Nvidia's Jensen Huang confirms he was once asked to become chief executive of TSMC: 'I declined it... it's an unbelievable offer, but I simply couldn't take it'

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang confirms he was once asked to become chief executive of TSMC: ‘I declined it… it’s an unbelievable offer, but I simply couldn’t take it’

Given Nvidia’s status as the world’s most valuable company, and the firm sitting at the forefront of the AI boom, I doubt CEO Jensen Huang has many regrets. Still, in a recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, Huang confirmed that his future could have looked very different if he’d accepted a position as the…

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In the battle for our living rooms, Xbox Project Helix and the Steam Machine make for unlikely rivals on paper—but Microsoft’s new PC gaming-capable console might be raising some eyebrows at Valve

Microsoft is beginning to take the wraps off Project Helix, its newly-teased Xbox console that has been promised to play both Xbox and PC games. While we know very little about the machine for now, new CEO of Microsoft Gaming Asha Sharma says we’ll be finding out more at next week’s GDC. Which makes me…

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Spider-Man 2’s PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance

The newly released PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 hasn’t enjoyed the smoothest of launches, thanks to bugs and performance problems. And now it seems that one aspect of the conversion that is making things worse is the use of DirectStorage, with the system sucking up all-important GPU resources. Spider-Man 2 was ported by Nixxes…

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Yoshi-P says FF14 team is ‘discussing’ options to fight mod that can be used for stalking, like ‘legal action’ and, uh, asking them to stop

Final Fantasy 14’s community has been frayed at the edges recently, as widespread awareness of a modding tool that allows stalkers—an issue FF14 has had for a while—to have access to every alternate character on their target’s account. Dawntrail received a more powerful blacklisting system to help fight stalking behaviour, but the mod actually takes…

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