LG renews its conglomerate with collegial esports series Battle Academy

LG Business Solutions USA, in a press meet, has renewed its partnership with collegiate multi-game esports tournament series Battle Academy. As a result, LG's most renowned UltraGear gaming monitors will remain the tournament's official monitor. As per the reports, the deal was renewed as the series became successful in 2020 and saw participants offered scholarships by universities and colleges.

Battle Academy is run by UGC EDU, which is a division of the Ultimate Gaming Championship. The series mainly aims at providing an organized, education-focused competition league that helps gamers pursue a career in the esports and media industry. This can range from players competing in the event to offer more opportunities for designers, marketers, and journalists.

Battle Academy's 2020 launch was an overwhelming success and the game has given students a new avenue to enhance their skills in multiple competitive esports games and in media sector.The game has also attracted interest and even financial assistance from colleges looking to bolster their nascent esports programs and rosters. Also, the company is planning to launch new titles for its summer season and other series' in 2021.

 

 

NVIDIA Outperforms the Latest Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Tests

In the third round of submission, MLCommons recently released the results for MLPerf Inference. It is a set of standard AI inference benchmarking tests using seven different applications. These seven tests are predominantly based on the range of workloads that include computer vision, medical imaging, recommender systems, and natural language processing. The test mainly measures how fast the neural network can process data from each application.

In the results announced, the NVIDIA A100 GPU was the highest performing accelerator in each application. The company submitted each and every offline and server data scenario. It outperformed the much-impressive Qualcomm AI 100 in every aspect and also by an extensive margin. NVIDIA's edge GPUs - A100 PCIe and A100 SXM-was also introduced. The company submitted Jetson Xavier NX and Jetson AGX Xavier with a higher performance than the NX version. 

NVIDIA's all-new A100 has 80 GB of memory, and it provides over two terabytes per second of memory bandwidth, which is the highest for any AI-based company. With enhanced power, it is known that the applications cannot fully utilize A100 capabilities. It separated the GPU into seven isolated instances to create the biggest MIG. Along with Qualcomm, Centaur also had submissions. Again, NVIDIA dominated the performance landscape in every case.

 

Xsolla Successfully Acquires Slemma, an Advanced Data Analytics and Visualization Company

Xsolla, the video game commerce company powered by its transaction engine and business engine to help developers sell, connect, and optimize their games globally, has completed the acquisition of Slemma, an advanced analytics and visualization reporting platform. Its web-based tools allow users to create simple, easy-to-use, and dynamic data reports with customizable dashboards and data analytics output.

Xsolla has stated that it will integrate its Slemma's product suite into the Publisher Account to provide clients with next-level data visualizations; it will also connect Slemma's products to third-party tools and services such as Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure, Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, Zendesk, Salesforce, and many more. Its product suite will also be available on Xsolla's previously existing offerings.

Xsolla primarily focuses on providing the best experience, tools, and services to all its developers, publisher, and platform partners so that they can have the most successful product launch possible. The company is committed to adding its slate of services into additional companies and products into the fold. New Slemma features will be incorporated into Xsolla's already existing data analytics offerings in the Publisher Account dashboard throughout this year.