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Women in Tech: AMD India’s Jaya Jagdish says women should be vocal about pay hikes (Proactive)edit
When it comes to women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the numbers do not tell a promising tale. Across the world, there are not only fewer women in science and technology, but those in India are likely to be paid 30% less than men for highly skilled occupations. In an interview to TNM, Jaya Jagadish, India engineering lead and corporate vice president for Silicon Design Engineering at AMD India Private Limited, spoke to TNM about her experience of being a woman in a leadership position in technology.
Publication: The News Minute
AMD brand mentions
VR headset dives deeper on immersionedit
To navigate, the Reverb comes with two Bluetooth-powered motion controllers. The headset also has connections for a DisplayPort, a USB 3.0 slot, and 3.5mm headphone jack. However, to use the headset, you’ll need a PC with a powerful graphics card.
For the pro version, HP recommends a system with an Nvidia GTX1080, Nvidia Quadro P5200, or AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 GPU. The pro version will offer a 0.6-metre cable that can attach to HP’s wearable VR backpack, a $2,000+ PC you can strap to your body.
Publication: ET Panache (The Economic Times)
Stadia Will Not Support Game Downloads For Offline Playback, Confirms Googleedit
The service will leverage Google’s massive infrastructure of data centers – that will in turn be powered by a custom AMD chip capable of churning out 10.7 GPU teraflops (for some perspective, the most powerful gaming console in the world, the Xbox One X maxes out at 6 teraflops) – simply put, Stadia is the most powerful gaming ring in the world. Not to mention, the most ambitious.
Publication: Republic World
Nvidia RTX graphics cards to lose their ray-tracing exclusivityedit
Nvidia’s original message when RTX GPUs first released was essentially “here’s a new feature available exclusively on our new RTX series”. And the gaming world might have been inclined to go with Nvidia’s message of ray tracing exclusivity if not for Crytek’s stunning ray tracing demo running on AMD’s Radeon Vega 56 GPU: Quite the coincidence. Nvidia’s new message seems to be, “GTX owners can also have some ray tracing”.
Publication: Money Control
Asus introduces TUF Gaming FX505DY, FX705DY laptops in Indiaedit
The major highlights of the new gaming laptops are the new AMD Ryzen 5 3550H processor. The chipset comes with four cores and eight threads. The TUF Gaming FX505DY gaming laptop equips a 15.6-inch Full HD display with a screen resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels. The display features a 60Hz screen refresh rate. The TUF Gaming FX705DY is equipped with a 17.3-inch Full HD display with 60Hz refresh rate.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age, The Mobile Indian, Techlomedia, FoneArena, CIOL, Firstpost, VAR India, Gizbot, iGyaan, Digit, 91 Mobiles, NDTV Gadgets, Digital Terminal, Mobile Scout, Compare Raja
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Nvidia RTX graphics cards to lose their ray-tracing exclusivityedit
Nvidia’s original message when RTX GPUs first released was essentially “here’s a new feature available exclusively on our new RTX series”. And the gaming world might have been inclined to go with Nvidia’s message of ray tracing exclusivity if not for Crytek’s stunning ray tracing demo running on AMD’s Radeon Vega 56 GPU: Quite the coincidence. Nvidia’s new message seems to be, “GTX owners can also have some ray tracing”.
Publication: Money Control
Asus ROG Strix SCAR II GL504 Review: The good turns better along with RTX poweredit
Republic of Gamers (ROG), the sub-brand of Taiwanese company Asus has just updated its existing ROG Strix Scar II and Hero II of gaming laptops with new hardware. The company launched the updated lineup of its laptops along with a few new models at the beginning of the month. The highlight of the recently launched lineup was general improvements to the device after user feedback along with the addition of new hardware including the much anticipated jumpy to Nvidia RTX GPU cards along with the latest H series Coffee Lake processors from Intel.
Publication: BGR
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Asus ROG Strix SCAR II GL504 Review: The good turns better along with RTX poweredit
Republic of Gamers (ROG), the sub-brand of Taiwanese company Asus has just updated its existing ROG Strix Scar II and Hero II of gaming laptops with new hardware. The company launched the updated lineup of its laptops along with a few new models at the beginning of the month. The highlight of the recently launched lineup was general improvements to the device after user feedback along with the addition of new hardware including the much anticipated jumpy to Nvidia RTX GPU cards along with the latest H series Coffee Lake processors from Intel.
Publication: BGR
Asus introduces TUF Gaming FX505DY, FX705DY laptops in Indiaedit
The major highlights of the new gaming laptops are the new AMD Ryzen 5 3550H processor. The chipset comes with four cores and eight threads. The TUF Gaming FX505DY gaming laptop equips a 15.6-inch Full HD display with a screen resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels. The display features a 60Hz screen refresh rate. The TUF Gaming FX705DY is equipped with a 17.3-inch Full HD display with 60Hz refresh rate.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age, The Mobile Indian, Techlomedia, FoneArena, CIOL, Firstpost, VAR India, Gizbot, iGyaan, Digit, 91 Mobiles, NDTV Gadgets, Digital Terminal, Mobile Scout, Compare Raja
Industry news
Artificial Intelligence and Lawedit
Confluence 2019, organised jointly by IFIM Law School and IFIM Business School was the melting pot of ideas, information and insights about artificial intelligence, related laws and how the future looks with it.
Publication: The Economic Times
Stadia Will Not Support Game Downloads For Offline Playback, Confirms Googleedit
The service will leverage Google’s massive infrastructure of data centers – that will in turn be powered by a custom AMD chip capable of churning out 10.7 GPU teraflops (for some perspective, the most powerful gaming console in the world, the Xbox One X maxes out at 6 teraflops) – simply put, Stadia is the most powerful gaming ring in the world. Not to mention, the most ambitious.
Publication: Republic World
Alibaba Cloud Outlines Strategic Upgrade after a Decade of Successedit
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and data intelligence arm of Alibaba Group, unveiled at its Beijing Summit the new strategy to develop the company into a more technologically inclusive platform. Jeff Zhang, President of Alibaba Cloud and Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Group, for the first time elaborated publicly on the strategic upgrade of the business, evolving to serve as a key component of the Alibaba Business Operating System, and empowering customers and ecosystem partners to win in the digital era.
Publication: SME Channels
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