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... of the market beyond three years, says MSI Shacknews reports AMD reveals Cloud Supercomputer, plans to stream 'next-gen' video games via server-side rendering ...
AMD reveals its Cloud Supercomputer plans
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... as this might seem impressive, AMD didn t comment on how the company would solve latency issues, as such a plan would need for a serious interconnection between the server and the actual device. We d also not count our chickens too early, as such a supercomputer would render all mobile-device graphics quite obsolete and graphics-wise would erase high-end, mid-range and low-end classification of mobile devices, which would probably not be welcomed by mobile-device manufacturers. More here .
AMD wants to render games in the cloud
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... first person shooter game at the highest image quality settings on your cell phone without ever having to download and install the software, or use up valuable storage space or battery life with compute-intensive tasks. AMD doesn't mention how much bandwidth this service would require, nor how it would compensate for latency and having content rendered hundreds of miles away certainly seems like it would rule out twitchy first-person shooters. Nonetheless, Shacknews says AMD demonstrated the technology during its CES presentation by streaming Mercenaries 2: World In Flames ...
