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PowerColor Announces the AMD Radeon Red Devil RX 590 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Cardedit
TUL Corporation, a leading and innovative manufacturer of AMD graphic cards since 1997, has introduced the newest PowerColor Red Devil RX 590 8GB GDDR5. The new Red Devil RX 590 brings new blood to the mainstream market, performing more than 10% over the comparable priced cards, this makes a no brainer for this segment.
Publication: Tech Power Up
AMD Won’t Support Ray Tracing Till It’s Offered on All Product Rangesedit
AMD’s David Wang was heard voicing his opinions about how AMD considers pushing off the ray tracing technology till it gets adopted by large number of games, and is possible to be implemented on the entire lineup of products, including both low end and high end GPUs.
Publication: Indian Noob
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High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Collaborate to Build World’s Fastest Supercomputer for Industrial Productionedit
Hawk, based on HPE’s next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) platform running a next generation AMD (Nasdaq:AMD) EPYC™ processor code named Rome, will have a theoretical peak performance of 24 petaFLOPs, and consist of a 5,000-node cluster.
Publication: IT News Online
Deals: Best Sub-$400 Black Friday Laptop, Samsung 4K 50-Inch TVedit
Dell Inspiron 13 7000 AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 13.3″ 1920×1080 2-in-1 Laptop with Radeon Vega8, 256GB SSD for $596.29 at Dell (use code: Eleven11 – list $739.99)
Publication: PC Mag
Multimedia Chipset Market 2018 Global Overview, Industry Growth, Emerging Trends, Historical Analysis, Business Strategy, Opportunity Assessment, Future Prospects and Regional Forecast 2023edit
On Oct. 03, 2017, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. introduced AMD Embedded Radeon E9170 Series graphics processing unit. The GPU is with premium graphics and expanded display capabilities and available with multi-chip module format, which is integrated with memory. This core graphics technology is ideal for delivering crystal clear resolution and a stunning and seamless 4K experience across multiple displays.
Publication: BizWire Express
ASRock Radeon RX 590 Phantom Gaming Picturededit
Here are some of the first pictures of ASRock Radeon RX 590 Phantom Gaming graphics card, based on AMD’s upcoming “Polaris 30” silicon, which is an optical shrink of the “Polaris 20” silicon to 12 nm FinFET process, letting AMD and its partners increase GPU clock speeds. The RX 590 Phantom Gaming features a similar board design to the RX 580 Phantom Gaming X, with subtle design changes to its cooler shroud. The card still draws power from only a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The VideoCardz article with these pictures doesn’t mention clock-speeds, although going by trends, the RX 590 could be clocked well above 1500 MHz out of the box, compared to 1445 MHz of the RX 580 ...
Power Talk: Chandrahas Panigrahiedit
Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi is the CMO and Consumer Business Head for Acer India. He has been with Acer since 2015 and has worked with tech giants like AMD and HP in the past. IFA Berlin was an exciting event for Acer and Mr. Chandrahas talks about the same in an e-conversation with Konark Tyagi.
Publication: Exhibit
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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 416.94 Game Ready Driversedit
NVIDIA today released the GeForce 416.94 WHQL “Game Ready” drivers. These come optimized for “Fallout 76,” “Hitman 2,” and “Battlefield V.” NVIDIA re-listing Battlefied V, a game it already optimized for with v416.81 could mean the company may have improved performance for the game. NVIDIA confirmed that a game patch will drop “soon” through Origin, which will add NVIDIA RTX support, more so because Microsoft has resumed rolling out Windows 10 1809.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Intel’s Chip Shortage Slows PC Business for Acer and Asusedit
Intel’s CPU shortage is threatening to drag down PC and computer component sales from Taiwan’s top two vendors: Asus and Acer. On Tuesday, Asus CEO Jerry Shen warned investors during an earnings call that the CPUshortage may last until next Q3 2019 or beyond. In the meantime, the company’s motherboard business is taking a hit.
Publication: PC Mag
Intel XMM 8160 5G Modem Launched, First Devices Due in First Half of 2020edit
Intel on Monday announced its latest Intel XMM 8160 5G multimode modem which is aimed at providing 5G connectivity to devices including mobiles, PCs, and broadband access gateways.
Publications: The Indian Express Gadgets 360 BGR
How Intel Optimized the User Experience for VR e-Sportsedit
VR, as a new form of interaction between humans and the virtual world, is able to immerse users by making them feel like they are experiencing the simulated reality. However, it’s not easy to achieve considering the frame rendering budget for VR is 11.1ms per frame (90fps), and you need to render the entire scene twice (once for each eye).
Publication: Digit
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Intel’s Chip Shortage Slows PC Business for Acer and Asusedit
Intel’s CPU shortage is threatening to drag down PC and computer component sales from Taiwan’s top two vendors: Asus and Acer. On Tuesday, Asus CEO Jerry Shen warned investors during an earnings call that the CPUshortage may last until next Q3 2019 or beyond. In the meantime, the company’s motherboard business is taking a hit.
Publication: PC Mag
Power Talk: Chandrahas Panigrahiedit
Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi is the CMO and Consumer Business Head for Acer India. He has been with Acer since 2015 and has worked with tech giants like AMD and HP in the past. IFA Berlin was an exciting event for Acer and Mr. Chandrahas talks about the same in an e-conversation with Konark Tyagi.
Publication: Exhibit
Microsoft Surface Go with LTE up for pre-order in select global marketsedit
Microsoft’s feature budget hybrid 2-in-1 hybrid laptop Surface Go has been available in several markets since August, but the mobile-friendly LTE version was to be released later in the year. Now, the company is finally bringing in the device later this month.
Publication: International Business Times The Asian Age
Industry news
Experiential learningedit
Experiential learning is an emerging tool to fill skill gaps by upgrading skillsets in a modern workplace, says Ashish Gaikwad. As the country is focused on creating jobs through initiatives like Make in India and Digital India, the challenge for the industry is to attract talent with the right skills and improve the skill sets of existing workers to keep pace with the changing demands of the job.
Publication: Daily Pioneer
Jobseekers rejoice as hiring in India jumps 21% in October; this sector on recruitment spreeedit
Online hiring activity in October 2018 recorded an increase of 21% to 2,088 from 1,728 in the year-ago period, on the back of bullish hiring trends in the information technology (IT) industry, according to The Naukri JobSpeak Index for October 2018. The report also said that positive momentum is expected to continue going forward.
Publication: Financial Express
Technology trends that are changing the face of gaming in Indiaedit
In 2015, 66M households were part of the ‘consumption class’ with annual household income greater $4000, which is 27 per cent of India’s total households. The consumption class will rise to 53 per cent of total households in 2025, implying a mammoth 800M+ individuals belonging to the consumption class with access to smartphones and improving data speeds that augurs well for gaming in all forms — PC, Mobile and even AR/VR. Let’s look at some of the emerging technology trends that are changing the face of gaming in India.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle
Artificial Intelligence to create challenges for policymakers in future: WIPO DGedit
Growing use of Artifical Intelligence will create challenges for the policy makers dealing with intellectual property rights in the times to come, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said Tuesday.
Publication: The Economic Times
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