AMD specific news
Start-ups will play a key role in Indian gaming: Andrej Zdravkovic of AMDedit
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 Indiaedit
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 Supportedit
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” Processorsedit
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 Schooledit
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 Hyderabadedit
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)
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Deals: AMD Threadripper, 3TB Portable Drive, Dyson Vacuumedit
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 Vegaedit
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:Gartneredit
“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
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 20-30% Faster than GTX 1080 and AMD Vegaedit
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
Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 Ti AMP 11 GB Reviewedit
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 GPUsedit
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 solutionsedit
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
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Dell 49-inch curved 2K ultrawide monitor launchededit
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 effectedit
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 gamersedit
Publication: The Asian Age
HP launches premium convertible ENVY x360 in Indiaedit
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
Industry news
70 percent Indians experience tech support scams: Microsoftedit
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: Gartneredit
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 researchedit
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?edit
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
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