Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Well-known IP such as Call of Duty and Overwatch are all in the bag
Last night, Microsoft officially announced plans to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in cash, and Activision Blizzard's pre-market share price soared, while Microsoft's $95 per share was a 45% premium to Activision Blizzard's closing price on Friday. As soon as the news came out, Sony's stock price fell by more than 7% this morning, with the largest intraday decline of 13%, the lowest closing price since late October 2021.
Activision Blizzard is a world-renowned game developer and interactive entertainment content publisher that has launched a series of well-known game titles. After the transaction is completed, Microsoft will become the third-highest-paid game company in the world, and will include Activision Blizzard's next series of IP, including Overwatch, Diablo, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush Saga, StarCraft and so on.
Microsoft CEO Nadella said in a statement that games are the most dynamic and exciting category of entertainment of all platforms today and will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms. According to an official press release on Xbox's official website, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer warmly welcomed Activision Blizzard's game creators to the Xbox team.
He said in the article that activision Blizzard and Microsoft Games will continue to operate independently until the transaction is completed, and Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard. Subsequently, Activision Blizzard will report independently to Phil Spencer. Meanwhile, Microsoft plans to add a number of Activision Blizzard games to the Xbox Game Pass after the deal closes. It will continue to drive Activision Blizzard's game on a variety of platforms and communities.
The acquisition has been approved by the boards of directors of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Microsoft said the deal will close in fiscal year 2023, after which Microsoft will replace Nintendo as the world's third-largest gaming company, after Sony and Tencent.
In addition, activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will leave after the transaction is completed, which may take 12 to 18 months, according to people familiar with the matter. Kotick currently holds nearly 4.1 million shares of Activision Blizzard, which are worth $388.9 million (about $2.471 billion) at Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase price.
Samsung Exynos 2200 GPU run score exposure
AmD's blessing is close to the Snapdragon 8, behind the Tianji 9000
With the official release of Samsung's Exynos 2200 flagship chipset, MySmartPrice also shared the first benchmark results of the SoC for the first time. The report said that the test platform is the upcoming Galaxy S22 Ultra flagship smartphone, in the Geekbench 5, the device has a single-core score of 1108 and a multi-core score of 3516, which is almost the same as the Exynos 2100, and it is clear that Samsung has focused more on the gpu graphics performance improvement than the CPU part.
In Antutu 9.0, the device scored as high as 965874 points, an increase of 46% compared to last year's Exynos 2100. Finally, the GFXBench Aztec Ruins (Normal) benchmark, the Exynos 2200 chipset achieved a frame rate of 109 fps. Unfortunately, compared with the Xiaomi Mi 12 (143 fps) equipped with snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the gap between the Exynos 2200 is still somewhat obvious, even lower than last year's Snapdragon 888 platform.
It is worth mentioning that the Exynos 2100 of Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra in this test is about 71 fps, about 38 fps of improvement, it seems that AMD's blessing is still more powerful, at least catching up with the pace of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Such results have not surpassed the new Snapdragon 8, MediaTek Tianji 9000, but the gap is not large, such as Snapdragon and MediaTek in Antutu running score of about 1.02 million, Samsung is only about 5% lower. GeekBench 5 single-core and multi-core are very close to the new Snapdragon 8, but the Tianji 9000 multi-core advantage is obviously about 23% ahead.
Vivo's first tablet configuration is exposed
Equipped with Snapdragon 870, it is expected to be in the 2000 yuan price segment
According to the @digital chat station today's breaking news, vivo's first tablet positioning should not be high, speculation in the 2000 yuan price segment. This tablet will be equipped with a 120Hz large isoweek narrow bezel full screen, front camera opening in the bezel, equipped with Snapdragon 870 processor, built-in 7860mAh capacity battery, support 44W fast charging, with multi-terminal interconnection system. The tablet will compete with the Xiaomi Mi Tablet 5, Honor Tablet V7, Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro and so on.
GSMArena previously reported that Vivo had registered the vivo Pad trademark in Europe last June, and its model number was "BW-B1". Hu Baishan, executive vice president of vivo, also revealed in an interview that it will launch a tablet in the first half of this year, focusing on the synergy with mobile phones.
Previously, some netizens exposed the design patent drawing of the vivo tablet, and the rendering drawing exposed by the @digital chat station has been. In terms of appearance design, the vivo tablet adopts a four-sided equal-width non-porous full screen, and the back is suspected of using a classic cloud-level imaging system, while the thin and light fuselage looks more portable. In addition, the vivo tablet will also be equipped with the Origin OS system, and vivo will also be optimized for tablets.
At the same time, there is also news that vivo's folding screen mobile phone will also be launched this year, which may be attributed to the NEX series. At that time, the Origin OS operating system will also have the Fold version of the folding screen system optimization, and the screen resolution of the folding screen is 2K, and the screen display effect can be expected.
Nikon's first Nikkor Z telephoto prime lens is released
Built-in 1.4 times teleconverter, priced at 99999 yuan
Nikon today announced the official release of the NIKKOR Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S telephoto prime lens, the first NIKKOR Z telephoto prime lens, which is the S-type of NIKKOR Z lens. The lens has a built-in 1.4x teleconverter that allows the lens to cover two focal lengths – 400 mm and 560 mm – in addition to supporting the use of the Z teleconverter TC-1.4x and Z teleconverter TC-2.0x. The NIKKOR Z telephoto prime lens costs 99,999 yuan and will go on sale in February this year.
According to the official introduction, the lens achieves realistic image rendering through the beautiful bokeh unique to the fast f/2.8 maximum aperture and high resolution. It uses Nikon's newly developed coating, the medium-pore amorphous amorphous coating, which provides high anti-reflective properties. It also features Nikon's newly developed smooth high-speed voice coil motor for fast, high-precision and quiet autofocus control.
This NIKKOR Z telephoto prime lens supports optical VR damping, which is equivalent to a shutter speed increase of about 5.5 stops, making it powerful with or without a teleconverter, and when paired with the Nikon Z 9, Synchro VR can be used.
In addition, with portability in mind, the lens uses fluorite lenses and magnesium alloys to achieve lightweight, the body weight is about 2950 grams, and it can be shot with a high degree of flexibility in many situations, which is a good support for professional image expression.
The official sample is as follows:
The latest outbreak news
- January 19
Update on the new crown epidemic situation: At 0-24:00 on January 18, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 87 new confirmed cases. Among them, there were 32 imported cases and 55 local cases. There were no new deaths.
In the home cases:
-33 cases in Henan, including 29 cases in Anyang City, 3 cases in Xuchang City, and 1 case in Zhengzhou City;
-14 cases in Tianjin, including 13 cases in Jinnan District and 1 case in Xiqing District;
-7 cases in Guangdong, including 6 in Zhuhai city and 1 case in Shenzhen city;
-Beijing 1 case, in Haidian District.
COVID-19 vaccination status: As of January 18, 2022, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have reported a cumulative total of 2,947,136,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
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