Tencent, Huawei partner to launch cloud-based game platform

News Wireless China 30 MRT 2020
Tencent, Huawei partner to launch cloud-based game platform

China’s Tencent has established a co-innovation lab with Huawei to develop a cloud gaming platform. The partnership will blend the computing capabilities of Huawei’s Kunpeng processor to build Tencent’s GameMatrix cloud game platform, Reuters reports, citing a Tencent statement. The two partners also plan to explore more possibilities in areas such as AI and AR in games, Tencent added.

Huawei recently announced at HDC.Cloud plans to develop the Huawei Developer Program 2.0. Throughout this year, Huawei seeks to invest USD 200 million with detailed programmes for universities, startups, individual developers, and partners, driving new milestones in the Kunpeng computing industry. At HDC.Cloud, Huawei also signed a deal with Tencent Games. Huawei says the homogeneous device-cloud architecture of Kunpeng processors will be the catalyst for this joint initiative.

At end-2019, Tencent Games and Nvidia teamed up to bring PC gaming in the cloud to China. Nvidia’s GPU technology will power Tencent Games’ Start cloud gaming service, which began testing earlier in 2019. Start gives gamers access to AAA games on underpowered devices anytime, anywhere. Tencent Games intends to scale the platform to millions of gamers, with an experience that is consistent with playing locally on a gaming rig.

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Mobile,  Internet

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Tencent,  Huawei

Countries:

China

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Games, Cooperations & alliances

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