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Intel Invests $500K In 'Gaming On Demand' Dev TransGaming
by Chris Remo
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September 24, 2009
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Intel has invested $500,000 in TransGaming, a Canada-based company focused on bringing PC games to other platforms like Mac, Linux, and -- eventually -- television sets as an "on-demand" service.
It's the last of those that the chip maker is primarily funding, according to a VentureBeat report. TransGaming is developing GameTree.tv, which will allow players to instantly load up a wide variety of games to play using their television sets.
But unlike services with similar goals, like the cloud-computing based OnLive and Gakai, GameTree.tv does game rendering client-side, using Intel's own "system on a chip" architecture. Intel separately announced today that those compact, graphics-oriented chips would be integrated into forthcoming HDTV sets.
Intel invested in TransGaming through Intel Capital, its venture capital-driven investment subsidiary.
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"[unlike] OnLive and Gakai, GameTree.tv does game rendering client-side"
It makes sense for Intel to support this. They'd rather sell a million consumer chips for $50 then a thousand professional chips for $500.