October 2018

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AMD specific news
AMD brand mentions
Competition in news
Partner in news
Industry news

Category	Stories
AMD specific news	58
AMD brand mentions	46
Competition in news	59
Partner in news	74
Industry news	80

AMD specific news

Apple’s Updated MacBook Pro 15 Powered By AMD Radeon Vega Mobile Graphics, What To Expect

Among the myriad of new products proudly unveiled at Apple’s event in New York today, the company quietly rolled out a few much-needed refreshes to its MacBook line, specifically a more powerful 15-inch MacBook Pro variant you made not have heard.

Publication: Technology Everyday

Apple Announces AMD Vega Graphics Options For MacBook Pro

Although today’s event was mostly focused on Apple’s new MacBook Air, Apple also quietly announced an update to its MacBook Pro lineup, which will receive AMD’s Radeon Pro Vega graphics chips for the first time next month.

Publication: Technology Everyday

AMD’s Vega Mobile Lives: Vega Pro 20 & 16 In Updated MacBook Pros In November

Buried towards the tail-end of today’s MacBook Air press release from Apple was a second announcement: that they’d be releasing a minor MacBook Pro refresh next month. Though curious in and of itself – the MacBook Pros were just updated in July.

Publication: Technology Everyday

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX Review

AMD took baby steps into the HEDT (high-end desktop) segment that eluded it for a decade, with the Ryzen Threadripper series and a modest line-up of just three SKUs. Those three were enough to plunge Intel’s bloated “Skylake-X” Core X processor family into complete disarray.

Publication: Tech Power Up

AMD Details Features Of Radeon Pro Vega 16, Vega 20 Destined For MacBook Pro

The AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 and Vega 20, two new graphics configurations the 15-inch MacBook Pro will have starting from November, stand to offer considerable performance upgrades on the previous generation, including the use of compact HBM2.

Publication: Technology Everyday Tech Power Up

AMD “Vega 20” GPU Not Before Late Q1-2019

AMD “Vega 20” is a new GPU based on existing “Vega” graphics architecture, which will be fabbed on the 7 nanometer silicon fabrication process, and bolstered with up to 32 GB of HBM2 memory across a 4096-bit memory interface that’s double the bus-width of “Vega 10”. AMD CEO Lisa Su already exhibited a mock-up of this chip at Computex 2018, with an word that alongside its “Zen 2” based EPYC enterprise processors, “Vega 20” will be the first 7 nm GPU. AMD could still make good on that word, only don’t expect to find one under your tree this Holiday.

Publication: Tech Power Up

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X Review

AMD surgically disrupted Intel’s entire Core X series of high-end desktop (HEDT) processors with its Ryzen Threadripper family, and extended its competitive lead with its Ryzen Threadripper 2000 series this August. In its first round, the company launched 16-core and 32-core Threadripper parts, and today, it is adding two more options with the 12-core Threadripper 2920X and 24-core Threadripper 2970WX. In the meantime, the company also introduced the Dynamic Local Mode feature for its 24-core and 32-core Threadripper WX family, which helps end users overcome many of the design quirks of the multi-chip module (MCM) in which half the dies don’t have local memory access, bringing about significant improvements.

Publication: Tech Power Up

AMD Expands 2nd Generation Ryzen Threadripper Desktop Processor Line-up, Powering Ultimate Computing Experiences, Available Today From $649

Today, AMD announced availability of two additional 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor models, 2970WX with 24 cores and 48 threads and the Ryzen Threadripper 2920X with 12 cores and 24 threads. The Ryzen Threadripper WX series commands class-leading core counts, purpose-built for prosumers focused on raw computational power for the heaviest workloads. In turn, Ryzen Threadripper X series provides enthusiasts, gamers, and streamers high performance with a beautiful and smooth gaming experience based on higher base and boost processor clock speeds than the previous generation.

Publication: Tech Power Up BizWire Express

$400 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Beats $600 NVIDIA RTX 2070 Using Registry Mod

Despite manufacturers’ best attempts, enthusiasts and overclockers have always found a way to go past the factory set power and voltage levels to achieve unprecedented performance figures. Although, there are risks involved in subjecting your chips to these levels of…stress, the gains are usually worth it.

Publication: TechQuila

PowerColor Radeon RX 590 to Be AMD’S Next Graphics Card

Radeon RX 590 is almost certain to be AMD’s next graphics card as the latest proof of its existence is the most definitive one till now. Taiwanese third-party graphics card manufacturer, PowerColor, is speculated to be preparing the release of a new Radeon RX 590 graphics card. This speculation is based on products listing from the Eurasian Economic Union certification office.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD Quietly Releases New A8-7680 Carrizo APU For Socket FM2+

In what will likely seem baffling to many, AMD is releasing a new APU for their ancient FM2+ socket. While the release of the newly minted A8-7680 was alluded to previously via an ASRock BIOS update for their A68H motherboards, many considered it a fake at the time. However, with AMD’s own literature listing the processor for the mass market, along with it popping up at various etailers with the product number AD7680ACABBOX, its release is now all but certain.

Publication: Tech Power Up

AMD’s poor outlook, crypto-chip slowdown intensify swoon in semiconductor sector

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. added onto market jitters about the semiconductor industry Wednesday with news that it has a glut of graphics chips that are no longer a hot commodity among cryptocurrency miners.

Publication: Yahoo! ETCIO

Rumor Mill: AMD and NVIDIA May Launch Polaris and Pascal Refreshes

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) might lose some discrete GPU (graphics processing unit) market share to NVIDIA (NVDA) as the crypto boom ends. AMD’s last GPU was the 14-nm (nanometer) Vega GPU launched in 2017. It’s unlikely to launch its 7-nm Navi GPUs for gamers before 2019. There hasn’t been a mention of a 12-nm GPU lineup, which led to rumors at Chiphell forums that AMD might launch a refresh to the 14-nm Polaris 20 GPUs it launched in 2017.

Publication: Market Realist

AMD concerns aren’t limited to crypto and graphics pain

Analysts have concerns about several key elements of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s business after the chipmaker delivered a disappointing earnings report and outlook. AMD shares AMD, -8.51% are off 13% in Thursday’s session following the results, which were released the prior afternoon. In earnings commentary, AMD executives discussed a graphics-chip glut owing to the end of the cryptocurrency boom, and some analysts are expecting more related pain in the segment. They also charge that AMD isn’t growing its server market share fast enough or appropriately capitalizing on PC weakness at Intel Corp.

Publication: Marketwatch

AMD’s stock price has gotten cut in half in less than 2 months

The former stock-market darling, which saw its stock price explode by as much as 230% in the first 8-1/2 months of the year, has seen its value get cut in half over the past six weeks as disappointing earnings and a comeback by its key rival have decimated shares. AMD’s stock soared to more than $34 a share in September as optimism surrounding the company’s new 7-nanometer chip, and rival Intel’s production problems for its 10-nanometer chip made it one of the year’s top performers.

Publication: Yahoo! Finance

Nvidia Upside Slimmer on AMD Earnings: BofA

Shares of semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) have taken a beating in the recent period, down nearly 30% over three months amid a broader sell-off in the once red-hot chip industry. Now, one team of bears on the Street warns that more bad news waits ahead for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based tech company, which is gearing up to post its most recent quarterly report on Nov. 15.

Publication: Investopedia Yahoo! Finance

AMD’s new 7nm Vega chips look promising

Since the advent of Ryzen, the CPU war between AMD and Intel has reached higher boiling points. Intel has retained the performance crown, but the chipmaker has been struggling to keep up as far as the performance-per-dollar ratio is concerned. Furthermore, while AMD is planning to migrate both its GPU and CPU products over to the 7nm node, Intel has been stuck on 10nm for quite some years now. Now information pertaining to the upcoming 7nm Radeon GPUs has also started to leak out.

Publication: TechQuila

Backpedaling AMD Bears Stung by October’s 35% Share Price Plunge

Only 11 percent of the shares available to trade were sold short as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by IHS Markit. That’s down from 17 percent at the start of September and near the lowest since early 2017. The pullback in bearish bets has gained pace as the shares plunged more than 35 percent in October, putting them on track to post the biggest monthly decline in six years.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

AMD revenue forecast disappoints as crypto demand dwindles

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below estimates as the chipmaker faces dwindling demand from cryptocurrency miners for its high-margin graphic processors and excess inventory, sending its shares down 22%.

Publication: ET Tech

Oracle Cloud launches its first AMD chip-based platform

US-based chip maker AMD on Wednesday announced the availability of its first “AMD EPYC” processor-based offering on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The offering is up to 66% less on average per core than general purpose instances offered by the competition and is the most cost-effective instance available on any Public Cloud.

Publication: Hindustan Times Telecom Live

AMD’s shares get in a plane, take off and soar to 12,000 ft – then throw open the door, and dive out into the cool air

AMD stock plunged following the release of the chip designer’s third-quarter financial figures – which showed sales at Intel’s antitrust shield suffered due to sluggish interest in its GPU hardware. The House of Ryzen reported on Wednesday $1.65bn in revenue for the three months to September 29, up four per cent year-on-year, and about $50m less than analysts has anticipated.

Publication: NewsR

Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) Q3 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript

Greetings, and welcome to the AMD Third Quarter 2018 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

Publication: Yahoo! News

AMD shares crushed as weak graphics sales ding revenue

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares plummeted in the extended session Wednesday after the chip maker’s outlook and revenue fell short of Wall Street estimates owing to weaker-than-expected graphics sales. AMD shares tumbled 18% after hours, following a 9.2% drop to close the regular session at $22.79. The company reported third-quarter net income of $102 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with $61 million, or 6 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

Publication: Yahoo! News

AMD Plunges as Analyst Warns It Could Disappoint Again Next Quarter

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares plunged 20 percent in pre-market trading Thursday after forecasts and results disappointed Wall Street, and at least one analyst sees potential for history to repeat next quarter.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

AMD has tumbled into a bear market – here’s why analysts say it’s time to buy

AMD’s stock has tumbled into a bear market since hitting its mid-September peak, and some Wall Street analysts are saying it’s time to buy the dip before the chipmaker launches its new-generation chip.

Publication: Business Insider India

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Is Pulling Back After Outlook Disappoints

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported third quarter non-GAAP EPS of $0.13 after the bell Wednesday, compared to $0.09 in the prior year period. Revenue for the third quarter was $1.65 billion. Street expectations were for EPS of $0.13 and revenues of $1.7 billion.

Publication: RTT News

AMD Share Price Falls ~28% via Weak GPU Sales; Revenue Share from GPUs Only 30%

Following the release of the Q3 financial results by AMD, the stock market was quick to respond to less-than-expected operating income and market share numbers with a ~9.2% drop in share price before the markets closed. This was then followed by fervent after-hours trading resulting an even bigger drop to a share price of $17.88 at the time of this post, compared to the starting value of $25.04 earlier today. The small hike and drop after-hours also indicates some enterprising parties made use of the lower share values to their profit.

Publication: TechPowerUp Newr

Advanced Micro Devices Revenues Miss Street, Outlook Weak; Shares Down 21%

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) plunged 21 percent on Wednesday after the company’s third quarter revenues and outlook for the current quarter fell short of Wall Street estimates.

Publication: RTT News

AMD revenue forecast disappoints as crypto demand subsides, shares plummet

Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Wednesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue below estimates as the chipmaker faces dwindling demand from cryptocurrency miners for its high-margin graphic processors and excess inventory, sending its shares down 22 percent.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint Reuters

Oracle Cloud offers first AMD chip-based platform

US-based chip maker AMD on Wednesday announced the availability of its first “AMD EPYC” processor-based offering on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The offering is up to 66 per cent less on average per core than general purpose instances offered by the competition and is the most cost-effective instance available on any Public Cloud.

Publication: Business Standard Financial Express VAR India Firstpost BTVI Daily Pioneer

AMD GameOn Brings Bets of Gaming Technology to Hyderabad

Publications: Netiandhra Citizens Evening

AMD’s Flexible Manufacturing Strategy Reflects in Gross Margin

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) seems to be repeating its 2006 growth in the CPU (central processing unit) market, increasing its market share. All that is the result of its new manufacturing and product strategy. In the past, AMD lost market share when it lagged behind Intel (INTC) in process technology.

Publication: Yahoo! Finance

AMD Ryzen 3000 To Offer 13% Better IPC Than Zen+, Better Gaming Performance

Twitter user ‘Bits and Chips’ has revealed that the AMD Zen 2 will deliver an average 13 percent IPC improvement over the AMD Zen+. The performance was measured on ‘scientific task’ workloads and the results are based on these benchmark scores. There’s no gaming data revealed yet. Bits and Chips claim the source of this information to be an employee of a ‘big company’ and to be the one behind the previous leaks that ‘proved true’ regarding the IPC of Zen, and the AM4 socket pins.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD earnings: Trade wars could harm assault on Intel

Now that shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have fallen back to earth slightly, investors get the opportunity to decide whether the current trade war climate had impinged upon the chip maker’s ability to capitalize of the misfortunes of its competitors.

Publication: Yahoo! Finance

AMD GameOn Brings Best of Gaming Technology to Hyderabad

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) hosted its flagship gaming event AMD GameOn 2018 on October 13-14 at HITEX Convention Centre, Hyderabad. Held on the sidelines of Comic Con, the gaming extravaganza saw over 10,000 AMD fans, technology enthusiasts, gamers and visitors come to experience the best of hardware and software built by AMD.

Publications: Dataquest IT News Buzz

AMD Zen 2 Offers a 13% IPC Gain over Zen+, 16% over Zen 1

AMD “Zen” CPU architecture brought the company back to competitive relevance in the processor market. It got an incremental update in the form of “Zen+” which saw the implementation of an improved 12 nm process, and improved multi-core boosting algorithm, along with improvements to the cache subsystem. AMD is banking on Zen 2 to not only add IPC (instructions per clock) improvements; but also a new round of core-count increases. Bits n Chips has information that Zen 2 is making significant IPC gains.

Publication: Tech Powerup

Start-ups will play a key role in Indian gaming: Andrej Zdravkovic of AMD

The Indian gaming industry was valued at $543 million in 2016 and was projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.61 per cent. Andrej Zdravkovic, head of Software Development and Management at global semiconductor company AMD, says dissipating entry barriers to high-end gaming has been a key reason for the growth of gaming market in India. In an interview with B Dasarath Reddy, he says sees a possible start-up wave in local game development with the expansion of domestic gaming market.

Publication: Business Standard

HP launches premium convertible ENVY x360 in India

Expanding its premium portfolio, HP Inc. on Tuesday launched the HP ENVY x360 convertible powered by AMD Ryzen processor for the millennials in India. HP ENVY x360 with AMD Ryzen R3 processor would be available from November at a starting price of Rs 60,990.

Publications: Business Standard Hindustan Times The Economic Times Financial Express The Quint VAR India Outlook India Yahoo! Finance BTVI Technuter India TV Times Now Millenium Post The Siasat Daily IANS Live The South Asian Times DevDiscourse WebIndia123

AMD Updates Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.10.1 with New Regional SKU Support

AMD late Monday updated its Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.10.1 beta drivers, without changing version numbers, to support some of the new regional SKUs the company launched over the weekend, including a variant of the Radeon RX 580 with only 2,048 stream processors instead of the normal 2,304; and the RX 580G and RX 570G. Besides this, the driver is unchanged from the original 18.10.1 drivers AMD released late last week. We have uploaded these latest drivers to our Downloads section.

Publication: Tech Powerup

AMD Could Cut Prices of 2nd Gen Ryzen “Pinnacle Ridge” Processors

AMD’s first response to Intel’s 9th generation Core “Coffee Lake Refresh” processors could be that of 5-10% price-cuts of its Ryzen “Pinnacle Ridge” processors across the board, according to a pricing list compiled by Techspot. These cuts could see the company’s Ryzen 7 2700X priced just below the $300-mark. These cuts will be introduced not just by AMD, but also retailers.

Publication: Tech Powerup

AMD donates digital classroom to CHORD School

The news update is regarding AMD’s CSR initiative to donate computers to set up a lab in partnership with CHORD India.

Publication: Andhra Prabha (Page 9)

AMD GameOn 2018 held in Hyderabad

AMD GameOn 2018 was held at the Hitex Convention Center in Hyderabad on October 13-14, 2018.

Publications: Andha Jyothi (page 11) Skyline (page 8) News99 (page 3) Satwi (page 4) Visalandhra (page 7) Netimanadesam (page 2)

OpTic India Gaming CSGO team wins AMD’s flagship gaming event GameOn 2018

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) hosted its flagship gaming event, GameOn 2018, at HITEX Convention Centre, Hyderabad recently. The event was being held on the sidelines of Comic Con, from October 13 to October 14. The event was inaugurated by Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Telangana and Andrej Zdravkovic, Corporate Vice President, Software Development & Management at AMD.

Publication: BGR

AMD Gaming Challenge in Hyderabad

The AMD GameOn 2018 update has been featured on TV5’s YouTube channel.

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AMD GameOn brings Gaming Tech to Hyderabad

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) hosted its flagship gaming event GameOn 2018 on October 13-14 at HITEX Convention Centre, Hyderabad.

Publications: Digital Terminal UNI WebIndia123 YThisNews

AMD to shortlist candidates for interview

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) hosted its flagship gaming event GameOn 2018 on October 13 and 14 at HITEX. Held on the sidelines of Comic Con, the gaming show saw over 10,000 technology enthusiasts, gamers and visitors experience the hardware and software built by AMD.

Publication: Telangana Today

AMD Products Meet All Price Points: Official

With the gaming ecosystem in the country growing exponentially, semiconductor company AMD expects its products will be able to meet demand across multiple price points, a top company official said.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

Chipmaker AMD bets big on India’s gaming industry

AMD GameOn 2018 has received coverage in Telangana Today and Surya in the October 15th edition. The stories also include photographs of the inauguration and gamers playing at the event.

Publications: Telangana Today Surya

Are you looking for a powerful laptop for gaming, editing or for your everyday work? Here we bring the best AMD Ryzen Laptops with integrated Vega GPU under Rs.50,000

Ryzen, the name is just enough to prove its worth in the market by now. The Red Team has already shaken up Intel with its wide range of new Ryzen desktop processors. At the Computex 2018, AMD revealed their largest portfolio with HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and even Microsoft.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD GameOn 2018 held in Hyderabad

AMD GameOn 2018 has received coverage in V6, a leading Telugu news channel. The update was aired on the channel as part of the 10 pm news bulletin on October 13, 2018.

Media: V6

AMD GameOn 2018 is India’s Biggest eSports and Gaming Technology event

AMD GameOn has received coverage in TV5 Telugu. The news update was aired on the channel as part of the 5.15 pm bulletin on October 13, 2018.

Media: TV5 Telugu

Cosplay, comics and much more

It also witnessed artist Vivek Goel launch issues from his series Caster and The Age of Immortals. It was not just comics and cosplay that attracted youngsters, but the two-day gaming event ‘GameOn2018’ hosted by graphics processing company AMD. Now in its third edition, the gaming event saw AMD and Playmax Interactive organising Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 tournaments.

Publication: The Hindu

AMD to host GameOn 2018 at Comic Con Hyderabad

AMD GameOn 2018 scheduled to take place at Hitex Convention Center, Hyderabad has been listed in The Hans India and Telangana Today.

Publications: The Hans India (October 11, 2018), The Hans India (October 12, 2018), Telangana Today (October 12, 2018)

AMD Speculated to Secure 30% Share Of The Desktop Market In Q4 2018

Intel hasn’t been having quite as much luck as AMD in terms of its CPU market in 2018. While the trouble for Intel and its CPU shortage continues, a larger market grows for the CPUs manufactured by AMD. Taking advantage of which AMD managed to emerge like a phoenix from the ashes with the launch of its Ryzen CPUs. Along with them came Threadripper and an entire lineup of EPYC server CPUs.

Publication: My Smart Price

AMD Polaris 30 Based Radeon RX570 and RX580 successors launching in few weeks, launch date for new Threadripper 2 CPUs revealed

If rumours from PCOnline are to be believed, we might have the successor to the Polaris 20 based GPUs, the RX570 and RX580 right around the corner. According to the website, the Polaris 30 based GPUs are going to launch sometime around mid-October.

Publication: Digit

AMD is a ‘high-risk/high-reward’ stock, RBC says

AMD will continue to be a high risk, high reward stock with a lot of volatility, RBC says. “AMD remains as our high-risk/high-reward name where we believe upside could be $60 and downside to around $15 if the product has issues,” RBC analyst Mitch Steves said in a note sent to clients on Wednesday. Publication: Business Insider India

AMD RX 570 and RX 580 Successors Might be Coming Soon

In a post by PCOnline, a promising leak from a board partner has confirmed that the AMD Polaris based GPUs will be launching in mid-October. The Polaris refresh features the new Polaris 30 GPU core. The successor for the RX 570 is likely to have 2048 cores (same as the RX 570) with better clock speeds, which means that the new GPU will be slightly faster than the RX 570. The RX 580 successor will feature 2304 cores (same as the RX 580) with improved clock speeds.

Publication: Indian Noob

AMD’s Dynamic Local Mode for Threadripper promises almost 50 percent more performance

If you’re lucky enough to have one of AMD’s high-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs 2990WX (or the soon-to-come 2790WX) , AMD has just given you a cherry for the top of your sundae. A new piece of software called Dynamic Local Mode will boost performance on some tasks by rerouting loads in Windows. Robert Hallock of AMD introduced Dynamic Local Mode in a blog post on Friday.

Publication: Newsr

AMD brand mentions

Understanding real-time ray tracing: The RTX Way

The introduction of the highly parallelised GPU architecture and the subsequent use of a Unified Shader architecture by both, AMD and NVIDIA, led to a revolution in the computing world.

Publication: Digit

Choosing a laptop for home within Rs 35,000

Publication: EStyle

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC gaming requirement: Minimum and Recommended

Intel Core 2 Q6600 @ 2.40GHz, AMD Phenom 9850 @ 2.5GHz or an upgraded CPU with at least 4 GB of RAM. NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB, AMD HD 4870 1GB, or the latest GPU with at least 1 GB of video memory.

Publication: Yahoo!

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX

The multimedia tests do better at flexing the Core i9-9900K’s muscle: Its Handbrake, Cinebench, and Photoshop results are topped or matched in this group only by counterparts using Core i9 X-Series Extreme Edition or AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X chips.

Publication: PC Mag

Acer Nitro 50

The GTX 1060 is the most powerful card available in any of the 11 models, which all scale down from there to various combinations of a GeForce GTX 1050 or GTX 1050 Ti alongside a Core i5 processor and different combinations of storage. You can also switch over to the AMD side via a Ryzen 5 2500X processor and a Radeon RX 580 graphics card for $899.99.

Publication: PC Mag

Boeing lifts Dow futures, but chipmakers pose headwind

At 9:47 a.m. EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 67.20 points, or 0.27 percent, at 25,258.63, the S&P 500 was down 2.06 points, or 0.08 percent, at 2,738.63 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 17.24 points, or 0.23 percent, at 7,420.30. Ford, Microsoft and AMD are due to report after the closing bell, while Amazon, Alphabet and Intel will report on Thursday – marquee earnings that could influence sentiment on Wall Street.

Publication: Business Standard Reuters

Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Unveiled With Snapdragon 850 SoC, 4GB RAM, And 20-Hour Battery Life

The main idea behind the Galaxy Book2 is portability. The notebook is quite compact, weighing only 840 grams and being just 0.3 inches thick. Unlike most of the other laptops out there which use Intel or AMD CPUs, the Galaxy Book2 uses Qulacomm Snapdragon 850 processor – a specially developed mobile SoC that can run Windows OS. Samsung has opted the Qualcomm SoC because it is very power-efficient as opposed to the ones from Intel and AMD. Speaking of power-efficiency, Samsung claims and boasts of a 20-hour battery life for its Galaxy Book2. As it is evident by now, the notebook runs on Windows 10 operating system.

Publication: My Smart Price

Microsoft, Boeing, AMD — What you need to know in markets on Wednesday

On Wednesday, things will remain very busy with Microsoft (MSFT), Boeing (BA), UPS (UPS), AT&T (T), Visa (V), Ford (F), AMD (AMD), and Whirlpool (WHR) all set to report results. Along with Caterpillar, Boeing has been seen as a proxy for the status of U.S.-China trade relations, while AMD has been one of the most actively-traded stocks on the market and Microsoft one of the market’s big-cap tech bellwethers.

Publication: Yahoo! News

Wall Street set to tumble as weak industrials add to riskoff mood

The heavyweight technology stocks that helped keep the Nasdaq afloat on Monday also buckled, with chipmakers leading the losses. Intel, Micron and AMD fell between 1.8 percent and 4.4 percent. Analysts suggest a cyclical correction might be at play as the Philadelphia semiconductor index has pulled back more than the broader market this month.

Publication: Business Standard

Paytm Mall Maha Cashback Sale: Top 10 deals on smartphones, speakers, laptops and more

The Dell Vostro 3000 is a laptop designed specifically for those who are looking for a machine on which they can work on. The laptop comes with an 8th Gen Intel Core i5 processor. It has 8GB DDR4 RAM and 1TB hard drive. When it comes to the graphics card, it is equipped with an AMD Radeon 520 2GB DDR5 card. You can get this device for Rs 41,990 during the sale along with an additional 10% cashback on using Kotak bank credit card.

Publication: Digit

Millennials heed Buffett in current US stock selloff

On the flip side, AMD saw the biggest drop in the number of investors with a net of 13,677, or 8.1 per cent investors, selling their holdings since September 27 following word that rival Intel could ramp up its chip production sooner than expected.

Publication: The Economic Times

Many Billions of Dollars Shaken Out From Mini-Rout: Taking Stock

Elsewhere, it’ll be the huge week for FANG (ex-Netflix, which already passed its test) and the semiconductors, as we’ll hear from Alphabet, Amazon, Intel, Texas Instruments, STMicro, AMD and Western Digital. Others in the tech space to be aware of are FAAMG member Microsoft, a downtrending Twitter (after a rough print last quarter a la Netflix), a spiraling lower Snap (down 67% from this year’s peak), and quasi-pot stock Shopify.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

Samsung Galaxy Book2

Evaluating the performance of the Snapdragon 850-powered Book2 isn’t like testing ordinary Intel- or AMD-powered laptops or desktops, because the CPU uses an entirely different instruction set. That means some of PCMag’s benchmark apps aren’t compatible, and despite efforts from Microsoft to get app makers on board, some of your favorite apps might not be either.

Publication: PC Mag

Global IT spending to grow 3.2% in 2019

However, the PC market may see some impact from the Intel CPU shortage. While this shortage will have some short-term impacts, Gartner does not expect any lasting impact on overall PC demand. The current expectations is that the shortage will continue into 2019, but Intel will prioritize the high-end CPU as well as the CPUs for business PCs. In the meantime, AMD will pick up the part of the market where Intel cannot supply CPUs.

Publication: VAR India Deccan Herald

PS4 successor in the works with next-generation hardware

Perhaps Sony will stick with the number “4” in naming its new gaming device. Aside from the number, the “Neo” could see a clock speed increase from 1.6GHz to 2.1GHz. The AMD graphics card will see a bump in computing units (CUs) from 18 to 36 CUs, and the 8GB of DDR5 RAM will see processing speeds of 216GB/s as opposed to the 176GB/s in the current console.

Publication: My Smart Price

ARM Shoots for the Cloud

Meanwhile, AMD has rolled out a much more competitive line of x86 processors based on its Zen core. “People were excited about Arm when AMD was falling flat, but now that AMD is doing much better, the data center users have a second source and don’t need Arm as much,” said Gwennap.

Publication: EE India

Assassins Creed Odyssey Review

The game also seems rather CPU-intensive, which was confirmed when I moved to an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU. Performance seemed better here in general with a GTX 1060 in tow but moving to an RTX 2080, which was in our office for review, evened that more. Bumping resolutions up to 4K, even the RTX 2080 wasn’t enough to run this game at ultra settings.

Publication: PC Mag

IoT Operating Systems Market to Witness Massive Growth by 2025: Evolving Key players- Google, ARM, AMD

HTF MI recently introduced Global IoT Operating Systems Market study with the in-depth overview, describing the Product / Industry Scope and elaborates market outlook and status to 2023. The market Study is segmented by key regions which are accelerating the marketization. At present, the market is developing its presence and some of the key players from the complete study are AMD, Microsoft, Advantech, Altera Corp, Amperex Technology, ARM, Atmel, Contiki, Cypress, Blackberry, Google, Samsung Electronics & Huawei Technologies etc.

Publication: BizWire Express

Deals: AMD Threadripper, 3TB Portable Drive, Dyson Vacuum

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core/32-Thread Desktop Processor for $679.99 at Amazon (list $799)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-Core/24-Thread Desktop Processor for $398 at Amazon (list $499)

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 4.1GHz 8-Core Processor with Wraith Spire LED Cooler for $249.99 at Amazon (list $299)

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor for $249.99 at Amazon (list $349)

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.9GHz 6-Core Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler for $149.99 at Amazon (list $199)

Publication: PC Mag

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 20-30% Faster than GTX 1080 and AMD Vega

Today is the day NVIDIA’s review embargo for the GeForce RTX 2070 got lifted. Reviews are pouring in from every major outlet, and as we have already reported earlier, the RTX 2070 is indeed faster than both the GTX 1080 as well as the AMD RX Radeon Vega 64.

Publication: TechQuila

Worldwide PC Shipments Experienced Flat Growth in Q3 2018:Gartner

“Current expectation is that the shortage will continue into 2019, but Intel will prioritize the high-end CPU as well as the CPUs for business PCs. In the meantime, AMD will pick up the part of the market where Intel cannot supply CPUs,” Kitagawa explained.

Publication: Electronics B2B

Qualcomm win dribble football

Qualcomm team, represented by Mihir Nabar, emerged champions of Dribble Football by defeating Bank of America’s Vinu Balan 5-0 in the final of the Mindspace-SLAN Inter-Corporate Sports Tournament. Meanwhile, AMD’s Vikas Vooturi won a thriller against CDL’s Prashant Gurram 5-4 to secure the third spot. Over 10,000 sports enthusiasts competed in various disciplines in the two-week long event which started on September 26.

Publication: Telangana Today

OpTic India Wins the LAN Finale of the Fall Season of the ESL India Premiership

Hyderabad proves to be a break for OpTic India after the unlucky run at the SEA Qualifiers for the Toyota Masters. OpTic India win both the LAN finale for the ESL India Premiership as well as the finale of the AMD GameOn tournament, where they take down Fuzion Gaming with a scoreline of 2-0.

Publication: Indian Noob

Here’s what you need to run the latest PUBG on your PC

In terms of CPU the game requires a minimum Intel Core i3-4340 processor or AMD FX-6300 GPU: For enjoying the graphics of the game seamlessly you need to get a Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB or you can also choose AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB

Publication: Gizbot

Comic geeks, ahoy! Here’s all you need to know about Comic-con Hyderabad 2018

From Marvel and DC to Fantastic Beasts and Creed 2, geeks can experience the world of comics through the special gaming zones set up at the event. The line-up includes AXN, Sony Pix, ESL Premiership and AMD GameOn.

Publication: The Indian Express (Indulge)

Hyderabad Comic Con 2018: A multi-verse of entertainment

Founder of Comic Con India Jatin Varma observes a huge gaming community in the city which many will see in the form of AMD Gaming and ESL Gaming. In attendance as well will be artist Saumin Suresh Patel, Akshay Dhar of Meta Desi Comics, Vivek Goel of Holy Cow Entertainment and Rajeev Tamhankar of TBS Planet Comics — just to further name drop here.

Publication: The Hindu

Day of comics and cosplays

The day started with an exclusive launch of Blame it on Rahil by Rahil Mohsin, moving to TBS Planet, who made a debut with brand new series Karma. There was a special session with AMD, giving a gaming experience to battle head to head. The event also witnessed the renowned comedian Sahil Shah; the Canadian comic artist, Ty Templeton, famous for his work on titles like Superman, Batman and TV associated comics like The Simpsons, among others. The annual event took place with hundreds of exhibits showcasing merchandises. The spirit of cosplayers ruled the whole show, who got dressed up as their favourite super heroes.

Publication: Telangana Today

Global PC shipments hit 67.2 mn units in Q3, Lenovo leads

“Although the third-quarter results did not show any material impact, the Intel CPU shortage could influence the PC market moving forward with price increases and changes to the vendor landscape. While this shortage will have some short-term impacts, Gartner does not see any lasting impact on overall PC demand. Current expectation is that the shortage will continue into 2019, but Intel will prioritize the high-end CPU as well as the CPUs for business PCs. In the meantime, AMD will pick up the part of the market where Intel cannot supply CPUs,” Kitagawa said.

Publication: The Economic Times

Black Friday laptop deals: the best prices this year

If you’re trying to purchase a new laptop or MacBook, then there’s no better time to grab one than on Black Friday, and with this year’s celebration of shopping quickly approaching, it’s worth gearing up for the big day and seeing how you can make sure you get the absolute best deal.

Publication: Udaipur Kiran

Deals: $100 Bonus on Pixel 3, Half Off Grado SR60 Headphones

We’ve rounded up the best tech deals of the day, including a $100 bonus when you pre-order Google’s Pixel 3 smartphone, 50 percent off Grado’s legendary SR60 headphones, and up to 30 percent off Lego sets.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core AM4 Processor for $295.99 at Walmart (list $330)

Publication: PC Mag

Top smartphone offers on Flipkart Big Billion Day sale today

AMD powered laptops minimum 25% off starting Rs 14,990 from HP, Asus and others. Sony WH-1000XM2 Bluetooth ANC Headset with Mic & Touch Sensor Rs 30,999 (MRP) is available at Rs15,999 (deal price).

Publication: Livemint

Sony indicates they’ve started working on the next generation PS5

The PlayStation 4 was a resounding success as it took the eighth generation console space by storm, selling considerably more units than its biggest rival, the Xbox One. Rumour mills have been churning full-time recently with the news doing the rounds that Sony will include AMD’s Ryzen CPUs in the next iteration of the PlayStation, and we have talked about this previously. The inclusion of AMD’s Ryzen line seems like a positive step for Sony as they look to improve their consoles’ processing power.

Publication: PC Mag

Huawei unveils new AI chips amid Chinese technology ambitions

Huawei said it will not sell these chipsets separately to customers, but its efforts would still pit it against big US vendors such as Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia. Huawei, however, does not expect any “direct competition” with other vendors as it will not sell to third parties, Xu said at the Huawei Connect conference.

Publications: Reuters, BTVI, The Asian Age, Smart Investor

Intel launches new 9th Gen Core Processors with up to 8 cores and 16 threads with 5GHz Turbo Boost in Clock Speed

These 8 core CPUs will directly compete with AMD’s mainstream Ryzen CPUs that are known for its “large number of a number of threads and cores.” Intel has claimed that these processors will help gamers particularly to get higher frame rates in games.

Publication: Techno Sports

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Official PC System Requirements

Treyarch has revealed the official pc system requirements for this year’s Call of Duty title, i.e Black Ops 4. Interestingly, the final requirements have been re-tweaked from the specs listed for last month’s Blackout beta, which demanded an Intel Core i5 2500k (or AMD equivalent) as a minimum CPU, and recommended a Core i7 4770k. They have also revealed the configurations that will deliver the highest refresh rates for competitive gamers and the Ultra specs for PC purists pushing for the best performance levels.

Publication: Indian Noob

Chips stocks suffer their 5th straight day of losses

The heavy selling in the space comes as investor have begun to book some of the huge profits they have made this year. Even after the October selling, AMD is up 127% and Nvidia has gained 22%.

Publication: Business Insider India

New Intel CPUs Target AMD Ryzen

Intel officially unveiled its ninth-generation Core desktop processors, clearly targeted at smaller rival AMD’s Ryzen devices with a focus on PC gaming and creative professionals. At a New York City event that was webcasted globally, Intel also provided more details on its new Core X-series high-performance processors for content creators such as animators and provided updates on its 28-core Xeon workstation chip for compute-intensive workloads.

Publication: EET India

Intel Core i9-9900K hands on: Intel’s Beastly Mainstream Octa-core Processor

Intel’s recent processors have been a step behind the high-core count, massive multi-threading performance of AMD Ryzen CPUs for some time now, but now Intel Core i9-9900K looks to level the playground.

Publication: Udaipur Kiran

Intel 9th Gen Core i9-9900K to be Significantly Faster than the Ryzen 2700X in Gaming?

At the product launch of Intel’s 9th gen Kaby lake refresh, the focus of the event was the gaming performance of the new processors. As per Intel’s official benchmarks, the Kaby Lake refresh is a fair bit faster than AMD’s 2nd gen Ryzen processors as well as Intel’s previous 8th gen CPUs.

Publication: Techquila

Paytm Mall cashback sale: Apple iPhone 8 at Rs 43,444, up to Rs 20,000 off on MacBook Air

Lenovo’s Ideapad 330 (81DE012NIN) will be available at an effective price of Rs 44,460, down from Rs 64,090. A cashback of 10 per cent will further bring down the price of the laptop to Rs 41,960. Ideapad 330 is powered by Intel’s core i5 (8th generation) processor coupled with AMD’s Radeon 530 (2GB) for graphics performance. It offers 2TB storage.

Publication: The Indian Express

Forza Horizon 4 (for PC)

To boot up Forza Horizon 4, your gaming PC needs at least a 3.7GHz Intel i3-4170 CPU, an AMD R7 250x or Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 Ti GPU, 8GB of RAM, 60GB of storage, and the Windows 10 operating system. If you’ve bought or built a gaming rig in the last few years, you should have no problem putting the pedal to the metal.

Publication: PC Mag

What Intel’s New Processor Line Means for Desktop Buyers

It’s a very broad and powerful lineup, reflecting Intel’s goals of raising average selling prices by segmenting the market and acting as a counterpoint to AMD’s recent Ryzen desktop processors, including the 32-core Threadripper. But with increased segmentation comes increased complication, and it’s going to be harder for most people to determine which processor makes the most sense for their applications.

Publication: PC Mag

Physical Social Network, Tagtalk Partners with Yuvraj Singh Backed Creator’s Gurukul to Venture into On-demand Workspaces

Creator’s Gurukul had earlier also opened a unique Co-Gaming zone at it co-working space in association with AMD. Farm house style ecofriendly and India Inspired co-working space in Gurgaon is already a go-to work and gaming station for some of the best minds of the start-up world.

Publication: BW Disrupt

Laptop Deals You Can’t Afford to Miss on Paytm Mall’s Maha Cashback Sale

For instance, Lenovo’s Ideapad 330 (81DE012NIN) preloaded with Windows 10 is available for Rs. 44,460 effectively, down from its original price of Rs. 64,090. The laptop is powered by Core i5 (8th generation) processor and AMD’s Radeon 530 (2GB) graphics accelerator and is perfect for gaming and other high-performance applications (with a clock speed of up to 3.7 GHz.

Publication: Digital Terminal

Intel 9th Gen Core Series Processors announced

The Core i9-9900K is the first 8-core, 16-thread CPU to be shipped in the mainstream segment. Intel has had 8-core CPUs in the HEDT segment for quite a while but never was there a SKU in the mainstream segment. Given how the race to add more cores to CPUs has had both AMD and Intel stepping up their game, we’ve seen some ridiculous core counts on CPUs of late.

Publication: Digit

LG Launches 32UK550: A New 4K Ultra-HD Mid-Range Monitor With HDR10, Super Resolution+ And Other Features

The 32UK550-B is an Ultra-HD display that supports HDR10, covers 95 percent of the DCI-P3 color space, and features AMD’s FreeSync dynamic refresh rate technology. Incidentally, the monitor does not pack an IPS (In Plane Switching) display. Instead, LG has deployed a VA (Vertical Alignment) panel. Still, the panel boasts of an impressive 3840 × 2160 or 4K resolution.

Publication: My Smart Price

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Publication: The Times of India

Darren McPhee, Former Radeon Marketing Executive, Joins Intel’s Discrete Graphics Division

Darren McPhee worked 12 years for ATI and AMD. When he left AMD in 2015, he was one of the company’s top marketing managers. For the last three years he has worked for various companies, but the surprise has come with Intel recruiting him to occupy the position of Product Marketing Manager in its ‘Discrete Graphics’ group, one of the most interesting initiatives in the recent times.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Graphics Cards Are Failing More Than They Should

The Nvidia RTX 2080 and the 2080 Ti are the latest flagship class GPUs from Nvidia with focus on real-time ray tracing. The latest GPUs are now available in India for a starting price of Rs 54,250 for the RTX 2070 Founders Edition GPU.

Publication: Technology Everyday

NCA-1515: Desktop Network Appliance for vCPE/uCPE & Edge Security

The NCA-1515 features robust performance and Intel’s QuickAssist Technology, offering cryptographic acceleration and commercial-grade LAN functions in a 231mm x 200mm x 44mm (WxDxH) form factor.

Publication: IT Voice

Volkswagen and Intel team up for Israel’s first self-driving car service

Waymo is planning to have a self-driving taxi service on the road by the end of the year in Arizona. GM’s Cruise has its sights on an autonomous taxi hitting San Francisco streets in 2019. In Dubai, a self-driving taxi service is already in testing. Now, Intel’s Mobileye autonomous vehicle tech division plans to roll out a similar autonomous car service in Israel early next year.

Publication: The Economic Times Mashable

The Power of Ingredient Banking

Publication: Electronics For U

Intel has a huge role to play in making 5G a success: Nivruti Rai

4G and 5G technologies have to coexist. It doesn’t mean that since you are doing 5G, you kill 4G, says the country head of Intel India. Nivruti Rai, country head, Intel India, talks about emerging technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) and the evolving role of Intel amid this change. Dwelling on the need for reskilling, Ms. Rai adds that by 2019, every employee at Intel India, including non-engineers, will be trained in AI.

Publication: Communications Today

NVIDIA’s GDDR5X-varnished GTX 1060 Only Ticks at 8.8 Gbps Over 192-bit

NVIDIA is rushing in a new variant of its GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB graphics card to counter AMD’s Radeon RX 590, in a bid to reinforce the $250 price-point ahead of the crucial Holiday season. According to specifications of the GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X put out by Palit, the GDDR5X version is a little more than a marketing stunt, with something in there for overclockers. The GTX 1060 GamingPro OC+ from Palit is by no means a “baseline” product.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Qualcomm might introduce 32W fast charging in its next flagship SoC

There are few things more satisfying as seeing your phone charge to half its capacity for the take it takes one to shower. Fast charging has been one of the greatest gifts and have been one of the efficient ways of making up of poor battery capacity.

Publication: Digit

Qualcomm says Apple is $7 Billion behind in royalty payments

In a court hearing on Friday, Qualcomm said that Apple was $7 billion behind in royalty payments. Apple, in turn, argued that Qualcomm was unfairly charging for the use of its patents. The rift between the two companies which began last year is based on the disagreement on patent royalty fee.

Publication: Digit

10nm On Track for Late 2019: Intel

Intel said that it’s making progress on improving 10-nm yields and reiterated its pledge to have 10-nm chips shipping by the 2019 holiday season. In a conference call with analysts following a financial report that beat analysts’ expectations for the 12th straight quarter, Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, president of Intel’s Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group, said that 10-nm yields are now tracking roughly in line with what the company experienced at the 14-nm node when it prepared to make that transition.

Publication: EE Times

The 3rd most powerful supercomputer in the world was turned on at a classified government lab in California – Here’s what the 7,000 square foot ‘mini city’ of processing power is like up close

Covering 7,000 square feet and with 240 computing racks and 4,320 nodes, a classified government lab holds what looks like a futuristic mini city of black boxes with flashing blue and green lights. This buzzing machine, called the Sierra supercomputer, is the third most powerful computer in the world. It was unveiled Friday at its home, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, after four years in the making.

Publication: Business Insider

$400 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Beats $600 NVIDIA RTX 2070 Using Registry Mod

Publication: TechQuila

Rumor Mill: AMD and NVIDIA May Launch Polaris and Pascal Refreshes

Publication: Market Realist

Nvidia Upside Slimmer on AMD Earnings: BofA

Publication: Investopedia Yahoo! Finance

Your Android smartphone may charge a lot quicker in 2019

Fast charging on a smartphone takes away the worry of running out of juice on your device. Of course the philosophy of the bigger the battery, the better still applies, but when you can recharge your device in under an hour, it helps negate a smaller battery.

Publication: My Smart Price

Intel Gives Bullish Outlook on Surprising Jump in PC Demand

Intel Corp., the world’s second-biggest semiconductor maker, gave bullish forecasts that demonstrate growth is back in a personal-computer market many thought was dying. Revenue in the fourth quarter will be about $19 billion and profit will be $1.16 per share, Intel said in a statement Thursday. Both projections beat analysts’ average estimate. Intel also lifted its revenue prediction for 2018 to $71.2 billion, $6 billion more than it was forecasting at the beginning of the year.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

Intel bucks chip industry woes; powered by PCs, iPhones

Intel Corp beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit and revenue on Thursday, driven by its high-margin data center business and strong demand for its PC chips, sending its shares up as much as 6.0 percent in extended trading.

Publication: Reuters

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 Smartphone Processor Launched: Everything You Need to Know

While high-end devices in the smartphone industry, like the Samsung Galaxy S9 lineup, LG G7 ThinQ, and Google Pixel, are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845, the company is introducing a mid-range chip that can support the premium qualities that are no long exclusive to these flagship phones.

Publication: News18

Mobileye Opens Up Driverless Tech as Tie-Up With Intel Deepens

Mobileye NV’s driverless test car has developed a bit of a feisty streak. During a test drive in October, with a Bloomberg reporter sitting in the passenger seat, the car merged into traffic on an expressway. Then, when drivers were reluctant to allow it to change lanes — a situation quite common on Israel’s roads — it made the move, smoothly but assertively.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit 2018: From Snapdragon 675 to new 5G mmWave antenna modules and more highlights

Qualcomm at its 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday announced a host of products and also upgraded already existing services. The chipset maker unveiled the latest and smallest additions in its family of 5G NR mmWave Antenna Modules as well as announced that its Quick Charge Technology now powers more than 1,000 mobile devices, accessories and controllers.

Publication: Times Now News

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 makes a strong case for triple-cam phones on a budget

The Honor Play is the most affordable gaming phone in India right now. The Samsung Galaxy A7 is meanwhile the most affordable phone in India with a triple rear camera setup. While the Honor Play rocks a Kirin processor, the Galaxy A7 comes with an Exynos chipset. Qualcomm wants to kill two birds with one stone with its newly announced Snapdragon 675 processor. The new mid-range chipset from Qualcomm brings high-end gaming and support for triple cameras to the more affordable mid-range segment.

Publication: India Today

Intel denies reports that 10nm Cannon Lake processors have been cancelled

Intel has dismissed reports that it is ending development of its 10nm “Cannon Lake” processors. In fact, the company announced on Twitter that “it is making a good progress” on its upcoming 10nm chipsets. The response comes following a report from SemiAccurate which suggested that Intel had killed off its new processors, based on the 10nm process.

Publication: The Indian Express

Celebrating the spirit of innovation and partnership at Qualcomm Innovation Forum 2018

The recently held Qualcomm Innovation Forum was all about sharing, showcasing and celebrating innovative concepts developed by Qualcomm and its partners in India and abroad. The event brought together Qualcomm experts to talk about the current product pipelines and key technologies of the company, and engineering leads to discuss the Qualcomm Design Innovation Programme.

Publication: YourStory

Nvidia quietly launches GeForce GTX 1060 card with GDDR5X memory

Following the launch of its GeForce RTX cards, Nvidia has quietly updated its GeForce GTX 1060 graphic card with 6GB GDDR5X memory. The previous version of the card offered GDDR5 memory. The rest of the features of the card are more-or-less identical to the previous card. It too is based on the Pascal architecture and is of the same size as its predecessor.

Publication: Digit

How Intel Core i9 Processors Enable Megatasking

The earliest computers were often pushed to the limit performing even a single task, between hammering the hard drive, swapping memory frantically, and crunching through computations. With Microsoft Windows* 3.1 and then Windows 95, multi-tasking began to take form, as systems were finally able to handle more than one program at a time. Now, with the advent of double-digit cores in a single CPU, the concept of megatasking is gaining traction. The latest entries for the enthusiast are in the Intel Core X-Series processor family, ranging from 4 to 18 cores. These Intel Core i9 processors can simultaneously handle tasks that previously required multiple complete systems-enter extreme megatasking.

Publication: DevWorx

Amazon.com, Qualcomm to put Alexa assistant in more headphones

Microchip firm Qualcomm Inc is joining Amazon.com Inc to spread the use of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in wireless headphones, the companies said on Monday. Under the deal, Qualcomm will release a set of chips that any maker of Bluetooth headphones can use to embed Alexa directly into the device. When the headphones are paired to a phone with the Alexa app on it, users will be able to talk to the voice assistant by tapping a button on the headphones.

Publication: The Asian Age

‘Artificial intelligence can democratise innovation by commoditising software’

President and co-founder of US-based technology firm NVIDIA Corporation Jensen Huang Monday said artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to democratise innovation by commoditising software. He was speaking at the fourth edition of the NITI Lecture Series, which among others was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Publication: Business Standard

Narendra Modi to attend NITI Aayog event on artificial intelligence today

Modi will attend the lecture series in which the key note address will be delivered by Jensen Huang, president and co-Founder of US-based technology firm NVIDIA Corporation, the NITI Aayog said on Sunday.

Publication: Business Standard

GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake Nvidia Graphics Cards

When ordering a new graphics card you expect the card in the box to contain the correct GPU. However, that turns out not to be the case in some regions of the world (China, we’re looking at you) or on the buying platform you choose to use. We’ve always known auctions can be risky, haven’t we? But if you are purchasing a Nvidia card, there’s now a very easy way to check if it’s fake.

Publication: PC Mag

How to Overclock Your Intel CPU

Your computer’s central processing unit, or CPU, is designed to run at a certain speed. However, some CPUs can be pushed a little farther, giving you more performance for your dollar. This is called overclocking.

Publication: PC Mag

COLORFUL Debuts iGame Z390 Vulcan X Motherboard

Colorful Technology Company Limited, professional manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards and high-performance storage solutions is proud to announce the launch of its latest motherboard featuring the Intel Z390 chipset. The new COLORFUL iGame Z390 Vulcan X joins the family of high-performance, gamer-inspired products of the COLORFUL iGame family.

Publication: Tech Powerup

NVIDIA Readies TU104-based GeForce RTX 2070 Ti

Gigabyte themselves have come out of the gates dismissing this as a typo on their part, which is disappointing, if not unexpected, considering that there is no real reason for NVIDIA to launch a new SKU to a market virtually absent of competition. Increased tiers of graphics card just give more options for the consumer, and why give an option that might drive customers away from more expensive graphics card options?

Publication: Tech Powerup

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 20-30% Faster than GTX 1080 and AMD Vega

Publication: TechQuila

Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 Ti AMP 11 GB Review

NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 20-series with the introduction of the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. It comes at a time when the silicon fabrication technology isn’t advancing at the rate it used to four years ago, wrecking the architecture roadmaps of several semiconductor giants, including Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm, which is forcing them to design innovative new architectures on existing foundry nodes. Brute transistor-count increases, as would have been the case with “Volta,” are no longer a viable option, and NVIDIA needed a killer feature to sell new GPUs. That killer feature is the RTX Technology.

Publication: Tech Powerup

Nvidia Gamer Connect Coimbatore: Nvidia showcases the power of RTX GPUs

Nvidia hosted the latest edition of the Gamer Connect event in India at Coimbatore, where the company showcases the latest generation RTX series of GPUs with additional gaming peripherals like curved monitors, state of the art desktop computers etc.

Publication: Yahoo!

Qualcomm extends Wi-Fi experiences to the 5G era with 60GHz 802.11ay solutions

Qualcomm Technologies announced a family of 60GHz Wi-Fi chipsets, the QCA64x8 and QCA64x1, delivering 10+ gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network speeds and wire equivalent latency, while setting the industry low-power benchmark for extended device battery life. As a new connectivity era dawns, reliance on high-bandwidth mmWave spectrum will increase, bringing powerful new wireless experiences like ultra-high-definition video streaming, Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR), mobile screen casting and fixed wireless mesh backhaul.

Publication: Technuter

Smartwatch chip promises better battery life

Publication: PC Mag

Rivals ARM And Intel Make Peace To Secure Internet Of Things

Rival semiconductor giants ARM and Intel have agreed to work together to manage networks of connected devices from both firms, clearing a major stumbling block to market growth of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). Britain’s ARM, a unit of Japan’s Softbank Corp, said on Monday it had struck a strategic partnership with Intel to use common standards developed by Intel for managing IoT devices, connections and data.

Publication: BTVI

Qualcomm win dribble football

Publication: Telangana Today

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Most Likely Will Be Faster than the GTX 1080

Longtime tipster Tum Apisak (Shiina Mashiro) has leaked Time Spy benchmarks of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card. For the sake of comparison, the scores of the other RTX cards have also been included in the leak.

Publication: TechQuila

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX: High-End Gaming Desktop With 9th-Gen Intel Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU Launched

Asus ROG has launched Strix GL12CX, a high-end gaming desktop with next-gen Intel Core Processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU. The powerful gaming machine, which isn’t exactly portable, comes with custom liquid cooling system as well as NVIDIA’s latest graphics engine for intense and prolonged periods of uninterrupted gaming.

Publication: My Smart Price

Nvidia unveils new software tools, plans to move beyond market for AI chips

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp is trying to grab a bigger slice of the business computing market from dominant rival Intel Corp with a new set of software tools released on Wednesday. With new software it calls RAPIDS, Nvidia is hoping to move beyond the fast-growing but relatively small market for artificial intelligencechips. It’s aiming for the much larger market for chips that do basic business data crunching such as forecasting inventories. Nvidia announced the software at a conference in Germany.

Publication: ETCIO

Chipmaker Nvidia To Supply Computer For Volvo’s Upcoming Vehicles

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Wednesday that Swedish automaker Volvo (VOLVb.ST) would begin using its artificial intelligence computer to deliver low-level autonomous features in all its next-generation vehicles.

Publication: BTVI

Nvidia Aims To Woo Business Analysts With New Software

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) is trying to grab a bigger slice of the business computing market from dominant rival Intel Corp (INTC.O) with a new set of software tools released on Wednesday.

Publication: BTVI

How Intel Core i9 Processors Enable Megatasking

Publication: Digit

Intel launches new 9th Gen Core Processors with up to 8 cores and 16 threads with 5GHz Turbo Boost in Clock Speed

Publication: Techno Sports

New Intel CPUs Target AMD Ryzen

Publication: EET India

Zone Cafe Becomes India’s First Cafe to be Powered by Nvidia’s RTX GPUs

Kolkata’s gaming scene is about to get a unique twist! Zone Cafe, in association with XRIG and Starcomp, promises to be the best gaming lounge East India could have. The cafe comes packed with every facility a gamer could possible want.

Publication: Indian Noob

Acer Predator Orion 9000, 5000 with Intel’s 9th gen processors announced

Acer today showcased the new Predator Orion 9000 and Predator Orion 5000 gaming desktops, both of which will be powered by the recently launched 9th generation Intel Core i processors. Additionally, the new gaming PCs will come with up to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU.

Publication: The Indian Express

Intel unveils world’s best gaming chip till date – here’s all you need to know

Intel has announced 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K — touted as world’s best gaming processor — apart from a series of new desktop chips for gaming as well as content creation. The $488 i9-9900K chip brings an exceptional level of performance to the desktop product line, the company said in a statement late on Monday.

Publication: Financial Express

ASUS Republic of Gamers launches Strix GL12CX gaming desktop with NVidia GeForce RTX 2080

ASUS Republic of Gamers has launched the Strix GL12CX gaming desktop with NVidia GeForce RTX 2080. The Taiwanese giant claims that the machine is world’s first NVidia GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming Desktop, and it comes with 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K. processor.

Publication: Digit

Qualcomm adds two new members to its board

Qualcomm Inc said on Tuesday it named Martin Anstice, chief executive officer of chip gear maker Lam Research Corp, and Irene Rosenfeld, former chairman and CEO of U.S. snack foods company Mondelez International Inc, to its board.

Publication: Reuters

What Intel’s New Processor Line Means for Desktop Buyers

Publication: PC Mag

Intel Z390 Chipset Unveiled: Unboxing Motherboards From Asrock, MSI

Alongside new “Coffee Lake-S Refresh” 9th-Generation CPUs, Intel’s Z390 chipset officially decloaked on Oct. 8, and with it a host of supporting motherboards from the usual board makers. The chipset itself appears to be just a minor modification of the existing Z370, Intel’s high-end chipset for its mainstream desktop processors that allows for CPU overclocking.

Publication: PCMag

Fujitsu and Nvidia to provide startups and students with computing power

Fujitsu has announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA to provide startups and students with the computing power required to develop successful advanced artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The use of high-performance computing (HPC) platforms has been instrumental in accelerating deep learning, which is a vital part of any AI, but can require specialized computing facilities.

Publication: VAR India

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX desktop with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 launched

Asus launched Strix GL12CX, the world’s first desktop to use Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics engine. The Asus ROG Strix GL12CX will be available for purchase from December. However, the Taiwanese tech company has not shared any detail regarding the price yet.

Publication: The Indian Express

Intel 9th Gen Core Series Processors announced

Publication: Digit

Qualcomm plans to set up largest campus outside US in Hyderabad

Tech major Qualcomm Saturday announced plans to set up its largest campus outside the U.S. here. The company’s officials met Minister for IT in the Caretaker government K T Rama Rao Saturday to discuss their growth plans in the city. “Qualcomm will be investing USD 400 million (Rs 3,000 crore) to set up their campus in Hyderabad, Telangana. This is one of the largest investment by a marquee company after the formation of the state,” it said in a release.

Publication: Financial Express

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Apple’s New Mac Mini Is A Powerful Mini iOS Desktop That Promises 5X Performance Boost

Apple Inc. held an important event today in New York. The company unveiled several important products, including a refreshed MacBook Air, iPad Pro, and the Mac Mini. The event marks the surprising revival of the laptop and the mini desktop. Incidentally, both the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini are eco-friendly.

Publication: My Smart Price

Apple’s Updated MacBook Pro 15 Powered By AMD Radeon Vega Mobile Graphics, What To Expect

Publication: Technology Everyday

Apple Announces AMD Vega Graphics Options For MacBook Pro

Publication: Technology Everyday

AMD’s Vega Mobile Lives: Vega Pro 20 & 16 In Updated MacBook Pros In November

Publication: Technology Everyday

ASUS launches new laptop line-up in India

Taiwanese consumer electronics company ASUS on Tuesday launched its lightweight Windows 10 laptops — VivoBook “S15” (S530) and “S14” (S430) in India at a starting price of Rs 69,990 and Rs 54,990, respectively.

Publication: This is my India

Apple iPad Pro launch event

Apple is all set to announce the next generation iPad and MacBooks on the 30th of October, where the company is expected to launch the completely redesigned iPad Pro with minimal bezels and Face ID system.

Publication: Hindustan Times Financial Chronicle Mumbai Mirror PC Mag DNA Gizbot Technology Everyday

Microsoft aims to empower 1 billion differently-abled with AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the big buzzword in the world of technology as it promises to change the way we live and interact with devices. For Microsoft, there is nothing “artificial” about delivering on “intelligence” as the supreme aim is to empower nearly one billion people with disabilities.

Publication: Financial Express

Acer Predator India 2019 DOTA 2 Rules, Format, Qualifiers, Registrations, Eligibility, Match Settings

Acer in association with Intel has announced the Acer Predator League 2019. The Acer Predator League 2019 will feature two of the most popular games of the South Asia region which includes Dota 2 and PUBG. The total prize pool for the league is $400,000 and the grand finals for the league will take place at Bangkok from Feb15th-Feb 17th, 2019.

Publication: VoStory

Acer unveils Aspire 5s & Swift 3 laptops with the latest ‘Intel Whiskey Lake Processors’

Acer India today unveiled the new thin and light laptops- Aspire 5s and Swift 3 – 14” and 15.6” 2019 edition in India. Featuring narrow bezel display for full cinematic experience and metallic built, the sleek laptops are designed for users who want outstanding portability, solid performance, and a touch of style. With the latest Intel Whiskey Lake processor Aspire 5s delivers next generation performance with great efficiency and style.

Publication: My Mobile

Asus ROG Zephyrus M review

The original Zephyrus nailed it on the design front but the keyboard and trackpad positioning lost it a few points on practicality. Worst in this department was its rival – the Acer Predator Triton 700 with its obscure location for the trackpad. Both were form over function machines to some extent because of this, but the Zephy was a tad more usable.

Publication: Stuff

Apple Special Event October 2018: What to expect at the big hardware showcase programme

Apple had hosted Education event at Chicago to unveil new iPad in March and followed up with the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2018 in June to show developments made in software (iOS and macOS) and the fall event in September to reveal the new line of iPhone XS and XR mobile series; just when everybody thought the Cupertino-based company is done for the year, it has surprised everyone by announcing that it is hosting another hardware unveiling programme on 30 October.

Publication: IB Times

Qualcomm says Apple is $7 Billion behind in royalty payments

Publication: Digit

Microsoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US company

Microsoft Corp regained its spot as the second most valuable US company on Friday after a disappointing quarterly report from Amazon.com wiped $65 billion off the online retailer’s market capitalisation. Apple Inc tops the list at over $1 trillion after crossing that threshold in September. Microsoft’s market capitalisation was Wall Street’s highest in late 1998 through early 2000 before the dot-com bubble burst.

Publication: Mint

India on track to start the commercial roll-out of 5G in 2020: Samsung at IMC 2018

While some countries in the world including South Korea will start the commercial roll-out of 5G this year itself, India is on track to start the process in 2020, a top Samsung executive said at India Mobile Congress 2018 here on 26 October. In collaboration with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Samsung is planning to commence the first large-scale 5G trials in India in the first quarter of 2019.

Publication: Firstpost

Apple to launch iPad Pros with Face ID, new MacBook Air and Mac Mini on October 30

Apple Inc is about to give two product lines much needed upgrades after the gadgets slipped into the towering shadow of the iPhone. On Tuesday, the Cupertino, California-based technology giant will take the stage in Brooklyn, New York, to unveil new Mac computers and iPad tablets. The theme of the event is “making,” and it will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — both clues to how Apple plans to reignite sales of the products.

Publication: The Indian Express

ASUS unveils new lineup of computing products

ASUS has unveiled a new lineup of business, home and gaming innovations at the Incredible Intelligence 2018 Asia-Pacific region launch event. Event highlights included the debut of the Zenbo Junior robot, ROG Maximus XI Apex motherboard and ROG Strix XG49VQ gaming monitor. Zenbo Junior enables developers, system integrators and business partners to create and deploy robotic solutions for various business applications and to engage with customers in novel and compelling ways.

Publication: The Asian Age

Acer Introduces Aspire 5s Laptop with the Latest Intel Whiskey Lake Processors

Acer India unveiled the new thin and light laptops- Aspire 5s and Swift 3 14” and 15.6” 2019 edition in India. Featuring narrow bezel display for full cinematic experience and metallic built, the sleek laptops are designed for users who want outstanding portability, solid performance, and a touch of style. With the latest Intel Whiskey Lake processor, Aspire 5s delivers next-generation performance with great efficiency and style.

Publication: PC Quest

ASUS announces new business, home, gaming products

Global computer hardware and consumer electronics company ASUS on Thursday showcased a new lineup of motherboards, graphics cards, displays, networking devices, mini PCs and peripherals, and launched products for home, business and gaming.

Publication: Business Standard

Samsung partners with NEC on global 5G business

Samsung Electronics has tied up with Tokyo-headquartered global IT infrastructure provider NEC Corp. to explore new 5G business opportunities in the global market. “5G development based on standardisation will help to accelerate business transformation throughout global markets,” Atsuo Kawamura, Executive Vice President and President of the Network Services Business Unit at NEC, said in a statement.

Publication: The New India Express

Microsoft earnings beat expectations as cloud-fueled growth persists

Microsoft Corp. posted another quarter of brisk revenue growth driven by cloud services, underscoring the company’s success in shifting its business toward internet-based computing. The stock rose in extended trading. Profit and sales for the period ended September 30 exceeded analysts’ estimates, with revenue from Azure cloud-computing services jumping 76%. Office 365, the internet-based versions of the company’s productivity applications, saw sales to corporations climb 36%.

Publication: Mint

DELL G3 15 price in India

Dell G3 15 is a stylish and powerful Gaming Laptop and is powered by 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8750H Processor processor clocked at a speed of NA and sports a 15.6 inchOn the memory front, the laptop is equipped with a hard drive of 256 SSD + 1 TB HDD and a 16 DDR4 RAM,thereby making it possible to store ample amount of data.

Publication: Digit

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX

Publication: PC Mag

Acer Nitro 50

Publication: PC Mag

Dell EMC Leading Indian External Storage Industry with 26.5 % Market Share

As per the International Data Corporation (IDC) Asia/Pacific Quarterly External Storage Systems Tracker Q2 2018, Dell EMC leads the Indian external storage industry with 26.5% in by vendor revenue. This growth was predominantly driven by increased demand from manufacturing and banking industry.

Publication: Digital Terminal

Samsung launches the HMD ODYSSEY+ mixed reality headset at a price of $499.99

Samsung launched its first mixed reality headset, the HMD Odyssey VR last year and has now appears to have finally unveiled an updated version, the HMD Odyssey VR+. The headset features fresh hardware improvements which are geared mostly towards making the headset feel more comfortable for the user. The highlight here, however, is a new screen with what Samsung likes to call ‘Anti-Screen Door Effect’ technology that blurs the pixels.

Publication: First Post

HP Cuts Corners on New Spectre x360

Once upon a time, Apple laptops had MagSafe power adapters, which magnetically clung to the side of its MacBooks instead of attaching to a plug. This mid-2000’s innovation was a godsend for people who used their laptops in coffee shops, airports, and other settings where someone might trip over a cord and yank the laptop off a lap or table if its cord didn’t disconnect.

Publication: PC Mag

Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Unveiled With Snapdragon 850 SoC, 4GB RAM, And 20-Hour Battery Life

Publication: My Smart Price

Sidekick Showdown

Publication: The Hindu

Lenovo, NetApp pit against Dell EMC, HPE to vie for the datacenter space

Taking an apparent aim at Dell EMC and HPE, Lenovo and NetApp have forged a storage alliance at the recently concluded Lenovo Transform event. The partnership also includes a joint venture in China, and a new series of all-flash and hybrid flash products that put them both in a much stronger position in the datacenter space.

Publication: VAR India

HP Omen X review: Performance at a price

There are gaming laptops, and then there are gaming laptops. As chip designs unlock increased speeds and better thermal efficiency, manufacturers are expanding product portfolios with more affordable and accessible machines that can be thrown into a backpack but still push decent frame rates on modern games. While this will satisfy most gamers, there is always a group that clamours for more.

Publication: The Hindu

Samsung planning to develop AI-powered multi-device system

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) pushing the frontiers of communication technology, Samsung Electronics is planning to develop a multi-device platform — a variety of AI-enabled devices that communicate seamlessly with each other — to make experiences more personal and relevant. The South Korean tech giant presented its future vision for AI while announcing this week a new AI centre in Montreal, Canada.

Publication: Financial Express

Apple to launch new iPads, MacBook, and Mac mini on October 30

Apple Inc. said it will hold a product announcement October 30 in Brooklyn, New York, likely to unveil new iPads and Mac computers. The invitation to media reads, “There’s more in the making,” without specifying what would be introduced. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is planning the biggest revamp to the iPad Pro since it first went on sale in 2015, as well as a lower-cost MacBook laptop and a new Mac mini desktop, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Samsung Galaxy Book2

Publication: PC Mag

Samsung Starts 7nm Chip Production for Faster Silicon

Samsung is starting production of its 7-nanometer chip manufacturing process, which promises to improve the computing speeds and battery life of upcoming smartphones. With the 7nm process, Samsung will be able to produce chips that are up to 20 percent faster and consume 50 percent less power than chips manufactured with the company’s older 10nm process.

Publication: PC Mag

Samsung Electronics buys AI tech firm Zhilabs to boost 5G capabilities

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday it had acquired artificial intelligence technology firm Zhilabs to enhance its 5G capabilities, marking a major push into the 5G market.

Publication: Business Standard

Sony Master Series XBR-65Z9F

Sony’s Master Series TVs are designed to offer average consumers the closest viewing experience to the company’s professional mastering monitors, like the BVM-X300. That’s a high bar, considering the 30-inch OLED BVM-X300 costs approximately $30,000.

Publication: PC Mag

Cybereason and Arm to Power SoftBank’s Vision of Secure Connected IoT World

Cybereason, creators of the leading cybersecurity AI Hunting Platform, has unveiled its strategic plan to partner with Arm in securing billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across sectors, including in the utility and energy, transportation and logistics, and connected buildings industries.

Publication: BWCIO

Samsung rolls out chipsets for connected cars

Samsung has marked its entry into auto space with the introduction of its new brands targeted at automotive solutions. The Samsung Exynos Auto and Samsung ISOCELL Auto offer cutting-edge application processor and image sensor technology solutions to the road. The Exynos Auto will help manufacturers develop in-car apps for infotainment, advanced driving assistance systems, and telematics.

Publication: Business Standard

Dell 49-inch curved 2K ultrawide monitor launched

Following the footsteps of Samsung, Dell has decided to launch an ultrawide monitor with a 32:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 5120 x 1440. The Dell UltraSharp U4919DW has a brightness of 350 nits and a contrast ratio of 1000:1. It also offers an 8/5 millisecond respone time and a 60Hz refresh rate. The panel itself is an IPS one featuring a 3800R curvature and covers 99% of the SRGB color space.

Publication: TechQuila

Dell acknowledges India’s data concerns, expects ripple effect

Dell Technologies chief executive Michael Dell said he’s not surprised that India is insisting on data localisation given security and privacy concerns and expects other nations to take a similar approach. “If you don’t know where your data is or it’s gotten into the wrong hands, it can be a very, very dangerous problem,” he told ET in an interview in Mumbai. “I would not be surprised if pretty much every country in the world creates something like this.”

Publication: The Economic Times

ROG Strix Scar 2 is ASUS’ trump card for gamers

Publication: The Asian Age

HP launches premium convertible ENVY x360 in India

Microsoft unveils blush coloured ‘Surface Laptop 2’ in China

Microsoft on Monday unveiled a blush coloured “Surface Laptop 2” only for the Chinese market. The company launched the device with a black-finish in New York globally on October 2. “Excited to be in Beijing today to share our newest products in China. Especially ‘Surface Laptop 2’ in blush colour. A finish developed exclusively for China,” tweeted Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer, Microsoft.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Lenovo, NetApp pit against Dell EMC, HPE to vie for the datacenter space

Publication: VAR India

Rivals ARM And Intel Make Peace To Secure Internet Of Things

Publication: BTVI

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX: High-End Gaming Desktop With 9th-Gen Intel Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU Launched

Publication: My Smart Price

Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 with 32GB SSD storage launched: Price, specifications

Samsung has launched a new LTE variant of its Chromebook Plus V2 convertible laptop. It is priced at $599.99 (approximately Rs 40,000) and will go on sale starting November 2 at Samsung’s online store, Best Buy and Verizon. The non-LTE variant is priced at $499.99 (approximately Rs 36,800).

Publication: The Indian Express

Global PC shipments hit 67.2 mn units in Q3, Lenovo leads

Publication: The Economic Times

Apple secretly acquires Danish machine learning startup

Apple secretly bought a Danish visual effects startup Spektral for over $30 million last year, the media reported. According to a report in Fortune citing Danish daily Borsen on Thursday, the acquisition of the Copenhagen-based startup in December 2017 was a hush-hush affair. Apple has been to investing in Augmented Reality (AR) for some time.

Publication: The Economic Times

Microsoft ends ‘Minecraft’ game for Apple TV

Microsoft is pulling back support for its popular game “Minecraft” from Apple TV given the small number of people who accessed the game via Apple TV. The decision went into effect on September 24, but no one really seemed to notice until this week, The Verge reported on Wednesday.

Publication: Hindustan Times

HP Omen 15 review: Fantastic performance, beautiful display

The Omen 15 is the latest gaming laptop from HP. The company’s sub-brand Omen has always been about the latest hardware and hip design, be it a desktop or laptop. Omen 15 continues the tradition and also adds a few handy features. We really think it instantly catches your attention with design. The lid has a mix of brushed metal and carbon fiber, red accents and the Omen logo. On the back, it has two large heat vents on either side that prove just how much power it has under the hood.

Publication: The Economic Times

Microsoft Cracks Top 5 PC Vendor List in US Thanks to Surface

Microsoft has become one of the top five PC vendors in the US. Redmond’s Surface devices helped it top Acer to become the country’s fifth largest PC vendor by shipments in the third quarter, according to research firm Gartner, nabbing 4.1 percent market share on 602,000 shipments.

Publication: PC Mag

Sony confirms next-gen PlayStation console

Sony has confirmed that it is working on a successor to the PlayStation 4. In an interview with the Financial Times, the President of Sony, Kenichro Yoshida confirmed the same, although he declined to formally name the upcoming console the PlayStation 5. “At this point, what I can say is it’s necessary to have a next-generation hardware,” said Yoshida.

Publication: Digit

Sony WH-1000XM3 is their premium offering with Active Noise Cancellation at Rs 29,990

Sony’s WH-1000X range is their premium headphone offering with Active Noise Cancellation. The company has launched the third generation of the headphones in India called WH-1000XM3 today and it comes with a number of improvements. Priced at Rs 29,990, the headphones are available for pre-booking from 11th to 18th on Amazon India and Croma. It will be available from 18th onwards on various offline stores.

Publication: The Economic Times

Acer’s Latest Predator Orion Series Desktops to Deliver Powerful Gaming Experiences

Acer announced refreshes of its Predator Orion 9000 and 5000 gaming desktops, all featuring new 9th Gen Intel® Core™desktop processors, giving gamers a leap in performance for smooth, seamless gameplay — even while streaming and recording.

Publication: Digital Terminal

We need to fix AI’s bias problem: Microsoft’s Harry Shum

Harry Shum, says artificial intelligence has a bias problem, which the industry has to work together to fix. The Microsoft veteran who has spent over two decades at the software giant believes the imminent need for the development of AI is to put necessary measures in place to address problems of algorithmic bias and objectivity in automated decision-making.

Publication: The Economic Times

ASUS launches Intel Z390 Series Motherboards in India

Asus has launched Intel Z390 Series Motherboards in India. The Taiwanese giant says that the ROG,ROG Strix, Prime, WS, and TUF Gaming series offer new performance enhancements, extensive connectivity options plus intelligent cooling and overclocking options. AI Overclocking is available on the Prime Z390-A, WS Z390-PRO, and all ROG models except for the Strix Z390-H Gaming.

Publication: Digit

Acer Predator Orion 9000, 5000 with Intel’s 9th gen processors announced

Publication: The Indian Express

ASUS Republic of Gamers launches Strix GL12CX gaming desktop with NVidia GeForce RTX 2080

Publication: Digit

Laptop Deals You Can’t Afford to Miss on Paytm Mall’s Maha Cashback Sale

Publication: Digital Terminal

Digital Transformation: Mapping India Inc’s journey and progress (Study by Dell)

The importance of digital transformation as a concept in India has accelerated from being the talk of the hour to becoming the need of the hour. Not only it has rapidly changed the business environment but have also disrupted the value chains, compelling companies to rethink their business strategies of future.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Samsung Galaxy S10 to have a dedicated AI unit in the chipset: Report

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 could have a processor with a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU), claims a new report. We have seen players like Apple and Huawei launch phones with chipsets which have a dedicated unit for AI-related tasks or what are called as NPUs to handle machine learning tasks, be it for tasks related to the camera or for AI-driven apps.

Publication: The Indian Express

Microsoft testing new game-streaming service

Microsoft Corp is testing a new game streaming service called Project xCloud that is designed to work across PCs, consoles and mobile devices, the company said on Monday. “We are testing Project xCloud today. The test runs on devices (mobile phones, tablets) paired with an Xbox Wireless Controller through Bluetooth, and it is also playable using touch input,” Kareem Choudhry, corporate vice president, gaming cloud, said in a blog post.

Publication: Reuters

Asus ROG Strix GL12CX desktop with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 launched

Publication: The Indian Express

Apple blocks latest MacBook Pro and iMac Pro from third-party repairs: Report

Apple is using proprietary diagnostic software to block third parties from repairing the 2018 MacBook Pro and the new iMac Pro with the new T2 chip inside them according to a report by MacRumors. The report citing an internal Apple document states that unauthorised repair of the devices will result in an “inoperative system” and an “incomplete repair” after the affected parts are replaced.

Publication: The Indian Express

Major shift in smartphone market, OnePlus overtakes Apple to become the top choice for premium users

A comprehensive survey across six metro cities of India by CMR Mobile Industry Consumer Insight (MICI) has provided an interesting profile of changing consumer preference and interests when it comes to premium smartphone brands. In the latest survey conducted in New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai across different sections society viz., students, professionals and teens – it has been stated that consumers are now looking at premium smartphone brands as an ‘extension of their lifestyle’ or something that ‘make them feel more powerful’.

Publication: Financial Express

Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 and Max M2 gets certified revealing their model numbers

Asus claims to have sold a million unit of the Zenfone Max Pro M1 in India since the phone’s launch in April and it appears that the company is already working on two potential successors — the Zenfone Max M2 and the Zenfone Max Pro M2.

Publication: First Post

China tech stocks Lenovo, ZTE tumble after chip hack report

Chinese tech stocks Lenovo Group and ZTE Corp. tumbled in Hong Kong on Friday following a news report Chinese spies might have used chips supplied by another company to hack into US computer systems. Lenovo shares closed down 15.1 percent while ZTE lost 11 percent.

Publication: Asian Age

ISS says renegotiating Dell tracking stock offer would be best option

Shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) said on Friday that Dell Technologies Inc should renegotiate an offer to acquire a tracking stock tied to is virtualization software subsidiary VMWare Inc. Several hedge funds, including Elliott Management Corp and Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, as well as activist investor Carl Icahn, have resisted Dell’s $21.7 billion cash-and-stock offer for the tracking stock, arguing it undervalues it and inflates Dell’s value.

Publication: Asian Age

Dell introduces customisable notebook

Dell India has added a new ultra-slim notebook to the Inspiron family, with multiple customisation options for users to choose from, starting at a promo price of Rs 64,990. Dell Inspiron 15 7572 comes with an option to customise colour, software and services, according to which the product offers variable pricing, the company said.

Publication: Telangana Today

HP Spectre Folio: Ultra-Slim Two-In-Laptop Convertible In Premium Leather And Metal Body

HP has launched a special parallel revision of the highly popular Spectre laptops. The latest two-in-one laptop convertible seamlessly assimilates the functionalities of a powerful mobile computing device with the versatility and style of a premium tablet. The high-end specifications and top-end hardware is wrapped in real leather and metal cladding that allows the Spectre Folio to introduce a new line of sleek design.

Publication: My Smart Price

Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem To Create More than 63000 Jobs in Saudi Arabia

Microsoft’s technology ecosystem and the growing popularity of cloud services will create more than 63,400 jobs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the end of 2022, according to new research by the International Data Corporation (IDC). The study also covers findings from other Middle Eastern markets such as UAE, Bahrain and Turkey.

Publication: SME Street

Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 update roll out halted after major bug

Microsoft rolled out its second biggest software update earlier this month. Shortly after the global release of Windows 10 October update, many users complained about their data being completely wiped out. Microsoft has now halted rolling out the update for all users. Microsoft, in its support page for the latest Windows 10 update says, “We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating.”

Publication: Hindustan Times

Amazon India advertises fake branded XHVGA GTX 960 as its ‘best-seller’ graphics card

I found an ad on Instagram where Amazon India advertised an unknown graphics card label called XHVGA where its GTX 960 is called the ‘best seller’. XHVGA isn’t a brand, rather a name for scamming buyers around the world but through eBay, Craiglist and some domestic e-Commerce website. It was available in AMAZON US until stocks ran out. Its bad when such products are listed in well-known online retailers, it is worse when its labeled as a best-selling graphics card in social media.

Publication: Hardware BBQ

Industry news

Industry leaders call for re-skilling existing workforce amid growth in digital adoption

With the growth in adoption of digital technologies in the country, industry leaders have called for an increased focus on re-skilling the existing workforce in the new areas. On Tuesday, while speaking at the 24th MobiCom conference here, Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani said that India needs to prepare itself for a period of information and digital abundance, adapt itself to the pace of innovation and learn to collaborate on scale.

Publication: The Indian Express

Foreign tech firms see an Indian future

Post the liberalisation of Indian economy in the 1990s, it became one of the largest exporters of IT services in the world. The first few international technology companies to enter India included SAP, Cisco, Honeywell and Intel, among others.

Publication: DNA

Bluetooth Smart and Smart Ready Market 2017 Global Industry Sales, Supply, Consumption, Analysis and Forecasts to 2022

Bluetooth Smart is a revolutionary concept in the entire mobile connectivity industry. The central idea behind this technology is that it connects Bluetooth enabled devices to interact with each other.

Publication: Web News Wire

Ashok Pamidi is Nasscom social arm’s top executive

Indian IT industry’s apex body Nasscom on Monday said its social arm Nasscom Foundation’s Director Ashok Pamidi has taken over as its Chief Executive. “With 29 years of diverse experience in the IT industry, Pamidi has been responsible for membership development and leads our SME (small and medium enterprise) initiatives,” said the National Association of Software and Services (Nasscom) in a statement.

Publication: Business Standard

PUBG Mobile brings its first TVCs to India

One of the most popular mobile games in the world right now is PUBG Mobile, and India is a very big contributor to this fact. India has a massive base of people who play Android games, and PUBG Mobile has taken the fancy of the country. Unlike the PC version of the game, PUBG Mobile is free to play and has only in-game purchases. The PC version of PUBG requires some sturdy specs to run while most smartphones available can run PUBG Mobile.

Publication: BGR India

130 students receive pre-placement offers at IIT-Madras

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has recorded a gradual increase in number of pre-placement offers for the past three years with 130 students receiving it in the 2018-19 academic year. This was against 114 received last year.

Publication: Business Standard

Indian STEM students in US dominate 56% of job training slots

Indian students in the US hailing from STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields dominated the scene when it came to participating in the optional practical training (OPT) programme, under which they can work in the United States once they obtain their degrees.

Publication: The Economic Times

Urgent need to increase awareness about whistleblower policies at workplaces, say experts

There is an urgent need to increase awareness about whistleblower policies at workplaces with an aim to create a conducive environment for employees to speak out against any wrongdoing, say experts. It is significant to protect whistleblowers from any kind of harassment at the workplace, said Rahul Lalit, Partner, PwC.

Publication: The Economic Times

Amazon Web Services to Open Data Centers in South Africa

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company will open an infrastructure region in South Africa in the first half of 2020. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will consist of three Availability Zones. Currently, AWS provides 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions worldwide, with another 12 Availability Zones across four AWS Regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, Sweden, and a second GovCloud Region in the U.S. expected to come online in the coming months.

Publication: BWCIO

The US-China trade war means Alibaba is producing its own chips

In March, Shanghai began testing a service that lets subway passengers walk right onto a platform, using their faces or voices to pay the fare. A voice-recognition system identifies them and dings their Alipay accounts accordingly. Soon, as trials expand, millions of riders may not need cash, or a wallet, or even a cellphone to get around. They’ll just need Alibaba.

Publication: Qrius

India will soon have indigenously-developed microprocessor, thanks to IIT-Madras

Getting into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is a dream of hundreds of thousands of students and why it shouldn’t be? These institutes are building blocks of the nation which do not just guarantee quality education and opportunities to do something great in life but the institute also makes the country proud by the products of its research.

Publication: India Today

MediaTek to collaborate with India firms to develop AI-based applications

Taiwanese chipset firm MediaTek plans to collaborate with Indian software companies to develop artificial intelligence-based applications which would in high demand with the adoption of emerging 5G technologies, a senior company official said.

Publication: BGR India

Startups in India see 108% growth in funding in 2018: NASSCOM

The startups in India saw a 108 per cent growth in total funding from USD two billion in 2017 to USD 4.2 billion this year, National Association of Software and Services Companies said Thursday. The worrying factor, however, was the decline in funding for companies at the seed stage, NASSCOM said.

Publication: The Economic Times

All Cloud apps to integrate Artificial Intelligence by 2025, says Oracle CEO Mark Hurd

Betting big on the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive innovation in the tech space, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on Tuesday predicted that all Cloud applications will be integrated with AI by 2025. AI becomes most valuable when it is embedded into an application, Hurd said at his keynote address at the annual user conference “Oracle Open World 2018” here.

Publication: Times Now News

India will soon be among top 3 in fixed broadband: Mukesh Ambani

Reliance IndustriesNSE 0.31 % (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani said India will soon be counted among the world’s “top three nations in fixed broadband,” replicating the country’s success in becoming the largest consumer of mobile data in the world. He added that India will have full 4G coverage by 2020, by when it would also be ready to roll out ultrafast 5G services before other countries.

Publication: The Economic Times

Gaming phones raise the bar to rival the PC experience

Three out of four Indian gamers play mobile games twice a day for an average duration of over 60 minutes, according to a September report by Mobile Marketing Association and Kantar IMRB. However, despite the arrival of big screens and powerful chips, there is a gulf between mobile and console/PC gaming that phone companies are trying to bridge.

Publication: Mint

DreamHack’s eSports festival coming to Mumbai, Singtel signs MoU to push eSports in Southeast Asia

DreamHack, a Swedish production company specializing in eSports tournaments and other gaming conventions, has made a recent announcement that its first-ever gaming festival in Asia will be held in aamchi Mumbai. NODWIN Gaming, the Indian eSports platform and gaming solutions provider, along with Viacom18, the media company that owns and operates various channels of the Viacom group, will be collaborating with DreamHack to host the event in Mumbai this December.

Publication: The Indian Express

India’s Internet services may reach $124 bn by 2022, create 1.2 cr net jobs: Report

The Internet services sector in India has potential to grow over three-folds to $124 billion with the help of favourable government policies and infrastructure improvement, a report by industry body IAMAI said Tuesday.

Publication: ET Telecom

India Mobile Congress 2018 kicks off October 25: 5G to be the next big thing for India

The second edition of the India Mobile Congress conference is set to kick off from October 25 in New Delhi. The annual symposium will see industry partners, policymakers, and tech companies to deliberate over what new technologies will emerge in future and how they will impact various industries and markets in the country.

Publication: Financial Express

Mediatek Helio P70 SOC promises stutter-free gaming on mid-range phones

Following Qualcomm’s announcement of a new mobile platform, rival MediaTek has also announced a new platform, though this one is targeted at mid-range devices. MediaTek’s new chip is called the Helio P70, and as the name suggests, it succeeds the Helio P60. The new chip is built on a 12 nm process and features an APU updated APU improved AI performance.

Publication: Firstpost

India’s IT Server Market Looks Promising, Says IDC

The overall server market in India witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) increase of 33.7 percent in terms of revenue to reach $354.8 million in Q1 2018 versus $265.3 million in Q1 2017, according to the latest IDC Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ).

Publication: CXO Today

One size doesn’t fit all: Brand leaders on finding the right audience and connecting with them

Faced with shrinking brand-loyalty, companies need to think of branded content as communication beyond advertising instead of chasing universal metrics to judge the effectiveness of their campaigns, said Karthik Nagarajan, Chief Content Officer at Wavemaker, on Tuesday.

Publication: Mint

IESA and Keysight Join to Discuss Evolving Dynamics of 5G

The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) and Keysight Technologies joined hands to create a Thought Leadership Platform (TLF) on the various dynamics of 5G – the next big wave which is forging its way ahead.

Publication: India Today

H-1B visas: TCS only Indian firm among top 10 to get foreign labour certification

Tata Consultancy Services or TCS is the only Indian company among top 10 firms to get foreign labour certification for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018, according to data from the US Department of Labour. The H-1B visas are the most sought-after among Indian IT professionals. The visa programme allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in the US on a non-immigrant basis in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

Publication: Mint

Interview: Alienware Co-Founder Frank Azor tells us how ‘The Game’ has changed

His first gaming memory is that of playing Prince of Persia at the age of 7 or 8 on a computer at a RadioShack. What he was most amazed and impressed by were the graphics of the 8-bit game. It may not sound like much in a day and age of 4K gaming, but that very passion for PCs and gaming is why Frank Azor became an integral part of the pc gaming industry, resulting in the eventual birth and success of Alienware.

Publication: Digit

Nasscom partners Hiroshima govt for Japan-India IT corridor

IT industry body Nasscom Monday said it has signed a letter of intent with the Hiroshima government to work together in creating Japan-India IT corridor to facilitate partnerships between companies from both nations.

Publication: Times of India

IT sector set to witness next wave of hiring

There is some good news for India’s IT professionals. After months-long lull, hiring is set to pick up starting this month right up to March 2019, according to the Experis IT Employment Outlook Survey. The survey, which covered around 550 IT employers across India, indicates higher hiring intentions for the next two quarters compared with the previous two.

Publication: The Economic Times

Gartner Reveals Seven Digital Disruptions CIOs May Not See Coming

Gartner, Inc. revealed seven digital disruptions that organizations may not be prepared for. These include several categories of disruption, each of which represents a significant potential for new disruptive companies and business models to emerge.

Publication: Digital Terminal

Can Tim Berners-Lee transform the Web again with ‘Solid’ POD vision?

The internet, as we know it today, has changed dramatically. It is unlike the free information-sharing playground that its founding fathers had envisioned. For instance, geopolitics played by governments to control the borderless cyberspace, the battle to compromise net neutrality and destroy the level-playing field for information sharing among individuals, businesses, organizations and governments, coupled with data security and privacy compromises, are threatening to destroy the way the internet was conceived.

Publication: Mint

Bringing VR Game Trailers to 2D with Mixed Reality

Virtual Reality (VR) game trailers require rigorous planning and production, because the job of communicating activity in a 3D world through a 2D video can be challenging. Leading game-trailer producers have turned to mixed reality to showcase a third-person view of the player, shot against a green screen, and recorded from multiple video feeds.

Publication: Digit

Grab More Game Viewers with Mixed-Reality Video

Why using mixed-reality video is the smart way to promote your VR game. It’s the rare game developer that doesn’t want their creation to be a massive hit. While the world of virtual reality (VR) gaming may not yet have seen its crossover, blockbuster moment, there is no shortage of fierce competition for a piece of the pie in a fledgling (for now at least) market of VR hardware owners.

Publication: Digit

GPU prices stabilising after crypto-mining boom

Towards the end of 2017 and in the first six months of 2018, video gamers have had to contend with extortionate prices for graphics cards. The reasons for the price increase are generally twofold: the memory used in the most popular cards has gotten more expensive while a cryptocurrency boom has caused a spike in demand for GPUs for mining. That has resulted in immense difficulties for people building or upgrading PCs over the past couple of months.

Publication: CNBC Tv18

Busting common misconceptions about workplace conduct in the MeToo era

The MeToo movement, with many local and international alternatives, has shone a spotlight on the issue of inappropriate behaviour at the workplace. Here are some common misconceptions about office conduct.

Publication: The Economic Times

Opinion | Beware the dark side of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ever more powerful. Consulting firm PwC estimates that AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030, more than the combined GDP of China and India today. The technology will soon be omnipresent—from household appliances to our financial, law and justice systems.

Publication: Mint

Data localisation: why, why not

Earlier this week, companies around the world scrambled to try and meet a RBI-mandated deadline to store Indian users’ financial data in India, reigniting conversation about “data localisation”. Across ministries and sectors, the government has firmed up its stance on storing data of Indian users in the country, to the discontent of international players and the delight of domestic ones.

Publication: The Indian Express

Narendra Modi to attend NITI Aayog event on artificial intelligence today

Publication: Business Standard

Japan introduces Artificial Intelligence technology to ease business

Japan has introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, which is one of the modern cutting-edge technology, to ease business. Based on the theme of “Working with AI”, NTT Communications Forum 2018 was held in Tokyo to exhibit how people can experience future working style with the latest AI and IoT.

Publication: Business Standard

‘Robotics, computer vision is the future of Artificial Intelligence’

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are taking over our lives with the technologies being at the heart of data analytics to the simplest of things like smart assistants on our phone. Going forward, say 10 years down the line, we will see a lot more computer vision and robotics deployed at home, Atif Kureishy, who is the VP, Emerging Practices at Teradata told indianexpress.com.

Publication: The Indian Express

Are Consumers Worried Enough to Buy a Personal Computer Server?

Servers make the modern internet possible. Millions of these workhorse computers hum away in remote data centers of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. running websites, sending information to smartphone apps and crunching data for cloud-based software programs.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

COLORFUL Debuts iGame Z390 Vulcan X Motherboard

Publication: Tech Powerup

70 percent Indians experience tech support scams: Microsoft

Tech support scams are anything that’s involved between cold calls and fake online pop-up ads and affect a lot of users who gather content through online platforms on a regular basis. People who go through such scams do acknowledge that the cost of these scams go beyond monetary loss and have led to higher stress levels in humans.

Publication: The Mobile Indian

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019: Gartner

The next wave of disruption is already underway. In 2019, we’ll see an aggressive adoption of digital technologies that would enable companies respond to market changes faster, be more productive and make better-informed decisions. Moreover, these technology trends are likely to bring an operational and evergreen scale to traditionally bespoke enterprise IT.

Publication: CXO Today

India among top 15 in artificial intelligence research

India is among the most advanced countries in terms of development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), according to a survey by Finnish AI-based solutions specialists Zyfra.

Publication: Times of India

The Rise of Virtual Reality – Are Data Centers Ready?

Virtual Reality (VR) is transforming gaming, entertainment and numerous other fields, potentially delivering a long-term impact that may exceed today’s most disruptive new technologies, possibly even the Internet of Things (IoT). As per a report by CCS Insight, shipments of VR headsets will rise more than fivefold between 2017 and 2021, from 16 million in 2017 to almost 99 million in 2021.

Publication: BW CIO

No easy answers

In 2015, Amazon was interested in taking over a company, Elemental Technologies, an American company at the cutting edge of creating video compression software, which is used to convert content designed for TV to be streamed to small screens over mobile networks. While Amazon did take over the company, an audit stumbled upon some anomalies, which led to an in-depth investigation.

Publication: Business Standard

CII Forms Indian Digital Gaming Society To Enable Industry Growth

Industry body CII has announced formation of the Indian Digital Gaming Society, a not for profit organisation, comprising various stakeholders from the country’s gaming ecosystem. “IDGS will provide platform for the young start-ups and youths to unleash their creativity and contribute towards digital economy of the country. Digital Gaming sector will open up new avenues of skilling and help create more job opportunities in India,” the chamber said.

Publication: Express Computer

Reimagining Enterprise Decision-Making With Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence will deliver revolutionary impact on how enterprises make decisions today. In the last few years alone, we have rapidly moved beyond heuristics-based decision-making to analytics-driven decision-support.

Publication: Forbes

For the future of artificial intelligence to be bright, the skills needed are human

In 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on duty at a Soviet nuclear early warning centre, when computers warned of five incoming missiles. Rather than escalating it up the chain of command as protocol required, Petrov surmised that the Americans were unlikely to attack with only five missiles. Courageously, he reported a system malfunction instead. It turned out that computers had incorrectly interpreted sunlight reflecting off clouds as missiles. Petrov’s instincts and healthy scepticism of the infallibility of technology may have averted a nuclear disaster.

Publication: Livemint

Gearing up for disruptive tech jobs

While jobs in every sector are changing drastically, the academia is yet to catch pace with the changing pattern. A recent study by the World Economic Forum estimates that about 50% of subject knowledge acquired in the initial years of any technical degree becomes outdated by the time the student graduates. Hence, preparing students for future jobs has become an achilles heel for academicians.

Publication: The Times of India

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passes away

Paul Allen, who 43 years ago along with Bill Gates founded Microsoft, the company that revolutionised the software world and personal computers forever, has died, his family announced. He was 65. In a statement, Allen’s relatives said that the businessman died on Monday afternoon in Seattle, where Microsoft has its headquarters, from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, reports Efe news.

Publication: Financial Express

GIGABYTE Launches The Powerful Z390 AORUS Gaming Motherboards

Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd has officially launched its Z390 AORUS Gaming motherboards, optimized for users to skyrocket the new 8-core Intel® Core™ i9-9900K processors to 5GHz+ across all cores via overclocking. With a 12 phase digital VRM design and robust heat dissipation, the latest iteration of AORUS Gaming motherboards offers exceptional power and temperature management for maximizing the performance and overclocking potential of these new processors.

Publication: Digital Terminal

Gender equality in the workplace: How men can move the needle

I am interested in having this conversation because I believe it’s really important to have men directly involved in achieving gender equality. Both of you have long been champions of diversity, and I am curious about why.

Publication: The Telegraph

Emerging AI-based Technology is Propelling the Global Artificial Intelligence Market Forward

According to data compiled by Grand View Research, the global artificial intelligence market is projected to reach USD 35,870 Million by 2025 while growing at a CAGR of 57.2% during the forecast period from 2017 to 2025. The market is also projected to drive in approximately USD 58,975.4 Million in revenue by 2025. The market is being driven by new emerging AI-based technologies and their adoption and integration.

Publication: IT News Online

CIO’s limited vision of Securing Access to Networks and Servers

Hybrid cloud and data centres are on the rise, most of the businesses are choosing them to store their data. Yet, every now and then, we here about breaches. Are hackers smarter than our CIOs? Or CIOs are making some mistakes.

Publication: CIOL

The Indian language riddle: How global tech firms are using machine learning to translate the vernacular

About two years ago, Subrata Bhowmick landed in Kolkata, and hailed a cab from a popular taxi hailing app. A couple of days later, he got a promotional message from the company in spoken Bengali, except that the script was English.

Publication: Moneycontrol

#MeToo: When corporate India failed its women at the workplace

India is in the midst of a firestorm as unfortunate incidents of sexual harassment at the workplace emerge. It is India’s #MeToo moment which started with former actor Tanushree Datta filing a police complaint against actor Nana Patekar for behaving inappropriately during a film shoot. Skeletons from different cupboards have tumbled out especially in the media and entertainment industries. Cases of sexual harassment at the workplace are not new with many incidents having occurred in the corporate world too.

Publication: Business Today

PM Narendra Modi: ‘Artificial intelligence, blockchain to change nature of jobs’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and big data, can take India to new heights of development and improve people’s quality of life. Our diversity, our demographic potential, fast-growing market size and digital infrastructure has potential to make India a global hub for research and implementation, he said, speaking at the launch of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the fourth in the world after San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing.

Publication: The Indian Express

Jobs requiring digital skills fuelled employment growth in first half of 2018: LinkedIn report

Education and Legal industries lead while Hardware & Networking lags in terms of net people movements into each industry, the inaugural LinkedIn Workforce Report (Professional Edition) for India, providing insights into the dynamics driving the talent ecosystem in the Indian economy, has revealed.

Publication: The Economic Times

Artificial Intelligence tool can help develop apps that drain less battery

Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help developers design smartphone apps that drain less battery. “DiffProf” — the tool designed by researchers at Purdue University in the US — automatically decides for the developer whether an app feature has room for improving energy efficiency.

Publication: Financial Express

Software Engineers Most Sought-after by Companies in India: LinkedIn Study

Software engineers and app developers are among the most sought-after professionals by companies across sectors in the country, says a report by professional networking platform LinkedIn. The Microsoft-owned firm, in its maiden ‘Workforce Report for India’, said job postings for software engineers were the highest across multiple industries in the first six months of 2018 on its platform.

Publication: News18

Why AI and media intelligence are two sides of a same coin

While most companies are just starting to deploy their first AI solution, the media industry has long used AI for media intelligence. Whether it is Netflix giving you personalised movie recommendations or YouTube creating an automated playlist based on the song you are listening, media companies have used AI algorithms extensively to drive how we consuming media.

Publication: YourStory

The costs of sexual harassment in the workplace

The Indian media and entertainment industry’s moment of reckoning has been a long time coming. The numerous accounts of sexual harassment by women on social media over the past few days have named men of accomplishment and power, from journalists and actors to comedians and advertising professionals. They have shown with painful clarity the culture of impunity and entitlement that has enabled such men. It is tempting, if cynical, to say that those surprised by this have chosen to be so.

Publication: Livemint

Chipmaker Micron to invest $100 million in artificial intelligence companies

Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.

Publication: Reuters

Google India to open an online store in November to sell its gadgets

Google is eyeing the e-commerce market in India. Except, it won’t be doing any direct commerce there. Come November, Google plans to launch an online storefront for all its branded hardware products, ET has learnt. These would include its flagship smartphone Pixel, Chromecast, Google Home smart speakers, and virtual reality headset, Daydream.

Publication: ET Tech

#MeToo Impact: Companies tightening policy to make workplaces safer

As the #MeToo movement gathers force in India, almost a year after it took flight in the US with the Harvey Weinstein expose, companies are struggling to engage with the need to make their workplaces safe by calling out and punishing sexual harassment.

Publication: The Economic Times

India ranks 147th in Oxfam world inequality index

India has been ranked among the bottom 10 countries in a new worldwide index released on Tuesday on the commitment of different nations to reduce inequalities in their populations. UK-based charity Oxfam International’s ‘Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index’ ranks India 147th among 157 countries analysed, describing the country’s commitment to reducing inequality as a “a very worrying situation” given that it is home to 1.3 billion people, many of whom live in extreme poverty.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Google hardware event 2018: Pixel 3, Home Hub, Pixel Slate, and more

Google today held its annual hardware event in New York City, and this year’s keynote saw the launch of its next generation Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones. At the event, the search giant also announced the Pixel Slate, with runs on Chrome OS, Home Hub — a smart speaker with a built-in video screen, and the Pixel Stand — a wireless charger that turns the Pixel 3 into a Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker as well as a photo frame.

Publication: The Indian Express

Evidence of hacked Supermicro hardware found in US telecom

A major US telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the US, according to a security expert working for the telecom company.

Publication: The Indian Express

Low-end hardware, weak networks usher in popularity of ‘lite’ mobile applications

Prevalence of low-end hardware among users and weak networks in emerging countries have made companies develop ‘liter’ apps to ensure smooth functioning of their platforms. Companies including Facebook, Twitter, Ola, Uber and even Just Dial have launched a ‘lite’ version of their original apps, which consume less data, takes less space in the phone’s memory and their updates are lighter compared to the original app.

Publication: Financial Express

Augmented Reality Headset for Over $11,000 Is Winning Investors

Most virtual reality headsets aimed at consumers are becoming cheaper. One Finnish startup is winning over investors by going the other way. Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies Oy announced has raised $31 million in a funding round led by Atomico. Other investors in the company include EQT Ventures and Lifeline Ventures, a Helsinki venture fund whose advisers include Ilkka Paananen, the co-founder and CEO of Finnish gaming sensation Supercell Oy.

Publication: Bloomberg Quint

PUBG is getting a lite mode for low end PCs, PUBG Mobile announces Planet of the Apes tie-up

PUBG is a hot and happening game right now, and even though it has fallen from the perch of the most played game in the world, it is still one of the most played. But there are certain things that hold ‘PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ back from reaching more people. And one of the biggest problems in its way is the heavy specs that it demands from the PCs that run it.

Publication: BGR

Facebook launches Artificial Intelligence video-calling device ‘Portal’

Facebook on Monday launched a range of AI-powered video-calling devices, a strategic revolution for the social network giant in its bid for a slice of a market currently dominated by Amazon and Google. “It’s been a big shift for the company,” Facebook’s vice president of consumer hardware Andrew Bosworth told AFP before the launch of “Portal”. “We’ve seen a rise of video calling, on both Messenger and WhatsApp – it has been a tremendous trend,” he said.

Publication: Times Now News

Cloud computing: How the amazing Amazon service brings agility to companies

Around the world, cloud first is the way forward. In India too, a few companies are transitioning to a new age where cloud computing—on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing—is enabling them to transform into intelligent enterprises. India is set to be among the top cloud markets in the world by 2020, with $4.1 billion market opportunity.

Publication: Financial Express

Law enforcement agencies favour data localisation

The country’s law enforcement agencies are backing the Reserve Bank of India’s push for data localisation by the payments industry as this will make it easier for them to track online transactions and social media interactions involving wrongdoing of any kind. The RBI’s deadline to set up data centres in the country ends on October 15.

Publication: The Economic Times

Google CEO secretly met Pentagon leaders over controversial AI project: Report

Google’s India-born chief executive Sundar Pichai quietly paid a visit to the Pentagon to ease tensions that erupted after employee outrage prompted the tech giant to sever a controversial defence contract to analyse drone video, according to a media report.

Publication: Moneycontrol

AI is perhaps the biggest revolution of the modern age: Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun is a man of many parts. The president and co-founder of e-learning company Udacity, is not only an innovator and computer scientist but also CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation that makes flying cars and chairman of Cresta.ai—a company that automates repetitive tasks likes sales chats. Germany-born Thrun was earlier a Google VP and Fellow. At Google, he founded Google X and Google’s self-driving car team. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.

Publication: Mint

Panasonic launches Premium Flagship Smartphones, Eluga X1 and X1 Pro with Enhanced AI Capabilities

Panasonic, a leading diversified technology company, today launched its flagship AI powered smartphones, Eluga X1 and X1 Pro. High on performance and experience, the flagship range is aesthetically crafted with 6.18” FHD + Notch Display and a Stainless Steel Body with a 2.5D curved sleek design. The smartphones feature cutting-edge technology such as the AI Sense: Infra-Red Face Unlock, which uses infrared sensors in the camera allowing consumers to unlock the devices even in low light conditions.

Publication: Orissa Diary

Don’t Hire People Online, Go Offline, Says Vishal Gondal Of GOQii

At a time when Netflix and gaming addictions are turning millennials to couch potatoes, Indian gaming startup prodigy Vishal Gondal of GOQii has taken up the charge to get people off the couch and guide them towards a healthy lifestyle.

Publication: Inc42

‘The winters of artificial intelligence are behind us’

At Microsoft’s annual developer event Ignite, last week, every session touched up on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in software products. David Carmona, general manager of AI at the IT major, seemed very much the man of the moment. In an interview, he dwells on how pervasive the concept has become and how he sees the future.

Publication: The Hindu

Amazon India advertises fake branded XHVGA GTX 960 as its ‘best-seller’ graphics card

Publication: Hardware BBQ

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