Gaming in Taiwan. Reviews, Walkthroughs, News

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang anticipates advances in computing over the next few years will keep the cost of developing artificial intelligence well below the $7 trillion that Sam Altman is said to be fundraising.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will exclusively be mass produced on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, but its successor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, might switch to a dual-foundry approach as Qualcomm reportedly looks to secure orders from both Samsung and its Taiwanese semiconductor rival. The San Diego chipset maker has apparently requested both companies to provide 2nm samples, which can be evaluated further.

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In 2023, TSMC only had one 3nm customer, which was Apple, but as it takes on more clients this year, it needs to address its production capabilities to cater to additional orders. According to one report, the Taiwanese giant intends to increase production to 100,000 monthly wafers in 2024 while also focusing on increasing yields by 3nm.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's co-director, Motomu Toriyama, has revealed that the game was almost put on three disks due to how "rich" the content in the game is.

TSMC's 2nm process has attracted significant client interest, with the likes of Apple and Intel lining up to secure the initial production batch amid huge demand.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, US President Joe Biden will soon announce subsidies top semiconductor companies like Samsung, Intel, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co) and others to make advanced chips in the US. The strategy is to keep the US and its allies as ahead of fierce rivals like China as is possible. 

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Intel is bringing in some major AI performance improvements with its next-gen Panther Lake client CPUs while Clearwater Forest chips are in fabs.

AMD's recently released Instinct MI300X accelerators have taken the AI market by storm, as it is causing "headaches" for competitors due to their appeal in the industry

Intel Foundry has announced a "strategic" collaboration with the famous Taiwanese semiconductor firm UMC as they vow to move together in semiconductor development.

The semiconductor giant TSMC preps for 1nm production, as the firm starts planning the development of a cutting-edge fab in Taiwan.

The number of cyber attack cases in India increased by 15 per cent per week on an average in 2023, trailing only Taiwan in the Asia Pacific region, cyber security firm Check Point said on Monday.

Last year's fast uptake of generative artificial intelligence looks set to continue, which is the kind of good news that will convince Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. that the worst is over for the global chip sector. All it needs now is for us to keep chatting with bots, create AI-generated cat videos, and let computers write school essays.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors, according to several people with knowledge of the plans.

AI Roundup: Several notable developments took place in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) today, January 18. At the Microsoft forum, startup founders have shared their views on AI opportunities in India. Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance highlighted the need for global efforts to make access to AI equitable at Davos.

The era of AI PCs is upon us, & the upcoming PC markets will evolve into something that the world hasn't seen yet, as hinted by several manufacturers at CES.

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Google has reportedly taken an "unexpected" shift in its semiconductor sourcing strategy for next-gen Tensor & AI chips, as the firm turns its eyes towards Taiwanese manufacturers, distancing itself from Samsung.

Shueisha Games will publish adventure game OPUS: Prism Peak, the latest entry in the OPUS series by Taiwanese studio SIGONO, the companies announced.

Qualcomm was reportedly able to leverage an exclusive agreement with Microsoft where only the San Diego company’s chipsets would be used with any OEM launching a Windows notebook. However, we could be heading into a new era as, according to ARM CEO, the agreement between the two companies will expire later this year, giving other chipset makers an opportunity to penetrate this market and offer more options to customers.

Scaring players has helped put the small team at Red Candle Games on the map. Its first two titles, Detention and Devotion, impressed and terrified fans with frighteningly strong horror chops, but the team is leaving that behind to tackle something completely different in Nine Sols. This side-scrolling action platformer blends sci-fi with Chinese mythology and is Red Candle’s most ambitious project yet. This significant step forward affords an opportunity to look back on the studio’s young history, so we spoke with co-founder Vincent Yang to learn about how a small band of gamers in Taiwan formed one of the industry’s most promising – and, at one time, controversial – indie studios.

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 Apple Inc.'s iPhone sales slump in China is deepening and the company is likely to see volumes decline further this year, according to Jefferies analysts led by Edison Lee. The iPhone maker's latest generation, iPhone 15, got off to an atypically sluggish start in China last year, which most recently expanded to a 30% year-on-year decline, Lee and colleagues said in a note on Sunday, citing industry checks. The rest of the country's mobile market grew in December, with Huawei Technologies Co. growing fastest on the back of its new Mate 60 device lineup.

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I don’t want to leap to hyperbole in the first week of the year, but I am quite confident in saying that The Brothers Sun has the best fight scene with men in inflatable dinosaur costumes that I’ve seen in 2024. Sure, it’s the only one I’ve seen in this or any year, and I doubt there will be another anytime soon. But that doesn’t diminish how much it kicks ass. It’s simply great to start the year with a show that capably gives me something I’ve been lacking in television for some time: a series that is just as interested in good goofs as it is killer brawls.

The Kirin 9006C was recently announced by Huawei for its Qingyun L540 and Qingyun L420 family of notebooks. Unfortunately, just like the Kirin 9000S and Kirin 9000SL, the single-core and multi-core performance is yet to match what the competition offers, but that is how difficult things become when you have global trade sanctions limiting your options.

NVIDIA's consumer & gaming GPUs have reportedly started to see a drastic reduction in global supply, potentially creating a shortage in markets.

Huawei Technologies Co.'s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough. The Qingyun L540 notebook contains a 5-nanometer chip made by the Taiwanese company in 2020, around the time US sanctions cut off Huawei's access to the chipmaker, research firm TechInsights found after dismantling the device for Bloomberg News. That counters speculation that Huawei's domestic chipmaking partner, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., may have achieved a major leap in fabrication technique.

AMD Ryzen 8000G "Hawk Point" APUs will deliver additional I/O capabilities on a few AM5 boards such as the AORUS B650E series such as USB4.

Atelier is one of those niche PlayStation franchises that seems to get new entries annually but rarely makes a splash outside of its core community. That appears to be changing in Asia, however, where Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator – yes, that’s really its name – appears to be blowing up big time.

AMD is reportedly searching for alternate CoWoS suppliers, as Taiwanese giant TSMC reaches full production capacity amid high industry demand.

For the rest of the year, more Android flagships with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300 will be found in a plethora of premium smartphones, but according to one tipster, companies are shifting towards a different strategy, which is equipping its less expensive handsets with the same SoCs. While this will hurt the manufacturer’s margins, it shows how eager these companies are to increase their global market share, even if the outcome negligibly rewards them.

In yet another blow to China as it attempts to maintain a path towards self-reliance, Dutch-based lithography systems manufacturer ASML has revoked shipments of some of its DUV machines thanks to a request brought forward by the Biden administration. The export ban for such equipment was supposed to come into effect after a few weeks, which would have given China a little breathing room to procure sufficient machinery to continue mass producing chips for various applications, but the U.S. had other plans.

The cutting-edge 3nm process developed by TSMC only had Apple as the sole customer, but with just a couple of days remaining for 2024 to start, the Taiwanese foundry is expected to secure more orders for the second iteration of its advanced node dubbed ‘N3E.’ This will allow the manufacturer to ramp up production, with the latest report stating that the company’s operational capacity is said to jump to 80 percent in the second half of 2024.

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TSMC has outlined plans to offer over 1 Trillion transistors in 3D-packaged and 200 Billion in monolithic chips by 2030.

MediaTek previously announced that it has successfully developed the 3nm SoC with TSMC, making it 32 percent more power-efficient than previous-generation silicon, though the exact name of the chipset was not mentioned. Now, the Taiwanese company’s CEO has spoken about the close partnership with its foundry partner, stating that both entities are working together to launch its first 3nm product, which is rumored to be called the Dimensity 9400.

Samsung Electronics Co. has delayed mass production plans at its new chip plant in Taylor, Texas, the Seoul Economic Daily said, potentially dealing another blow to the Biden administration's ambition to increase domestic semiconductor supplies. te

Hello everyone. The year 2023 has been a standout year for games, as we have been blessed with the release of countless top-notch titles. I hope everyone was able to discover new favorites that blew their minds and engaged them in amazing gaming experiences.

Chinese regulators have announced far-reaching curbs on monetisation and reward systems for online games, in a move that has wiped almost $80 billion from the market value of the world's biggest videogame publisher Tencent and their rival NetEase. Under the new government restrictions, which are pending final approval, online games in China will be banned from giving players rewards for logging in every day, spending money within the game for the first time, or spending money several times consecutively.

Intel's Gaudi 3 AI accelerator reportedly employs the TSMC 5nm process and is expected to compete with NVIDIA H100 & AMD MI300X.

The Pokémon Company has announced a new amusement park that will open near Tokyo.

Starting from tomorrow through January 5, 2024, we’re celebrating the holiday season with a month full of activities for our PlayStation community. As part of the PlayStation Plus Season of Play, PlayStation Plus members can redeem free avatars for PS5 and PS4 consoles, join eSports tournaments, earn points on PlayStation Stars and enter a competition for your chance to win amazing prizes. Activities for those who are not PlayStation Plus members are available as well.

The Shadowverse series is getting ready to expand with a new game for mobile devices and PC. Cygames announced Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond as a free-to-play card battler, with a summer 2024 release planned for iOS, Android, and PC.

Conglomerate Tata Group plans to build one of India's biggest iPhone assembly plants, tapping Apple Inc.'s ambitions to increase manufacturing in the South Asian country.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be Qualcomm’s first smartphone SoC to shift away from the traditional CPU designs, with the company now switching to custom Oryon cores to take the fight directly to Apple. The San Diego firm is now rumored to adopt the same CPU cluster as MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300, meaning that we might no longer see low-power cores present on the upcoming silicon.

The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has rated INTERIOR/NIGHT-developed narrative adventure game As Dusk Falls for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 under the publishing of PQube.

Here’s a blast from the past: PSone game Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace looks set to hit PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 via the PlayStation Plus Classics catalog.

It is no secret that Apple is working towards reducing its dependence on China for the production of its various devices, including iPhones. In recent years, Apple has shifted its focus towards India and wants to expand its partnership by planning to produce the iPhone 16 battery in India. Suppliers in India have been told to upscale their production for the same. China is Apple's massive production and supply chain country, but India is taking away a lot of their business away. The shift is happening due to the many risk factors that were exposed by the COVID-19 years. Know what Apple is planning for its new generation of iPhone.

Mobile gaming revenue is projected to increase by 4% year-over-year to $111.4 billion in 2024, according to a new Data.ai report.

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Final Fantasy 15's director Hajime Tabata has revealed why he left Square Enix in 2018. 

Starting from tomorrow through January 5, 2024, we’re celebrating the holiday season with a month full of activities for our PlayStation community. As part of the PlayStation Plus Season of Play, PlayStation Plus members can redeem free avatars for PS5 and PS4 consoles, join eSports tournaments, earn points on PlayStation Stars, save on PlayStation Gear merchandise, and enter a competition for your chance to win amazing prizes. Activities for those who are not PlayStation Plus members are available as well.

Final Fantasy 15's director has revealed why he left Square Enix back in 2018.

It might be because it had something of a rocky start, but it sometimes seems like Windows 11 is only just reaching its maturity, what with the continuing march of added features and substantial Windows 11 updates released over the past year. However, those of you who've only recently made the switch may be surprised to learn the release of Windows 12 might not be far away, as soon as June 2024 if recent reports are to be believed. 

2023 has been a year to forget for PC manufacturers. After the work-from-home boom and seemingly endless global political and economic instability, a slowdown was always likely to happen. But if a new analysis from Canalys is to be believed, 2024 is shaping up to be a much better year for the PC market.

Industry sources report that the effect of production cuts by memory manufacturers has started to translate in mainstream markets as DDR5 memory prices have soared by huge margins.

At this year's New York Times Dealbook Summit, essentially a series of interviews with mega-wealthy CEOs, Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia was asked about why he constantly feels that his company may one day bite the dust. «I don't think people are trying to put me out of business—I probably know they're trying to,» he said. «I live in this condition where we're partly desperate, partly aspirational.»

Samsung has reportedly lost out on a grand opportunity to partner with Qualcomm to mass produce its next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, to TSMC. The Taiwanese semiconductor giant will utilize its 3nm ‘N3E’ technology next year, with other companies such as MediaTek also expected to take advantage of this manufacturing process.

WoW Classic Season of Discovery is now live, and we have realm names for NA, EU, and TW servers! Even if you can't play yet, take a look and decide where your next home will be for Classic's next great adventure!

Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year's elections, Meta said Thursday.

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who runs the semiconductor industry's most valuable company, said the US is as much as 20 years away from breaking its dependence on overseas chipmaking.

The game has been rated in Taiwan.

The 2023 MAMA Awards, or Mnet Asian Music Awards, will take place this month at Japan’s Tokyo Dome. It will be a two-day event, where K-pop artists like ENHYPEN, Street Woman Fighter 2, TVXQ, ATEEZ, SEVENTEEN, ZEROBASEONE, and (G)I-DLE will perform.

IPhone maker Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. plans to expand its footprint in India with another NT$50 billion ($1.6 billion) investment for construction projects.

The Division Heartland has been rated by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee.

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The Division: Heartland has received a rating in Taiwan.

The free-to-play PC and console game The Division Heartland might be close to being released. Twitter user Kuraksis posted a snapshot of the game's rating from the Taiwanese rating board. The listing went live a couple of weeks ago, and the Taiwanese rating board usually rates new releases between two and two and a half months before their launch on the market. As such, we might be looking at an early 2024 debut for The Division Heartland.

The Division: Heartland has been rated in Taiwan.

The Division: Heartland has been rated in Taiwan, suggesting a release date could be close.

The wait for The Division Heartland has stretched on longer than most had expected, but after several delays, it seems the free-to-play extraction shooter might finally be inching closer to its full release.

The Dimensity 9300 did not stick with a traditional CPU cluster like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 this year, with the biggest difference between the two chipsets being the lack of efficiency cores on MediaTek’s current flagship SoC. While the advantage here is that the Dimensity 9300 can deliver incredible overall performance by surpassing Apple’s A17 Pro GPU, it is at the expense of increased power consumption. In a new CPU stress test, the crack in the silicon’s armor has been displayed, all the while running in an Android flagship that has a capable cooling solution.

TSMC only had one customer for its 3nm ‘N3B’ process, which was Apple, but in 2024, a new report states that the semiconductor manufacturer is expected to witness a double-digit increase in revenue for this category as it aims to add more partners for its long-supported cutting-edge node. With this growth, the company’s 3nm wafer production is also said to reach 100,000 monthly units by the end of next year.

Thanks to an ongoing promotion with Monster Energy, players can receive exclusive in-game rewards by buying energy drink cans. During the promotional period, some Monster Energy drinks will have codes on their tabs. Players can head online to redeem these codes to receive exclusive themed Operator skins and valuable double XP boosters.

Omron Corp., a Japanese provider of health-care equipment and factory automation, is setting its sights on the lucrative chipmaking gear market to fuel future growth.

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Following this month’s surprise addition of Disney/Pixar’s Up for the PlayStation Portable to the PlayStation Plus Classics library comes the likely addition of three more Disney games.

The Taiwanese ratings board has seemingly revealed the identity of three upcoming PlayStation Plus Classics titles.