Netflix ventures into gaming
Play Stranger Things on your Android: Netflix has released five new games on Android app stores as the streaming giant attempts to expand its offerings with its foray into gaming. Two of the titles out now come from the successful Netflix franchise Stranger Things which quickly amassed a cult following. The games are titled Stranger Things: 1984, Stranger Things 3: The Game, Shooting Hoops, Card Blast and Teeter Up. Netflix subscribers can play the games without any additional charges. The company has said it would also develop games for iPhones, but no timeline has been specified. Bloomberg picked up the story.
China is getting a leg up in the semiconductor race as Tencent discloses that it has developed three chips, according to CNBC. Tencent — one of the world’s biggest gaming companies and the operator of WeChat — has been expanding into the cloud computing and semiconductor spaces as it aims to diversify its offerings. The first AI chip, called Zixiao, can be used for voice assistants as it can process images, video and natural language, while the company also released a video transcoding chip and a network card designed to help cloud computing processes. This comes as the world’s superpowers race to design and manufacture chips amid a global semiconductor shortage that has wreaked havoc on multiple industries and highlighted a disadvantageous dependence on a handful of chip manufacturers.