US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military ...
Jan 7, 2025 · The US Department of Defense has added Chinese messaging, media, and gaming giant Tencent to its list of “Chinese military companies”, a designation that won’t necessarily result in a ban but is nonetheless unpleasant. Tencent appeared in a Tuesday update to the “Section 1260 list” [PDF], a document that US law requires be …
Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge …
Jan 29, 2024 · Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge. That prediction was pitched in the Chinese tech giant’s 2024 top technology trends report, which offers a view of future tech and how it will impact human progress in an …
Tencent, Microsoft link app stores in China • The Register Forums
May 29, 2024 · Tencent and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the Chinese gaming giant's Android wares available on the Microsoft Store, and playable on Windows PCs. A Microsoft China announcement explains the deal means Windows users can install mobile apps on their PCs. It quotes Tencent veep Lin Songtao expressing his enthusiasm …
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145 - The …
Apr 28, 2023 · Tencent Cloud has announced it's offering a digital human production platform – essentially Deepfakes-as-a-Service (DFaaS). According to Chinese media and confirmed to The Reg by Tencent, the service needs just three minutes of live-action video and 100 spoken sentences – and a $145 fee – to create a high-definition digital …
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon • …
Jul 23, 2024 · Tencent Cloud has launched a version of its homebrew cut of Linux distribution CentOS. TencentOS Server V3, launched last week, is said to be compatible with CentOS7 and CentOS8, and happy running on CPUs built on the x86 and Arm architectures. It's 2024, so Tencent Cloud has made sure the OS allows use of virtualized GPUs …
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as it wrings more performance …
Mar 20, 2025 · Chinese tech giant Tencent has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek. Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell revealed the slowdown during the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call, when asked how capital expenditure on AI will impact margins and profits. Mitchell replied that Tencent’s capital expenditure on …
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models
Oct 11, 2024 · Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models . Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly than other attempts to do so, and has used it to consolidate its database fleet and improve resource utilization.
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
Aug 5, 2024 · Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency . Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed “MegaTE”, a traffic engineering (TE) system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network configurations to the needs of individual flows generated by VMs or containers.
Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and ... - The Register
Jan 13, 2022 · Tencent CEO Pony Ma Huateng referred to his Chinese multinational company as "ordinary" and replaceable in a leaked company speech given at the 2021 end of year employee meeting. A woman looks at the sky while walking through the streets of Shenzhen against the backdrop of the Tencent Building A woman looks at the sky in …
Tencent Cloud says it's mass producing custom video chips
Apr 18, 2023 · Chinese social media, cloud, and entertainment giant Tencent on Monday revealed that it has started mass production of a home brew video transcoding accelerator. The announcement comes nearly two years after the company unveiled a trio of custom chips designed to accelerate everything from streaming video to networking and …