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Summary Softbank completes sale too Nvidia of ARM at $40bn in stocks and cash. Softbank bought ARM for $32Bn four years ago. Quotes My thoughts I think this will make it harder for Nvidia to avoid the gaze of Trump when it comes to ARM selling chip designs to the Chinese. It will also increase the risk of Nvidia trying to bully many of it's AI hardware competitors who all rely on ARM chips for lightweight specialised units such as self driving car computers. Sources https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54142567

Summary Game streaming is a lot less taxing on your energy bill than the (more expensive) alternative of high end graphics cards and modern hardware, however a new study from Lancaster university shows the total cost of running and streaming the content could put Gaming's carbon emissions up by as much as 30% Quotes My thoughts Whilst I'm not so sure about the assumptions they've made about how much power home gaming takes (spectre of Ampere making my psu rattle as it is) I was surprised just how much power it takes to run the internet stream - even after the game has actually been 'played' on the server hardware. Sources BBC Article https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53838645 Study https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3401335.3401366