Once the acquisition is completed, Microsoft will become the world's third-largest gaming company.
1. Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Microsoft has agreed to buy Activision Blizzard at $95 per share, a $68.7 billion acquisition that will be merged under one entity from the main studio. The deal was announced today that Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $95 per share in an all-cash transaction, with an estimated $68.7 billion including Activision Blizzard's net cash.
Once the acquisition is completed, Microsoft will become the world's third-largest gaming company, behind Tencent and Sony. Bobby Kotick will continue as CEO of Activision Blizzard and will report to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer.
2. NVIDIA set up a new team in Israel to independently develop CPU products
Michael Kagan, CTO of Nvidia, recently confirmed that Nvidia has formed a new CPU research and development team in Israel to expand its presence in the HPC high-performance computing market.
He said Israel has countless geniuses and is a key member of the global technology ecosystem, and NVIDIA is excited to form a new CPU team there and looks forward to enhancing its research and development capabilities there. Nvidia already has multiple R&D teams in Israel to develop high-speed networks, high-performance computing solutions, DPU data processors, etc., but it is not yet clear which direction the new team is engaged in.
3. The performance of Samsung 4nm Exynos 2200 was announced for the first time
Yesterday, Samsung released a new generation of flagship mobile platform Exynos 2200, the biggest feature is the integrated Xclipse 920 GPU for the first time to introduce AMD RDNA2 desktop architecture, for the first time for smartphones to bring hardware-level ray tracing.
In addition, the Exynos 2200 adopts TSMC 4nm process manufacturing, integrated X2+A710+A510 CPU architecture, dual-core NPU+DSP, 5G baseband, the maximum uplink and downlink speed of 2.55Gbps and 5.1Gbps in the Sub-6GHz band, up to 3.67Gbps and 7.33Gbps in the millimeter wave band, and supports LPDDR5 memory, Beidou navigation, and a maximum 200 million pixel single camera.
4. The European Union intends to study the European chip law
Recently, Thierry Breton, executive committee member of the European Commission's internal market, answered questions about strategic autonomy and chip shortage in an exclusive interview with POLITICO media.
Among them, Breton said that the European Union has developed a European chip law and negotiated with European companies, scientific research institutions and the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries, hoping to increase European chip production capacity to reach 20% of the world by 2030. Regarding whether the European Processor and Semiconductor Technology Industry Alliance allows non-EU enterprises to join, Breton stressed the open nature of the Alliance and the participation of third-country enterprises in accordance with EU standards or conditions, and the EU will develop relevant guidelines.
5. Samsung Memory Board Nature: the world's first MRAM
Recently, Samsung Electronics published the world's first dram-based memory computing research in nature, a top academic journal. In-memory computing is regarded as a cutting-edge research in edge AI computing because it does not need data to move between memory and processor, which greatly reduces the power consumption of AI computing.
This time, the research team of Samsung Electronics built a new MRAM array structure and used the MRAM array chip based on the 28nm CMOS process to run AI algorithms such as handwritten digital recognition and face detection, with an accuracy rate of 98% and 93% respectively.
6. The domestic Tesla Model 3 equipped with AMD Ryzen processors began to be delivered
According to media reports, the 2022 Tesla Model 3 has begun to be delivered, as previously exposed, the new car has abandoned Intel chips and replaced with AMD Ryzen processors. Not surprisingly, the newly produced Model 3 and Model Y this year will all be replaced by the new AMD Ryzen™ chip.
Compared with the Intel processor used in the old model, Ryzen's CPU performance will be 4 times higher and the GPU performance will be about 8 times higher; compared with Qualcomm's latest car processor 8155, its CPU performance is about 2 times that of it, and the GPU performance is about 1.5 times.
7. Volkswagen and Bosch will establish a joint venture to promote battery production in Europe
Volkswagen and Bosch have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture dedicated to providing solutions for battery equipment in Europe. Volkswagen AG said the two companies aim to provide manufacturers of battery cells and systems with integrated battery production systems and on-site ramp-up and maintenance support.
The joint venture is expected to help Volkswagen achieve its goal of building six battery factories by 2030, but it will also serve other plants in Europe. The two companies did not say how much they would invest in the joint venture.
8. Musk complains that the daily itinerary is tracked, which has become a safety issue
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk complained on Twitter that the social media accounts that track his daily itinerary are "becoming a security issue."
Musk responded to a tweet on Twitter discussing the risks he and his family face because details of his travel plans were published on social media accounts. Earlier, Musk denied a report by Drive Tesla Canada, the social media account that tracked his trip, which said Musk would visit Tesla's Berlin factory this week and quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Musk would travel around Germany in two Model Ys produced at the Berlin Gigafactory.