Microsoft Spends $1 Billion on Xbox Game Pass to Conquer the Gaming Market
Microsoft Spends $1 Billion on Xbox Game Pass to Conquer the Gaming MarketRecent reports have revealed Microsoft's massive investment in bringing third-party games to its Xbox Game Pass (XGP) service. The company reportedly pays up to $1 billion annually to enrich the XGP game library...
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SMIC's Comeback: From Chaser to Leader, a Microcosm of China's Chip Rise
SMIC's Comeback: From Chaser to Leader, a Microcosm of China's Chip RiseFive years ago, China's semiconductor industry faced formidable challenges. US sanctions on key chip manufacturing equipment crippled Huawei's Kirin chip production, impacting SMIC, China's leading foundry, which was forced to halt its plans to acquire advanced EUV lithography machines from ASML in the Netherlands...
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Microsoft's "Paint 3D" App to be Discontinued and Removed, Marking the End of Its 3D Creation Era
Microsoft's "Paint 3D" App to be Discontinued and Removed, Marking the End of Its 3D Creation EraMicrosoft recently announced that its "Paint 3D" app, built into the Windows operating system, will stop receiving updates on November 4th and will be removed from the Microsoft Store. This news marks the official end of the app's journey, which began in October 2016, signaling the closure of its 3D creation era...
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Activision Blizzard CEO: Joining Microsoft makes the company more like an independent studio
On November 7th, according to foreign media reports, Mike Ybarra, CEO of Activision Blizzard, said recently about his feelings after joining Microsoft, "I believe building a team, focusing on culture, and creating freely will make Blizzard feel more independent than ever beforeOn October 13th, Microsoft officially completed a $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.Previously, Microsoft had stated that after completing the acquisition, it would start adding Activision Blizzard games to GamePass next year...
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After China stopped purchasing Micron chips, a strange phenomenon emerged
After China stopped purchasing Micron chips, a strange phenomenon emergedintroductionBefore 2019, the progress of the chip industry did not receive widespread attention. However, with the suppression of Chinese technology companies by the United States, especially the obstruction of Huawei's Kirin chip self-development project, people have begun to pay attention to the development of this field...
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Microsoft Xbox gaming and marketing team undergoes significant adjustments
According to a report by foreign media on October 27th, Microsoft has recently made some significant adjustments to its Xbox and marketing team. Microsoft promoted MattBooty to the position of President of Game Content and Studio, including ZeniMax's new responsibilities, and promoted Sarah Bond to the position of President of Xbox, responsible for overseeing all Xbox platform and hardware work; Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela will resign after 32 years at Microsoft...
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Microsoft Announces Cloud Native Application Platform radius
On October 19th, the Microsoft Azure incubation team announced the launch of the cloud native application platform radius, which can help developers and businesses create, deploy, and manage cloud based applications.It is reported that radius is an open source project that supports deploying applications across private clouds, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, and will support more cloud providers in the future...
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The grand finale! Microsoft Announces Completion of Acquisition of Activision Blizzard
According to official Xbox news, Microsoft has officially announced that it has completed the acquisitions of Activision Blizzard and King. Since then, classic game series such as "Watchman Pioneer", "Call of Duty", and "StarCraft" have been officially incorporated into the Xbox platform...
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Microsoft completes the acquisition of Activision Blizzard and becomes one of the world's top three gaming companies
On October 14th, Microsoft announced on the evening of October 13th that it had completed the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard after obtaining approval from the UK's antitrust regulatory agency, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA)...
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Heavyweight! Successfully developed 2-micron process chips in China, and "Sushi" chips made a high-profile appearance
Recently, a research team led by You Haihang and Tang Guangming from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a prototype chip of superconducting neural morphological processor named "Su Shi". This major breakthrough marks a new step for China in the field of semiconductor technology, demonstrating the country's independent research and development capabilities in this field...
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Microsoft's Chief Product Officer is about to resign
According to foreign media reports on September 19th, Microsoft recently announced that its Chief Product Officer, PanosPanay, will resign.According to data, PanosPanay once led Microsoft's Windows team and played a core role in the company's development of hardware businesses such as Surface computers...
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Trial operation of domestic electromagnetic ejection Micro-g environment experimental device
Xinhua News Agency (reporter Zhang Quan) recently learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that the 4-second electromagnetic ejection Micro-g environment experimental device developed and constructed by the Space Application Engineering and Technology Center of the Academy has recently started trial operation. This device uses electromagnetic ejection to build a Micro-g environment experimental environment on the ground, and the relevant performance indicators reach the international advanced level...
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