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AMD specific news
AMD likely to launch a new Radeon GPUedit
Recent leaks have strongly suggested that we would see new Ryzen desktop processors and APUs meant for laptops at CES 2019, but we might also get a bonus bonanza of new Radeon graphics as well.
Publications: Deccan Chronicle The Asian Age
AMD to Join NASDAQ-100 Indexedit
AMD today announced its addition to the NASDAQ-100 Index® composed of the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market® based on market capitalization.
Publication: BizWire Express
AMD Radeon Pro gears up to give a glimpse of their professional graphics solutions at the media and Entertainment IT Summit at Hyderabadedit
With the growing demand for technology that can catch up with the quantum of work across the AVGC industry, studios are aiming to rapidly evolve and incorporate advanced mechanisms that can facilitate the ease of workflow of the industry processes. India has witnessed a tremendous growth of content over the past decade which has naturally led to an increase in the demand for advanced computing devices that can accommodate the burgeoning breadth of projects across the industry.
Publication: AnimationXpress
ASUS announces exciting new range of laptops – F570 and VivoBook 15 (X505)edit
ASUS has announced the new F570 gaming laptop and the thinner and lighter VivoBook 15 (X505), featuring the latest AMD Ryzen 5 processor with up to 8GB DDR4 memory and AMD Radeon Vega8 graphics. Consolidating its partnership with Paytm Mall, ASUS will make both the laptops exclusively available on the e-commerce portal for the first month.
Publication: VAR India News18 Voice & Data Techniblogic Mobile Scout
ASUS launches 2 AMD-powered gaming laptops in Indiaedit
Taiwan-based electronics major ASUS on Wednesday launched two gaming laptops in India that are powered by latest-generation AMD Ryzen Mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics.
Publications: The Times of India Business Standard The Indian Express Digit Stuff The Daily Pioneer Gadget Bridge Digital Terminal 91 Mobiles Fone Arena Odisha TV ABP News Social News XYZ Sakshi Post The South Asian Times IANS Live BTVi Prokerala News Webindia123 Sify.com Daily World Netindia123.com This is my India NewKerala.com Price Baba
AMD expands 2nd Generation Ryzen Threadripper Desktop Processor Line-upedit
AMD announced the availability of two additional 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor models 2970WX with 24 cores and 48 threads and the Ryzen Threadripper 2920X with 12 cores and 24 threads. The Ryzen WX series commands class-leading core counts, purpose-built for prosumers focused on raw computational power for the heaviest workloads.
Publication: National Computrade News
Next-gen AMD Ryzen mobile CPUs spotted on Geekbenchedit
AMD’s Ryzen 3rd Generation desktop processors, as expected, will be offered alongside mobile CPUs for laptops incoming next year. Website Hexus.net has uncovered Geekbench results of HP laptops running AMD Ryzen 3000 Picasso APUs revealing AMD’s plans for the coming year.
Publication: Digit
Next-gen AMD Ryzen mobile CPUs spotted on Geekbenchedit
AMD’s Ryzen 3rd Generation desktop processors, as expected, will be offered alongside mobile CPUs for laptops incoming next year. Website Hexus.net has uncovered Geekbench results of HP laptops running AMD Ryzen 3000 Picasso APUs revealing AMD’s plans for the coming year.
Publication: Digit
Unleash the Full Power of AMD Radeon GPUs with New AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Editionedit
AMD announces AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition, the next generation of its software suite for AMD Radeon GPUs, providing gamers, creators and enthusiasts with new immersive features that deliver unparalleled visual experiences.
Publication: Dataquest Firstpost PC Quest CIOL TechQuila Digital Terminal Geeky Gadgets TeckKnow Cell IT
In AMD’s resurgence, India engineers play key roleedit
In PC and server chips, AMD is a distant second to Intel. Every now and then, it shows enormous promise. In 2006, its share of PC processors touched a high of 25%. But then, it suffered a dramatic fall. The slump was protracted, close to eight years. Now, the company is once again seeing a resurgence.
Publication: Karnataka Everyday
AMD StoreMI Review | NDTV Gadgets360.comedit
At the start of this yr, AMD introduced a partnership with enterprise storage administration firm Enmotus, bringing a tiered storage acceleration system called FuzeDrive to customers of its Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper desktop CPUs.
Publication: TechXP
In AMD’s resurgence, India engineers play key roleedit
In PC and server chips, AMD is a distant second to Intel. Every now and then, it shows enormous promise. In 2006, its share of PC processors touched a high of 25%. But then, it suffered a dramatic fall. The slump was protracted, close to eight years.
Publication: The Times of India NewsJizz
Vega II Logo Trademarked by AMDedit
AMD late November filed a trademark application with the USPTO for a new logo, for its second generation “Vega” graphics architecture, built around the 7 nm silicon fabrication process. The logo looks similar to the original Vega “V,” with two bands marking out the Roman numeral II (2).
Publication: Tech Power Up
AMD-hired Agency in South Korea Teases AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, Ryzen 5 3600Xedit
Anyone looking for an update to their CPU that didn’t quite jump on the Coffee Lake/Zen/Zen+ bandwagon is likely paying close attention to AMD’s upcoming Zen 2 CPUs. The upcoming AMD processors will finally leave the company ahead of Intel in terms of manufacturing process for the first time in years, and will bring about AMD’s new vision for HCC desktop processors in a chiplet design. With the release of Zen 2 set for 2019 (probably around Computex), and its launch being of such importance to AMD, it isn’t that surprising that some promotions/teases are already popping up.
Publication: Tech Power Up
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and Asus ROG Zenith X399 Extreme Reviewedit
According to AMD, the complete Threadripper mission began out as an experiment. A handful of engineers simply determined to make use of their spare time to discover simply how far they might push the Zen architecture, which was then nonetheless within the early phases of its improvement. These high-performance CPUs weren’t even on the corporate’s roadmaps till the crew made a proposal to AMD’s high administration and acquired their concept greenlit.
Publication: TechXP
AMD Radeon RX 3080 to compete with GeForce RTX 2070 at half the costedit
Latest leaks and rumours about AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 3000 series Graphics Cards shed more light on their price and performance.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD 7nm Ryzen 3000 CPUs Prices and Specs Revealededit
The best-selling CPU brand AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 CPUs based on 7nm architecture revealed… Now up to 16 cores and 5.1GHz on the AM4 platform.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD to Introduce Radeon RX 3000 Series According to AdoredTVedit
Youtube channel, AdoredTV, was one of the first ones to leak the name of the latest NVIDIA GPU, the TITAN RTX and now it has released a new video regarding the AMD Ryzen 3000 and Radeon 3000 series. The Titan RTX video was not entirely correct, and same is the case with the new video too, but still, a part of it could turn out to be true just like it did for that video.
Publication: TechQuila
Where’s The Best Place To Buy An AMD Ryzen 5 2600?edit
For most people, Amazon is the best place to buy many products thanks to Amazon Prime, free shipping options, and massive deals, and the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 is one of them.
Publication: India Everyday
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.1.1 Beta Driversedit
No the title is not a typo, AMD has today released their Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.12.1.1 beta drivers. This release is essentially the same as the previous 18.12.1 beta drivers, except for the fact they add support for the Epic Games store. Other than that one inclusion nothing else seems to have changed with no performance improvements or fixes mentioned.
Publication: Tech Power Up
AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Supports X570 Chipset-based AM4 Platform, Leak Revealsedit
AMD struck gold with its Ryzen architecture. The company is looking towards releasing its upcoming Ryzen 2 lineup of CPUs. A leak has revealed that these chips will be supported by the existing AM4 platform and will be used in X570 motherboards. The first generation of Ryzen CPUs was supported in X370 motherboards with Ryzen+ being supported in X470 motherboards with backwards compatibility to X370 motherboards as well. Its upcoming 3000 series will be using x570 motherboards and thanks to Gamer.com.tw, we have few details on the X570 PCH.
Publication: My Smart Price
AMD Ryzen 3850X CPU to Feature 16 Cores (32T) and 5.1 GHz Boost Clockedit
We all know that AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3000 series based on the Zen2 architecture will bring significant performance improvements to the company’s already efficient design, but there’s still no solid word on the specs. However, if you are on the trail for leaks and rumors, then you’ve come to the right place.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Radeon RX 570 and China-specific RX 580 2048SP Based on Exact Same Chipedit
It’s no news that AMD’s Radeon RX 570 graphics card is carved out of the same “Polaris 20” silicon as the RX 580, by disabling 4 out of 36 GCN compute units.
Publication: Tech Power Up
AMD to compete with NVIDIA’s Turing with 7nm Radeon in 2019edit
AMD plans to dominate the coming year with their 7nm Radeon by competing with the flagship lineup of their main business rival, Nvidia. According to CEO Lisa Su who made a statement on the 22nd Annual Credit Suisse Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, AMD will be focusing heavily on new high end GPUs with Ray Tracing in mind.
Publication: TechQuila
India Joy* a big hit with tech buffsedit
The ongoing India Joy expo at HICC is a perfect venue to get engaged and learn about animation, gaming and VR technology. The idea behind the expo is to attract investment and talent into the animation and gaming industry. The expo will continue till December 6
Publication: The Hans India
AMD’s X570 chipset might be the first to add next-generation PCIe supportedit
AMD Zen 2 processors are practically around the corner, and so is Ryzen’s next-generation X570 chipset platform, apparently. Instead of the usual, boring optimization tweaks and efficiency increases, this rumored X570 might be the first to introduce PCIe 4.0 lanes. What’s more, the leaked slides from an internal Gigabyte briefing suggest AMD will introduce its next-generation platform at Computex 2019 – which is set to start at the end of May this year.
Publication: Technology Everyday
AMD Readies Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition, You Can Talk to Your Graphics Cardedit
AMD is preparing Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition, keeping up with the tradition of big year-end software launched that are high on new features. VideoCardz got a whiff of three if its key features. One of them is Voice Control. You will soon be able to talk to your graphics card through voice-commands picked up from your microphone. Rolling out initially in English and Chinese, you will soon be able to control a lot of things while still in game and not having to take your hands off your keyboard/mouse.
Publication: Tech PowerUp Geeky Gadgets
India engineers play critical role in AMD’s global resurgenceedit
In PC and server chips, AMD is a distant second to Intel. Every now and then, it shows enormous promise. In 2006, its share of PC processors touched a high of 25%. But then, it suffered a dramatic fall. The slump was protracted, close to eight years. Now, the company is once again seeing a resurgence.
Publication: The Times of India
AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen Confirmed for Computex 2019edit
In a development that could explain why Intel is frantically stitching together 10 cores with the “Comet Lake” silicon, a slide leaked from a private event hosted by motherboard major GIGABYTE reveals that AMD’s third generation Ryzen desktop platform could launch as early as Computex 2019 (June). The platform will include AMD’s first client-segment processor based on its “Zen 2” microarchitecture, codenamed “Matisse,” and its companion chipset, the AMD X570.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
AMD Beats Intel, Sells Double the Number of CPUs In November 2018edit
For a long time, Intel has been at the top of the list thanks to its high-end CPUs. However, things have slowly begun to change. The month of November 2018 has seen one of the most drastic changes by far. AMD has taken the lead and sold twice the number of CPUs sold by Intel in one single month. This is extremely exciting as now Intel will no longer enjoy a monopoly and the privilege of jacking up the price of its hardware. Having a competitor which is in the running will help keep prices fair.
Publication: MySmartPrice ; TechQuila
AMD Ryzen Dominates Intel By 2:1 Margin During November Claims ETailer Mindfactoryedit
We always look forward to the latest sales figures that come in from German eTailer Mindfactory, which releases individual processor sales numbers which are then compiled by the enthusiast community (in this case, redditor ingebor).
Publication: India Everyday
AMD Holiday Offer Includes Wraith Max CPU Cooler With Ryzen CPUs For High Efficiency Silent Thermal Dissipationedit
AMD has come up with an interesting and attractive ‘Holiday Offer’. The company is offering complimentary upgrade of CPU Coolers with its popular line of Ryzen CPUs. AMD is offering a limited edition Ryzen Max CPU bundle. Essentially, the company is selling Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 CPUs with the Wraith Max CPU coolers.
Publication: My Smart Price
AMD brand mentions
Gadgets for executives: A Surface Go, a new BlackBerryedit
Powered by AMD’s new Ryzen 5 chipset with 8GB RAM, HP’s new Envy x360 looks a lot more premium with the full metal finish and slim form factor.
Publication: Mint
Best laptops on a budgetedit
This one is powered by a 3Ghz AMD A9 APU processor with 4GB DD4 RAM, AMD Radeon 520 2GB graphics and a 1TB hard drive.
Publication: The Economic Times Wealth
PS5 And Next Xbox Will Likely Have 8 to 12GB of RAM, Says Hellpoint Devedit
Microsoft and Sony both try to achieve major hardware jumps with each new iteration of their consoles. So what do the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett have in store for us? Ryzen CPUs? 16GB of RAM?
Publication: Gaming Bolt
Tech forecast for 2019edit
Even though the ‘x’ stands for extreme, it’s unlikely 8cx laptops will target rival performance-oriented chips from AMD or Intel. Instead, they’re expected to power thin, power-efficient laptops with all-day battery life and — you guessed it — built-in LTE cellular connectivity!
Publication: The Telegraph
Choose the right laptop for your homeedit
An Intel i3 7th generation dual core processor or an equivalent AMD processor can be a decent deal for a mid-budget laptop.
Publication: Open Source for U
Microsoft Surface Studio 2edit
In this case, I compared the Surface Studio 2 to two HP desktops (the low-cost, AMD-powered Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690, and the Z2 Mini G4 Workstation), and a small-form-factor gaming machine, the MSI Trident X.
Publication: PC Mag
Intel Core i5-9600K Reviewedit
The 2017 introduction of AMD Ryzen kicked Intel out of its decade-long slumber, forcing it to increase CPU core-counts across the board as advancements in silicon fabrication technology grounded to a halt and with it, the introduction of new core designs that could have brought about clock-speed improvements.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Microsoft Xbox Scarlett Lineup To Include Traditional Gaming Console Version Called Anaconda?edit
Incidentally, the internal specifications for the next-gen Xbox console could be similar to those of the next PlayStation console. This is because both the competing consoles are sourcing core components, including processors and GPUs, from AMD.
Publication: My Smart Price
Samsung CHG70 27-Inch Curved Monitoredit
It features a wide color gamut and a super-high native refresh rate of 144Hz, and it supports AMD’s latest iteration of its adaptive sync technology, FreeSync 2, for Radeon-card loyalists. It’s enough to make it our latest Editors’ Choice gaming monitor.
Publication: PC Mag
Dell 27 Gaming Monitor (S2719DGF)edit
While the S2719DGF has a native 144Hz refresh rate, a mere 1-millisecond pixel response, and support for AMD FreeSync adaptive-sync technology, it lacks HDR support and has a relatively low contrast ratio.
Publication: PC Mag
Lean Mean Machines for the Road Warrioredit
The Envy x360 is equipped with a current-gen AMD processor that is on par with the Intel Core i5 eight generation chip.
Publication: The Times of India
Review: BenQ EL2870Uedit
Features: Flicker-free Technology, Low Blue Light, Brightness Intelligence Plus (B.I.+), HDR10, Smart focus, Super Resolution, AMD FreeSync
Publication: T3 India
Review: The Apple Macbooks that offer the best combination of features, performance and priceedit
You won’t notice a huge speed boost for everyday computing tasks, but its six-core Intel Core processor can give it a speed boost of around 30% over the 13-inch Pro when rendering video or compiling code, and its discrete AMD Radeon GPUs provide better performance when running 3D drafting programs or games.
Publication: Scroll.in
Microsoft Xbox One X To Offer Native 4K@60FPS Gaming With Zen 2 and AMD powered GPUs?edit
It will be very interesting to see how the Xbox Scarlett will turn out. This is because the internal specifications for the next-gen Xbox console are shaping up to be similar to those of the next PlayStation rig. Both consoles are looking at AMD technologies for core components including processors and GPUs.
Publication: My Smart Price
What To Expect At CES 2019edit
Key exhibitors: AMD, Ericsson, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Publication: The Techy
PCMag India’s favourite GPUs of 2018edit
The GPU landscape saw little change at the start of 2018 as Nvidia seemed content to let the 10 series live on the shelves a little longer and AMD refused to compete. But all that changed in August when we finally saw a new series of GPUs from team green. Sadly they have been mired in controversy since launch and are priced at a premium while AMD’s gameplan seems to be centered around 2019.
Publication: PCMag
Asus VivoBook 15 and Asus F570 First Impressionsedit
The laptop sports a 15.6-inch 60Hz full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It is powered by the second generation AMD Ryzen processors paired with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM. The device features a Vega 3/8 GPU to satisfy your basic graphics needs.
Publication: Beetel Bite
Asus VivoBook 15 X505ZA review: Butter smooth performance with poor screen-viewing anglesedit
Specs: 15.6-inch IPS, 1920 x 1080 pixels, AMD Ryzen 3/Ryzen 5 processor, 4/8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive, AMD Radeon GPU, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB Type-C, HDMI, Ethernet, SD card reader, WiFi ac, Bluetooth 4.2, 3-cell battery, Windows 10, 1.6kg
Publication: Click IT News
PS5 Specifications May Have 4K and 240fps Support for PS VR: Analystedit
While the Sony PlayStation E3 2018 showcase focused squarely on the games, it seems that the company is quietly prepping for next-gen, going to the extent of skipping E3 2019. The PS5 is slated for a 2020 release date and it will be using AMD’s Navi GPU.
Publication: Gadgets 360
ASUS F570 Gaming Notebook, VivoBook 15 Ultrabook Launched in India: Price, Featuresedit
Taiwanese brand ASUS has expanded its notebook lineup in India with new additions to its Gaming and VivoBook series. Both the new F570 and VivoBook 15 X505 notebooks happen to run on AMD Ryzen Mobile processors and feature a 15.6-inch sized display. While the F570 will appeal to consumers looking for an affordable gaming notebook, the VivoBook 15 X505 focuses on portability.
Publication: My Smart Price Sanjeevani The Navhind Times Telangana Times Hindustan Times
Aiming to capture 10% laptop share in India in 2019: ASUSedit
The company has recently launched two gaming laptops in India that feature AMD Ryzen 5 processor with up to 8GB DDR4 memory and AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics.
Publication: Business Standard Telangana Today Telangana Today (Print) Deccan Chronicle The Sunday Guardian CNBCTV18 BTVI The Hans India The Quint The Asian Age Gadget2.in DailyWorld NewKerala.com Maeeshat SME Times Sify.com This is my India Punjab News Express Webindia123 News24 Online
CES Round the Corneredit
Semiconductor AMD has already said that it intends to show off its 3rd-generation Ryzen processors and new graphics products at CES 2019.
Publication: The Asian Age
The Best PC Games of 2018edit
This has been one of the most eventful years for PC gaming. The price of some PC components were unreasonable (we’re looking at you, Nvidia and AMD) for a large part of the year, which made us wonder whether it’s better to switch to consoles entirely.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Building a gaming desktop: from Rs 30K to a few lakhsedit
The obvious choice of a processor is from Intel or AMD. There are good processors from both companies. For a long time, it was thought that AMD was behind Intel. However, AMD has caught up and has good products in its lineup. The processor that is chosen depends on the budget and being the heart of the system, it makes sense to get the best one possible.
Publication: Deccan Herald
High-performance Computing (HPC): Worldwide Market Outlook to 2023, A $43+ Billion Opportunity – Analysis on Key Playersedit
The global high-performance computing (HPC) market was valued at USD 29.37 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach a value of USD 43.97 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 12.28% over the forecast period (2018-2023).
Publication: BizWire Express
GIGABYTE Intros Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3200 16GB Kit without Dummiesedit
You get two 8 GB memory modules making up the 16 GB dual-channel kit, each with a chunky 2 mm-thick aluminium heatspreader capped by an acrylic diffuser that puts out light from five addressable RGB LEDs. These modules pack an XMP 2.0 profile that runs them at DDR4-3200 with 16-18-18-38 timings, at 1.35 V. Although the company doesn’t specify which brand of DRAM chips it’s using, it mentions support for both Intel and AMD platforms.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Live Streaming Xbox to sport a custom AMD Picasso APUedit
In July we had seen leaks ragarding a new Cloud based ‘streaming Xbox’ that was in development. This was essentially a cheap low powered gaming console that would use the cloud gaming platform to stream games online. We have just received more news regarding the processor that it’ll be using and it turns out to be a semi-custom AMD Picasso APU that was recently uncovered.
Publication: TechQuila
HP Envy x360 review: Your ultrabook doesn’t have to run on Intel’s processorsedit
The device weighs about 1.3kgs, but the metallic body feels extremely solid and well built. The laptop is sold with AMD’s Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 5 processors in India, with price tags of Rs 60,990 and Rs 74,990, respectively.
Publication: Mint
AnimationXpress announces Media & Entertainment IT Summit in Hyderabadedit
Advancement in technology, improved computing, immersive graphics and instinctive visualization has transformed the lives of creative professionals in the digital media and entertainment segment. To bring the industry together and discuss the future of technology in this space, AnimationXpress dot com is hosting a Media & Entertainment IT Summit in Hyderabad on 21 December 2018 in partnership with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Publication: Animation Xpress
Taking his love for gaming to international competitionsedit
The five-member team has qualified for Mountain Dew Arena, Taiwan Excellence Cup, AMD GameON, ESL Masters (Winter), Cobx Masters and Indian Lan Gaming Grand Finale.
Publication: The New Indian Express
Razer Offers Rewards to Gamers For Running Cryptocurrency Mineredit
The company recommends it run on PCs with at least an Nvidia GTX 1050 or AMD RX460 graphics card. If you’re still interested in downloading SoftMiner you can go here. Currently, the app is only available for Windows 7, 8 and 10 systems.
Publication: PC Mag
Virtual Reality (VR) Gaming 2018 Global Market Share, Trends, Segmentation & Forecast To 2025edit
In 2017, the global Virtual Reality (VR) Gaming market size was million US$ and it is expected to reach million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of during 2018-2025.
AMD is one of the key players covered in this study.
Publication: BizWire Express
AOPEN Monitor Brand Introduces in India Exclusively on Amazonedit
The fast refresh rate is being increasingly coveted by players for making quick and accurate in-game manoeuvres while the AMD FreeSync technology puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with the fluid, artefact-free performance at virtually any frame rate.
Publication: PC Quest
Intel Xᵉ Kicks the Door Open to Challenge the GeForce-Radeon Duopolyedit
Intel’s discrete graphics card for PC enthusiasts is real. Intel won’t just address the pro-graphics and accelerated-compute markets, but also consumer graphics, challenging the duopoly of NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon. Scheduled for 2020, the new Intel Xᵉ is a family of discrete GPUs targeting client-segment (consumer graphics) as well as enterprise (pro-graphics and compute).
Publication: Tech Power Up
Intel Unveils What the Future of CPUs May Look Like!edit
2018 has not been a good year for Intel. The year has been riddled with several setbacks such as Brian Krzanich, Intel’s CEO, stepping down from his position of responsibility, security vulnerability being discovered in the Intel processors, AMD capturing a market that is twice of that of Intel, and the usual struggle of Intel to make more portable CPUs that offer high performance.
Publication: TechnoCodex Tech Power Up
Intel Plans ‘Stacked’ Circuits In Bid To Regain Its Chipmaking Leadedit
Intel Gen11 iGPU Roughly as Fast as Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 3 2200G)edit
According to them, a Gen11 (default GT2 trim we assume) graphics core should offer a compute throughput of 1 TFLOP/s, which is in the league of the Radeon Vega 8, with its 1.12 TFLOP/s throughput. The Vega 8 is part of AMD’s Ryzen 3 2200G processor.
Publication: Tech Power Up
EKWB Releases Velocity D-RGB CPU Blocks with Addressable RGB Lightingedit
In particular, for those who felt having 24 RGB LEDs displaying the same color was not enough, EKWB has introduced two (each for Intel and AMD sockets) digital addressable RGB LED versions to allow for every single LED to shine a different hue.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Acer to sell and handle after-sales service for AOPEN monitor brandedit
The fast refresh rate is being increasingly coveted by players for making quick and accurate in-game manoeuvres, while the AMD FreeSync technology puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any frame rate.
Publication: VAR India Digital Terminal Cell IT TeleAnalysis
AOPEN launches new desktop monitors with Acer in Indiaedit
The fast refresh rate is being increasingly coveted by players for making quick and accurate in-game maneuvers while the AMD FreeSync technology puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any frame rate.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle The Asian Age This Week India
How Amazon’s DIY chip innovation threatens Silicon Valley giant Inteledit
“The belief was that you needed some magic to build a processor, particularly a server processor,” said Andrew Feldman, the chief executive of the chip start-up Cerebras and a former executive at the chip maker AMD. “You had to be Intel or AMD — and that was about it.”
Publication: Business Standard
Just Cause 4 reviewedit
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-Core (3.5Ghz) liquid cooled by the Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 240 TT Premium Edition
Publication: Stuff
BOXX Introduces Next Generation S-Class Workstations with 9th Gen Intel Processorsedit
Purpose-built to optimize Autodesk, SOLIDWORKS, Adobe CC, Cinema 4D, and other applications, the overclocked and liquid-cooled APEXX S3 sustains its 5.1GHz frequency across all cores—even in the most demanding situations. With increased storage and upgradability, as well as multiple NVIDIA® Quadro® or AMD® Radeon Pro™ graphics cards, S3 is also ideal for light GPU compute or virtual reality.
Publication: BizWire Express
Ex-Hardware.fr GPU Editor Damien Triolet Jumps Ship from AMD RTG to Inteledit
Damien Triolet’s work history off-late has been one of many such recent stories. These tend to begin with AMD, and RTG in particular, getting a cash infusion and growing in 2016 and 2017 to where they hired some of the best engineers and marketing personnel from the industry- media or otherwise.
Publication: Tech Power Up
PowerColor and TechPowerUp GPU-Z Giveaway: The Winners!edit
PowerColor and TechPowerUp brought you a sensational Giveaway embedded into TechPowerUp GPU-Z v2.15.0, with a crateful of PowerColor and AMD gear up for grabs.
Publication: Tech Power Up
QNAP Launches the TS-977XU Hybrid NAS with AMD Ryzen Processorsedit
QNAP Systems, Inc. today launched the TS-977XU AMD Ryzen NAS series, QNAP’s first 1U hybrid-structure NAS. The series provides four 3.5-inch SATA drive bays for hard drives and five 2.5-inch SATA drive bays for SSDs, allowing users to enable caching and Qtier auto-tiering storage and to benefit from QNAP’s revolutionary software-defined SSD extra over-provisioning technology.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Antec Dark Fleet DF-500 RGB PC Cabinet Reviewedit
Luckily the remainder of our elements fitted simply high quality, together with a Gigabyte Aorus X470 Gaming 7 Wifimotherboard, AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler, and extra-long AMD Radeon RX Vega64 graphics card.
Publication: TechXP
3DMark Port Royal Ray-tracing Benchmark Release Date and Pricing Revealededit
3DMark Advanced purchased from January 8th onward at $29.99 will include Port Royal. 3DMark Port Royal is an extreme-segment 3D graphics benchmark leveraging DirectX 12 and DirectX Raytracing (DXR). UL Benchmarks stated that Port Royal was developed with inputs from industry giants including NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Battlefield 5 – Minor Update Coming Next Week, DICE Addresses Several Known Issuesedit
If you find Battlefield V is crashing post-update and you have an AMD graphics card, updating your Radeon graphics driver will make things more stable.
Publication: Gaming Bolt
Gaming News: Insurgency Sandstorm might be here in 2 days Redit
Processor: Intel Core i5-4440 (3.10GHz)/AMD FX-6300 (3.50GHz)
Publication: SportsKeeda
CCF-APAC 2018 Focus on AI, Hybrid Cloud and Automationedit
Global vendors such as Dell EMC, Lenovo, HP, Schneider Electric , Huawei, AMD, Citrix, Fujitsu and VMware among others – are putting their best foot forward in terms of showcasing their latest and innovative offerings directed towards the channel community of the region.
Publication: VAR India
Xbox Scarlett Planned for 2020 Release Date, Will Use AMD Zen 2 and Navi Tech: Reportedit
It will likely use AMD tech. Specifically it will leverage AMD’s Zen 2 CPU and Navi architecture to deliver games at 4K resolution with 60 frames per second. What’s more is, it’s slated for a 2020 release date.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Next-Gen Xbox Console to Run Games at 4K-60FPS; Will Use AMD Hardwareedit
If a report from Microsoft insider, Brad Sams is to be believed, the next Xbox console (codenamed Scarlett) will be announced in 2020. As per the video, the Xbox Scarlett will leverage AMD hardware just like its predecessor.
Publication: TechQuila
Microsoft Andromeda Foldable Device Likely by Second Half of 2019edit
When it comes to the software, instead of long-dead Windows phone OS the phone is likely to run on a full-fledged version of Windows. In the book, the journalist has also mentioned the launch of Microsoft’s USB-C port, Surface laptops with AMD chips, and a new Xbox One console in 2019.
Publication: Corporate Ethos
Flipkart Sale Offers: Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1, Poco F1, Pixel 3, Motorola One Power, and More Dealsedit
If you’re looking for a gaming laptop at the Rs. 50,000 price point, the Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-42) is currently down to Rs. 49,990 (MRP Rs. 79,999) on Flipkart sale right now. The laptop is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 quad-core CPU, supported by 8GB of RAM. It comes with a 1TB hard drive and runs Windows 10 Home out of the box. The graphics are powered by the AMD Radeon RX 560X with 4GB of video RAM. You can swap your old laptop and get up to Rs. 7,500 additional discount.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti reviewedit
Our test bench consisted of Ryzen Threadripper 1920X liquid cooled by the Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 240 TT Premium Edition with 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM, all neatly mounted on the Asus Prime X399-A in the Corsair 570X case. Safe to say that there was no bottleneck in this system and plenty of RGB.
Publication: Stuff
Soulcalibur VI reviewedit
Our PC gaming rig of choice includes Ryzen Threadripper 1920X liquid cooled by the Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 240 TT Premium Edition with 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM, all neatly mounted on the Asus Prime X399-A in the Corsair 570X case.
Publication: Stuff
Battlefield V reviewedit
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 12-Core (3.5Ghz) liquid cooled by the Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 240 TT Premium Edition
Publication: Stuff
5 Best Free to Play Games for PC – With System Requirementsedit
Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 or AMD Athlon x64 4000+
Publication: SportsKeeda
Gaming Graphics Card Market is set for a Potential Growth Worldwide: Excellent Technology Trends with Business Analysis by 2025edit
A new research document is added in HTF MI database of 123 pages, titled as ‘Global Gaming Graphics Card Market Report 2018’ with detailed analysis, Competitive landscape, forecast and strategies. The study covers geographic analysis that includes regions like North America, South America, Asia, Other Country and important players/vendors such as Nvidia, AMD, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, EVGA, Zotac, Galax, PNY, Palit. The report will help you gain market insights, future trends and growth prospects for forecast period of 2023.
Publication: BizWire Express
Desktop CPUsedit
Desktop processors have come a ridiculously long way over 2018. Both AMD and Intel have pushed the envelope this year. CPUs had been Intel’s home ground for years before the two companies began competing with each other.
Publication: Digit
Buy the best LED monitor for your office todayedit
Its ultra-slim design with AMD Free-sync ensures that your gaming experience is great. You can even turn on the Eye-Saver Mode when you need to work for long so that the display settings are optimized and there is not much harm to your eyes.
Publication: The Times of India
Is AWS Catching Up With Other Cloud Vendors With The Launch Of New Machine Learning Inference Chipedit
The release of the chip is not a direct competition to NVIDIA, Intel or AMD, since Amazon will not sell the chips commercially, but only to their cloud customers. However, the release is an indication of Amazon’s intention of deepening its hardware muscle and their take on Google Cloud which released a third generation TPU.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
How Shakti, The ‘Indian’ Processor From IIT Madras, Could Challenge Global Majors Intel & AMDedit
Motivated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make In India” concept, a team of researchers at IIT-Madras plans to take on global-majors Intel and AMD in the manufacture of computer processors. India’s first indigenous 64-bit microprocessor was designed and made by them as a secure hardware for the country’s strategic sectors replacing existing foreign monopoly.
Publication: India Times
Acer Predator Helios 500 (AMD Config): Ryzen & Vega Impressedit
What happens when you pack a second-gen Ryzen desktop CPU and Vega 56 graphics inside a mostly well-designed laptop housing like Acer’s Predator Helios 500–which we reviewed earlier this year packing an Intel Core i9-8950HK CPU and Nvidia GTX…
Publication: Technology Everyday
Supermicro Unleashes All-Flash NVMe 1U Petabyte Scale Systems at Gartner Data Center Conference 2018edit
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today is showing a new 1U system that supports up to 1 Petabyte (PB) of all-flash NVMe™ (Non-Volatile Memory Express) storage via 32 Intel® EDSFF Ruler SSDs at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategy Conference 2018 from December 3-6 at the Venetian.
Publication: IT News Online
IndiaJoy day two keynotesedit
The second day of IndiayJoy has witnessed the passionate crowd gathering for another eventful day. Gamers, enthusiasts, maker from around the industry united to make it an enticing and knowledgeable experience to witness. In full swing, the day two of IndiaJoy shared amazing sessions at the Asifa CG meetup. Prominent VFX and animation studios showcased their works to broaden up the deeper perspective of CG scenario in India along with the business side of it. The CG meetup has opened up the floor for the students, enthusiasts who count CG as a passion and desire to promote it as a profession.
Publication: Animation Express
Microsoft could launch foldable ‘Andromeda’ device, AMD-powered Surface Laptop next yearedit
According to Thurrott writer Brad Sams in his new book, Beneath A Surface, Microsoft will release a dual-screen Andromeda device, the all-new Surface Laptop with AMD processor, a modular Surface Studio monitor, and more.
Publication: The Indian Express India Everyday
Anthem Pre-Alpha Beginning Next Weekend, System Requirements Revealededit
The PC system requirements for the game’s pre-alpha have also been revealed- you’re going to need 60 GB of free storage memory, along with an NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB or an AMD R9 390 8GB, among other things. You can check out the full system requirements below, but do keep in mind that these are for the pre-alpha only, and that they may very well end up changing for the final product.
Publication: Gaming Bolt
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How to Get Started with Deep Learning Frameworksedit
Frameworks can be accessed through the command line, script interfaces in programming languages such as Python or C/C++, and graphical interfaces like NVIDIA DIGITS, which allow developers to build a deep neural network in a more user-friendly web application.
Publication: Cell IT
How Intel Is Redefining Logistics Transparency In The Global Marketedit
You must remember the last time you got a damaged product via some online retail giant. At least you might have doubted the delivery guy for the torn packaging and for getting lemons instead of apple — the iPhone. Long distance delivery is usually very efficient and has a robust feedback system. If we exclude the manual mischief from the middle players, there still will be some kind of hassle in the packaging process.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Qualcomm’s $100 mn Al Fund to focus on health, fin-tech startupsedit
The investment arm of American chipmaker Qualcomm Inc aims to back Indian startups in the healthcare, mobility-tech, and financial services space, among others.
Publication: Mint
Intel Core i5-9600K Reviewedit
The 2017 introduction of AMD Ryzen kicked Intel out of its decade-long slumber, forcing it to increase CPU core-counts across the board as advancements in silicon fabrication technology grounded to a halt and with it, the introduction of new core designs that could have brought about clock-speed improvements.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 is official nowedit
It’s official. Now we have government filings as additional proof apart from the leaked photographs of Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle Tech Power Up
Intel Core i9-9900K and Asus ROG Maximus XI Extreme Reviewedit
Intel’s first quad-core desktop processor, the venerable Core 2 Quad Q6600, was released in early 2007 and instantly became a badge of honour and exclusivity for a whole generation of enthusiasts. Since then, we’ve been hoping for core counts to rise, as they have with smartphone processors, but four cores (with multi-threading) was the best that ordinary consumers could hope for until very recently.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Intel Core i9, Core i7, Core i5 CPUs Without Integrated GPUs Appear in European Retail Listingsedit
According to some recent rumours, Intel is gearing up to launch versions of its 9th Gen desktop Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9 CPUs without integrated graphics. Now, retail listings for four new models with an ‘F’ suffix have appeared on the website of at least one well-known European retailer. Intel has been integrating GPUs into its mainstream desktop CPUs at all price levels for several years now, believing that customers value the simplicity and functionality.
Publication: Gadgets 360
5 Machine Learning Job Opportunities At Intel India That You Can Apply For Right Awayedit
Intel is transforming artificial intelligence by harnessing silicon designed specifically for AI, with end-to-end solutions that broadly span from the data centre to the edge, and tools that enable customers to quickly deploy and scale up. With decades of expertise, Intel uses silicon, software, communications, memory, and storage to create the new technologies that AI demands.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Lenovo ThinkPad L390 and L390 Yoga with 8th gen Intel Core processor announcededit
Chinese electronics major Lenovo has launched the updated version on its ThinkPad L390 and L390 Yoga laptops. The company announced that both the devices will come in Black and Silver colour options and will be available for order by later this month.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Intel Unveils Revolutionary Foveros 3D Chip Stacking, Introduces New 10nm ‘Chiplets’edit
Intel last week revealed their detailed strategy about how to hold all the data-intensive workloads for devices, networks and cloud data centres. They announced the launch of a revolutionary and industry’s first 3D stacking of logic chips. This stacking will be introduced in the market after one year.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
NVIDIA RTX Cards Back at MSRP, GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti Completely Goneedit
Ever since NVIDIA launched their new RTX 20-series graphics cards, their only competition was the older GTX-10 series, especially the GTX 1080 Ti which performs almost identical to the RTX 2080 that too at a lower price. As such, NVIDIA was hellbent on getting rid of the high-end Pascal cards utilizing every possible strategy, including game bundles, discounts, and other offers. The goal finally seems to have been fulfilled.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel Fovoros and First Hybrid x86 CPU: Core plus Atom in 7W on 10 nmedit
Computer architecture is all about how much performance can you provide in the most compact system. Someone who has been (or perhaps had been) breaking the barrier since the start of this industry is Intel. Intel’s first Hybrid x86 CPU tries to do it once more. Intel has decided to integrate multiple x86 cores on the 10nm node.
Publication: TechQuila
CES 2019: Nvidia GeForce Mx250 graphics spotted in HP laptopedit
It seems Nvidia is preparing for more than RTC graphics for laptops at CES 2019. It has been reported that MX250 graphics have appeared in an HP laptop listing. This means Nvidia is planning for something big this time for the laptop segment.
Publication: Gizbot
NVIDIA Sets 6 AI Performance Records for Deep Learning Workloadsedit
Computer chip manufacturer NVIDIA on Monday said it has achieved six Artificial Intelligence (AI) performance records with the release of industry’s first broad set of AI benchmarks.
Publication: The Sentinel
Lenovo and Intel’s Much-anticipated Legion of Champions III 2019 is Here and Raring to Goedit
Lenovo the world’s leading PC and smart device manufacturer, has announced the kick-off of its Legion of Champions Series III (LoC III) Grand Finals. In partnership with Intel, this eSports competition will bring together over 60 gaming talents from 11 markets across Asia Pacific, as they seek to be crowned 2019’s LoC III champions.
Publication: Business Standard Business Today VAR India
Gamer Connect 2018 Bengaluru: Where gamers meet pro gamersedit
Gamer Connect is an annual gaming event from Nvidia to showcase the latest technology to the end users in tier 1 and tier 2 cities across the country. The last chapter of the Gamer Connect 2018 was held in Bengaluru on the 15th of 16th of December.
Publication: Gizbot
Apple Inc. device assemblers seeking $9 billion in damages from Qualcomm Inc.edit
The lead attorney for the group of Apple Inc. device assemblers seeking at least $9 billion in damages from Qualcomm Inc. said on Sunday the contract manufacturers are not in settlement talks with the mobile chip supplier and are “gearing up and heading toward the trial” in April.
Publication: Mint
Amazon Music Arrives On NVDIA Shield TV Fueling Rumors Of Wider Android TV Rolloutedit
Amazon Music a premium music streaming service from global e-commerce platform Amazon recently appeared to be expanding its availability to Android TV. The expansion turned out to be true, but was quite restricted.
Publication: My Smart Price
Intel, TPG In Early Talks To Sell McAfee To Thoma Bravo: Sourceedit
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC is in early talks to buy security software company McAfee from TPG Capital and Intel Corp, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. Talks are at an early stage and there is no guarantee they will lead to a deal, the source said. The talks were reported earlier by CNBC.
Publication: BTVI
Intel ‘Sunny Cove’ CPU Architecture, Chiplet Design Strategy, Gen11 iGPU, and More Announcededit
Intel has announced a number of major new initiatives for the design and manufacturing of future CPUs and GPUs. The company revealed new roadmaps and details of the technology that will underpin future products, and even demonstrated some prototypes in action, at its Architecture Day seminar on Tuesday at the former home of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce in Los Altos, California.
Publication: Gadgets 360 CIOL BGR
Intel plans stacked circuits in bid to regain its chipmaking leadedit
Intel Corp said on Wednesday that it has developed a way to stack its computing circuits on top of one another in a bid to regain the lead in chip manufacturing technology that it has lost to rivals like Taiwan Semiconductor Co Ltd (5425.TWO) in recent years
Publication: Deccan Chronicle The Asian Age
Intel Xᵉ Kicks the Door Open to Challenge the GeForce-Radeon Duopolyedit
Intel’s discrete graphics card for PC enthusiasts is real. Intel won’t just address the pro-graphics and accelerated-compute markets, but also consumer graphics, challenging the duopoly of NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon. Scheduled for 2020, the new Intel Xᵉ is a family of discrete GPUs targeting client-segment (consumer graphics) as well as enterprise (pro-graphics and compute).
Publication: Tech Power Up
Intel Unveils What the Future of CPUs May Look Like!edit
2018 has not been a good year for Intel. The year has been riddled with several setbacks such as Brian Krzanich, Intel’s CEO, stepping down from his position of responsibility, security vulnerability being discovered in the Intel processors, AMD capturing a market that is twice of that of Intel, and the usual struggle of Intel to make more portable CPUs that offer high performance.
Publication: TechnoCodex Tech Power Up
Intel Plans ‘Stacked’ Circuits In Bid To Regain Its Chipmaking Leadedit
Intel Gen11 iGPU Roughly as Fast as Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 3 2200G)edit
According to them, a Gen11 (default GT2 trim we assume) graphics core should offer a compute throughput of 1 TFLOP/s, which is in the league of the Radeon Vega 8, with its 1.12 TFLOP/s throughput. The Vega 8 is part of AMD’s Ryzen 3 2200G processor.
Publication: Tech Power Up
SoftBank plans Nvidia stake sale soon, could make about $3 billion: Reportedit
SoftBank Group Corp is planning to sell its stake in Nvidia Corp early next year as the US chipmaker’s shares slide, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Chinese court bans some iPhones over Qualcomm disputeedit
U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm says it’s won an order in a Chinese court banning some Apple phones in China as part of a long-running dispute over patents.
Publication: ET Telecom
Adobe, Nvidia, Microsoft best tech companies to work for in India: Indeededit
Adobe tops the list of leading technology organisations to work for in India, followed by Nvidia and Microsoft in the second and third positions, respectively, job site Indeed said Tuesday. According to the Top-Rated Workplaces: Best in Tech report, as rated by Indian employees on Indeed, multinational companies continued to dominate the list.
Publication: ET Telecom
How Amazon’s DIY chip innovation threatens Silicon Valley giant Inteledit
“The belief was that you needed some magic to build a processor, particularly a server processor,” said Andrew Feldman, the chief executive of the chip start-up Cerebras and a former executive at the chip maker AMD. “You had to be Intel or AMD — and that was about it.”
Publication: Business Standard
BOXX Introduces Next Generation S-Class Workstations with 9th Gen Intel Processorsedit
Purpose-built to optimize Autodesk, SOLIDWORKS, Adobe CC, Cinema 4D, and other applications, the overclocked and liquid-cooled APEXX S3 sustains its 5.1GHz frequency across all cores—even in the most demanding situations. With increased storage and upgradability, as well as multiple NVIDIA® Quadro® or AMD® Radeon Pro™ graphics cards, S3 is also ideal for light GPU compute or virtual reality.
Publication: BizWire Express
Intel India sees big growth from data centre businessedit
Intel India sees huge growth from the data centre business in India as adoption of cloud and AI, among businesses, on the rise. Currently, India accounts for about 1-2 per cent of the total data centre business of Intel. The global revenue from data centre is about $6 billion growing at the rate of 26 per cent year-on-year.
Publication: The Hindu Business Line
Nvidia RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Max-Q for laptop leaked online with 6 GB V-RAMedit
The Nvidia RTX 2070 is the most affordable ray-tracing enabled GPU with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory and a dual fan solution for optimal thermal performance. And now, the details of the Nvidia RTX 2060 for laptop and Nvidia RTX 2060 Max-Q for the laptop has been spotted online, revealing some of the specifications and performance of the upcoming Nvidia GPUs.
Publication: GizBot
Always connected PCs likely in India post 2Q, 2019: Qualcommedit
Qualcomm expects a new range of personal computers driven by its new LTE chipset which ensures Internet connectivity at all times to hit India in or after the second quarter of 2019 and said that it needs to be priced cost effectively – at $600 or below – to be successful in the price sensitive market.
Publication: ET Telecom The Economic Times The Economic Times (In Print)
Intel “Ghost Canyon” High-end NUC Picturededit
Intel plans to put an 8-core “Coffee Lake” CPU into a chassis with no more than 5 liters volume. Detailed earlier this month, the “Ghost Canyon” is a high-end NUC (next unit of computing) desktop which features the company’s premium “Coffee Lake-HR” SoC. This chip features an 8-core/16-thread CPU and Intel UHD 620 graphics, and a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 7nm SoC with Eight Next-Gen Kryo 495 CPU Cores for Windows 10 PCs Announcededit
Along with the Snapdragon 855 chipset for smartphones, Qualcomm also unveiled a new processor for Windows 10 laptops and PCs on the third day of Qualcomm Summit 2018 in Maui, Hawaii.
Publication: My Smart Price
Taking aim at Intel, Qualcomm launches chip for business PCsedit
Qualcomm Inc, the biggest supplier of chips for mobile phones, on Thursday pushed further into the PC market with a line of chips designed to power business machines. Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon” processor chips historically have been at the heart of mobile phones like Alphabet Inc’s Google Pixel phone and many Samsung Electronics Co Ltd devices.
Publication: ET Tech Moneycontrol News18 Deccan Chronicle Hindustan Times The Asian Age BGR
Intel 7nm EUV Node Back On Track, 2x Transistor Densities Over 10nmedit
There could be light at the end of the tunnel for Intel’s silicon fabrication business after all, as the company reported that its 7 nanometer silicon fabrication node, which incorporates EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography, is on track. The company stressed in its Nasdaq Investors’ Conference presentation that its 7 nm EUV process is de-linked from its 10 nm DUV (deep ultraviolet) node, and that there are separate teams working on their development.
Publication: Tech Power Up
NVIDIA Reveals the Titan of Turing: TITAN RTXedit
NVIDIA today introduced NVIDIA® TITAN RTX™, the world’s most powerful desktop GPU, providing massive performance for AI research, data science and creative applications. Driven by the new NVIDIA Turing™ architecture, TITAN RTX — dubbed T-Rex — delivers 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance.
Publication: Gaming Central
Qualcomm Invades Deeper into Intel’s Stronghold of Business PCs with Snapdragon 8CXedit
After two days of extensive announcements around 5G and premium mobile chipset, Qualcomm unveiled the next big thing for Connected PCs, the new Snapdragon 8CX compute platform. Unlike the previous three chipsets, the Snapdragon 835, the Snapdragon 845 and the Snapdragon 850, the Snapdragon 8CX is designed specifically for the PCs.
Publication: TechPP
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 and 2080 Mobile Could Make an Appearance at CES 2019edit
With NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 20-series having already released for desktops, it was only a matter of time until laptops got the RTX treatment as well.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080, and GeForce RTX 2070 With Real-Time Ray Tracing Launchededit
After long months of speculation and multiple leaks and teasers over the past few weeks, Nvidia has released its next generation of consumer GPUs for gamers. Calling it the biggest generational leap in the history of the company, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the new GeForce RTX series of GPUs and the RTX platform for game development at a pre-show event just ahead of the 2018 Gamescom trade fair in Cologne, Germany.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Leaked Roadmap Shows Intel’s Ghost Canyon X NUC Could Have 8-Core 16-Thread CPUedit
Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) systems have always offered a great deal of performance in a tiny form factor. Their current lineup which consists of Hades Canyon features Intel’s 8th generation of processors and depending on model can also feature an AMD Radeon RX VEGA M graphics processor, that said, the vast majority of units utilize Intel’s integrated graphics.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Nvidia Open-sources PhysX SDK Under BSD licenseedit
Nvidia has released its physics simulation engine, PhysX, on GitHub under an open source BSD license for developers to advance the capabilities of various applications. The PhysX SDK is a scalable multi-platform game physics solution supporting a wide range of devices, from smartphones to high-end multicore CPUs and GPUs.
Publication: Open Source for U
Nvidia Titan RTX, Turing-Based GPU for AI Research, With 24GB GDDR6 RAM Launched in India at Rs. 2,24,000edit
Shortly after rolling the first high-end gaming GPUs based on its new Turing architecture Nvidia has announced its next ultra-high-end Titan-series offering. The new Nvidia Titan RTX GPU is a somewhat beefier version of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, using the same TU102 GPU but without any of its hardware disabled. It will also feature a whopping 24GB of high-speed GDDR6 RAM.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Qualcomm’s 7nm Snapdragon 855 is now official with improved imaging and efficiencyedit
Just yesterday, an early leak revealed that Qualcomm’s next major Snapdragon chip would be called the Snapdragon 855. Low and behold, Qualcomm made the announcement today. Previous rumors suggested that the new chip would not be called the “Snapdragon 8150”, and this is now confirmed to be true.
Publication: GSM Arena
Desktop CPUsedit
Desktop processors have come a ridiculously long way over 2018. Both AMD and Intel have pushed the envelope this year. CPUs had been Intel’s home ground for years before the two companies began competing with each other.
Publication: Digit
International job offers surge at IITs, Microsoft offers highest package at Rs 1.5 Credit
While Microsoft has roped in the cream of the tech campus at IIT Roorkee making 31 offers, Intel and EXL have turned out to be the top recruiters at IIT Kharagpur with 29 and 35 offers each.
Publication: YourStory
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Leaked Hours Before Official Announcementedit
Qualcomm is all set to lift the covers from the company’s next flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 855, what we have known as the Snapdragon 8150 in the rumors phase, at an event in Hawaii later today.
Publication: Beebom
Acer Predator Helios 500 (AMD Config): Ryzen & Vega Impressedit
What happens when you pack a second-gen Ryzen desktop CPU and Vega 56 graphics inside a mostly well-designed laptop housing like Acer’s Predator Helios 500–which we reviewed earlier this year packing an Intel Core i9-8950HK CPU and Nvidia GTX…
Publication: Technology Everyday
Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 review: A solid rival to Microsoft Surface Proedit
When it comes to mini work stations, 2-in-1 notepads are the most liked by millennials. Especially for writing or quick note-taking in class, notepads are becoming a need for students, corporate professionals and workaholics of today’s time. If you are looking for a light, all-purpose and portable computer for use on the go, the new Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 fits just right for you.
Publication: Business Standard
NVIDIA unveils $2,500 RTX TITAN Turing-based graphics card with 24 GB of VRAMedit
Most of the top SKUs in NVIDIA’s RTX 2000 series of cards are out with their announcement at GAMESCOM 2018. What remained was the flagship TITAN card and the mid-range 2060 and 2050 graphics cards. Most of us expected the TITAN RTX to be unveiled at CES but NVIDIA decided to make good of the hype-vacuum and unveil the TITAN RTX today. Like previous TITAN cards, the TITAN RTX is aimed at workstation loads but it’s very likely that we will see it on gaming rigs in the coming months.
Publication: Digit
Qualcomm’s Upcoming Flagship Chipset Won’t be Called Snapdragon 8150, It’s Just a Codename: Reportedit
The so-called Snapdragon 8150 has surfaced online even before its official launch. Much about the Snapdragon 8150 is already known. Courtesy of a live stream by Qualcomm, announcing details of its 5G event next week, we now know that the Snapdragon 8150 is no more than just an internal name.
Publication: MySmartPrice
New Intel Xeon E Processor Tailored for Entry-level Workstationsedit
Intel has announced the release of the new Intel Xeon pocessor. The Intel Xeon E processor, successor to the Intel Xeon E3 processor, is designed for entry-level workstations that provide creators with powerful, single-threaded application performance with a platform optimized for reliability and affordability.
Publication: Finance Intellect
Intel India’s AI journey continues, company hosts DevCon in Bangaloreedit
Intel India, hosted the AI (Artificial Intelligence) DevCon, aimed at bringing together the top minds in data science, machine and deep learning, application development, and research to support the creation of AI-ready talent in the country. The inaugural event took place in the US earlier this year, and is now taking place in a few of Intel’s key markets.
Publication: Finance Intellect
Acer brings new GPU server to Indiaedit
Taiwanese technology company Acer on Monday brought its Altos “R880 F4” GPU server in India which was originally unveiled at the NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Taiwan recently. “The balanced architecture of the Altos ‘R880 F4’ enables eight V100 32GB SXM2s to interlock at their maximum speed,” Evis Lin, General Manager of Server Business, Acer Inc., said in a statement.
Publication: Finance Intellect
IIT placement season: 1,500 jobs offered to students in first two daysedit
Campus placements at the Indian Institutes of Technology are off to a great start with around 1,500 job offers being rolled out in this recruitment session’s first two days. The wave of offers in such numbers is a positive signal for engineering students across campuses.
Publication: Business Today
AMD Beats Intel, Sells Double the Number of CPUs In November 2018edit
For a long time, Intel has been at the top of the list thanks to its high-end CPUs. However, things have slowly begun to change. The month of November 2018 has seen one of the most drastic changes by far. AMD has taken the lead and sold twice the number of CPUs sold by Intel in one single month. This is extremely exciting as now Intel will no longer enjoy a monopoly and the privilege of jacking up the price of its hardware. Having a competitor which is in the running will help keep prices fair.
Publication: MySmartPrice ; TechQuila
Alleged NVIDIA Titan RTX graphics card with Turing GPU leakededit
An image of a computer CPU has been making rounds on the internet for having an unspecified NVIDIA Titan RTX graphics card. This could be a hint that NVIDIA is working on a new Titan graphics card based on the Turing GPU architecture. A report on wccftech says that the PC in which the card is seen is built by Gavin Free who features in The Slow Mo Guys on YouTube.
Publication: Digit
Nvidia Launches ‘GeForce Fortnite Bundle’ With Special Items, V-Bucksedit
The Fortnite fever is still going strong and if you are looking to upgrade your gaming PC to enjoy this battle royale title with friends, then the holiday season sales may be the perfect time for it. Nvidia and Epic Games have now teamed up to bring you the ‘GeForce Fortnite Bundle’ in time for the game’s seventh season and it offers you a ton of goodies.
Publication: Beebom
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Microsoft Surface Studio 2edit
In this case, I compared the Surface Studio 2 to two HP desktops (the low-cost, AMD-powered Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690, and the Z2 Mini G4 Workstation), and a small-form-factor gaming machine, the MSI Trident X.
Publication: PC Mag
Microsoft Xbox Scarlett Lineup To Include Traditional Gaming Console Version Called Anaconda?edit
Incidentally, the internal specifications for the next-gen Xbox console could be similar to those of the next PlayStation console. This is because both the competing consoles are sourcing core components, including processors and GPUs, from AMD.
Publication: My Smart Price
Samsung CHG70 27-Inch Curved Monitoredit
It features a wide color gamut and a super-high native refresh rate of 144Hz, and it supports AMD’s latest iteration of its adaptive sync technology, FreeSync 2, for Radeon-card loyalists. It’s enough to make it our latest Editors’ Choice gaming monitor.
Publication: PC Mag
Dell 27 Gaming Monitor (S2719DGF)edit
While the S2719DGF has a native 144Hz refresh rate, a mere 1-millisecond pixel response, and support for AMD FreeSync adaptive-sync technology, it lacks HDR support and has a relatively low contrast ratio.
Publication: PC Mag
Samsung faces ghost of technology futureedit
South Korea’s $230 bln giant is hurting with a fall in memory chip prices and uncertainty about future growth. U.S. rival Intelmissed the mobile boom. To avoid a similar fate, heir Jay Y. Lee needs to spend some of its cash hoard to catch up with nimbler rivals in AI and 5G.
Publication: ET Telecom
Most desired gaming laptops launched in 2018edit
Getting a perfect gaming laptop might be a huge hassle back in the day, but things have definitely changed now. Instead of having to pick either a low-quality and cheap or decent and overpriced, we now have a wide range of great gaming notebooks from industry giants to choose from. Laptop manufacturers have evolved immensely in terms of power and design in contrast to desktops or other components.
Publication: Gizbot
Asus VivoBook 15 X505ZA review: Butter smooth performance with poor screen-viewing anglesedit
Specs: 15.6-inch IPS, 1920 x 1080 pixels, AMD Ryzen 3/Ryzen 5 processor, 4/8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive, AMD Radeon GPU, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB Type-C, HDMI, Ethernet, SD card reader, WiFi ac, Bluetooth 4.2, 3-cell battery, Windows 10, 1.6kg
Publication: Click IT News
Dell introduces new 5000 series laptops in India, 5480 and 5580edit
The US based global computer technology firm, Dell has launched two new Inspiron 5000 series laptops in India, 5480 and 5580. According to Dell, the 5480 and 5580 are very unique and features modern technology. The Dell Inspiron 5480 carries a price tag of Rs 36,990, while the Inspiron 5580 is price at Rs 37,990.
Publication: My Mobile
Here’s how Acer is planning to tap markets like gaming and VR along with their PC businessedit
Gaming in India is expanding rapidly, with the industry projected to cross $ 800 million by 2022, according to a CII report. Today, apart from serious gamers, there is a large growing community of casual gaming enthusiasts. With this, laptop brands such as Acer are rapidly moving towards shifting their focus towards gaming.
Publication: CNBC TV18
Samsung to manufacture 7nm chips for IBM CPUsedit
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has inked a deal to manufacture seven-nanometre (nm) microprocessors for US-based technology company IBM’s central processing units (CPUs).
Publication: Hindustan Times
Apple iPad mini 5 and 9.7-inch iPad to arrive with thin bezel design next year: Reportedit
Apple launched the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with thin bezel design and support for Face ID facial recognition system at the end of October. Now, the Cupertino-based iPhone maker might be planning to bring that design to smaller iPad variants as well.
Publication: BGR
ASUS F570 Gaming Notebook, VivoBook 15 Ultrabook Launched in India: Price, Featuresedit
Taiwanese brand ASUS has expanded its notebook lineup in India with new additions to its Gaming and VivoBook series. Both the new F570 and VivoBook 15 X505 notebooks happen to run on AMD Ryzen Mobile processors and feature a 15.6-inch sized display. While the F570 will appeal to consumers looking for an affordable gaming notebook, the VivoBook 15 X505 focuses on portability.
Publication: My Smart Price Sanjeevani The Navhind Times Telangana Times Hindustan Times
Dell India launches 2 new Inspiron laptops; Check out price and specsedit
Dell India launched two new “Inspiron 5000” series laptops with Next-Gen Intel chips and Dell Cinema software for an immersive experience. The 14-inch Dell Inspiron 5480 laptop is available at starting price of Rs 36,990, while the 15-inch Dell Inspiron 5580 will be priced at Rs 37,990, the company said in a statement today.
Publication: Zee Business
Aiming to capture 10% laptop share in India in 2019: ASUSedit
The company has recently launched two gaming laptops in India that feature AMD Ryzen 5 processor with up to 8GB DDR4 memory and AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics.
Publication: Business Standard Telangana Today Telangana Today (Print) Deccan Chronicle The Sunday Guardian CNBCTV18 BTVI The Hans India The Quint The Asian Age Gadget2.in DailyWorld NewKerala.com Maeeshat SME Times Sify.com This is my India Punjab News Express Webindia123 News24 Online
Blurring the lines between digital and physicaledit
In the era of digitalisation, innovation and disruptive technologies such as AI, robotics and IoT, we are at a point where tech will impact many facets of everyday life.
Publication: Financial Express
Lenovo ThinkPad L390 and L390 Yoga with 8th gen Intel Core processor announcededit
Chinese electronics major Lenovo has launched the updated version on its ThinkPad L390 and L390 Yoga laptops. The company announced that both the devices will come in Black and Silver colour options and will be available for order by later this month.
Publication: Gadgets Now
ASUS announces exciting new range of laptops – F570 and VivoBook 15 (X505)edit
ASUS has announced the new F570 gaming laptop and the thinner and lighter VivoBook 15 (X505), featuring the latest AMD Ryzen 5 processor with up to 8GB DDR4 memory and AMD Radeon Vega8 graphics. Consolidating its partnership with Paytm Mall, ASUS will make both the laptops exclusively available on the e-commerce portal for the first month.
Publication: VAR India News18 Voice & Data Techniblogic Mobile Scout
ASUS launches 2 AMD-powered gaming laptops in Indiaedit
Taiwan-based electronics major ASUS on Wednesday launched two gaming laptops in India that are powered by latest-generation AMD Ryzen Mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics.
Publications: The Times of India Business Standard The Indian Express Digit Stuff The Daily Pioneer Gadget Bridge Digital Terminal 91 Mobiles Fone Arena Odisha TV ABP News Social News XYZ Sakshi Post The South Asian Times IANS Live BTVi Prokerala News Webindia123 Sify.com Daily World Netindia123.com This is my India NewKerala.com Price Baba
Arm Holdings unveils chip aimed at self-driving car sensorsedit
Arm Holdings, the chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group Corp, on Tuesday pushed deeper into the automotive world with chip aimed at handling the streams of sensor data expected to help self-driving cars eventually navigate the roads, pushing further into turf being contested by Intel Corp and others.
Publication: Reuters
Surface Go to add big to our growth in 2019: Microsoft Indiaedit
The Microsoft Surface family of devices has registered high double-digit growth in the Indian market this year and the game changer Surface Go is set to add heavily to that next year, a company executive said here on Tuesday.
Publication: The Economic Times
Chipmaker Graphcore is now worth $1.7 billion after raising $200 million from Microsoft and BMWedit
British chipmaker Graphcore is valued at $1.7 billion after its latest round of funding, raising $200 million from Microsoft and BMW among others. The new round brings Graphcore’s total funding to $300 million, and Microsoft joins existing blue-chip technology backers in the startup, including Dell, Robert Bosch, and Samsung.
Publication: Business Insider
Lenovo and Intel’s Much-anticipated Legion of Champions III 2019 is Here and Raring to Goedit
Lenovo the world’s leading PC and smart device manufacturer, has announced the kick-off of its Legion of Champions Series III (LoC III) Grand Finals. In partnership with Intel, this eSports competition will bring together over 60 gaming talents from 11 markets across Asia Pacific, as they seek to be crowned 2019’s LoC III champions.
Publication: Business Standard Business Today VAR India
5 reasons why the MacBook air is the best notebookedit
Last month Apple launched the first major redesign of the MacBook Air in almost a decade and while it has attracted some polarising opinions, it is possibly Apple’s least controversial notebook in the last two years. By Apple’s own admission, the MacBook Air has been its most popular notebook for more than five years.
Publication: PC Mag
Asus launches 32-inch ROG Strix Curved FreeSync 2 Gaming Monitor with RGBedit
Asus recently added yet another product dubbed ROG Strix XG32VQR gaming monitor to its popular ROG Strix lineup. The ROG Strix XG32VQR is the company’s first monitor that supports AMD FreeSync 2. Some of the key highlights of the product are Low Framerate Compensation tech, DisplayHDR 400 badge and ASUS Aura RGB lighting. Since it is a gaming monitor, it packs features like GamePlus and GameVisual which overall enhances your gaming experience.
Publication: My Smart Price
Tech and Auto Awards 2018: Computing Device of the Yearedit
The computing device space has seen a variety of form factors co-exist for a while now. You have the conventional laptops, the slim and light laptops, convertibles that can be detached from the keyboard base to use as a tablet, gaming laptops and hybrid computing devices.
Publication: News18
HP Envy x360 review: Your ultrabook doesn’t have to run on Intel’s processorsedit
The device weighs about 1.3kgs, but the metallic body feels extremely solid and well built. The laptop is sold with AMD’s Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 5 processors in India, with price tags of Rs 60,990 and Rs 74,990, respectively.
Publication: Mint
Microsoft Surface Go is Coming Soon to India, Will be Available Exclusively on Flipkartedit
With an aim to take on the Apple iPad Pro and Samsung Galaxy Tab S4, Microsoft on Saturday brought its smallest and affordable Surface Go device to India, starting at a price of Rs 38,599. Weighing at just 1.15 pounds and 8.3 mm thin, the 10-inch, two-in-one device is now available for pre-order with Flipkart, the company said in a statement.
Publication: News18
Asus TUF FX505 is a gaming notebook you can use at workedit
Asus’ new gaming notebook line-up, TUF, is here to stay. It’s a more cost effective alternative to the ROG (Republic of Gamers) series. The range has two new notebooks with improved displays, superior hardware and more refined looks. The TUF FX505, which costs Rs 1,29,990, is the successor to the FX504GE, which was launched in June 2018.
Publication: Livemint
Acer to sell and handle after-sales service for AOPEN monitor brandedit
The fast refresh rate is being increasingly coveted by players for making quick and accurate in-game manoeuvres, while the AMD FreeSync technology puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any frame rate.
Publication: VAR India Digital Terminal Cell IT TeleAnalysis
Asus ROG Zephyrus M Reviewedit
A few months in the past, we examined the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF which proved to be a very good possibility for anybody a genuinely moveable high-end gaming laptop computer. At the time, we talked about that the Asus Zephyrus M was probably its largest competitor. Now that the latter is actually available in India, we’ve it in for a take a look at.
Publication: TechXP
Lenovo V330 Review | NDTV Gadgets360.comedit
We’ve often felt that Lenovo is lacking out on an enormous market by not promoting its skilled ThinkPad laptops extra extensively in India and at extra cheap costs. While many fashions can be found in retail, workplaces that purchase in bulk get higher costs and extra decisions in terms of options and specs. That ignores an enormous variety of potential consumers – college students, freelancers, startups, the BYOD crowd, and even simply atypical house customers who prioritise productiveness over fashion or leisure.
Publication: TechXP
Dell Inspiron 7572 Review: Aims to be an all-rounderedit
A laptop is not an impulse purchase like a smartphone. It is something you purchase once, and probably don’t look back for at least next three to four years. The PC market maybe on a decline as more consumers use their phone as primary computing device.
Publication: BGR
International job offers surge at IITs, Microsoft offers highest package at Rs 1.5 Credit
While Microsoft has roped in the cream of the tech campus at IIT Roorkee making 31 offers, Intel and EXL have turned out to be the top recruiters at IIT Kharagpur with 29 and 35 offers each.
Publication: YourStory
HPE Launches Edge Platform Solutions Accelerating Business Efficiency and Innovationedit
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announces new HPE Edgeline Converged Edge System solutions. HPE Edgeline Converged Edge System solutions tout to speed the deployment and simplify the management of edge applications, enabling customers to act on the vast amounts of data generated by machines, assets and sensors from edge to cloud.
Publication: BISInfoTech
Acer Predator Helios 500 (AMD Config): Ryzen & Vega Impressedit
What happens when you pack a second-gen Ryzen desktop CPU and Vega 56 graphics inside a mostly well-designed laptop housing like Acer’s Predator Helios 500–which we reviewed earlier this year packing an Intel Core i9-8950HK CPU and Nvidia GTX…
Publication: Technology Everyday
Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 review: A solid rival to Microsoft Surface Proedit
When it comes to mini work stations, 2-in-1 notepads are the most liked by millennials. Especially for writing or quick note-taking in class, notepads are becoming a need for students, corporate professionals and workaholics of today’s time. If you are looking for a light, all-purpose and portable computer for use on the go, the new Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 fits just right for you.
Publication: Business Standard
Acer brings new GPU server to Indiaedit
Taiwanese technology company Acer on Monday brought its Altos “R880 F4” GPU server in India which was originally unveiled at the NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Taiwan recently. “The balanced architecture of the Altos ‘R880 F4’ enables eight V100 32GB SXM2s to interlock at their maximum speed,” Evis Lin, General Manager of Server Business, Acer Inc., said in a statement.
Publication: Finance Intellect
Microsoft makes highest international salary offer at IIT Bombay final placementsedit
Day 1 slot 1 of IIT Bombay witnessed the participation of 21 companies. For the domestic roles, highest numbers of offers were made by Microsoft, Qualcomm, BCG, Strategy & Cairn while the maximum International offers were made by NEC Japan, Microsoft, Optiver, Rubrik, Cohesity & Uber.
Publication: The Economic Times
Asus TUF FX505G Laptop Review: Something more than just stockedit
Asus has been making some big strides in the business of making some excellent gaming hardware with its accessories, gaming laptops and the desktops of the flagship ROG series. But what many people may not know is that the company also has a budget lineup of gaming laptops and desktops that are classified under the Asus TUF series that offers good specs at competitive prices. And it is in that particular lineup of devices that Asus has introduced new laptops and desktops currently.
Publication: BGR
Industry news
‘IT industry must adopt new technologies in 2019’edit
The Indian IT industry is going to a stage of transition with new technologies like AI, IoT, AR/VR, ML, Big Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation and 3D Printing increasingly becoming mainstream.
Publication: Telangana Today
Bucking skills’ shortage, attrition, Indian IT industry goes digitaledit
Embracing disruptive technologies to stay ahead of the curve, the buoyant Indian ITindustry made digital business its growth driver in 2018, despite facing a shortage of skills and double-digit attrition.
Publication: ETCIO
IT Industry: Expect a return to double-digit growth levels in 2019edit
Predicting the Indian IT outlook for 2018, I had written that the tightening of the visa regime and the surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation would pose challenges for the sector while the manifold increase in customers embracing digital transformation will be a growing opportunity for smart companies who are able to embrace new agile development methodologies and partner clients in the transition.
Publication: Financial Express
Changing roles of HR departmentedit
In recent years, the HR community has continued to undergo dramatic changes in its role and influence within organizations of every size and in every industry and every country around the globe. HR leaders have found themselves proposing initiatives and offering solutions that have far-reaching implications for their organizations.
Publication: People Matters
Emerging economies are doing a lot better than before in R&D output – India must learn from Chinaedit
Buoyed by a low base and a raft of other factors, Pakistan and Egypt have topped the list of countries by research output—40 countries—in percentage increase terms in 2018 over 2017.
Publication: Financial Express
Digitise or Stagnateedit
The choice is clear for Indian businesses – become digital in order to remain relevant in an emerging business scenario, as rapid changes in technology offer innumerable opportunities.
Publication: Financial Express
Warriors All: Nine Indian women super-achievers who made headlines in 2018edit
Indian women have once again proved that glass ceilings are no barriers for them in 2018! From IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath to Uber’s Komal Mangtani, several of them made headlines for their unparalleled contributions in traditionally male-dominated domains. Their rise also highlighted the steady increase in the number of women in leadership and senior-management roles.
Publication: The New Indian Express
Here’s what happened in the world of AI in 2018edit
The year, sadly, has come and gone without the emergence of a superintelligent AI overlord. And, assuming Santa doesn’t have a new deep learning paradigm in his sack of toys, we’ll have to try again next year. Still, there was a lot of cool stuff that happened in the AI world in 2018.
Publication: Qrius
Foldable screens, 5G & improved AR: Tech trends that will rule 2019edit
In 2019, expect mechanical sliders on mobiles and faster displays, 5G and smarter voice assistants, more augmented reality and foldable screens and devices that prod you to switch off from the digital vortex.
Publication: The Economic Times
How game stores are engaging gamers with exclusive offersedit
Gone are the days when users had to buy physical discs from retail or e-commerce stores to play video games. Access to 4G speeds has reduced the time spent on downloading games. After online game stores such as Valve, Microsoft and Sony, more big game publishers are entering the distribution business, selling games via their own online stores.
Publication: Livemint
2019 Predictions For The Indian IT Industryedit
In an era where advancements around technology have leapfrogged exponentially, the year ahead will see the Indian IT industry charter new frontiers, driven by innovation, speed, and accuracy. The IT industry would see enterprises move towards Industry 4.0, the convergence of Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing among others will enable them to be future-ready.
Publication: BW Businessworld
Indian IT services cos expected to grow at 9-12 pc CAGR during FY18-21: ICRAedit
Indian IT services companies are expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9-12 per cent between FY2018-21, impacted by lower deal sizes in digital technologies, cloud adoption and high competitive intensity, according to ratings agency ICRA.
Publication: Times of India
Digital transformation to contribute $154 bn to India’s GDP by 2021edit
As the world races towards digitalisation, India’s prowess in Information Technology (IT) has put it in a sweet spot. According to a recent report from online skilling provider Simplilearn, digital transformation of industries will contribute $154 billion to India’s GDP by 2021 and will create thousands of high paying jobs.
Publication: Business Standard
Internet access in India has crossed 50-crore milestoneedit
The number of internet connections in India has grown by 65% from March 2016 to cross the 50-crore mark in 2018, in line with the target set by the Narendra Modi government three years ago.
Publication: Times of India
Seven consumer technology trends to watch out for in the New Yearedit
Gadgets have become an integral part of our lives with most of us relying on some form of factor to communicate, commute, work, be informed or entertained.
Publication: Mint
Mobile: The Future of Competitive Gamingedit
When Mumbai-based Ankur Diwakar started playing games professionally in 2007, the country had little scope for such career. Today, Diwakar has represented India in professional gaming events (esports) and has even begun giving lectures in universities on how to take up esports as a viable career.
Publication: Mint
Flashback 2018: How AI and ML went truly and well mainstreamedit
AI and ML became popular buzzwords in 2018, thanks in large part to companies adopting the emerging technologies to expand their businesses and acquire new customers.
Publication: TechCircle
10 Groundbreaking technologies that will matter in 2019edit
This year we saw some technologies mature while others became better understood. What was once a buzzword is now mainstream.
Publication: Mint
The Gadget Round-up: The Showstoppers of 2018edit
Youngsters playing PUBG Mobile on their smartphones for hours, the elderly switching off lights using voice, or a family watching their favorite movie in 4K HDR on Netflix are some of the habits that were shaped by the gadgets around them. We have rounded up some of the gadgets that showed up in 2018 and left an indelible mark on, consumers, experts and the tech industry.
Publication: Mint
IT & Startups expected to hire 5 lakh people in 2019: Mohandas Paiedit
India’s information technology (IT) services sector and startups together are expected to hire up to five lakh people in 2019 as demand for freshers is on the upswing, an industry veteran said Wednesday.
Publication: The Economic Times
9 things to know about one of the ‘highest-paid’ jobs in the IT industryedit
With so many data leaks and malware hitting the IT industry, it comes as no surprise to see firms doubling their efforts on cybersecurity. In such times, there’s one role which has become really coveted and is one of the most sought-after position in the IT industry. As companies firm up their security measures, the Chief Information Security Officer is poised to become one of the ‘hottest’ jobs.
Publication: Gadgets Now
What To Expect At CES 2019edit
Key exhibitors: AMD, Ericsson, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Publication: The Techy
Coursera Outlines Top Skills For Indian Techies In 2019edit
The future of work conversation, catalyzed by the rapid advancement of technologies like machine learning and blockchain, and demand for skills in these areas, has dominated headlines in 2018. Looking into the year ahead, Courera, an online higher education platform outlines key skills that are in demand next year and beyond.
Publication: CXO Today
IT industry to infuse big bucks in automation, AI in 2019edit
It faces threats from rising protectionism, data flow curbs and fast-changing technological shifts, but the Indian IT industry is keeping its hopes high for the new year with plans afoot for big investments in automation and artificial intelligence.
Publication: The Economic Times
Technology, Talent, and Ecosystemedit
The pace of technology disruption has reached a crescendo in 2018. Society, in general, and industry and government, in particular, are spiritedly embracing digital technologies. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, and 3D Printing are increasingly becoming mainstream, cutting across industries.
Publication: Business Today
India Server Market Declines In Q3, 2018: IDCedit
The overall server market in India witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) decline of 8.1% in terms of revenue to reach USD 276.6 million in Q3, 2018 versus USD 300.9 million in Q3, 2017, according to the latest IDC Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) Quarterly Server Tracker, Q3 2018. The x86 server market has degrown for Q3, 2018 which accounted for 91.6% of overall server market in terms of revenue.
Publication: CIO&Leader
IIT-Hyderabad students get 213 offers from 80 firmsedit
The Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) students have secured 213 job offers from 80 companies during the phase-I of campus placements for 2018-19.
Publication: The New Indian Express
Accelerator looks to chip in with fundsedit
India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) has set up an accelerator for fabless semiconductor startups as it looks to design chips for products like energy meters, LED lighting, smartcards, rural broadband and IoT solutions within the country.
Publication: The Economic Times
Tech Bytes: Nasscom, IIT Madras partnership for skill development; AP govt to set up i-Hub in Visakhapatnamedit
IT industry forum Nasscom and Indian Institute of Technology Madras have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate for the future skills initiative and build an equipped workforce in the country. The partnership will help establish an extensive training programme for the next generation of potential employees for the Indian IT industry.
Publication: Financial Express
Why Indian IT firms are hiring teams overseasedit
The fundamentals of India’s $118 billion technology outsourcing industry rest on a few key pillars. Teams of engineers are cheaper here than in developed markets, for one.
Publication: The Economic Times
Global companies swoop down on Bengaluru colleges to woo desi talentedit
Engineering graduates from the city are witnessing a rush of international firms lining up to recruit them this year with salary packages of up to Rs 25 lakh on offer for the right candidate.
Publication: The New Indian Express
DreamHack: India’s Biggest Gaming Event Of 2018 Was All Kinds Of Awesomeedit
One measure of how much the Indian e-sports scene has grown in the past couple of years, is by looking at which big names in the industry are hosting local events. That roster was broadened by another entry this weekend, that of DreamHack.
Publication: Indiatimes
IIT Kanpur tops with 990 offers; Unicorns, core engineering lead placementsedit
Setting a new benchmark in placements, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has witnessed more than 85 per cent of its students getting offers placed during the year-end placements process this week.
Publication: Business Standard
Server innovation from Dell EMC, HPE, Inspur and Huaweiedit
The global server market is expected to achieve 5 percent growth to 12.42 million units in 2018, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce.
Publication: InfoTechLead
Podcast | Digging Deeper – The explosion of mobile gaming in Indiaedit
There was an interesting bit of news a couple of months back. India has emerged as one of the five biggest gaming markets in the world. I’m talking about mobile gaming. One Times of India article earlier this week shared data from the Mobile Marketing Association’s Power of Mobile Gaming in India report which claimed that three out of four gamers in India play mobile games at least twice a day.
Publication: Moneycontrol
The Best PC Games of 2018edit
This has been one of the most eventful years for PC gaming. The price of some PC components were unreasonable (we’re looking at you, Nvidia and AMD) for a large part of the year, which made us wonder whether it’s better to switch to consoles entirely.
Publication: Gadgets 360
PC Gaming Makes Up For a Fourth of Total Industry Revenueedit
PC gaming made up 25% of the industry’s revenue in 2018. It brought in $33.4 billion, a 3.2% improvement since 2017. But this doesn’t mean that the market share of PC games has increased. In fact, it has dropped by 3% compared to last year.
Publication: TechQuila
IIT Delhi Placements 2018: 22% increase in placements with over 900 job offers at end of Phase Iedit
Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Delhi just concluded its first phase of campus placements. At the end of Phase I, as many as 900 job offers were made, including PPOs. Not only did the campus see a massive increase of about 20 percent in the companies visiting the campus, 750 students have already been offered.
Publication: Times Now
LG To Expand Lineup Of “Ultra” Monitors At CES 2019edit
At CES® 2019 next month, LG Electronics (LG) will unveil its latest range of “Ultra” Monitors, including a 49-inch display for business professionals and a 38-inch display for gamers.
Publication: IT News Online
9 things employees look for in a job which you can use to hire top talentedit
Every job is not made for every employee. Everyone looks for certain criteria when looking for a job and if employers realise what these factors are, they will be able to hire the right talent for their company without spending too much.
Publication: India Today
Redesigning HR in the era of disruptive technologiesedit
The third edition of FICCI HR Conference2018 debated and reviewed as to why a successful digital transformation sits at the heart of HR and how can the HR function be an evangelist for seeding cultural changes within organizations, and embrace the future looking technologies to successfully ride the wave of digitalization.
Publication: People Matters
High-performance Computing (HPC): Worldwide Market Outlook to 2023, A $43+ Billion Opportunity – Analysis on Key Playersedit
The global high-performance computing (HPC) market was valued at USD 29.37 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach a value of USD 43.97 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 12.28% over the forecast period (2018-2023).
Publication: BizWire Express
Chipmaker Graphcore is now worth $1.7 billion after raising $200 million from Microsoft and BMWedit
British chipmaker Graphcore is valued at $1.7 billion after its latest round of funding, raising $200 million from Microsoft and BMW among others. The new round brings Graphcore’s total funding to $300 million, and Microsoft joins existing blue-chip technology backers in the startup, including Dell, Robert Bosch, and Samsung.
Publication: Business Insider
Hiring for tech talent to double in 2019edit
Companies in India will step up hiring of technology talent in the New Year as digital will play an important role for many of the businesses as they gear up for disruption.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Over 4,000 Artificial Intelligence job roles vacant on shortage of talent: Reportedit
Shortage of qualified talent in the country has left over 4,000 mid and senior-level job positions vacant in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, a study said Monday. Also, around 57 per cent of firms hiring for AI roles are looking for candidates with over five years of experience, while the average AI experience of Indian professionals stands at a mere three years, the study by Analytics India Magazine, in association with Great Learning, an online education firm for working professionals, said.
Publication: Business Today
IIT Madras Partners With Digital Firm To Design SHAKTI Processorsedit
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is partnering with Thales to design a SHAKTI RISC-V processor compatible with the highest Safety Critical standards. The collaboration will result in defining and prototyping a SHAKTI RISC-V based processor suitable for mix-criticality applications, including Safety Critical applications.
Publication: NDTV
Here are the Top 5 IT Jobs in Demand in India, Salary in Lakhsedit
Simplilearn, one of the leading global e-learning companies, released a report today titled “Digital Transformation & Future of Tech Jobs in India”. The report highlights the five key domains—Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security and Digital Project Management—transforming industries across the world.
Publication: Dataquest
NITI Aayog to organise third edition of Women Transforming India Awardsedit
The NITI Aayog is organising the Third Edition of the Women Transforming India Awards 2018 and is launching the upgraded portal of the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) on Sunday.
Publication: The New Indian Express
Mobile gaming gets more time than video streaming in Indiaedit
Gaming used to be the domain of teenaged nerds who indulged their passion on expensive computers and consoles. But thanks to the cost of smartphones and data plummeting, the action has shifted to mobile.
Publication: The Times of India
Chinese handset makers focus on R&D to cement position in Indiaedit
Chinese handset makers Oppo and OnePlus are setting up research and development centres in India to improve their offerings of localised products and services for the fast-growing smartphone market and create hubs for global innovation.
Publication: ET Telecom
Tech and Auto Awards 2018: Computing Device of the Yearedit
The computing device space has seen a variety of form factors co-exist for a while now. You have the conventional laptops, the slim and light laptops, convertibles that can be detached from the keyboard base to use as a tablet, gaming laptops and hybrid computing devices.
Publication: News18
IESA hosts Nationwide Makeathon to encourage innovation in the ESDM industryedit
India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the premier trade body representing the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing (ESDM) space, announced the winners of IESA Nationwide Makeathon 2018 in New Delhi. Sanjay Prakash and Naveen Kumar from Wearberry Soft Solution India Pvt Ltd, Warangal were declared the winners. The winning team was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 1lakh. The first and second runners up were awarded cash prizes of Rs. 70,000 and Rs. 30,000 respectively.
Publication: ELE Times
AnimationXpress announces Media & Entertainment IT Summit in Hyderabadedit
Advancement in technology, improved computing, immersive graphics and instinctive visualization has transformed the lives of creative professionals in the digital media and entertainment segment. To bring the industry together and discuss the future of technology in this space, AnimationXpress dot com is hosting a Media & Entertainment IT Summit in Hyderabad on 21 December 2018 in partnership with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Publication: Animation Xpress
Indian gaming industry comes of age in 2018edit
Awareness, innovation, corporate involvement, Asian Games and free internet- all these and more contributed in making 2018 a lucrative year for the growth of the gaming industry in India.
Publication: Moneycontrol
India ranked 5th in world on number of artificial intelligence jobs, says reportedit
India stands fifth in the world when it comes to recruiting in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), revealed a research by UiPath, a robotic process automation company.
Publication: CNBC TV18
Virtual Reality (VR) Gaming 2018 Global Market Share, Trends, Segmentation & Forecast To 2025edit
In 2017, the global Virtual Reality (VR) Gaming market size was million US$ and it is expected to reach million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of during 2018-2025.
AMD is one of the key players covered in this study.
Publication: BizWire Express
IT-BPM Industry comes together to drive the Inclusive India Growth Story at NASSCOM Foundationedit
NASSCOM Foundation hosted India’s largest Tech for Good driven conference – The CSR Leadership Conference 2018 in Bangalore held on 11th December.
Publication: This Week India
IIT-Delhi’s Design Competition Aims To Solve Rural Problemsedit
The Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has announced the first design competition ‘Rural Innovative Technohunt – A technical challenge to identify rural problems and suggest solutions’. The aim of this competition is to identify rural problems and suggest technical interventions to solve them.
Publication: BW Education
Nasscom To Skill Techies In AI, ML, Robotics As CSR Activityedit
NASSCOM Foundation hosted India’s largest Tech for Good driven conference – The CSR Leadership Conference 2018 in Bengaluru this week. This two-day event was supported by Accenture, discussing Skills to Succeed. Societe Generale and Wells Fargo also came forward to support the knowledge platform, along with Sonata Software.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Hiring of women is expected to jump up to 20 per cent in 2019: Reportedit
As per the latest Indian Skills Report 2019, the hiring of women is expected to jump 15-20 per cent in 2019 especially in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), automotive, IT, software, hospitality and travel.
Publication: India Today
Nasscom Foundation to use CSR funds for skilling techiesedit
Indian IT industry apex body’s social arm Nasscom Foundation plans to use corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds to skill techies on latest technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics, a top executive has said.
Publication: The Siasat Daily
How to develop local talent for a global workplaceedit
In an increasingly global workplace, even though the talent that HR leaders can hire and develop might be locally sourced, the skill set required is a global one. Most HR leaders are facing the dilemma of upskilling their existing employees in a way that they can cater to the demands of a global workplace.
Publication: People Matters
Innovation and Talent: Exploring key linkagesedit
The business world today is faced with a dichotomic and a fairly ubiquitous problem. In recent years, the performance of the latest technologies relative to their costs has improved substantially.
Publication: People Matters
Data Science Skills Study 2018 – By AIM And Great Learningedit
Data Science is an emerging field which is now being integrated with industries across all sectors. This year Analytics India Magazine, in association with Great Learning, decided to find out what goes on behind the making of a good Data Scientist. We spent a lot of time finding out the tools and techniques used by these new technology professionals.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Urjit Patel resigns as RBI Governoredit
Citing personal reasons, Urjit Patel has resigned as the Reserve Bank of India. His resignation comes against the backdrop of increasing tensions between the Finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India. Urjit Patel, 55, who took over as the 24th Governor of the central bank on September 5, 2016, had the shortest tenure since the year 1992.
Publication: The Economic Times
India Inc looks at wider LGBTQ inclusionedit
LGBTQ inclusion in workplaces is gradually gaining traction, but with less than 100 out and proud transgender people employed in India Inc, organisations are waking up to the need of trans-specific policies given the distinct challenges they face at the workplace.
Publication: The Economic Times
Companies’ gender diversity drive yet to bear fruitedit
The share of women in corporate India’s headcount is stuck at an average 20% for the past five years, an indication that the gender diversity drives some of the top companies may have not yet delivered the desired results.
Publication: The Economic Times
Niti Aayog, IIT developing Indian-language botedit
An Indian avatar of Amazon Alexa or Google Home could soon be interacting with users in 18 languages. NITI Aayog is collaborating with academia and private players to develop a voice interface that can be used by India’s billion-plus population to address day-to-day issues related to agriculture, skills, health or education. Many ecommerce companies have shown interest in such a product.
Publication: The Economic Times
Information Technology Ministry Launches National Challenge For School Studentsedit
Ministry of Electronics and IT, yesterday, launched a National Challenge for Youths, “Ideate for India – Creative Solutions using Technology”. The Challenge launched by Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Electronics & IT, Law & Justice will provide a platform to school students to become solution creators for the problems they see around them and their communities.
Publication: BW Education
Life lessons learned from gamingedit
Crediting his ability to think outside the box and on his feet to gaming, Ashwin N feels that gaming has helped him in many ways. The 26-year-old engineering graduate, currently working as a senior quality analyst in Costrategix Technologies in Bengaluru, started his gaming journey with Dave and Prince Megahit.
Publication: The New Indian Express
Indian gaming industry is on a boom. These numbers are proofedit
The overall gaming industry in India, pegged at Rs 5,540 crore (FY19), is poised for high growth, with a likely 22.1% CAGR taking it to Rs 11,880 crore by 2023, as per KPMG India. Both Indian and international gaming players are now eyeing the space in India. Consider how Ronnie Screwvala’s U-Sports hosted a gaming convention early this year.
Publication: Financial Express
IGDC 2018 announces awards for innovative Indian game IP creatorsedit
The India Game Developer Conference (IGDC) announced 5 winners under different categories for creating original Indian Game IP’s at the just concluded 10 th anniversary edition of IGDC Conference competition held during December 4-6 at Indiajoy 2018 Media and Digital Entertainment Expo in Hyderabad.
Publication: Times of India Telangana Today International Business Times
Hackathons to hire top talent growing steadily: reportedit
In a quest for good talent, use of hackathons across industries including technology and IT, manufacturing among others is growing steadily, with42 per cent companies conducting such events at least once a year, according to a report.
Publication: Business Standard
Umbrellas & LCDs to Microchips Made in China’s Going High Endedit
US sought the arrest of the CFO of Chinese tech giant Huawei for alleged violations of American sanctions of Iran, but commentators have pointed out that the move is backlit by the Donald Trump administrations’ crackdown on Chinese companies over suspected US intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers.
Publication: The Times of India
IIT-M sees record offers in Phase I of placement seasonedit
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), has recorded the highest number of offers it has received in the first phase of placement season which concluded Saturday. As many as 888 offers were made by 195 companies, including the 136 pre-placement offers, taking the total number of offers to 1,024, a press release said.
Publication: The Hans India
Nasscom meet to focus on CSR trends in IT industryedit
Indian IT industry apex body’s social arm Nasscom Foundation will host a conference here on December 10-11 to discuss corporate social responsibility (CSR) trends in IT industry. “The CSR Leadership Conference will discuss innovative approaches to CSR and help create a roadmap to a new, developed and inclusive India,” the Nasscom Foundation said in a statement here.
Publication: Vishva Times
IIT Kharagpur sets record: 1,000 offers in 6 days; 20% more than last yearedit
Led by Information Technology (IT) and core companies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) has clocked 1000 job offers in record time of merely six days this year. At the end of the sixth day of the final placement process that began on December 1, IIT-KGP had bagged in all 1012 offers from 112 companies.
Publication: CNBC TV18
Unite India 2018 concludes in Hyderabad: Unity targets 1 billion more devices for 2019edit
Unity Technologies concluded its second edition of Unite India in Hyderabad. The event was hosted in collaboration with the Government of Telangana under India Joy that happens to be India’s biggest Gaming and Entertainment Expo.
Publication: Financial Express
Indian institutes are helping MNCs work towards R&D breakthroughsedit
In an evolving win-win-win model, foreign firms are collaborating with the research arms of Indian institutions to find solutions to the technical and market-related problems they face. The companies get fresh perspective, and even solutions; the institutes get a boost in investments and image; and the students get to work on real-world challenges, and network at a whole new level.
Publication: Hindustan Times
Over 12,000 people got jobs in five yearsedit
Over 12,000 applicants registered unemployed were provided jobs over the last five years in Uttarakhand, the state assembly was told Wednesday.
Publication: Business Standard
ER&D business shows faster growth than IT services in Indian companiesedit
Engineering services revenue of seven Indian companies shows the segment has grown at more than double the pace of the traditional software services business in the first nine months of 2018.
Publication: ET Tech
Rana pats story telling abilities of Indiansedit
Arriving straight from Japan for a fire chat session at Indiajoy-2018 in Hyderabad, Rana Daggubati highlighted how we (Indians) have the storytelling ability rooted in our culture and it is valued internationally both in the West and the East.
Publication: The Hans India India TV
‘IndiaJoy 2018’ opensedit
‘IndiaJoy 2018’, a five-day event focused on the AVG (Animation, Visual Effects and Gaming) industry got under way in the city on Sunday.
Publication: The Hindu
Unity Technologies Unveils Unite India 2018 at HICC, Hyderabadedit
Unity Technologies, in collaboration with Government of Telangana today launched its second edition of two-day annual developer conference- Unite India 2018. The conference witnessed more than 1200 delegates on day 1 with sessions spread across industrial, gaming and education by Unity and its partners. Companies like Dell, Intel, Deloitte, Tech Mahindra, Tata Elxsi, Autodesk, Mindbox participated and spoke on the occasion with the audience.
Publication: TechGig
Gaming no longer niche, it’s mainstream entertainmentedit
Thanks to telcos like Reliance Jio and handset makers, who are coming up with quality smartphones models even at the entry level, the gaming industry in India has witnessed 3X-5X rise in user base in 2018 and is emerging as a said industry experts at the India Game Developers Conference (IGDC), formerly known NASSCOM Game Developers here on Wednesday.
Publication: The Times of India
Gaming Graphics Card Market is set for a Potential Growth Worldwide: Excellent Technology Trends with Business Analysis by 2025edit
A new research document is added in HTF MI database of 123 pages, titled as ‘Global Gaming Graphics Card Market Report 2018’ with detailed analysis, Competitive landscape, forecast and strategies. The study covers geographic analysis that includes regions like North America, South America, Asia, Other Country and important players/vendors such as Nvidia, AMD, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, EVGA, Zotac, Galax, PNY, Palit. The report will help you gain market insights, future trends and growth prospects for forecast period of 2023.
Publication: BizWire Express
Is AWS Catching Up With Other Cloud Vendors With The Launch Of New Machine Learning Inference Chipedit
The release of the chip is not a direct competition to NVIDIA, Intel or AMD, since Amazon will not sell the chips commercially, but only to their cloud customers. However, the release is an indication of Amazon’s intention of deepening its hardware muscle and their take on Google Cloud which released a third generation TPU.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
How Shakti, The ‘Indian’ Processor From IIT Madras, Could Challenge Global Majors Intel & AMDedit
Motivated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make In India” concept, a team of researchers at IIT-Madras plans to take on global-majors Intel and AMD in the manufacture of computer processors. India’s first indigenous 64-bit microprocessor was designed and made by them as a secure hardware for the country’s strategic sectors replacing existing foreign monopoly.
Publication: India Times
IndiaJoy 2018 – Digital entertainment, gaming and media expo kicks-off in Hyderabadedit
IndiaJoy, a 5-day media and digital entertainment expo kicked off at the HICC and HITEX grounds on this Sunday. Supported by the Telangana government and facilitated by the Telangana VFX, Animation and Gaming Association (TVAGA), the event focuses on the B2B and B2C aspects of the industry. The event brings together VFX studios, game studios, content developers, consumers, investors and software vendors.
Publication: The Times of India The Hindu Business Line Telangana Today Digit
Supermicro Unleashes All-Flash NVMe 1U Petabyte Scale Systems at Gartner Data Center Conference 2018edit
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today is showing a new 1U system that supports up to 1 Petabyte (PB) of all-flash NVMe™ (Non-Volatile Memory Express) storage via 32 Intel® EDSFF Ruler SSDs at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategy Conference 2018 from December 3-6 at the Venetian.
Publication: IT News Online
Acer brings new GPU server to Indiaedit
Taiwanese technology company Acer on Monday brought its Altos “R880 F4” GPU server in India which was originally unveiled at the NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Taiwan recently. “The balanced architecture of the Altos ‘R880 F4’ enables eight V100 32GB SXM2s to interlock at their maximum speed,” Evis Lin, General Manager of Server Business, Acer Inc., said in a statement.
Publication: Finance Intellect
IIT placement season: 1,500 jobs offered to students in first two daysedit
Campus placements at the Indian Institutes of Technology are off to a great start with around 1,500 job offers being rolled out in this recruitment session’s first two days. The wave of offers in such numbers is a positive signal for engineering students across campuses.
Publication: Business Today
IndiaJoy 2018: Media, digital entertainment expo begins in Hyderabadedit
IndiaJoy, a media and digital entertainment expo supported by the Telangana government, got underway here on Sunday, welcoming exhibitors and speakers from around the world.
Publication: Business Standard Telangana Today Deccan Chronicle
IITs set for strong placement seasonedit
Tech giants, e-commerce biggies and consultancy majors were among the companies, which started the placement sessions at different Indian Institutes of Technology. In the first session on Saturday, IIT Madras saw 19 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Airbus, McKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Co, making 85 offers, including 6 international ones. Uber, Rubrik, Texas Instruments, Goldman Sachs, ITC, Auctus Advisors and Qualcomm also were among the companies that made offers.
Publication: Financial Chronicle
Microsoft makes highest international salary offer at IIT Bombay final placementsedit
Day 1 slot 1 of IIT Bombay witnessed the participation of 21 companies. For the domestic roles, highest numbers of offers were made by Microsoft, Qualcomm, BCG, Strategy & Cairn while the maximum International offers were made by NEC Japan, Microsoft, Optiver, Rubrik, Cohesity & Uber.
Publication: The Economic Times
How Telangana has made itself an attractive destination for companiesedit
Telangana, despite being India’s youngest state, had an inherent advantage in business. When it was carved out of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, after a long and bloody struggle, it got Hyderabad as its capital — and with it the benefit of its business friendly legacy.
Publication: The Economic Times
Chip Wars: China, America and silicon supremacyedit
The trade disputes the American President Donald Trump relishes have an old-fashioned feel. Tariffs are the principal weapons. Old-economy markets, from cars to steel, are the main battlefields. Farmers and factories preoccupy the president. And his personal chemistry with other powerful men can make or break deals. Hence the focus on the meeting between Mr Trump and Xi Jinping at this week’s G20 summit, which is taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Publication: Financial Express Financial Express (in print)
High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) Global Market Trends, Growth, Opportunities, Top Key Players and Forecast to 2023edit
High performance computing cluster is defined as an addition of processes for delivering higher and efficient performance as compared to other desktop workstation or computer. It helps the companies to solve problems related to engineering, business, or science. Cluster computing help to solve problems of recurring and complex operations as individual nodes work together and hence can solve problem more efficiently than one computer.
Publication: BizWire Express
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