US-based Micron and Intel India Technology Pvt Ltd recruited the highest number students with each picking up 26 candidates. Citibank issued offers to 23 students, Microsoft to 22 students and Qualcomm to 21 students.

Publication: India Finance News

Chipmaker Intel is looking to drive growth and expand its cloud capabilities in India by using gaming, artificial intelligence and data centres, a report in Business Standard stated.

Publication: TechCircle

In a recent earnings conference call, Intel admitted that overcoming the CPU shortage will take until Q3 2019, despite an investment of $1.5 billion in an effort to increase the production capacity. The shortage has plagued the entire PC market since the second half of last year.

Publication: Gaming Monk

A while back Intel’s mobile and desktop lineups were leaked. Now, prominent Twitter leakers have shared the first details regarding the company’s 10 Generation lineup. Based on two architectures, namely the 10nm Ice Lake-U and the 14nm Comet Lake-U, the next-gen Core processors from Intel are speculated to launch in Q2/Q3 of 2019.

Publication: TechQuila

Chipmaker Intel is looking beyond its processors and chips business, and is banking on areas like gaming, data centres and artificial intelligence to drive growth, as well as cloud capabilities.

Publication: Business Standard

Consider this. There are 580 million enthusiast PC gamers and 130 million PC-based content creators today who care about raw performance as much as they do responsiveness of their PC. They require computers that can handle everything from demanding AAA games to taxing creative workloads like editing, rendering and transcoding massive 4K video—all while on the go.

Publication: Financial Express

It has a 27-inch screen with 1440p resolution and on top of that, it supports NVIDIA G-Sync in one variant and AMD FreeSync in the other.

Publication: igyaan

Intel might be looking for firms to acquire its smartphone-modem business, since it’s now officially out of the 5G chipset race, reports The Wall Street Journal. In fact, Apple was seen as the potential buyer, but that deal didn’t come to fruition as Apple and Qualcomm reached a settlement in a patent infringement dispute.

Publication: Gizbot

Vamsi Krishna, head (consumer marketing) for South Asia at NVIDIA says, “E-sports i very important as it brings a lot of awareness around gaming in the country. Apart from the professional who plays ta the league, there are approximately 2-3 million casual e-sports players in the country and this number is only going to go up”.

Publication: Outlook Business (Print)

Like many other leading notebook brands, Lenovo has refreshed its popular Legion and Ideapad lineup of gaming notebooks with Intel’s newest 9th Gen Core mobile processors and NVIDIA’s latest 16-series GPUs. Along with the refreshed models, Lenovo has announced two new laptops to its lineup – Legion Y7000 and IdeaPad L340 Gaming.

Publication: My Smart Price

After an incredibly long wait, it seems like we may finally get to see Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake processors this year. In its Q1 earnings call, Intel confirmed that the 10nm CPUs are well in development and will be revealed sometime this year for laptops. The production was started in Q1, but the notebook chips will start shipping by Q3 and should be available in stores by the end of 2019. The first one is expected to be an updated Dell XPS laptop.

Publication: Gaming Monk

The world’s slimmest gaming laptop powered by a 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 (Kaby Lake) processor and the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 graphics with Zephyrus features the Windows 10 Creators Update.

Publication: Hashtag Gadgetz

NVIDIA’s new 16-series is based on the latest Turing architecture, which also has the shiny new Turing encoder, but not all cards have been graced with the feature. The 1650, which was announced a few days ago, is still making use of the older Volta NVENC encoder, which seems a little weird as both the other GPUs in the line-up, namely the GTX 1660 Ti and the 1660 have the latest Turing NVENC encoder.

Publication: Gaming Monk

Intel Corp which had been the biggest beneficiary of a years-long, multi-billion dollar spending spree by the cloud computing industry, signalled an end to n expansion that drove record revenue and profit.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine (Print and Online)

Chip making giant Intel has confirmed the “surprise” settlement between Qualcomm and Apple pushed it to exit the mobile 5G race, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Publication: Business Standard

So far, Tesla’s cars were outfitted with NVIDIA’s hardware 2.0 computer that was installed in all Teslas produced from October 2016, a news report indicated which was based on NVIDIA’s DRIVE PX 2 platform, that is the open AI car computing platform that enables automakers to provide Level 4 autonomy.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

In order to provide the best in class technology for our consumers in India, we at MSI have already had unique partnerships with entities like NVIDIA, Intel, and Unity. We regularly host events for promoting new technology, set up technical sessions for sharing more knowledge with talents on gaming or engineering.

Publication: My Mobile

Chipmaker Intel on Thursday cut its full-year revenue forecast and missed analysts’ estimates for first-quarter sales for the data centre business that has driven growth as PC sales declined in recent years, sending its shares down as much as 7.5%.

Publication: Gadgets360

Today, Intel launched the most powerful generation of Intel® Core™ mobile processors ever: the new 9th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile H-series processors, designed for gamers and creators who want to push their experience to the next level.

Publication: Cell IT

NVIDIA today released a Game Ready Driver for Mortal Kombat 11 that also provides support for  GeForce GTX 16 Series Laptops and GeForce GTX 1650 GPUs. GeForce users will see performance improvements of up to 13% inStrange Brigade using Vulkan with this new driver, which also brings new features, such as SLI support for Anthem and seven new G-SYNC Compatible displays.

Publication: Digital Conqueror

After cancelling plans to build any SHIELD products back in 2016, it seems like NVIDIA wants a bigger piece for itself in the portable gaming market. NVIDIA’s SHIELD Experience software reportedly contains code indicating that the hardware giant may be building a hybrid tablet and laptop device.

Publication: Firstpost

As bad as the outlook is for 2Q19 and FY19 due to weaker macro softness, we think there remains further headwinds due to the increased competitive threat from AMD into 2H19 and 2020,” said Kinngai Chan, an analyst with Summit Insights Group.

Publication: Zee Business

Intel during its Q1 earnings call reaffirmed that the company’s 10nm chips are on track for deployment, later this year for notebooks and mobile platforms and in 2020 for Xeon based server platforms. The company claims that the 10nm CPUs will hit retail shelves in the fourth quarter of 2019 and there won’t be any shortages as initially predicted.

Publication: TechQuila

American graphics card manufacturing company Nvidia has launched its cheapest GPU of the Turing family yet, the GTX 1650, with prices starting at Rs 12,999 in India. This new GPU is being marketed as the go to card for entry level gamers who want a card that would be able to take care of games at Full HD resolutions. This has been launched worldwide and has been priced at $149 in the US.

Publication: BGR

Intel’s mobile processors are widely regarded as some of the best processors in terms of power consumption and clock speeds. On April 23, Intel Announced its latest lineup of mobile CPUs with a host of new features, including the support of 5GHz clock frequency. Previously, such a clock speed was unattainable in mobile devices, such as laptops.

Publication: iGyaan

Samsung Electronics Co. intends to invest 133 trillion won ($116 billion) over the next decade or so to take on Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. in the business of making advanced chip processors, quickening an effort to take greater control of the global semiconductor industry.

Publication: Business Standard

At a time when millions do not have enough food, nearly 20% of all fruit and vegetable supply is lost during production, according to the Food and Agriculture organisation. To help farmers improve their crop harvests caused by pathogen attacks, Risab Biswas, a Jalpaiguri, West Bengal-based developer, build a computer vision model that can detect pathological disease in plants.

Publication: Mint

Tesla Motors announced the development of its own self-driving car AI processor that runs the company’s Autopilot feature across its product line. The company was relying on NVIDIA’s DGX processors for Autopilot. Called the Tesla FSD Chip (full self-driving), the processor has been deployed on the latest batches of Model S and Model X since March 2019, and the company looks to expand it to its popular Model 3.

Publication: Tech Power Up

The world is moving faster towards Parallel computing – the type of computing where many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out, where large problems can be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time, with the support of high-performance computing, where the need of GPU will come in place for accelerating the computing the project. Parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors.

Publication: VAR India

Intel has unveiled the first-generation Neural Compute Stick (NCS) in July of 2017, fueling a community of tens of thousands of developers to create solutions that have the capability to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems. Here are some instances where Intel AI has been used with success.

Publication: VAR India

Breaking down the results by companies with at least 100 unique responses from employees, Intel had the highest percentage of workers indicate they had witnessed or experienced sexism on the job (59 percent), followed by Adobe (41 percent), Oracle (41 percent), Microsoft (40 percent), and Amazon (39 percent).

Publication: PC Mag

On the entry-level end of its ROG Zephyrus line, the company has matched a mainstream GTX 1660 Ti GPU with an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H CPU (one of AMD’s recent mobile chips, code-named “Picasso”). This should add up to a more affordable, but still effective, gaming machine. The result, the ROG Zephyrus G GX502, is available for pre-order today, starting at $1,099.

Publication: PC Mag

The GeForce GTX 1650 at its given price is positioned competitively with the Radeon RX 570 4 GB from AMD. NVIDIA has been surprisingly low-key about this launch, by not just leaving it up to the partners to drive the launch, but also sample reviewers. There are no pre-launch Reviewer drivers provided by NVIDIA, and hence we don’t have a launch-day review for you yet. We do have GTX 1650 graphics cards, namely the Palit GTX 1650 StormX, MSI GTX 1650 Gaming X, and ASUS ROG GTX 1650 Strix OC.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Asus is also developing a more affordable gaming laptop in the Zephyrus G GX502, which will come equipped with Nvidia’s lower-powered GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. However, the system runs an AMD Ryzen CPU. You can pre-orderit today, starting at $1,099, with the product expected to start shipping next month.

Publication: PC Mag

Bengaluru’s appetite for power and water is insatiable. The city consumes a third (42 million units) of the power consumed in Karnataka (140 million units a day), and 900 million litres of water a day, although the demand is for 1.3 billion litres. Despite doomsday predictions that the city will run out of water sooner than later, the technology capital is only taking baby steps in implementing rainwater harvesting.

Publication: The Economic Times

Intel’s own foundry business is reeling with mounting pressure from the company’s main breadwinner, the client and enterprise processor businesses, to get its 10 nm node on the road. Koduri’s GPU would need to leverage higher transistor densities than what Intel’s 10 nm could offer, given that rival AMD is already implementing 7 nm, and NVIDIA is expected to go sub-10 nm with its future generation of GPUs.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Besides Intel, Acceleron Labs and the Kerala government’s nodal agency for industry development, KSIDC, are also backing the PPP for the indigenous laptop production facility at the Manvila unit of Keltron in Thiruvananthapuram. This facility can churn out 2.5 lakh laptops per year.

Publication: Financial Express

Earlier this week, NVIDIA tweeted a video showing a laptop captioned “They’re Coming” and there have been many recent leaks pointing to new GTX 1660Ti Laptops. Today NVIDIA shared another video of a laptop with the caption “3 days” which pretty much confirms that NVIDIA’s GTX Turing Laptops will release on the 23rd of April, along with the GTX 1650. This is because if you look closely, you’ll see the GTX 1650 Ti being mentioned in the video for a fraction of second in the end.

Publication: TechQuila

Expanding its arsenal in the gaming industry, Acer, one of the world’s leading gaming PC makers today announced the launch of enormously powerful gaming desktop- Predator Orion 9000, under its premium Predator gaming series. The revolutionary gaming desktop features powerful Intel® Core™ i9 Extreme Edition processors with up to 18 cores and 36 threads and up to two NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080Ti graphics cards for ultimate gaming performance.

Publication: Hashtag Gadgetz

Gaming is getting bigger with Chennai playing its part in providing one-of-its-kind experience in this space in the country. Game Web in tech partnership with $9.7 billion Nvidia, has set up a gaming experience centre as part of positioning itself as having infrastructure with key differentiators over others. But more interesting is its discounting offer to woo women gamers into its gaming parlour.

Publication: DT Next

Intel in addition to updating its 5G strategy, also announced availability of its 8th generation Core vPro “Whiskey Lake” mobile processor SoCs. Built as multi-chip modules with the CPU and PCH dies sitting on a single package, the new Core vPro i7-8665U has identical specifications to the original i7-8665U from Q3-2018, but with the addition of vPro, a set of additional features relevant to large organizations, such as AMT (active management technology), and TXT (trusted execution technology). OEM majors Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Panasonic are giving finishing touches to enterprise notebooks based on the new chip, which by itself could be priced around $500.

Publication: Tech Power Up

US electronics giant Intel said on Tuesday it was withdrawing from the 5G smartphone modem business, hours after Apple and American microchip manufacturer Qualcomm announced they had clinched an agreement to end a battle over royalty payments.

Publication: Times Now

Gigabyte showcased its latest AORUS extreme gaming systems in Mumbai. A press event was held to showcase top-notch Aorus series gaming products including Aorus AD27QD monitor, C621 Aorus Xtreme motherboard, Z390 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce 5G Premium Edition Bundle with Intel CoreTM i9-9900K, Aorus RTX 2080 Ti Xtreme series graphic card, and Aorus RGB AIC NVMe SSD.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

It’s been just over a year since Intel’s 8th-generation Coffee Lake processors (CPU) got low-powered T-Series variants. Now, with the Intel Coffee Lake Refresh in full swing, it makes sense to expect low-power versions. Intel is readying new 9th Generation Core processors with just 35W designs for desktop platforms. The new processors are scheduled to launch on 15th of May and would be arriving in 7 Core and 2 Pentium flavors.

Publication: The Indian Wire

Nvidia has finally demonstrated how well ray tracing would work on its GTX 10 and 16 series GPUs. The chipmaker has introduced a new driver update that allows users to turn on the feature on GTX 10 and 16 series cards, despite their lack of RT and Tensor cores.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Apple Inc and its allies on Monday will kick off a jury trial against chip supplier Qualcomm Inc in San Diego, alleging that Qualcomm engaged in illegal patent licensing practices and seeking up to $27 billion in damages.

Publication: Firstpost

Intel’s Nivruti Rai on why AI is the most important technology today and 5G being a little evolutionary, but a lot revolutionary.

Publication: Forbes India

he company displayed a long list of gaming products including the AORUS AD27QD monitor, C621 AORUS Xtreme motherboard, Z390 AORUS Xtreme Waterforce 5G Premium Edition Bundle with Intel Core i9-9900K, AORUS RTX 2080 Ti Xtreme series graphics card and AORUS RGB AIC NVMe SSD

Publication: Tech2

“We are excited that partners including Cisco, Dell, HP, Intel, Lenovo, and VMWare are offering joint solutions with us”, Kurian told the gathering at the “Google Cloud Next” event here on tuesday.

Publication: The Sunday Guardian

On the journey, for the fourth consecutive year is the high-performance, gaming peripheral manufacturer, HyperX. Global processor giants Intel continues its valuable partnership with ESL India Premiership along with Hotstar, our streaming partners for the second consecutive year.

Publication: Digital Conquerer

When it comes to performance, the Scar II is no slouch. Equipped with a powerful Intel Core i7-8750H processor and Nvidia RTX 2060 graphics card, this mobile gaming machine is capable of ditching out over-the-top performance. The CPU and GPU are backed by 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSHD + 256GB SSD. With its arsenal of best-in-class components, the Scar II GL504GV offers a 20-percent performance boost over its predecessor. Additionally, Asus’ HyperCool Pro cooling system allows the Scar II to fully unleash the potential of its high-performance CPU and GPU.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Codenamed Cascade Lake (CSL), latest Intel’s Xeon processors were launched earlier this month,  but it appears as if Intel has another ace in the hole. According to reports byServeTheHome, Intel is secretly readying its Xeon Gold U-series processors to contend with AMD’s EPYC P-series in the single-socket market.

Publication: The Indian Wire

Acer has introduced two new premium Acer Chromebook lines, the Acer Chromebook 715 and Acer Chromebook 714, designed to help employees work in the cloud more securely and efficiently. Both new Acer Chromebooks have a premium all-aluminum chassis that delivers military-grade (U.S. MIL-STD 810G[i]) durability, as well as an integrated fingerprint reader, and Citrix Ready Certification.

Publication: Silicon Village

Intel Xeon processors feature major improvements in performance, built-in AI inference capabilities, increased memory bandwidth and greater security.

Publication: PC Quest (Print)

Bloomberg analyzed 2018 spending by 10 of the largest U.S. tech companies: Alphabet, Amazon.com Inc., Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm Inc. The study looked at six common uses of corporate cash: buybacks, dividends, hiring, acquisitions, capital expenditures and research and development. The 2018 statistics were compared with previous years.

Publication: Business Standard

The new model is an upgrade to the original version, which was launched back in 2017. The hybrid laptop features a Snapdragon 850 processor, 4G LTE connectivity, Huawei Share support for file transmission, and a fingerprint scanner. This is Huawei’s first ARM-based 2-in-1 notebook.

Publication: Express Tech

As for performance, Zenbook 14 comes in two variants with Whiskey lake 8th generation Intel Core i5-8265U or the Core i7-8565U. In India, you get Intel UHD Graphics 620 and discrete Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU with 2GB VRAM, 8GB LPDDR3 memory and up to 512GB PCIe 3.0 x 2 SSD storage (256GB on the low-end model).

Publication: Smartprix

Acer today announced the new Spin 3, the latest addition to its popular Spin convertible notebook series. The combination of power, value, long battery life, and generous screen size sets the Acer Spin 3 apart. Powered by Windows 10 and up to an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor and an optional NVIDIA® GeForce® MX230 GPU, it features up to a 512GB PCIe SSD and up to 1TB of HDD storage, a dockable and rechargeable pen, and enhanced Wi-Fi 5 performance.

Publication: IT Voice

“Intel continues to champion the needs of creators in their PCs by delivering the premium performance and platform technologies needed to speed workflows and enable their best,” said Chris Walker, Vice President and General Manager, Client Computing Group, Intel. “Across notebook and desktop form factors, and capability from 9th Gen Intel Core i7 and i9 along with Intel Xeon processors, ConceptD from Acer is a prime example of combining design, features and peripherals to deliver PCs to meet the highest demands for content creation at all levels.”

Publication: IT Voice

In addition, Acer has updated the Nitro 5 series laptop with the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics, a new display with a 144Hz refresh rate, and a low-latency response time of only 3ms.

Publication: Asian Age

The company has launched this product in the market which has a 17.3 inch full HD IPS display, with a refresh rate of 144Hz. This has NVIDIA G-SYNC gaming card for a good gaming experience. Speaking about performance of the laptop, this has an Intel core i9 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics engine.

Publication: News Track Live

Applied Materials, Inc. has been recognised by Intel as a recipient of a 2018 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award. The PQS award recognises companies like Applied that Intel believes have relentlessly pursued excellence and conducted business with resolute professionalism.

Publication: OEM Update

Intel revealed details about Intel® Optane™ memory H10 with solid-state storage – an innovative device that combines the superior responsiveness of Intel Optane technology with the storage capacity of Intel® Quad Level Cell (QLC) 3D NAND technology in a single space-saver M.2 form factor.

Publication: Cellit

Mozilla announced that the latest Firefox beta is now available for Windows 10 devices that are powered by Qualcomm’s 64-bit Snapdragon Arm processors. Mozilla has been working with Qualcomm on this Firefox port since December of last year.

Publication: The Indian Wire 

The redesigned Predator Helios 300 includes a sleek modern look and is powered by either up to an NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2070 with Max-Q Design, or the latest GeForce® GTX GPUs, yet still retains its budget-friendly price tag. It’s well-suited for task-heavy computing, as its high-end hardware provides the performance needed for gaming, streaming, and video and photo editing.

Publication: Click IT News

Even if the AIO were packing four Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards, they wouldn’t be enough to push many new games in 8K at 120Hz.

Publication: The Indian Wire

Global semiconductor revenue totalled USD 474.6 billion in 2018, a 12.5 per cent increase from 2017, a report by Gartner Inc. said on Friday.

Publication: New Kerala

Acer announced new additions across its growing Predator line of gaming products at the annual next@acer global press conference in New York. The new Predator Orion 5000 desktop PC powered by Windows 10 is a mid-tower targeting hardcore gamers, with Intel’s latest Z390 chipset, 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9900K processor, and features an NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 GPU. In addition, Acer has launched a massive 43-inch Predator monitor, alongside new additions to its series of Predator gadgets.

Publication: Click IT News

The attention in the chipsets and processors segment has turned to the artificial intelligence or AI handling capabilities. Qualcomm, with its feet firmly planted in the mobile phones space is now making a serious effort at entering the already crowded segment. Leading the pack are Intel and Nvidia, the former a giant in the chipsets in the PC and laptop segments and the latter more into the gaming consoles space. The technology behind this chipset is being explained as using AI algorithms to perform a few functions. One example cited is like converting audio requests into text-based ones.

Publication: The News Minute

The Nvidia GeForce GTX series of GPUs from the GTX 1060 upwards will now support ray tracing. Nvidia has made a new Game Ready Driver available for download right now.

Publication: Gadgets 360

Acer has dreamed up some astonishing PC gaming products in the past year or so, from the room-filling motorized Acer Predator Thronos gaming chair to the huge, wacky Predator Triton 900 convertible gaming laptop. The Taiwanese tech giant’s latest bold gaming rig is another laptop with a movable part that doesn’t typically move. This time, it’s the keyboard.

Publication: PC Mag India

The new Acer TravelMate P6 might look like the same unremarkable black business laptop that Acer has been selling for a few years. But there are two notable differences here that distinguish the P6 from its ancestors. First, at 2.4 pounds, this machine is astonishingly light for a 14-inch laptop. I easily waved it around with one hand during the brief time Acer let me spend with it at its “next@acer” launch event on Thursday.

Publication: PC Mag India

Intel’s ongoing chip shortage has been good news for rival AMD. Although PC shipments fell year-over-year in this year’s first quarter by 3 percent, the decline wasn’t as bad as originally projected, even with Intel’s limited processor supplies, according to research firm IDC—in part because more PC vendors sourced chips from AMD to power their latest products.

Publication: PC Mag India

Acer at their annual next@acer event in New York announced ConceptD, a new product portfolio of desktops, notebooks, Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and monitors aimed towards content creators.

Publication: Digit

IBM, Accenture, Infosys, Wipro, Intel, Cisco, Dell EMC, SAP, JP Morgan, ABB, Shell, Microsoft, FLipkart, Amazon, and Boeing are among the big office space occupiers in the city

Publication: The Times of India (Online and Print)

Intel today revealed details about its Optane memory H10 with solid-state storage. This is a big step for the company since it combines the responsiveness of Intel Optane technology with the storage capacity of Intel Quad Level Cell (QLC) 3D NAND technology in a single space-saver M.2 form factor.

Publication: Fonearena

Intel and Google Cloud have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprise customers seamlessly deploy applications across on-premise and cloud environments.

Publicatin: Bis Infotech

AAEON was recently invited to and participated in the Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. AAEON was there to discuss matters related to innovations in AI and IOT fields, our partnership with Intel in developing platforms and solutions, as well as help celebrate the launch of the Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, formerly Cascade Lake.

Publication: ELE Times

Avita Liber 12.5 is a stylish and powerful Ultraportable Laptop and is powered by Intel 7th Gen Core i5 processor clocked at a speed of 1.2 GHz and sports a 12.5 inch FHD that comes with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels,so the picture quality is crisp and detailed.

Publication: Digit

Qualcomm Technologies announced two new Snapdragon 600 and 700 tier processors– Snapdragon 675 and Snapdragon 710 last year. The new mobile platforms come with improved performance, power, and artificial intelligence capabilities.

Publication: Gadgetstouse

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), announced today at the International Security Conference & Exposition, broad ecosystem support for the Qualcomm®Vision Intelligence Platforms. Leading OEMs, ODMs and ecosystem collaborators have integrated the platforms to deliver powerful computing for edge and on-device camera processing and machine learning, with exceptional thermal efficiency, across a wide range of IoT applications.

Publication: Electronics Maker

Still struggling to get its Google Cloud business out of single-digit marketshare, Google this week introduced new partnerships with Lenovo and Intel to help bolster its hybrid cloud offerings, both built on Google’s Kubernetes container technology.

Publication: Network World

Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday unveiled a new chip for speeding up artificial intelligence work, aiming to diversify beyond its stronghold in mobile phone chips and into a fast-growing market now dominated by Nvidia Corp and Intel Corp.

Publication: News18

If you were thought NVIDIA was done with the RTX graphics cards for this gen, you might be mistaken. While AMD is gearing up to reveal its Navi graphics cards, it’s possible NVIDIA may make an addition or two to its existing line-up.

Publication: Gaming Monk

In this edition ofCMO Slambook, BE chats with Penny Baldwin, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Qualcomm, the American telecom equipment and mobile chip supplier. Baldwin shares her views on how to change the gender ratio in boardrooms, the age of smartphone addiction and the Qualcomm quandary. 

Publication: ET Brand Equity

SUSE has recently announced support for 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, formerly code named “Cascade Lake,” following on the heels of becoming the first enterprise Linux optimized for Intel Optane DC persistent memory with SAP HANA workloads earlier this year.

Publication: DynamicCIO

The development of CXL is also triggered by compute accelerator majors NVIDIA and AMD already having similar interconnects of their own, NVLink and InfinityFabric, respectively. At a dedicated event dubbed “Interconnect Day 2019,” Intel put out a technical presentation that spelled out the nuts and bolts of CXL.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Team Blue seem to be putting up pretty strong resistance against AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3000 series. Intel only recently unveiled a new line of datacentric products, and already new reports have surfaced of a new high-performance mobile CPU.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Intel has hired another of AMD’s top executives as Raja Koduri hopes to basically rebuild RTG under Intel’s banner and its resources. This time it’s Heather Lennon, who led AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) marketing and had been with AMD for over 10 years. She directed the Team Red community and won PR Week award for Campaign of the Year 2014. Lennon bagged 40 awards for digital marketing for AMD, and is widely believed to be the brains behind the PR upper-hand AMD enjoys among tech forums and the DIY community.

Publication: Tech Power Up

According to the leaked slides, the i7-9750H will be about 28% faster than its predecessor, the i7-8750H, and almost twice as fast as the 7th gen i7-7700HQ. Thanks to the architectural advancements, we can expect impressive IPC improvements. The i7-9750H could prove to be just what Intel’s mobile segment needs, locking horns with AMD’s Ryzen 3000 laptop processors.

Publication: Gaming Monk

Intel Gen11 GPU is on its way with the company’s next generation of ‘Ice-Lake‘ CPUs. During Game Developer Conference, Intel showcased a presentation slide containing information regarding Gen11 integrated GPUs. The new Intel GPUs are said to have graphics performance equivalent to 1 Teraflop. This will easily improve performance in several real-world applications.

Publication:  NewsR

The 9750K will go up against AMD’s upcoming Zen+ based mobile flagship, namely the Ryzen 3750H. We expect the Intel chip to be faster than its Ryzen competitor, but aggressive pricing and similar graphics solutions should more than make up for that.

Publication: TechQuila

Finally Intel has announced up to 56 core Xeon Platinum Server CPU Lineup to counter the upcoming AMD’s EPYC Server chips. Intel in the past few years has not really amazed the tech world yet, holding its previously gained position and so with its processors. The same old 14nm architecture is being followed and used in most of their consumer end as well as server end processor lineup.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel showcased its lineup of Kaby Lake G CPUs with integrated AMD Radeon Vega Graphics last year. Intel even launched a mini gaming PC featuring the chip, which was followed by multiple laptops launched by companies like Dell, HP with the Intel Kaby Lake G CPUs, but that was it, the processor was sort of neglected after that.

Publication: TechQuila

A PowerPoint slide from a recent Chinese retailer event was leaked on Twitter this week, pointing to Acer’s upcoming Nitro AN515-54 and AN517-51 gaming laptops will be featuring Intel 9th-gen Coffee Lake H-series processors and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and soon-to-be-released GTX 1650 graphics cards.

Publication: The Indian Wire

For anyone who’s found a good outlet through their controller, there is no love greater than the love of gaming, or so it would seem! Little wonder then, that the first Gamerconnect Express event of 2019 scheduled on April 7 in Hyderabad, is trending on Facebook posts and the WhatsApp groups of gaming enthusiasts in the city.

Publication: The Hindu

A group of 25 school students from different parts of the country is all set to go to the United States of America to compete in a global science and engineering competition organised by Intel. As many as 1800 young innovators from 78 countries would be at the meet competing for about four million dollars in awards.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

The first for-sale version of the Nvidia Big Format Gaming Display (BFGD) is the HP Omen X Emperium 65. Its forte is running AAA games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider at an extreme 4K resolution and very high refresh rates on its 65-inch screen. It takes a lot of PC muscle to push it to its limit, though.

Publication: PC Mag

The green team has been going strong in the high-end gaming segment for a while now. With AMD’s Vega line-up having a tough start and the RTX GPUs being launched, it’s hard to understate NVIDIA’s market share. But it’s the mid-range market where things get interesting. The red team’s Polaris GPUs have given NVIDIA a run for their money ever since the launch of the RX 480, and still continue to do so, with the RX 500 series.

Publication: Gaming Monk

Toronto-based Untether AI, recently announced a $13 million USD Series A funding round led by Intel Capital, to help develop an AI computer chip. It was joined by other investors, none of which were identified.

Publication: The Indian Wire

The race to 5G isn’t just among the carriers and device-makers working to roll out 5G-enabled devices and telecommunications infrastructure. The rest of the tech industry is jockeying to capitalize on next-gen connectivity in all sorts of ways, and one of the biggest is cloud gaming.

Publication: PC Mag

Nvidia seems to have amped-up its efforts of leaving AMD in the dust with a new series of Turing-based cards to replace the Pascal-based GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti. The new GTX 1650 and possible 1650 Ti will feature the company’s latest Turing architecture with improved performance from the previous entry-level 10 series cards.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Every human on this earth is creating some 1.5 mega bytes of data a day and only 2 pre cent of it is currently analysed and that means business opportunities around data processing, management and storage are really huge, said semiconductor major Intel on Wednesday.

Publication: The Asian Age

Gaming, the activity of sitting in front of a screen for hours on end with the potential to live different lives, visit places that don’t exist and save galaxies from evil lords. All this is of course a lot more fun when done with friends. With the ability to play with friends, the natural evolution in gaming has been competition

Publication: Digit

In line with the global launch of the second generation of Xeon processor in San Francisco. Chip maker Intel has introduced one of the widest range of innovations in its data-centric portfolio in the history of Intel Corp. The legacy of Xeon has been existing over the last decades for Intel, however, after a gap of four years, the company has launched its 2nd-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor. It claims to have made significant improvements over first generation processor, along with computing, memory and networking slew of products.

Publication: Express Computer

The device runs on Windows 10 Home, which can be an energy guzzler at times but thats an animal you have to live with if you are not a fan of Linux systems. That said, the Yoga 730 does a decent job on the energy consumption front thanks to its processor – 8th Gen Intel Core i7 – and an 8 GB RAM, backed by a solid slate drive (SSD) of 256/512 GB/l TB depending on the price.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Expected to launch in March earlier, the NVIDIA GTX 1650 is probably going to finally see the light of day towards the end of April. This is going to be yet another Turing architecture-based GPU launch from the GPU giant. It had earlier released the GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti, and now are targeting the lower price segment.

Publication: Firstpost

Lenovo, a Fortune Global 500 company and a technology leader in Intelligent Transformation, today announced a series of upgrades to its ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data center infrastructure portfolios, aligned with Intel’s launch of the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory modules.

Publication: Social News XYZ

SUSE has announced support for 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, formerly code named “Cascade Lake,” following on the heels of becoming the first enterprise Linux optimized for Intel Optane DC persistent memory with SAP HANA workloads earlier this year.

Publication: VAR India

HP has launched an exciting range of laptops including the HP Envy x360 which are equipped with the 8th generation Intel processors and 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen processors.

Publication: Daily Thanthi

Intel unveiled a new portfolio of data-centric solutions consisting of 2nd-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Optane DC memory and storage solutions, and software and platform technologies optimized to help its customers extract more value from their data.

Publication: Communications Today

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) unveiled the latest range of gaming laptops, ROG Zephyrus S GX531, ROG Zephyrus S GX701, and ROG Strix SCAR II along with desktop GL12CX. Committed to enhancing every aspect of the gaming laptops, ASUS ROG has powered the graphics of these latest laptops with the cutting-edge NVIDIA GeForce RTX engines, thus yielding incredibly fast displays framed by amazingly slim bezels, serving a fully immersive experience.

Publication: National Computrade News

Designed for extreme gamers, the Predator Helios 500 is a gaming beast. It features up to overclockable 8th generation Intel Core i9 8950HK + Nvidia GTX1070 8GB Graphics or AMD Ryzen 7 2700 + AMD Vega 56 Graphics. Intel Optane memory increases responsiveness and load times, while ultra-fast NVMePCIe SSDs, Killer DoubleShot Pro networking, and up to 64GB of memory keep the action going, making the Helios 500 the ideal gaming notebook for graphic-intensive AAA titles and live streaming. Top-notch visuals are delivered on bright, vibrant 4K UHD or Full-HD IPS 17.3-inch displays with 144Hz refresh rates for blur- and tear-free gameplay.

Publication: National Computrade News

Intel late Tuesday made a boat-load of enterprise-relevant product announcements, including the all important update to its Xeon Scalable enterprise processor product-stack, with the addition of the new 56-core Xeon Scalable “Cascade Lake” processor. This chip is believed to be Intel’s first response to the upcoming AMD 7 nm EPYC “Rome” processor with 64 cores and a monolithic memory interface.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Intel the largest maker of computer processors, announced a new range of server chips aimed at maintaining its dominance over one of the most profitable segments of the semiconductor industry. The company is introducing 90 different versions of the Xeon processor aiming to expand the type of work its most lucrative model can handle.

Publication: Gadgets360 Financial Express Business Standard Express Computer

Intel laid off hundreds of IT workers in US and Costa Rica last week as the company consolidated its IT operations under single vendor, Infosys, reports said. While the number of affected employees from this process of consolidation was not immediately known, Intel confirmed the development; saying it had done so taking into account the priorities of its business. “We are consolidating our existing outsourcing relationships. We continue to maintain a global internal IT team,” said Intel in an email reply. Questions sent to Infosys remained unanswered till the time of going to press.

Publication: Business Standard

Intel Corp. (INTC) said that it appointed George Davis as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective April 3. Davis will report to Intel CEO Bob Swan and oversee Intel’s global finance organization, including finance, accounting and reporting, tax, treasury, internal audit and investor relations. He will also oversee Intel’s information technology or IT organization.

Publication: RTT News

Intel announced today a brand-new product family, the Intel Agilex FPGA. This new family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) will provide customized solutions to address the unique data-centric business challenges across embedded, network and data center markets.

Publication: Tech Power Up

In 1992, a time when anyone going to the US to study was a rare phenomenon, Viji Ranganna dreamt big. Not only did she want to go to the US to do her Masters, she wanted to one day work for a hardware company like Intel. And despite opposition from her parents and apprehensions from people around her, she made it happen.

Publication: The News Minute

H2O.ai, the open source leader in AI and machine learning (ML), today unveiled the first phase of its strategic collaboration project with Intel, codenamed Project BlueDanube, focused on accelerating H2O.ai technologies on Intel platforms, including the new 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. The combination allows enterprise organizations that are embarking upon the AI journey with highly scalable, cost effective and faster path to insights by combining H2O.ai’s accelerated machine learning technology with Intel’s most advanced processor and memory architecture in order to gain a competitive edge.

Publication: PTI Business Today Telangana Today VAR India IT News Online

Aiming to empower businesses with deep learning capabilities, Intel on Tuesday launched the second generation of Xeon scalable processors, including the flagship Xeon Platinum 9200 processor with 56 cores, at its “Data-Centric Innovation Day” here.

Publication: BGR Business Standard Financial Express PC Mag  The Mobile Indian Daijiworld Webindia123 Orissa Post SiliconIndia Netindia123.com InfoTech Lead Sify Forever News

Intel revealed a few shroud designs for its upcoming graphics cards at GDC a while back. Although, these are just the skins, it’s good to know team blue is on the right track. God knows the GPU market needs some competition after AMD decided to hand over the high-end market to NVIDIA and started playing “rebrand” in the mid-range segment.

Publication: Techquila

Given that we are looking at the same chip being re-released, it simply doesn’t seem to be worth the price. The CPU is very good but only if it had been priced lower than the competing AMD product. The 18-core Intel Core i9-7980XE served its purpose and helped Intel maintain their lead in the HEDT segment since AMD’s 16-core 1950X would fall short in single and multithreaded applications

Publications: Digit

The newly launched Dell Area 51-m with modular CPU and GPU gives you an 8th gen Intel Core i9,32GB RAM, 512GB S SD + 1TB Hybrid drive and RTX 2080for roughly the same price (73,58,236 approx.) but keep in mind that it’s a hefty 3.7kg.

Publication: The Economic Times

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will organise a two-day technology conclave on April 4 and 5, 2019, at C-DAC innovation park, Pan-chavati, Pashan. Hemant Darbari, director general, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, said, as our nation embarks upon its most revolutionary phase of digital transformation, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing has committed itself to explore and engage in the avant-garde visionary areas and excel beyond the present areas of research.

Publication: Trinity Mirror

Crytek’s new Neon Noir showcases real-time raytracing on an AMD Radeon RX Vega 6A. The caveat here is that it was made using a bespoke version of the Crytek 5.5 game engine which means that not every studio can use it unless Crytek incorporates it into an update to the main branch.

Publication: Digit 

The alleged benchmark of Nvidia’s next Turing graphics card, which is rumored to be the GeForce GTX 1650, gives us an idea of the budget-friendly card’s performance. Moreover, the card will be accompanied with the 1650 Ti variant (with faster video memory). According to Videocardz, the GTX 1650 is expected to launch on April 22, just three weeks from now, which is roughly in line with previous speculation that pegged the release for the end of April. 

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

The alleged benchmark of Nvidia’s next Turing graphics card, which is rumored to be the GeForce GTX 1650, gives us an idea of the budget-friendly card’s performance. Moreover, the card will be accompanied with the 1650 Ti variant (with faster video memory).According to Videocardz, the GTX 1650 is expected to launch on April 22, just three weeks from now, which is roughly in line with previous speculation that pegged the release for the end of .April. The Ti version will follow shortly thereafter, so things will happen the other way round compared to the GTX 1660 GPUs.

Publication: The Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle

There’s no better time to be for looking for a gaming laptop than the present. RTX laptops have already landed on Indian soil with HP, Asus and Dell among the first to give Indian gamers their first taste of RTX Max-Q power.

Publication: Money Control

NVIDIA is expected to launch its sub-$200 GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card on the 22nd of April, 2019. The card was earlier expected to launch towards the end of April. With it, NVIDIA will introduce the 12 nm “TU117,” its smallest GPU based on the “Turing” architecture. The GTX 1650 could replace the current GTX 1060 3 GB, and may compete with AMD offerings in this segment, such as the Radeon RX 570 4 GB, in being Full HD-capable if not letting you max your game settings out at that resolution. The card could ship with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.

Publication: Tech Power Up

It looks like Intel is getting rather aggressive with its recruitment drive (or should I say “Odyssey”) for the Visual Technologies Team. After poaching the head of Radeon Technologies Group, Raja Koduri, Intel seems to have “persuaded” Tom Petersen, one of the most prominent (former) faces at NVIDIA to switch sides. He had been working as the director of technical marketing there since 2005.

Publication: Techquila

If there weren’t enough consoles in this world, Google showcased their minimalist Stadia controller last week. This magical new controller is supposed to work via WiFi across platforms. Google Stadia has its benefits. It foresees a future where we can see a games trailer, and click to play no matter what the actual console and graphic requirements might be.

Publication: The New Indian Express

Competitive e-sports players, who swear by wired devices as opposed to wireless ones due to their superior response times, will find streaming services a hard sell. Even standard competitive multiplayer games could be a challenge for the sheer number of inputs and streams that need to be processed back and forth.Google is by no means the first company to dive into game streaming – Sony and Nvidia already offer such services on console and PC respectively. 

Publication: Mumbai Mirror

The smart home segment is set to get even more crowded as Nvidia, according to report, mulls foraying into the space. With every major tech company planning to occupy the space, it was only a matter of time that Nvidia too would take the plunge.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

NVIDIA’s Turing based RTX cards have received price cuts for the first time since release. These GPUs launched with some fancy new features like support for real-time raytracing, AI-based upscaling, adaptive shading as well as improved per core efficiency. However, gamers weren’t satisfied with the performance gains compared to the previous gen Pascal cards and the prices didn’t really do much to help. Compared to the GTX 10-series, the RTX 20-series graphics cards were roughly $100-150 more expensive than their respective predecessors.

Publication: Click It News

We are well along the journey to Industry 4.0 – where analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) drive intelligence, decision-making and productivity. The transformative opportunities and market potential of Industry 4.0 are massive: It’s expected to create up to $3.7 trillion in value within global manufacturing. We are still in the early adoption stages, with only 30 percent of companies actively deploying IoT solutions at scale.

Publications: Cell IT

Eminent experts of international repute from MeitY, Niti Ayog, C-DAC, DRDO, IISc, IIT, AIIMS, research labs and industry like FICCI, Intel, Nvidia, Atos, Mellanox, NetApp, DDN will deliberate on the focussed research areas and provide deep insights through their synergetic ideas.

Publication: The Siasat Daily

The news of an upcoming home connectivity device from Nvidia was recently leaked online. The story was reported by Keith May from Wccftech, while he was in Caltrain. At the station, he spotted a guy with an ‘NV’ (Nvidia) badge working on a presentation for a venture named ‘Nvidia Project R.O.N.’ And from the looks of it, Project R.O.N looks similar to a Google home device.

Publication: Foss Bytes