December 13, 2018

AMD specific news

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 brand mentions

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

But Jack Gold, an analyst with J.Gold Associates, said the technology will also help Intel move faster against rivals like Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) which are using TSMC’s technology.

Publication: BTVI Firstpost

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

Competition in news

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

But Jack Gold, an analyst with J.Gold Associates, said the technology will also help Intel move faster against rivals like Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) which are using TSMC’s technology.

Publication: BTVI Firstpost

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

Partner in news

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

Industry news

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

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