April 24, 2019

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Asus TUF FX705 review: Great screen, decent graphics card make this good valueedit

The TUF FX705 AMD Edition is easily the best value-for-money gaming laptop you are going to find in the market. However, it comes with its own set of issues that may make you spend extra for an Intel-powered version.

Publication: India Today

Ryzen and GeForce, Living Together: Hands-On With the Asus Zephyrus G GA502 Value Gameredit

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

Ray tracing: What it is, how it works and is it worth itedit

Cerny stated this possibility mainly due to the adoption of AMD’s 8-core Ryzen CPU chip powering the hardware coupled with a custom GPU from the Radeon Navi family, capable of supporting ray tracing.

Publication: IGN

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Released: TU117, 896 Cores, 4 GB GDDR5, $150edit

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

Lenovo, Asus Gaming Laptops Refreshed with 9th Gen Intel Core CPUs, Nvidia GeForce GTX 16-series GPUsedit

The lower-tier Zephyrus G GA502 interestingly features AMD’s recently announced Ryzen 7 3750H CPU and a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU with a 120Hz screen. The latter model goes on sale in some countries immediately, priced starting at $1,200 (approximately Rs. 83,315).

Publication: Gadgets 360

Here’s All the Laptops (So Far) With 9th-Gen Intel CPUs, Nvidia Chipsedit

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

Best Buy is discounting the Asus Vivobook and HP Envy 2-in-1 laptops by up to $150 for a limited timeedit

Next up is the HP Envy 2-in-1, which is slightly more affordable than the Asus laptop. The Envy 2-in-1 comes with a larger 15.6-inch Full HD screen, along with an AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and an AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 graphics card.

Publication: Business Insider

BenQ Partners with E-xpress Interactive for the launch of Mortal Kombat 11 to provide 4K Console Gaming Experienceedit

In-line with its commitment to provide ultimate 4K gaming experience to enthusiasts across the globe, BenQ associated with E-xpress Interactive for the launch event of epic-saga, Mortal Kombat 11. BenQ’s EW3270U 32-inch monitor, particularly chosen for its leading 4K HDR technology with AMD Free Sync was showcased at the launch of Mortal Kombat 11, offering gaming community a chance to experience the breathtaking HDR console gaming adventure.

Publication: Gaming Monk VAR India Digital Terminal IT Var News

ASUS GeForce GTX 1650 STRIX OC Reviewedit

Not too long ago, such specifications were considered quasi-premium for this price-segment; that is, until AMD significantly cut prices of its Radeon “Polaris” graphics cards post the crypto-mining crash. The Radeon RX 570 4 GB, going by specifications alone, would qualify as a segment higher than the GTX 1650, but can be had for around the $130-mark from North American retailers.

Publication: Tech Power Up

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How developers are using Intel’s AI tools to make planet Earth a better placeedit

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 Dumps NVIDIA, Designs and Deploys its Own Self-driving AI Chipedit

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

NVIDIA is ready for the computers of tomorrow with Mellanoxedit

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 AI solves some of the biggest challenges successfullyedit

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

Nearly 40 Percent of Tech Workers Have Faced Sexism at Workedit

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

Ryzen and GeForce, Living Together: Hands-On With the Asus Zephyrus G GA502 Value Gameredit

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Released: TU117, 896 Cores, 4 GB GDDR5, $150edit

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

Here’s All the Laptops (So Far) With 9th-Gen Intel CPUs, Nvidia Chipsedit

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

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Asus TUF FX705 review: Great screen, decent graphics card make this good valueedit

The TUF FX705 AMD Edition is easily the best value-for-money gaming laptop you are going to find in the market. However, it comes with its own set of issues that may make you spend extra for an Intel-powered version.

Publication: India Today

Lenovo, Asus Gaming Laptops Refreshed with 9th Gen Intel Core CPUs, Nvidia GeForce GTX 16-series GPUsedit

The lower-tier Zephyrus G GA502 interestingly features AMD’s recently announced Ryzen 7 3750H CPU and a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU with a 120Hz screen. The latter model goes on sale in some countries immediately, priced starting at $1,200 (approximately Rs. 83,315).

Publication: Gadgets 360

Industry news

Nearly 40 Percent of Tech Workers Have Faced Sexism at Workedit

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

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