The latest Shadow game streaming box ditches AMD in favour of ARM for totally passive cooling

The Cloud PC streaming service Shadow has ditched AMD's embedded CPU solution for its latest streaming box. Instead, the company has opted for a new passive design powered by an ARM chip, which Blade is hoping will - along with further improvements and expansion to the service - manage to fend off the tech giants looking to cloud gaming in the near future. Shadow is a cloud streaming service from Blade that offers gamers a GTX 1080-powered PC up in the cloud for use across desktops, PCs, and mobile devices. Blade owns a warehouse full of Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics cards (or Quadro equivalents), Xeon CPUs, memory, and storage all ready to go at a moment’s notice through the power of the internet. Essentially, you only need a lightweight device to do a little video processing to draw all that power from up in the clouds and down into your device. Blade makes its own device to act as a host for the gaming PC if you want it, and that’s the Shadow Box. The first iteration featured an AMD embedded CPU, a small heatsink and accompanying fan to cool it, and is 191 x 159 x 110mm in size.