March 6, 2019

AMD specific news

Women Leaders Should Challenge The Status Quo: Jaya Jagadish (PROACTIVE)edit

Women may still be a minority in tech, but as their power rises, so does their responsibility and visibility. Jaya JagadishIndia Engineering Lead and CVP, Silicon Design Engineering at AMD India is one such successful leader who has been instrumental in driving AMD’s India as well as global growth. In an exclusive interaction with CXOToday, Jagadish talks about her career journey, challenges faced by women leaders in the IT industry, changes in the CIO role and how women can make their mark in IT domain.

Publication: CXOToday

AMD Radeon VII – Shooting for the stars (PROACTIVE)edit

A surprise announcement at CES 2019, AMD unveiled to the world a flagship GPU in the form of the Radeon VII. Based on the Vega 20 GPU, the Radeon VII stood out because of the process shrink as well as the competitive pricing.

Publication: Digit

AMD brand mentions

MSI X470 and B450 Motherboards Receive BIOS Support for Upcoming Athlon “Raven Ridge” Processorsedit

MSI, the world leading motherboard brand, is proudly to release BIOS updates to support the upcoming AMD Raven Ridge processors, including AMD Athlon 200GE, 220GE, and 240GE APUs. The updated BIOS version is prepared to support the future AMD Athlon 200GE, 220GE, and 240GE APUs and also the current Athlon APUs which have launched last year. MSI strongly recommends its users to update their systems by downloading and applying the latest BIOS.

Publication: TechPowerUp

Products reviewed this monthedit

AMD Radeon VII

Publication: Digit

Feedback for the February 2019 issue of Digitedit

Lastly, if you aren’t planning on getting a cabinet, monitor, keyboard and mouse, then this configuration should work for you.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Publication: Digit

Digit configedit

Everything you will ever need to build your own PC. Whatever your budget.

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G, AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, AMD Ryzen 5 1600X, AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX

Publication: Digit

Competition in news

NVIDIA launches CTX1660 Ti, a non-RTX turingedit

In light of the overpriced RTX launch and dropping stock prices, NVIDIA launched the gtx 1660 Ti, a graphics card without ray-tracing or DLSS. It offers about a 36% improvement in performance over the GTX 1060.

Publication: Digit

MSI GE75 Now with real-time ray tracingedit

While every manufacturer unveiled an NVIDIA RTX GPU laptop at CES 2019, MSI has been the first to bring it to India. The MSI GE7S Raider 8SG retains the same Intel Core i7-8750H CPU while upgrading to the newer NVIDIA RTX 2080 GPU.

Help Intel develop its future GPUsedit

“The Odyssey”,a community program by Intel will allow users to share ideas on how company should develop future CPUs.

Publication: Digit

USB4 specification released: Thunderbolt 3 support, 40Gbps bandwidth and moreedit

Intel has announced that it contributed the Intel Thunderbolt protocol specification to the USB Promoter Group, enabling other chip makers to build Thunderbolt compatible silicon that is royalty free. Additionally, USB Promoter Group announced the pending release of the USB4 specification, based on the Thunderbolt protocol.

Publication: Fone Arena Indiatimes

Intel And Qualcomm Will Offer 5G Modems For Computersedit

Consumers believe that 5G technology will initially be limited to just smartphones, which may not be the case. A lot of companies speculate that 5G support will be available almost immediately on desktops and laptops with M.2 sockets. At MWC 2019, companies like Intel and Qualcomm were found showing off their 5G modems that will render high speed internet connectivity to traditional computing devices including laptops and desktops.

Publication: iGyaan

USB4 adopts Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 architecture to achieve speeds of up to 40 Gbpsedit

USB4 is expected to increase maximum data transfer speeds to 40 Gbps over 20 Gbps offered by USB 3.2. The new standard is based on Intel’s Thunderbolt protocol that Intel has contributed to the USB Promoter Group royalty free. The new interface will use USB Type-C connectors and will maintain backwards compatibility with USB 2.0, USB 3.2 and Thunderbolt 3 interfaces.

Publication: Firstpost

Partner in news

HP ENVY x360 (2018) Reviewedit

The ENVY x360 is HP’s mid-range convertible laptop that sits between the Spectre x360 and the Pavilion x360. Read on to find out how it did in our review.

Publication: Digit

HP Notebook 15 For those only seeking good performanceedit

The HP Notebook 15 brings with it a 256GB PCIe solid state drive. That seems to make all the difference on the otherwise banal laptop.

Publication: Digit

Acer, ESL extend partnership in e-sport sponsorshipedit

Acer has signed contracts with e-sport tournament organizer ESL to extend their partnerships for three years with Acer to support all four annual Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) events and serve as the sole supplier of the events’ PC hardware.

Publication: Digitimes

Mo power, mo battery, mo expensiveedit

Microsoft’s original Surface Laptop – its long-overdue entry into the notebook market but this time maybe the Surface Laptop 2 can close the distance on the 13in MacBook. By and large, little has really changed here.

Publication: Stuff

Industry news

Here’s why this gaming PC costs as much as a Mercedesedit

Even when it comes to the top-of-the-line, best of the best gadgets, a pertinent question has to be asked about their price: how much is too much? Take the case of a gaming PC.

Publication: Gadgets Now

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