Otoy joins the fray of companies offering video games on demand
When OnLive came out of hiding in March and declared it could let gamers play fast-action games over the network — a futuristic service dubbed video games on demand — a lot of critics said it was impossible.
But now Otoy, a startup with just seven people, says it can do the same thing with even fewer resources. And beyond delivering fast-action games to players on PCs, Otoy says it can deliver fast games to players… Continue Reading
Stanford’s Bill Dally leaps from academia to the computer graphics wars
Bill Dally recently made the jump from head of the computer science department at Stanford University to being chief scientist at graphics chip maker Nvidia. Now he has to be the chief visionary for the products that Nvidia will make in the future. His expertise is in parallel computing, which he believes will come to dominate the picture. If he’s right, we’ll see a shift of billions of dollars of sales from one part of… Continue Reading
Montalvo seeking a hoard of cash to avoid shutdown
Montalvo Systems has been seeking a hoard of cash in its latest fundraising round, but the chip startup is dangerously close to running out of money, VentureBeat has learned.
Although it raised $73 million, the company has run into problems finishing a chip that will compete with Intel in the low-power portable devices market, a market where chip giant Intel has become increasingly competitive. The company grew to nearly 300 employees in Santa Clara and India,… Continue Reading