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Open Culture is the fuel for innovators, says AMD’s Jaya Jagdish (PROACTIVE)edit
Right now, as you read, all around us new discoveries are being made, new benchmarks are being set, and the world as we know it, is being redefined. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of technology. In today’s digital age, it has become critical for leaders to address the needs of an evolving workforce and offer a work environment where innovation can thrive. In fact, according to recent reports from PWC, 79 per cent of Indian CEOs believe that creating a skilled workforce is a key priority in the next three years. It is therefore safe to assume that the culture of innovation is key to the success and longevity of an organization.
Publication: Techgig
AMD Radeon Drivers For Navi GPUs May Be Out Soonedit
Right now, we don’t much to go on when it comes to official information about AMD’s highly anticipated upcoming 7nm Navi GPUs. But according to the latest findings, it’s possible we may just get to see them as soon as next month, at Computex. According to Linux portal Phonorix, AMD may post the open-source code for Radeon Navi drivers soon. Amongst Git repositories, they have spotted commits for a new GPU called “gfx1010” in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end, which according to them is supposed to be Navi.
Publication: Gaming Monk
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7 PCs that’ll add power and speed to your workedit
The NUC Kit NUC8i7HVK is a slim desktop that packs VR-ready performance and better connectivity with its Intel Core i7 processing and AMD Vega graphics power.
Publication: ET Panache
These Monitors Are Great For Gamingedit
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
Cybersecurity norms: Securing modern enterprises in the digital world (PROACTIVE)edit
“Today, both hardware and software need to provide comprehensive security. The old story of relying only on OS and application-layer security built in by the developer community, or external tools such as antivirus protection is proving to be insufficient against modem cyber threats,particularly when virtualised and cloud-based infrastructure is involved”, says Jay Hiremath, corporate vice-president, Systems Design Engineering at AMD.
Publication: Financial Express (Print) (Online) Yahoo! Finance India Finance News
ASUS Republic of Gamers Showcases Latest Gaming Lineup at IFA 2017edit
The world’s first gaming laptop featuring the AMD Ryzen™ 7 processor, ROG Strix GL702ZC combines AMD’s revolutionary Ryzen platform with the ROG gaming design legacy and is designed to satisfy the needs of hardcore gamers and users with multimedia-heavy workloads.
Publication: Hashtag Gadgetz
PS4 Sales Hit 96.8 Million, PS5 Development Leads to Higher R&D Costs for Sonyedit
In conversation with Wired, systems architect Mark Cerny confirmed that the PS5 will have an AMD Ryzen CPU, Radeon Navi GPU, support for ray tracing, and a solid state drive (SSD) that he touted to be a “game changer”.
Publication: Gadgets 360
20 Million PC Gamers to Switch to Consoles by 2022, as per Jon Peddie Researchedit
These days the gaming GPU market isn’t doing all that well. Although thanks to AMD’s Ryzen chips, mid-range CPUs have become much more affordable now, team red still doesn’t have much stake in the discrete video card space. The Radeon RX 570 and 580 are the only mention-able offerings from them, and these too are Polaris re-brands almost four years old.
Publication: Techquila
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Intel banks on data, gaming, artificial intelligence for growth in Indiaedit
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
Fast and Furious: A treat for gamers and creatorsedit
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
These Monitors Are Great For Gamingedit
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 looking for buyers for its smartphone-modem businessedit
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
Game Onedit
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)
Lenovo Legion Gaming Notebooks Refreshed With Latest 9th Gen Intel Core CPUsedit
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
Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake CPUs Coming Later This Yearedit
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
Comfort your Level on the go with the Best slimmest Gaming Laptopsedit
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 GTX 1650 Still Using Last Gen Volta Encoderedit
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’s outlook stokes concern that there us not much growth “inside”edit
Apple-Qualcomm settlement made Intel exit 5G raceedit
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
Under The Hood Of Tesla’s AI Chip That Takes The Driverless Battle To NVIDIA’s Home Turfedit
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
Green, Chang-Ching Lin, Regional Marketing Manager, MSIedit
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
Intel Cuts Forecast as China Data Centre Sales Remain Weakedit
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
9th Gen Intel Core: The Most Powerful Laptop Platformedit
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
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HP Spectre x360 review: Power-packed performance justifies premium pricingedit
HP’s Spectre series has always been known for its design, utility, performance and convenience. The new x360 model, which comes with the 8th generation Intel Core processor, is the latest addition. Design (4/5) The Spectre x360 offers a foldable design that allows you to use the device in different modes: laptop, stand, tent, tablet.
Publication: Business Standard
ASUS Republic of Gamers Showcases Latest Gaming Lineup at IFA 2017edit
The world’s first gaming laptop featuring the AMD Ryzen™ 7 processor, ROG Strix GL702ZC combines AMD’s revolutionary Ryzen platform with the ROG gaming design legacy and is designed to satisfy the needs of hardcore gamers and users with multimedia-heavy workloads.
Publication: Hashtag Gadgetz
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