Microsoft, Sony partner on streaming games, chips and AI

REUTERS: Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp on Thursday said they struck a strategic partnership in which Sony would use Microsoft's cloud for streaming games and media and the two would work together to develop new image sensors.

The deal bolsters Microsoft's Azure cloud computing business, which helped push the Redmond, Washington-based company's market value past US$1 trillion last month. It also helps Microsoft counter cloud market leader Amazon.com Inc's Amazon Web Services. Japan's Sony is also a major supplier of camera chips for smart phones and other devices. Sony and Microsoft said they will potentially develop new image sensor chips that use Microsoft's artificial intelligence technology for business customers. The two companies did not specify how the chips would be used.Intelligent cameras are currently being used in applications such as spotting defective items coming off manufacturing lines with greater accuracy than human inspectors.

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