Did Tencent Ditch Intel for Huawei to Power Its Cloud Gaming Platform?
Tencent (OTC: TCEHY) started developing a cloud gaming platform with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) in late 2018. The service was initially called "Instant Play" during demos and was rebranded as "Start" when beta tests started in China last April.
Start was initially powered by Intel's Xeon CPUs and Iris Pro GPUs. But in late 2019, Tencent announced that NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) GPUs would power the platform as it expanded toward higher-end triple-A games -- which indicated Intel's Iris Pro GPUs would be replaced with NVIDIA's higher-end gaming GPUs.
Tencent also recently launched an innovation lab to co-develop a cloud gaming platform with Chinese tech giant Huawei. The lab will run Tencent's cloud gaming services on Huawei's Kunpeng CPUs, one of its four homegrown chipsets (including Ascend, Kirin, and Honghu) targeting Intel's dominance of the CPU market.
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