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Activision-Blizzard made more from mobile than consoles + PC combined

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[ad_1] Activision made more money from mobile in Q2 2022 than all other platforms combined, signalling the importance of breakout hits like Diablo Immortal. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Diablo Immortal is helping buoy Activision-Blizzard earnings amid stabilization of pandemic spending highs. The publisher has reported significant revenue drops The popular mobile game helped Blizzard’s …

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Microsoft Releases Benchmark Tests to Prove AMD EPYC Milan-X CPUs Will Help Shape Their Future

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Yesterday, AMD released details about the new EPYC Milan-X CPUs, loaded with 3D V-Cache, as well as AMD’s Instinct MI200 and the company’s plans for the next-gen Zen 4 technology. During the event, AMD did not reveal specifications for the EPYC Milan-X chips. Microsoft, however, was quick to bring plenty of details about AMD’s new …

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The First Microsoft Windows 11 SE Device, Focused on Cloud-Based Education

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Dynabook Americas, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Electronics) will be the first company to utilize Microsoft Windows 11 SE with their new Dynabook E10-S laptop computer, aimed at education upon launch. The new line of Dynabook E10-S serves as proof that Dynabook and Microsoft are standing to make a large market in education circles. In March 2021, …

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AMD and Microsoft Release Official Patches for Windows 11 Errors To Fix Ryzen CPU L3 & CCPC2 Issues

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AMD and Microsoft have officially released patches through Windows 11 update and Drivers release to fix issues affecting Ryzen CPUs. AMD Ryzen L3 Cache & CPPC2 Issues Resolved Through Latest Microsoft Windows 11 Patches & Driver Release AMD was experiencing poor performance for their entire line of Windows 11 compatible processors due to a configuration …

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AMD Ryzen CPU’s L3 Latency Performance Fix To Be Resolved By Microsoft Through Windows 11 Update on 19th October, CPPC Driver on 21st

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AMD will be issuing a fix to the performance degradation issues encountered with Ryzen CPUs in Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system next week. We have received the specific dates on which the updates will be rolled out. AMD Fixes Ryzen CPU Windows 11 Performance Degradation Issues Next Week Through Microsoft Updates & Driver Release Last …

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AMD & Microsoft Collaborate To Bring TensorFlow-DirectML To Life, Up To 4.4x Improvement on RDNA 2 GPUs

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TensorFlow-DirectML, one of the accessible machine learning (ML) tools that are designed to work across a broad spectrum of hardware, specifically GPUs, has been released for Windows PCs in conjunction with AMD RDNA 2 technology. This new ML from AMD shows an initial 3.7x improvement on inference performance and up to 4.4x improvement on overall …

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Microsoft Xbox Series S Refresh In 2022, Xbox Series X Refresh In 2023 To Utilize AMD’s New 6nm APUs

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Microsoft may be planning to refresh its Xbox Series S console earlier than the Xbox Series X with AMD’s new 6nm APUs, alleges Moore’s Law is Dead. The leaker has posted a series of new info on next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft in which he discusses what he has learned and what he believes …

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Microsoft Showcases Performance Boosting Features of Windows 11 Operating System on PCs

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Microsoft Windows 11 is almost a month away from releasing to the public, and they have released information about improvements on the performance of their new operating system, promising increased speeds and productivity with new changes. Microsoft Showcases Performance Boosting Features of Windows 11 Operating System on PCs In a video posted on Youtube Channel …

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This Custom CFE Adapter Card For Microsoft Xbox Series X & Series S Will Let You Use Any SSD On Your Console

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A user on Chinese Bilibili forums has shown a custom modded SSD which acts as a non-proprietary storage solution for Microsoft’s Xbox Series X & Series S consoles. This Custom CFE Adapter Card For Microsoft Xbox Series X & Series S Will Let You Use Any SSD On Your Console Microsoft’s Xbox Series X & …

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Dynabook To Begin Shipping Laptop Lines With Microsoft Windows 11 Included

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Dynabook Americas, Inc., formerly Toshiba PC Company, announced that they are planning to initiate shipping laptops with Windows 11 pre-installed in the fourth quarter of 2021. This covers their “corporate, education and channel partners.” Dynabook To Ship Its Entire Notebook Lineup With Microsoft’s Windows 11 Operating System Dynabook Americas line of laptops is the “Portégé, Tecra, …

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Antonline Covers Back-to-School Needs with Microsoft Surface Laptops & Surface Pro Models

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Antonline has Microsoft Surface Pro 7 and Surface Go laptops for incredible prices for those last-minute back-to-school needs. Included for each model is a 1-Year subscription to Microsoft’s online cloud-based 365 Personal, originally titled Microsoft Office 365. This is a great opportunity for parents to be able to get great Microsoft mobile systems for their …

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Microsoft Q4 Results Top Expectations, Xbox Revenue Slips Amid a Lack of Games

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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has delivered another set of outlook-busting results for the quarter ending June 30, 2021, largely thanks to the usual suspects, including the Azure cloud division and business products including Office 365, Dynamics 365, and LinkedIn. Unfortunately, the company’s Xbox division, which had been cruising along nicely for several quarters thanks to the growth …

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Gigabyte Lists Down All Supported Intel and AMD Motherboards For Microsoft Windows 11

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Gigabyte is the latest of motherboard makers to confirm its list of supported AMD and Intel motherboards for Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system. The company has revealed the motherboard list and stated that their products will feature TPM support via the BIOS itself. Gigabyte Lists Down All Supported Intel and AMD Motherboards For Microsoft Windows …

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Microsoft Windows 11 Will Boost Intel Alder Lake (And Other big.LITTLE CPUs) Performance

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Image courtesy of Videocardz. Intel is planning to launch their first bigSMALL architecture CPU ‘Alder Lake’ later this year and turns out it will support a new scheduler that will improve performance of Intel Alder Lake (and other CPUs based on a big and SMALL core design). According to benchmarks by HotHardware (via Videocardz), the …

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STALKER 2 Is a 3-Month Console Exclusive; Microsoft Will Increase Revenue Share for Xbox Games, Too [UPDATED]

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[UPDATE] A Microsoft spokesperson told The Verge that there are no plans to change the revenue share for the Xbox store ‘at this time’. Needless to say, the specific wording leaves Microsoft free to change this in the near future. The document from earlier this year clearly mentions the plan was there only a short …

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Starfield “100 Percent an Xbox Exclusive” Says Insider, Microsoft Pushing for 2021 Release

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Is there a major upcoming game more mysterious than Bethesda’s Starfield? Aside from a couple very early leaked screenshots, we’ve seen nothing of the game, and yet, a spate of rumors have hinted the game may not be that far away. The latest of these rumors come from Xbox insider Rand al Thor 19, who …

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Microsoft Q3 Results Beat Expectations, Xbox Hardware Sales Up 232 Percent Year-on-Year

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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has delivered another set of impressive results for the quarter ending March 31, 2021, and for the first time in a long time, it was the company’s Xbox division that arguably shone the brightest. Of course, the Azure cloud division continues to be a monster, but the continued success of the new Xbox …

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