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AMD GameOn Brings Best of Gaming Technology to Hyderabadedit
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 1edit
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
AMD brand mentions
PS4 successor in the works with next-generation hardwareedit
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 Cloudedit
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 Reviewedit
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, AMDedit
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
Competition in news
GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake Nvidia Graphics Cardsedit
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 CPUedit
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 Motherboardedit
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 Tiedit
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
Partner in news
Samsung Starts 7nm Chip Production for Faster Siliconedit
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 capabilitiesedit
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-65Z9Fedit
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 Worldedit
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 carsedit
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
Industry news
Japan introduces Artificial Intelligence technology to ease businessedit
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’edit
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?edit
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 Motherboardedit
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
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