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

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

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

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

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