The young company Playtron, with $10 million in funding, presented an operating system of the same name, which may become a universal solution for portable game consoles.
Playtron is based on Linux and in theory allows you to run any launcher and any game. That is, it has the advantages of SteamOS and is devoid of its disadvantages. In fact, this is a platform for maximum cross-platform gaming, on which you can run anything conditionally, if this is possible in principle. Of course, we already have Windows as such the most universal OS, but Windows itself is not very suitable for portable consoles, firstly, because of its interface, and secondly, because of the gigantic number of functions that consoles do not required. Playtron is devoid of unnecessary software solutions that only hinder the gaming device.
At the moment, however, all this is at an early stage. Since Playtron currently does not cooperate, for example, with Valve and Epic Games, the system does not have the normal ability to install and update games through the corresponding launchers. But The Verge journalists tested the system (it was installed on a Steam Deck) on a number of games, including Death Stranding, Dave the Diver and Baltaro.
The developers plan to release a public alpha version in the next two months to allow the community to provide feedback and contribute to code repositories. The company is also already negotiating with a number of manufacturers, and Ayaneo plans to release a finished product with Playtron before the end of this year.
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US may add Huawei suppliers to blacklist
The United States is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese semiconductor companies linked to Huawei Technologies after the telecommunications giant made a significant technological breakthrough last year, as reported by Bloomberg.
Companies that could be blacklisted include chipmakers Qingdao Si'En, SwaySure and Shenzhen Pensun Technology (PST). Biden officials are also considering sanctions on leading Chinese memory chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies.
“The addition of more Chinese companies to the US entity blacklist is a very likely event,” wrote Jefferies analyst Edison Lee. “This is easy to implement and justify, and will further block some key Chinese companies from exploiting existing loopholes in export restrictions.”
In addition to companies that make chips, US officials may also sanction Shenzhen Pengjin High-Tech as well as SiCarrier. The US concern is that the two semiconductor manufacturing equipment companies are acting as proxies to help Huawei obtain sanctioned equipment.
It is unclear whether the Commerce Department has additional evidence linking the companies to Huawei, the people said.
Huawei was added to the blacklist back in 2019. It cannot purchase US technology unless the sellers obtain a special export license from the US Commerce Department.
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