PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 6, 2025--
Powder, the industry leader in real-time AI-driven video editing at the edge, today announces the world’s first Neural Processing Unit (NPU) -accelerated AI gaming content creation. This breakthrough innovation debuts with Counter-Strike 2, delivering real-time highlights and automontages with unprecedented speed, efficiency, and privacy.
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This milestone follows strategic alliances with HP and AMD, first unveiled at CES 2025, and marks a new era in gaming content creation where AI-powered editing happens seamlessly in the background – without impacting gameplay.
Revolutionizing Gaming Content Creation with NPUs
Powered by next-genAMD NPUs, Powder’s on-device AI delivers:
Unlike traditional solutions that require GPU-intensive rendering or manual editing, Powder’s NPU-powered AI makes content creation instant, automatic, and invisible – so players can stay focused on the game while AI works in the background.
Powder: First to Unlock the Full Potential of NPUs in Gaming
Building on its multi-year alliance withHP’s OMENand deep partnership withAMD, Powder is the first company to deploy full-scale NPU acceleration for gaming video editing.
“ NPUs are unlocking a new frontier in AI-driven gaming content. While most solutions still rely on heavy CPU/GPU computing or cloud processing, we’ve built a true edge-based AI pipeline that makes highlights, automontages, and storytelling instant and effortless,” said Barthélémy Kiss, CEO at Powder.
And this is just the beginning. Powder’s NPU-powered AI will soon expand to 40+ of the world’s top games, including multiplayer and open-world titles.
AI-Powered Content Creation, Built for the Future
About Powder
Powderis the leader in AI-assisted gaming content creation, offering on-device AI processing powered by NPUs to help gamers instantly capture, edit, and share their most epic moments. By removing the barriers of manual editing and cloud-based delays, Powder is redefining how gaming content is created – seamlessly, in real-time, and at the edge.
Powder: The First AI-Powered, NPU-Accelerated Content Creation Platform for Gamers (Graphic: Business Wire)
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Chelsea was back on the coaching carousel under its American ownership on Thursday after Enzo Maresca left his position as manager following a reported deterioration in his relationship with the Premier League club’s hierarchy.
There was no immediate announcement regarding the successor to Maresca. The BBC and The Athletic reported that Liam Rosenior, who coaches French team Strasbourg — a club in the same ownership group as Chelsea, is a leading contender.
Maresca was midway through his second year in charge, having won the Conference League and Club World Cup in his first season at Chelsea.
However, the team has endured a turbulent last few months — Chelsea has won just one of its last seven Premier League matches to drop to fifth place — while Maresca publicly expressed his unhappiness at a lack of support at the club in a post-match news conference on Dec. 13, when the Italian said he had just experienced his “worst” 48 hours at Chelsea.
“With key objectives still to play for across four competitions including qualification for Champions League football," Chelsea said in a statement, "Enzo and the club believe a change gives the team the best chance of getting the season back on track.”
Chelsea has advanced to the English League Cup semifinals, where it will play Arsenal over two legs, and begins its FA Cup campaign away to second-tier Charlton on Jan. 10. In the Champions League, Chelsea is in 13th place in the 36-team league, two points off the eight automatic qualification spots with two rounds of matches left.
Chelsea is seeking a fifth full-time manager since the takeover of the club by American investors, fronted by Todd Boehly, in May 2022.
In the past 3 1/2 years, Chelsea has spent hundreds of million of pounds (dollars) in what looked from the outside a chaotic bid to sign players to refresh its squad. It now has one of the youngest and most talented squads in the Premier League, with star players including Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez and Estevao, but managers have struggled to get the players to gel as a team after so many changes.
Out of all the managers to have led Chelsea in that period — and they include Thomas Tuchel and Mauricio Pochettino, the current coaches of England and the United States, respectively — Maresca appeared to have handled the chaos the best.
Yet he reportedly didn’t feel appreciated given the tough working conditions and, according to the BBC, recently switched agents. A few weeks ago, media reports in England linked Maresca with a possible move to Manchester City — where he briefly worked under Pep Guardiola — should Guardiola eventually leave, though Maresca played the reports down.
Chelsea’s results have taken a downturn since a 3-0 win over Barcelona in the Champions League in November.
The team’s only league win in the past month was over Everton, 2-0. There have been draws with Arsenal, Newcastle and Bournemouth (twice) and losses to Leeds and Aston Villa.
Its next game is at plays second-place Man City on Sunday.
Chelsea said its achievements under Maresca “will remain an important part of the club’s recent history, and we thank him for his contributions to the club.”
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FILE - Chelsea's head coach Enzo Maresca reacts during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Atalanta and Chelsea, in Bergamo, Italy, on Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)
FILE - Chelsea's head coach Enzo Maresca sits on a bench ahead of the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Qarabag and Chelsea in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo, File)
Chelsea's head coach Enzo Maresca, left, gives instructions to Estevao during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Bournemouth in London, England, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
