AMD specific news
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
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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
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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
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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
Industry news
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
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