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AMD’s Flexible Manufacturing Strategy Reflects in Gross Marginedit
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
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Paytm Mall Maha Cashback Sale: Top 10 deals on smartphones, speakers, laptops and moreedit
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
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Celebrating the spirit of innovation and partnership at Qualcomm Innovation Forum 2018edit
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 memoryedit
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 Megataskingedit
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 headphonesedit
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’edit
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
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Lenovo, NetApp pit against Dell EMC, HPE to vie for the datacenter spaceedit
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 priceedit
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
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Nasscom partners Hiroshima govt for Japan-India IT corridoredit
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 hiringedit
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 Comingedit
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?edit
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 Realityedit
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 Videoedit
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 boomedit
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
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