AMD specific news
Sony PS5 release date: 2020 launch Hinted By AMD CEOedit
With E3 just a month away, AMD’s CEO, Lisa Su sent a surprise to the gaming industry in a recent interview with CNBC’s “Mad Money’s” Jim Carter. She said in the one-to-one interview that gaming is a “good, secular growth market” and AMD is “really excited” about Sony’s next console. Su also talked about how 2019 is going to be a “down” year for AMD’s semi-custom-build business, but higher growth is posed for “2020 and beyond”.
Publication: IB Times
AMD 7nm Next-Gen GPUs Coming in 2020, Zen 3 Taped and Ready for Productionedit
At the investors’ presentation earlier this month, AMD shared the future roadmap of the company’s plans in both the CPU and GPU space. Turns out RTG will finally be ditching the GCN GPU architecture and moving onto the next-gen Arcturus design based on TSMC’s 7nm+ chips in 2020. As for Zen, the third generation is taped and on track for production while Zen 4 is currently being worked on.
Publication: TechQuila
PS5 And Next Xbox 2020 Release Date Hinted At By AMD CEOedit
Speaking at AMD’s recently quarterly financial results meeting, CEO Lisa Su spoke about the company’s partnership with Sony, mentioning that the same wis projected to lead to an uptick in business for 2020. Su mentioned that though 2019 has seen a bit of a fall in business for AMD, 2020 will instead be seeing growth, while also categorically refusing to refer to “any particular customer”- which might suggest a partnership with both, Sony and Microsoft for their respective next gen consoles.
Publication: Gaming Bolt
AMD Expected To Release Next Gen 7nm+ GPUs by 2020edit
At a recent investor’s meeting, AMD revealed the roadmap for their upcoming products for both their processor and graphics families. While the red team is expected to release their highly anticipated 7nm Navi GPUs later this year, it looks like the company’s already working on the next big thing.
Publication: Gaming Monk
Cool your AMD Radeon VII Graphics Card with Alphacool’s new Eiswolf GPX-Pro AIOedit
AMD released its flagship Radeon graphics card, the Radeon VII, back in February to mixed reviews as fans were expecting a little more pizazz than what they got.
Publication: TechQuila
Sony PlayStation 5 to Feature AMD Chip That Will act as ‘Secret Sauce’edit
While Sony is yet to officially announce the PlayStation 5, Mark Cerny, a system architect working on Sony’s PlayStation division, confirmed last month a bunch of details about the upcoming console. He had confirmed that a third generation AMD Ryzen processor, based on the 7nm Zen 2 fabrication process will be powering the console. This would be paired with a custom AMD Radeon Navi GPU which would enable 8K resolution gaming as well as 3D audio to make gaming more immersive.
Sony PlayStation 5 will feature 7nm Zen 2 chipset, confirms AMD CEOedit
Sony’s PlayStation 5 has been in the news for quite some time. Though we don’t really know the release timeline for the console, the hype surrounding it is increasing every passing day. While we wait for Sony to make an announcement in this regard, Lisa Su, AMD CEO, talking to CNBC, has confirmed the next generation Sony’s gaming console will be powered by an AMD chip, corroborating with earlier reports.
Publication: 91 Mobiles
AMD CEO teases details about upcoming Sony PS5edit
After endless rumors about the next generation of gaming consoles, it looks like we finally know something about the upcoming gaming console in an official capacity. Before we dive into any specifics, it is only right to share the source of the information. The details about long-rumored Sony PS5 came from Lisa Su, the CEO for AMD. According to the information, Su confirmed that the next generation gaming console from Sony will be powered by an AMD chip. She went on to add that the chip maker will help Sony make the “special sauce” for the upcoming gaming console.
Publication: BGR
AMD brand mentions
BIOSTAR Presents A68N-5600E For Home Entertainment and Everyday Computingedit
BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices, introduces the new A68N-5600E SoC motherboard featuring a power efficient AMD PRO A4-3350B Processor and AMD Radeon™ R4 graphics.
Publication: Cell IT
RAGE 2 Recommended PC Settings Include Nvidia GTX 1070 8GBedit
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
Memory: 8GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 780 3GB or AMD R9 280 3GB
Storage: 50 GB available space
Publication: Gaming Bolt
All about next-gen gaming consolesedit
A few other upgrades could include the possibility of ray tracing as AMD gets its Navi tech ready for consoles. However, the need for next-gen consoles to be more than just iterative upgrades is substantial as newer competitors will include potential game streaming services like Google’s Stadia and several more.
Publication: Telangana Today
CudoOS Launches, Bringing Smarter Crypto Mining to Rig Operatorsedit
Optimised to 4GB and based on Linux Ubuntu 18.04, it can be loaded onto a USB stick that can be plugged into any Intel-based GPU mining rig and run from the disk or deployed to a hard disk with AMD and NVIDIA drivers pre-installed.
Publication: New Kerala
Here’s the fix to PUBG ‘Out Of Video Memory’ error on Windowsedit
Galax RTX 2080 Tiedit
VirtualLink has become a standard thanks to wide support from Industry giants such as NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Valve, Oculus and HTC. Essentially, it is future VR-ready.
Publication: Digit
Stadia: The future of gaming is not a boxedit
Google has partnered with AMD for this one to create a custom graphics solution. It will apparently deliver a whopping 10.7 teraflops of power.
Publication: Digit
Process Thisedit
While the form factor, ISA and many other aspects have changed over the years, the fundamental workings of the processor remain to be the same for Intel and AMD.
Publication: Digit
5 Top Graphics Card Brands [Unveiled]edit
A significant part of understanding if you are getting a great graphics card is seeing who is bringing the card to market. Therefore, having a trusted brand is very important. All graphics cards essentially perform the same function, but the brand association conveys lots of different unspoken values. For example, when weighing processors manufactured by AMD vs Nvidia the values of each brand will affect the consumer’s decision.
Publication: Gaming Central
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 CIO Telecom Live India Defense News
Competition in news
NVIDIA will be selling Faster GeForce RTX 2080 and 2070 GPUs from Juneedit
A while back, it was discovered that NVIDIA was selling two different dies of the GeForce RTX Turing series graphics cards, e.g, for the RTX 2080, you’ve got the TU104-400-A1 and TU104-400A-A1, with the latter essentially being a “faster” variant due to better overclocking potential. This is because the 400A chips are cherry picked and are binned separately for better clock speeds.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel Icelake Gen11 iGPU Linux Drivers (OpenGL & Vulkan) Fully Developededit
As for benchmarks, we have a few to go by, plus the Ashes of the Singularity result that surfaced a while back. These tests put Intel’s Gen11 graphics on par with AMD’s Vega Radeon Vega 11 GPU and most entry-level offerings such as NVIDIA’s GeForce MX150 and maybe even MX250.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel expands portfolioedit
Intel expands 9th Gen core portfolio with new desktop CPUs including core i9-9900KF
Publication: Digit
Partner in news
Lenovo launches future ready Laptops with mindboggling features at affordable pricesedit
Lenovo, a global technology player and one of the world’s leading PC and Tablet brands, has unveiled its latest collection of future-ready laptops today.
Publication: Hashtag Gadgetz
Stadia: The future of gaming is not a boxedit
Google has partnered with AMD for this one to create a custom graphics solution. It will apparently deliver a whopping 10.7 teraflops of power.
Publication: Digit
What to Expect at Google I/O 2019edit
Spring is here, bringing rain, tulips, allergies, and the Google I/O developer conference. This year, we should expect information on the upcoming version of Android, some information on the Stadia video game streaming service, a cheaper Pixel, and hints at a dessert name that starts with “Q” (it’s going to be quince, I can feel it).
Publication: PC Mag
Industry news
Al for Industries: Using Intelligence in Real Timeedit
The artificial intelligence (Al) market is currently experiencing an incredible boom. According to ResearchAndMarkets, the global Al market is expected to grow by 36.6 per cent annually to US$ 190.61 billion by 2025.
Publication: Open Source For U
Resentment in Nasscom after recent elections to executive counciledit
Resentment is building up within the $180 billion Indian software industry’s representative body NASSCOM, after last month’s biennial elections to its executive council the apex decision making body of trade body, saw more than half the industry going unpresented.
Publication: The Times of India
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