AMD specific news
AMD B550 and A520 get PCIe 3.0 courtesy ASMediaedit
According to a report from DigiTimes, AMD has ordered ASMedia to produce their B550 and A520 chipsets. X570 chipsets have no confirmation yet but if all goes according to plan, ASMedia will be manufacturing those as well. While we know both B550 and A520 will be rocking the PCIe 3.0 standard, there’s still no confirmation that they won’t be featuring PCIe 4.0. They very well might find a way to support it thanks to its backwards compatibility with PCIe 3.0.
Publication: Techquila
AMD is Targeting the Ryzen 7 3700X and Radeon RX 5700XT toward Intel Skylake and NVIDIA GTX 10 Series Usersedit
During the Computex and E3 press briefings, AMD compared its new Ryzen 3000 processors to Intel’s 8th and 9th Gen lineup and the Radeon RX 5700 GPUs to the lower-end NVIDIA RTX cards. The newer 7nm chips certainly seem faster than their competitors, but not by much, and no one will throw away their i9 (or RTX 2080) for a Ryzen 9 (or an RX 5700XT). AMD is well aware of that, so it’s enticing Intel and NVIDIA users who skipped the last upgrade cycle with its brand new architectures.
Publication: Techquila
ASMedia-sourced AMD B550, A520 Chipset Motherboards Arrive in 2020edit
If a recent MSRP price-list leak is anything to go by, motherboards based on the AMD X570 chipset will cost a pretty penny, beating even Intel’s premium Z390 Express chipset on average motherboard pricing. Those looking for an affordable motherboard for the Ryzen 3000 series processors have the option of choosing existing AMD 400-series chipset based motherboards, and taking advantage of the USB BIOS Flashback feature that’s almost universally available on the AMD platform.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
AMD reveals world’s first next generation 16 core Ryzen processorsedit
Gaming buffs had been waiting for this moment and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has finally lifted the curtains to reveal six new CPUs, including the powerhouse world’s first 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X desk top processor promising to transform the graphic experience.
Publication: Telangana Today
AMD Ryzen 3000 Gaming Laptops w/ NVIDIA GTX 16 GPUs now in Indiaedit
A while back AMD announced the Ryzen 3000 mobile lineup and also allowed OEMs to pair the CPUs with NVIDIA’s GTX 16-series (Turing) GPUs, paving way for a new breed of gaming laptops available for as low as $999. Till now most of these portable gaming rigs were fitted with Intel chips and started at a minimum of $1300-1400. After the global launch a few months back, these AMD-NVIDIA gaming notebooks are now also available in India. The cheapest variant sells for 63K.
Publication: Techquila
AMD’s Navi 10 has deceptively higher Bandwidth than the RX Vega 64edit
Researchers over at PCGamesN have pointed out that bandwidth of AMD’s new Navi 10 GPU is actually more powerful than the Vega 10 chip. While it sounds blatantly wrong at first, their argument does sound very reasonable.
Publication: Techquila
AMD is Working on a 64-core Threadripper Processor; Expected to Launch in Q4 2019edit
AMD seems to have no plans whatsoever to be defeated by Intel in the upcoming years. The brand is doing great work to offer much value and raw performance to its customers. If you have been following AMD’s processor offerings, it is highly likely that you would remember Threadripper, and well, AMD is reviving the good old Threadripper series.
Publication: Beebom The Indian Wire
7nm Zen 2 Based AMD Ryzen APUs “Renoir” Coming in Q4 2019edit
It appears that the Zen 2 based 7nm iteration of the Ryzen APUs will be coming soon. According to a report from WCCFTech, AMD will be releasing the Renoir APUs by the end of this year. Now before I proceed, let me point this out. The outlet calls it the “Raven Ridge refresh”, but it wouldn’t make much sense to backtrack to the 14nm Raven Ridge design after Picasso now that Zen 2 is out and doing really well too.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Preparing X590 Platform for Ryzen 3000 CPUs, Meant for Enthusiastsedit
AMD wants to make the most of its Ryzen 3000 lineup and why wouldn’t they, it’s the first consumer product stack to feature core counts of up to 16 cores. In contrast, Intel’s i9-9900K has (only) eight cores, and with the Zombieland exploit lurking in the background, many users are disabling hyper-threading, limiting the thread count to 8 as well.
Publication: Techquila
16 Core AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Beats 18 Core Intel i9-9980XE in Leaked Geekbench Scoresedit
AMD recently announced the Ryzen 9 3950 X, the first mainstream gaming processor with 16 cores and 32 threads. And it seems like the CPU is on road to breaking more records, as leaked Geekbench benchmarks show it annihilating Intel’s flagship 18 core i9-9980XE in both single and multi-threaded workloads.
Publication: Gaming Monk
AMD brand mentions
Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console to be fastest everedit
Microsoft Corp. said its next generation Xbox console will be four times more powerful than the current Xbox One X, thanks to an AMD processor that allows for 120 frames per second.
Publication: Deccan Herald
Nadella retains spot, Aditya Puri out in Barron’s 30 Best CEOs of the worldedit
Female newcomers include Mary Dillon of Ulta Beauty Inc., praised for leading the cosmetic chain to nearly double the S&P 500’s yearly return since taking over in 2013; Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin Corp. for what was termed her savvy direction; and Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for giving Intel Corp. a run for its money.
Publication: Business Insider Business Standard
E3’s Super Eightedit
Microsoft announced their next generation console at E3 with a launch date of late 2020. The new console will feature a custom designed processor from AMD, which is four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. The console will feature GDDR6 RAM and a new type of SSD that will be used as virtual RAM for top quality performance. Project Scarlett will be capable of 8K resolution and will have a new Halo to push the platform.
Publication: Sunday Mid-day
New report suggests Nvidia RTX Super graphics cards will take on AMD’s RX 5700 seriesedit
AMD seems to have come out on top in the hardware war at Computex and E3. Despite Intel’s 10nm processor and Nvidia’s big super announcement, Team Red’s Ryzen 3000 series coupled with the big RDNA graphics reveal earned AMD enough points to beat both its closest rivals at the major tech events.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Intel 10nm SunnyCove CPU Faster than AMD 7nm Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 Processors in CPUZ Benchmarkedit
Intel has been touting its upcoming 10nm Ice Lake architecture as the biggest upgrade in performance since 2015’s Skylake, promising IPC gains of up to 40% in some workloads. The average IPC boost is still a very average 18% (over 6th Gen, not 8th or 9th), most of it coming from the more efficient 10nm node and the new Sunny Cove core architecture. AMD claims its new Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 processors boast a similar IPC gain of 15%, but this advantage is with regard to the Zen+ processors, not a five-year-old product stack.
Publication: Techquila
Broadcom’s $2 billion warning rattles global chip sectoredit
Shares in Broadcom fell as much as 8.6%, wiping more than $9 billion off the market value of the company, previously based in Asia but now with its headquarters and main listing in the United States. US chipmakers Qualcomm, Applied Materials Inc, Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Xilinx Inc were all down between 1.5% and 3%.
Publication:Business Standard
Buyer’s Guideedit
These CPUs can handle everyday computing jobs like web browsing, social networking, and working with documents, spreadsheets and presentations. These laptops also pack in an integrated GPU – AMD Radeon Vega or Intel HD Graphics – that will let you dabble with photo-editing and play Full HD videos smoothly.
Publication: The Times of India (Bangalore) The Times of India (Mumbai)
Here’s a list of the best games of Electronic Entertainment Expoedit
Microsoft announced their next generation console at E3 with a launch date of late 2020. The new console will feature a custom designed processor from AMD, which is four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. The console will feature GDDR6 RAM and a new type of SSD that will be used as virtual RAM for top quality performance. Project Scarlett will be capable of 8K resolution and will have a new Halo to push the platform.
Publication: Mid-day
Competition in news
New report suggests Nvidia RTX Super graphics cards will take on AMD’s RX 5700 seriesedit
AMD seems to have come out on top in the hardware war at Computex and E3. Despite Intel’s 10nm processor and Nvidia’s big super announcement, Team Red’s Ryzen 3000 series coupled with the big RDNA graphics reveal earned AMD enough points to beat both its closest rivals at the major tech events.
Publication: Moneycontrol
AMD is Targeting the Ryzen 7 3700X and Radeon RX 5700XT toward Intel Skylake and NVIDIA GTX 10 Series Usersedit
During the Computex and E3 press briefings, AMD compared its new Ryzen 3000 processors to Intel’s 8th and 9th Gen lineup and the Radeon RX 5700 GPUs to the lower-end NVIDIA RTX cards. The newer 7nm chips certainly seem faster than their competitors, but not by much, and no one will throw away their i9 (or RTX 2080) for a Ryzen 9 (or an RX 5700XT). AMD is well aware of that, so it’s enticing Intel and NVIDIA users who skipped the last upgrade cycle with its brand new architectures.
Publication: Techquila
Intel 10nm SunnyCove CPU Faster than AMD 7nm Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 Processors in CPUZ Benchmarkedit
Intel has been touting its upcoming 10nm Ice Lake architecture as the biggest upgrade in performance since 2015’s Skylake, promising IPC gains of up to 40% in some workloads. The average IPC boost is still a very average 18% (over 6th Gen, not 8th or 9th), most of it coming from the more efficient 10nm node and the new Sunny Cove core architecture. AMD claims its new Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 processors boast a similar IPC gain of 15%, but this advantage is with regard to the Zen+ processors, not a five-year-old product stack.
Publication: Techquila
NVIDIA GeForce RTX Super Graphics Cards Launching in Mid-Julyedit
It appears that NVIDIA will indeed be announcing the GeForce RTX 20 series’ Super variants next week, with a launch in July (both the Founder Edition and board-partner cards). According to Igor Wallossek from TomsHardware Germany, the RTX 2080 Super will use the TU104 die instead of the previously predicted TU102.
Publication: Techquila
Here’s a list of the best games of Electronic Entertainment Expoedit
Microsoft announced their next generation console at E3 with a launch date of late 2020. The new console will feature a custom designed processor from AMD, which is four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. The console will feature GDDR6 RAM and a new type of SSD that will be used as virtual RAM for top quality performance. Project Scarlett will be capable of 8K resolution and will have a new Halo to push the platform.
Publication: Mid-day
Nvidia RTX Super Turing GPUs will have better Ray-Tracing Abilities, More RTCores, and Tensorsedit
NVIDIA and its partners are preparing to launch the new RTX Super lineup next month with a reveal very soon (next week?). From what we know, the new GPUs will feature improved clocks, faster memory, increased shader counts and even a wider bus in some cases. However, it seems like the upgrades won’t be limited to just those. The GeForce RTX Super graphics cards might even feature better ray-tracing capabilities, thanks to a higher number of RTCores and Tensor cores.
Publication: Techquila
NVIDIA RTX Super Graphics Cards Coming Soonedit
NVIDIA teased a ‘super’ announcement recently, via a short video. Following that, rumours starting surfacing that NVIDIA is planning to announce faster versions of their RTX graphics cards. Maybe the two are related?
Publication: Gaming Monk
Partner in news
Asus eyes 50% share in gaming laptop market in Indiaedit
Asus is aiming to increase its share in the consumer laptops division in India from 11 percent to 15-20 percent by the end of 2019. The company said it is further expanding budget-friendly laptop offerings with new affordable models of Vivobooks which were introduced last year targeting mid-ranged buyers.
Publication: BGR.in
Industry news
A new AI CoE on the block: An answer to Indian enterprises’ data dilemma?edit
With digital transformation taking center stage in the organizations, enterprises are ever so keen on employing AI. To lead the way in the strategy for the technology and future proof the organization and customers, NetApp launched an AI CoE with NVIDIA. Anil Valluri, President, India & SAARC operations, NetApp talks about the need for a CoE at this stage in the business, creating a seamless data pipeline and making AI a reality for mid-sized enterprises.
Publication: ET CIO
The clangers posed by Al-driven ‘deepfakes’edit
Academics and researchers typically accuse the media of scare-mongering and painting dystopian scenarios, especially when it comes to the coverage of Artificial Intelligence (Al)-powered algorithms. They do have a point, especially as machine learning and deep learning algorithms are exactly what power most of the software and smart devices that we use in our daily lives, be they smartphones, cameras, Internet of Things (IoT) devices or voice assistants.
Publication: Mint
Here’s a list of the best games of Electronic Entertainment Expoedit
Microsoft announced their next generation console at E3 with a launch date of late 2020. The new console will feature a custom designed processor from AMD, which is four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. The console will feature GDDR6 RAM and a new type of SSD that will be used as virtual RAM for top quality performance. Project Scarlett will be capable of 8K resolution and will have a new Halo to push the platform.
Publication: Mid-day
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