your Neck

With the unignorable Elden Ring coming through with over 12M sales in 3 weeks, with more than 12M sales in 3 weeks, will not be backing off any time soon
FromSoftware has stated that the Elden Ring IP will be moving on to more than just games.
TV Show? Movies?

Russia De-EA’d

More Russian (and Belarusian) punishment by EA: “Effectively immediately, players and teams in Russia and Belarus are ineligible to participate in the Apex Legends Global Series and the EA Sports FIFA 22 Global Series.”

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