AMD specific news
HP integrates AMD’s Ryzen chips into small business notebooksedit
HP is transferring its small business notebooks onto AMD’s Ryzen quad-core processors platforms. The Probook 445 G6 and ProBook 455 G6 rely on the current gen’s mix of 8th Gen Intel Core i CPUs and AMD A10-series APUs. HP is planning to move onto the Ryzen and its Pro APUs.
Publication: TechQuila
Multiple OEMs/ODMs to Deny Support for AMD 7nm Mobility Lineupedit
AMD has already announced its 7nm processors for the mobility market and it surely made the customers happy as this meant more cheap and powerful options for them. But there’s a catch with AMD’s 7nm mobility lineup, some rumors have suggested that multiple OEMs and ODMs are not going to support AMD 7nm whenever it launches.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD EPYC 64-Core CPU demolishes Intel Xeon in Benchmarksedit
AMD has been giving a hard time to Intel ever since their press conference at CES 2019 got over. They blessed the Gaming Industry with 3rd Gen Ryzen processors that crushed Intel’s flagship Core i9 not only in performance but power consumption as well.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Strengthens Senior Leadership Teamedit
AMD today announced multiple organizational changes focused on strengthening the company’s senior leadership team and accelerating growth.
Publication: BizWire Express Tech Power Up
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Ghaziabad: Flipkart founder, CEO booked for ‘cheating’ buyeredit
He claimed that though the website mentioned that an Intel processor had been installed in the laptop he had bought, the gadget he received on October 22 had an AMD processor.
Publication: The Times of India
Anthem VIP Demo Benchmarked on all GeForce RTX & Vega Cardsedit
Things are running much better now, and we had time to run some Anthem benchmarks on a selection of graphics cards, from AMD and NVIDIA. We realized too late that even the Anthem Demo comes with a five activation limit, which gets triggered on every graphics card change. That’s why we could only test eight cards so far.. we’ll add more when the activations reset.
Publication: Tech Power Up
PUBG Lite Open Beta goes live for low-end desktops and laptops: Here’re system requirement detailsedit
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660/ AMD Radeon HD 7870
Publication: IB Times
PlayStation 5 and Next Xbox pricing details and specification leaked onlineedit
The post on ResetEra reads “The hardware is partially true. Storage is true. Raytracing is true. Lockhart is not a streaming box. Xbox SoC codename is Anubis, check AMD’s plan. MS AI is not a part of the hardware, in other words, never heard of TPU or ASIC like it. How to implement Raytracing? See GDC 2019. Why they make a decision like Lockhart? See GDC 2019. Why there still no DevKit? After GDC 2019.”
Publication: Gadget Bridge
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Anthem VIP Demo Benchmarked on all GeForce RTX & Vega Cardsedit
Things are running much better now, and we had time to run some Anthem benchmarks on a selection of graphics cards, from AMD and NVIDIA. We realized too late that even the Anthem Demo comes with a five activation limit, which gets triggered on every graphics card change. That’s why we could only test eight cards so far.. we’ll add more when the activations reset.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Intel searches (and searches) for a new CEOedit
Intel answered many questions from Wall Street Thursday, but not the one that has dogged the company for seven months: Who will become chief executive of the giant chipmaker?
Publication: Livemint
Gaming Cafeedit
Kolkata is now home to East India’s first Nvidia certified gaming cafe. It was unveiled in the city this week.
Publication: The Statesman
Intel reveals gloomy business outlook for 2019edit
The US-based Intel, which powers connected devices and data centers, said its revenue will reach $71.5 billion with 1 percent growth in 2019 and $16 billion without any growth in Q1 2019. The global ICT industry is expecting a business slowdown after sales warnings from Apple, Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor earlier this month. But Texas Instruments, Xilinx and Lam Research reported better-than-expected quarterly results. Intel rivals AMD and Nvidia are also likely to face business challenges.
Publication: Telecom Lead Gadgets 360 Deccan Chronicle TechCircle
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HP integrates AMD’s Ryzen chips into small business notebooksedit
HP is transferring its small business notebooks onto AMD’s Ryzen quad-core processors platforms. The Probook 445 G6 and ProBook 455 G6 rely on the current gen’s mix of 8th Gen Intel Core i CPUs and AMD A10-series APUs. HP is planning to move onto the Ryzen and its Pro APUs.
Publication: TechQuila
Industry news
Global issues notwithstanding, 2019 to be growth year for Indian IT, says C P Gurnaniedit
The Indian IT sector faces global headwinds like Brexit but developments around Globalisation 4.0 and 5G technology will bring growth for the industry this year, Tech Mahindra’s MD and CEO C P Gurnani said. He also flagged currency risks, but added that the domestic IT sector will benefit from investments in digital.
Publication: ETCIO
Early education takes wing on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality platformsedit
Being a new age parent means you have many worries, not least of which is the increasing amount of time children spend glued to mobile phone screens or tablets. Some parents even use screen time as a sop to placate their kids, but many are increasingly aware that addiction to screens — from consuming cartoons on Youtube to playing animated games — can impact child development.
Publication: The New Indian Express
One billion gaming tweets recorded in 2018; PUBG and Fortnite also make a mark, says Twitteredit
Micro-blogging site Twitter has recorded 1 billion gaming tweets from people around the world discussing game titles and cheering on their favourite esports teams in 2018.
Publication: Times Now
Three Tech Firms Win the #CycleToWork Challengeedit
When the #CycleToWork challenge opened to Bengalureans last October, Rajesh Bhujannavar, a 50-year-old management professional who had never cycled to work before, wanted to be a part of it.
Publication: The Economic Times
Five learning and development predictions for 2019edit
The trick of the game of life is to turn hindsight into foresight to reveal the insight. The foresight is more about strategically minimizing the surprises than trying to intuit the ambiguous future. Change has never stung the socio-economic dynamics so severely, like in the past two decades. Cell phones were a rarity in 1998, driver-less cars were unheard of, and the internet was only just catching up. Survival of the fittest has never been so befitting and it only gets fiercer from here.
Publication: People Matters
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