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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Here’s how these people managed to play Tetris online on the original Nintendo Game Boy

Nintendo launched its original Game Boy in 1989, pushing portable gaming consoles into their next phase. It was considered a gaming marvel at that time and it continues to impress to date. Now, hardware engineers have successfully hacked the handheld to allow them to play a game of Tetris against another player over an internet connection.

Hardware engineers running the YouTube channel stacksmashing in a video explained how they used the console’s native local multiplayer support via the proprietary link cable to trick it into playing a game of Tetris over the internet.

How did they do it?

The engineers used a Raspberry Pi connector to feed the data sent by the Game Boy via the link cable into a custom PC client. The custom PC client then sent the data into a dedicated web server, which fed that data to another Game Boy, thus allowing them to get an online multiplayer experience.

According to a report by Tech Crunch Nintendo‘s link cable interface protocol isn’t generic. This means that each game would have to have the protocol adapted to get it to work with the webserver in a similar fashion to stacksmashing’s Tetris. However, stacksmashing does state that this modded Raspberry Pi would work with any Game Boy game that utilizes the link cable for local multiplayer.

Future developments

Stacksmashing has open-sourced the code they used for the chip, which means people can pick it up and make their custom boards to do the same. Also people have also started work on custom boards with a better interface of the link cable to the Raspberry Pi. This means that in the future you will be able to get to see boards that can interface with the Game Boy without the need to strip open the cable and connect the wiring to the board yourself.



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