Corrected: Nvidia partners with SoftBank to deploy cloud gaming servers in Japan (March 18)

LG Uplus

18/03/2019 23:29

(Corrects March 18 story to say "SoftBank Corp", not "Softbank
Group Corp", partnered with Nvidia Corp)
    March 18 (Reuters) - Chip designer Nvidia Corp  NVDA.O  said
on Monday it has partnered with SoftBank Corp  9434.T  and LG
Uplus Corp  032640.KS  to deploy cloud gaming servers in Japan
and Korea later this year.
    Nvidia makes graphics chips for PCs and laptops that help
video games look more realistic. Now the company is putting
those same chips inside servers in data centers so that gamers
who do not have an Nvidia chip in their computer can stream
games from the data center.
    Nvidia said at a conference in San Jose, California, that it
has created a "pod" of its graphics cards that can support up to
10,000 gamers streaming games at once. 
    The company said SoftBank and LG Uplus would use the cards
for services to let customers stream games over 5G networks, the
next generation of wireless data networks.

 (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco and Munsif
Vengattil in Bengaluru; editing by G Crosse)
 ((Stephen.Nellis@thomsonreuters.com; +1-415-344-4934))