In Bengaluru, ‘AMD’s India engineering lead Jaya Jagadish has invested Rs 25 lakh in powering her house completely using solar energy. The extra units generated flows back through the grid to the state’s electricity board. The initial set-up took about a couple of weeks, Jagadish said, and the house now runs seamlessly on solar power.

Publication: The Economic Times

The report claims that we can expect to hear about Microsoft including a solid state drive in their consoles as well, just as Sony have done, while other things we’ll hear mentioned are Navi graphics, Zen 2 architecture, other AMD components being used, and backward compatibility (unsurprisingly). Microsoft will also allegedly be speaking about the next Xbox will run Xbox One X games and enhance them even further.

Publication: Gaming Bolt

Right alongside Apple’s new MacBook Pro announcement, Intel announced it’s Xeon W CPUs ranging from octa-core to 24 core parts, all hyper-threaded. Unlike their predecessors, the newer Xeon W lineup ditches the FCLGA-2066 packaging in favor of the FCLGA-3647 package. The increase in core count can be primarily seen as a last resort against AMD’s Zen 2 onslaught, as the company is expected to launch the Threadripper 3 chips soon, and the 64-core Epyc Rome has caused Intel enough grief as it is.

Publication: Techquila

The Smach Z, a handled AMD-powered Linux gaming system which was revealed back in 2015, is expected to show off its final iteration at E3 2019. The team behind the product says that it’s on track to ship within the year.

Publication: Techquila

Internet firms like Google, Facebook and Amazon, as also Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are all accelerating efforts to design chips for functions critical to them, not wanting to depend entirely on traditional semiconductor specialists like Intel, Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia.

Publication: The Times of India

With AMD “Valhalla” desktop platform mainstreaming PCI-Express gen 4.0, several SSD manufacturers put out their first products that can take advantage of it, this Computex. The drive with the highest on-paper transfer rates has to be the HOF E16 from GALAX, which will also be sold under the Galaxy and KFA2 brands in various markets. Built in the M.2-2280 form-factor, the drive features an M.2 PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface (backwards-compatible with older PCIe generations), with 64 Gbps of interface bandwidth on tap. The drive comes in capacities of 1 TB, 2 TB, and segment-first 4 TB.

Publication: Tech PowerUp

Samsung and AMD have struck a new deal to bring custom AMD Radeon graphics technology to future Samsung smartphones. As part of the deal, AMD will provide its Radeon graphics designs based on the latest scalable RDNA graphics architecture. Samsung will use it to create graphics chips and integrate them into its Exynos SoCs to improve the performance of its smartphones.

Publication: Fossbytes

Meanwhile, AMD is likely to announce the specifications of their “Navi” GPUs, which will be available on the floor for gamers to try their hands on. The company already announced a global launch for those products as July 7, 2019 during their Computex.

Publication: Deccan Herald

Inside, the Mac Pro supports Intel Xeon processor up with up to 28 cores and up to 1.5TB of memory. There are six slots for memory expansion and eight PCI slots, three Thunderbolt ports, two USB-C, and two USB-A ports. There’s a lot going on in the graphics department as well — the included module supports AMD Radeon Pro 580X or the Radeon Pro Vega II, and can be configured to add up to two Vega IIs.

Publication: The Hans India

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is pleased to announce the LIVA SF110-A320 mini PC – the energy efficient multi-functional mini PC with a powerful AMD Ryzen™ processor, designed for your home entertainment and light gaming demands.

Publication: Digital Terminal

The machine is powered by Intel’s Xeon processor, which is usually found in workstations. You can choose up to 28-core version. The computer has 12 RAM modules that can offer up to 1.5 TB memory. It comes with 256 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, or 4 GB SSD. Apple will offer to pair its Mac Pro with AMD’s Radeon Pro 580X or Radeon Pro Vega II. You can even combine two AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo for insane power. The computer has a Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, 3.5 mm audio jack, DisplayPort, two Ethernet ports, and two USB 3 ports. It also covers essential wireless connectivity options such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0.

Publication: Techtree

Mid Range CPU’s

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 – Rs 16, 500

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 – Rs 16, 850

Publication: Digit

Computex kicked off with a bang yesterday, and you know what that means. We have a host of new product announcements to talk about. So, without wasting any time, let’s dive into the biggest announcements from Day 1 at Computex 2019. First up, we have the Ryzen 3000 series processors from the red team. We’ve known about them for a while, but now they’re finally here. Based on the Zen 2 architecture, the Ryzen 3000 is the first 7nm range of CPUs from AMD.

Publication: Gaming Monk

Apple today introduced the all-new Mac Pro, a completely redesigned, a breakthrough workstation for pros who push the limits of what a Mac can do, and unveiled Apple Pro Display XDR, the world’s best pro display. Designed for maximum performance, expansion and configurability, the all-new Mac Pro features workstation-class Xeon processors up to 28 cores, a high-performance memory system with a massive 1.5TB capacity, eight PCIe expansion slots and a graphics architecture featuring the world’s most powerful graphics card. It also introduces Apple Afterburner, a game-changing accelerator card that enables playback of three streams of 8K ProRes RAW video simultaneously.

Publication: The Asian Age

Prior to this news, Samsung announced a partnership with American semiconductor maker AMD in a multi-year deal that will see the South Korean company license AMD’s Radeon intellectual property and build it onto its own ARM-based Exynos chipsets.

Publication: The Mobile Indian

Introduced Mac Pro computer for creative professionals starting at $5,999: Mac Pro video card includes programmable chip to speed up high-resolution video playback.

Unveiled $1,000 monitor stand.

High-performance AMD Radeon GPUs to power Mac Pro; Mac Pro will have 28-core Intel Corp processor.

Publication: CNBC Tv18

AMD Lisa Su at Computex 2019 confirmed to Tom’s hardware that the company wasn’t licensing anymore of its x86 IP portfolio to China-based companies. AMD entered a technology license agreement with China’s Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co. Ltd. (THATIC) in 2016. As part of the agreement to license its x86 and SoC IP for chip development, AMD received a cash infusion worth $293 million (plus royalties).

Publication: Tech PowerUp

The BIOSTAR TB360-BTC Expert allows professional miners to build the ultimate mining rig. It features the Intel H370 chipset that supports the 8th generation Intel Core processors. The BIOSTAR TB360-BTC Expert includes 17 x PCI-Express 3.0 slots (16xPCI-E x1 slot and 1xPCI-E x16 slot) to run up to 17 Nvidia and/or AMD graphics cards at the same time, with two 24-pin power supply connectors.

Publication: NCN Online

The Pacific W1 CPU Water Block is made of copper. The surface is nickel plated to prevent corrosion. The mounting system for the W1 supports intel LGA 2011/1366/1155/1156/1150/775 and AMD FM2/FM1/AM3 +/AM3/AM2+/AM2 sockets.

Publication: Digit

Taiwanese tech major ASUS on Monday unveiled its new TUF gaming laptops FX505DT and FX705DT with the latest AMD Ryzen processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs with up to 120Hz IPS-level NanoEdge display in India at a starting price of Rs 64,990.

Publication: New Kerala

Coming down to the GPU, the base option Mac Pro comes with AMD Radeon Pro 580X. Users can move up to a Radeon Pro Vega II or Radeon Pro Vega II Duo for a mind boggling 56-teraflops of graphical computing.

Publication: IGN India IBT Mashable India Hindustan Times

While we hoped to see AMD Threadripper CPUs in Apple’s highest-end computer, the company chose to stick with Intel’s server-grade offerings for the new Mac Pro. It does, however, come with an AMD GPU. There’s a whole lot of upgradeability and an ability to expand the capabilities of the Mac Pro through PCIe slots and specialized cards that go in them. Let us have a look at the new Apple Mac Pro’s specifications and features.

Publication: Mysmartprice Technocodex

Taiwanese tech major ASUS on Monday unveiled its new TUF gaming laptops FX505DT and FX705DT with the latest AMD Ryzen processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs with up to 120Hz IPS-level NanoEdge display in India at a starting price of Rs 64,990.

Publication: Zee News Gadgetbridge India Finance News

Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR: The company has redesigned its 2017 Mac Pro. The price of its base model is $ 5,999 which comes with 8-core Xeon CPU, 32GB RAM, 256 GB storage and AMD Radeon Pro 580X GPU. At the same time, the price of its high-end confi- cation has not been announced yet. Also the 32-inch HDR display is also offered. Its panel comes with 6016×3384 resolution.

Publication: Jagran

Coming to your question about waiting for Zen 2. Yes, you most certainly should wait for Zen 2. Going by the announcement made by AMD at COM-PUTEX 2019, it seems that AMD might have single-threaded and multithreaded advantage in the desktop CPU segment. So there will be sizeable performance increments across all usage scenarios.

Publication: Digit

AMD signed a multi-year deal with Samsung that would allow the South Korean firm to use AMD Radeon Graphics IP in its mobile devices. However, it would come as a blow to ARM which announced its Mali GPU architecture at Computex.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

AMD signed a multi-year deal with Samsung that would allow the South Korean firm to use AMD Radeon Graphics IP in its mobile devices. However, it would come as a blow to ARM which announced its Mali GPU architecture at Computex.

Publication: The Asian Age

Considering the fact that AMD’s RX 5000 series has potential and the fact that Intel is coming out with their discrete graphics platform, Xe in 2020, should have NVIDIA worried about losing more market share in the gaming business. Practically, all companies have at least one personal computing technology that would grow over the next year. Except NVIDIA, who must solely rely on the Al and autonomous business to continue growing if the consumer graphics market won’t add to its already massive coffers.

Publication: Digit

Samsung will now have access to AMD’s graphics architectures to build it onto its own ARM-based Exynos chipsets. This will be the first time in a decade that AMD is getting into the mobile business, as sold its Imageon graphics division to Qualcomm in 2009 who later renamed the brand to Adreno.

Publication: The Mobile India

Apple wowed its 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) crowd in San Jose, California, on Monday when it unveiled a glorious new Mac Pro stuffed with top-tier hardware specs such as a 28-core Intel Xeon processor and an Afterburner movie-editing graphics card. But looking at the new machine made some observers hungry.

Publication: Republic World Gadgets To Use ET CIO

Advanced Micro Devices Inc will license its graphics designs to Samsung Electronics Co for use in smartphones and tablets, taking its technology into a new market and helping differentiate products from the world’s biggest smartphone maker.

Publication: The Indian Express BGR.in

The Apple Mac Pro comes with a new design with top of the line specifications. According to Apple, the full-blown version of the Apple Mac Pro is fitted with a 28 core Intel Xenon server grade CPU, up to 4 AMD Vega II GPU, which can reproduce up to 58 teraflops of graphics performance, 1.5 TB of RAM, and more.

Publication: Gizbot

NVIDIA plans to release their adaptation of Quake, called Quake II RTX, soon on Steam. The Quake II RTX will be free(in some cases) to play, full Quake II game, with additional features such as ray tracing. The game is using Vulkan API for its Ray Tracing capabilities and requires NVIDIA’s Turing GPUs in order to play with and use all of the advanced lighting effects.

Publication: Tech PowerUp

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has announced the LIVA SF110-A320 mini PC – the energy efficient multi-functional mini PC with a powerful AMD Ryzen processor, designed for home entertainment and light gaming demands.

Publication: Var India IT Voice

At its annual developers’ conference held at San Jose, California, Apple announced the all-new 2019 Mac Pro—a professional-grade workstation. While the kind of configuration you want solely depends on the amount of money you are willing to splurge (starting at $5,999 or about ₹4 lakh), the level of customisability it claims to offer is unseen on a workstation offering from any other maker. 4 x AMD Radeon Pro Vega II graphics processing units.

Publication: India Finance News

AMD signed a multi-year deal with Samsung that would allow the South Korean firm to use AMD Radeon Graphics IP in its mobile devices. However, it would come as a blow to ARM which announced its Mali GPU architecture at Computex.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle (Chennai)

Computex 2019 may be over, but AMD is still making headlines for its graphics, only this time it’s for smartphones. Advanced Micro Device recently saw its share rise by 7-percent after announcing a multi-year strategic partnership with Samsung Electronics for Radeon graphics on smartphones.

Publication: Moneycontrol Technocodex iGyaan Hindustan Times

AMD Radeon Pro Vega

64 compute units, 4096 stream processors 32GB HBM2 memory with up 1TB/s memory bandwidth Up to 14.1 Teraflops single precision or 28.2 Teraflops half precision Infinity Fabric Link connection enabling two Vega II GPUs to connect at up to 84GB/s Four Thunderbolt 3 ports and one HDMI 2.0 Port Two DisplayPort connections routed to system to support Internal Thunderbolt 3 ports Support for up to six 4K displays, three 5K display or two Pro Display XDRs

Publication: Tech Androids

Apple says you can spec that out with AMD’s Radeon Pro Vega 2 or Radeon Pro Vega 2 Duo, the latter of which would get you four GPUs in total. The Mac Pro’s power supply maxes out at 1.4kW. It has three large fans at the front, just behind the new aluminium grille, that is said to blow air across the system at a rate of 300 cubic feet per minute.

Publication: 91Mobiles

The Apple Mac Pro 2019 offers multiple upgradability options in the form of PCI Express expansion slots. In theory, you can use an external graphics card in the Mac Pro 2019 and play the latest titles, however, you’re still restricted to only using AMD graphics card as Nvidia and Apple still don’t play along very well.

Publication: Fossbytes