AMD specific news
AMD Radeon VII, The World’s First 7nm GPU Available In India Nowedit
The Radeon VII was first launched by AMD at CES on February 7th. Based on 2nd gen Vega architecture or (Vega II, if you will), the card is the world’s first 7nm GPU. Unfortunately, the stocks were kinda low and the card hasn’t been available in India. That is, until now.
Publication: Gaming Monk
AMD Is “Really Excited” About the PS5’s “Special Sauce”edit
On the specs front, we learned that Sony will be continuing its partnership with AMD, using a custom variant of Radeon’s Navi GPU, as well as a third generation AMD Ryzen chip boasting an eight core 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture.
Publication: Gaming Bolt
AMD Giving Away Ryzen 7 2700X and Radeon VII GPUs As Part Of 50th Anniversary Celebration (PROACTIVE)edit
To celebrate their 50th anniversary, AMD revealed the special edition for their flagship CPU and GPU. Both the Ryzen 7 2700X and the Radeon VII have gotten special birthday treatment. The 2700X comes with a laser etched autograph of AMD CEO Lisa Su while the Radeon VII has been coated in the signature red Radeon finish. And you also get access to two games for free! Both World War Z and Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Gold Edition are available with the parts along with some other goodies. But that’s not all.
Publication: Gaming Monk
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Inventec collaborates with AMD to provide Deep Learning Solutionsedit
Computer and server manufacturer Inventec Enterprise Business Group (Inventec EBG) today announced the release of its P47G4 server solution, optimized for AMD deep learning technologies. The P47G4 server is one of four optimized server solutions and features a 2U, single-socket system equipped with AMD EPYC™ processors and up to four AMD Radeon Instinct™ MI25 GPU accelerators.
Publication: IT News Online Digital Conqueror
Strategic necessity: India is seeking to become a chip design hubedit
Several attempts were made to build a semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, including talks with leading chip manufacturers AMD and TSMC to set up a fab in the country, in tune with the thinking globally, wherein countries realized that local chip development helps protect their strategic interests.
Publication: The Economic Times (Print) (Online) ET Telecom India Finance News
Inside India’s push to build an indigenous semiconductor design ecosystemedit
Several attempts were made to build a semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, including talks with leading chip manufacturers AMD and TSMC to set up a fab in the country, in tune with the thinking globally, wherein countries realized that local chip development helps protect their strategic interests.
Publication: ET Tech Communications Today
Best gaming monitors under $200 gadget review electricity demandedit
We suggest playing electricity jeopardy with an acer predator laptop fitted with an AMD graphics card which has sync technology for a more efficient response time on high resolution. Check out Gadget Review’s website for more in-depth gaming monitor reviews.
Publication: Gas & Electricity
Competition in news
Latest INTEL, NVIDIA Hardwareedit
Intel recently unveiled its latest 9th gen family of faster mobile CPUs, and the good news is that users won’t have to wait much longer for them as many of the OEMs have simultaneously announced notebooks running on them. The icing on the cake is that many of these will also be housing Nvidia’s latest and more powerful GTX16 series mobile GPUs.
Publication: Mint
Intel Xe GPUs Will Have Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing Supportedit
At the recent FMX conference in Germany, Intel announced some pretty big news about their upcoming Xe graphics cards. A lot is still under wraps, but the company has confirmed that their GPUs will support ray tracing at a hardware level, putting them directly in competition with NVIDIA’s Turing based RTX line-up. This also means the Intel GPUs will pretty much leave the Pascal and non-RTX Turing cards in the dust, as far as ray tracing is concerned.
Publication: Gaming Monk
Nvidia, Red Hat Become New Members of Hollywood Open Source Groupedit
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a neutral forum for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, has added three new members, including Nvidia, Red Hat and ftrack.
Publication: Open Source for U
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Dell Technologies unveils mobile business PCsedit
Dell Technologies has reimagined addressing the needs of the evolving workforce. The new portfolio of Dell mobile business PCs is designed with IT departments in mind and aims to get business users productive faster and keep them productive longer, no matter when, where or how they work.
Publication: VAR India
Industry news
Evolution of gaming from a niche community to a multi-billion dollar industryedit
Gaming has evolved from being a niche community restricted to LAN parties and solo adventures to a global phenomenon that connects players from different parts of the globe. It has now outgrown Hollywood in the entertainment sector, accounting for $140 billion in revenue.
Publication: Moneycontrol
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