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$400 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Beats $600 NVIDIA RTX 2070 Using Registry Modedit
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 Cardedit
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+edit
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 sectoredit
Rumor Mill: AMD and NVIDIA May Launch Polaris and Pascal Refreshesedit
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 painedit
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 monthsedit
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: BofAedit
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
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Competition in news
Qualcomm might introduce 32W fast charging in its next flagship SoCedit
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 paymentsedit
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: Inteledit
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 closeedit
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 Modedit
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
Rumor Mill: AMD and NVIDIA May Launch Polaris and Pascal Refreshesedit
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
Nvidia Upside Slimmer on AMD Earnings: BofAedit
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
Partner in news
Qualcomm says Apple is $7 Billion behind in royalty paymentsedit
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
Microsoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US companyedit
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 2018edit
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 30edit
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
Industry news
Urgent need to increase awareness about whistleblower policies at workplaces, say expertsedit
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 Africaedit
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 chipsedit
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-Madrasedit
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 applicationsedit
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
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