AMD specific news
Rumored AMD X590 chipset hints at more premium motherboardsedit
We might end up seeing a more premium X590 chipset, aimed at enthusiasts and overclockers. AMD’s X570 chipset for Ryzen 3rd Generation processors has already been announced, boasting PCIe 4.0 support, and bringing along some pretty expensive motherboards like the MSI X570 Godlike. But now, new premium X590 motherboards have been spotted by German site Computer Base.
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G APU Faster than NVIDIA GeForce MX250 in OpenCLedit
These past weeks we’ve been witnessing a ****-storm of leaked benchmarks. AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, Intel 10nm Ice Lake, Comet Lake and so on. This time we’ve got the Geekbench OpenCL score of a budget chip, the AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (Picasso). Not to be mistaken with the recently released Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 processors, these APUs leverage the 12nm Zen+ architecture and paired with a Vega GPU make for a decent AIO system.
Publication: Techquila
AMD B550 and A520 Lack PCIe Gen 4 Capabilities?edit
ast Friday, we reported ASMedia working on new-generation socket AM4 motherboard chipsets that succeed the AMD B450 and A320, which could hopefully offer significantly cheaper alternatives to boards based on the feature-rich AMD X570 chipset. The DigiTimes story we cited was updated to clarify that the chipset only supports PCI-Express gen 3.0, and not the newer PCI-Express gen 4.0. There are two distinct ways of interpreting this information.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
AMD brand mentions
E3 2019: 2020’s loading screenedit
Does this mean that the new Xbox is going to be named Xbox Infinite? That’s just some wild speculation by us, because we’re still buzzing about Project Scarlett. Not much was shown of the new consoles, except for a description of its internals with AMD, an SSD that functions as RAM too and the promise of 8K gaming and no loading screens. The next Halo was revealed too, titled Infinite.
Publication: The Hindu (Mumbai) (Bangalore) (Hyderabad) (Chennai)
10th Gen Intel Core i7-10510U “Kaby Lake” Spotted, Slower than AMD Ryzen 7 3700Uedit
Intel’s 10th Gen lineup is turning out to be a mixed bag, with the 10nm Ice lake parts delivering decent IPC upgrades, but the 14nm Comet Lake chips being more or less similar to the existing Coffee Lake architecture, with negligible gains.
Publication: Techquila
Broadcom’s USD 2 billion warning rattles global chip sectoredit
Shares in Broadcom fell as much as 8.6 per cent, wiping more than USD 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 per cent and 3 per cent.
Publication: Asian Age
PC Gaming Devices Will Post Solid Growthedit
IDC identifies gaming PCs as desktops or notebooks that have a premium- or performance-grade GPU. This includes the midrange and high-end offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Professional-grade GPUs such as the Quadro and Radeon Pro are excluded from IDC’s gaming PC definition.
Publication: Cell IT
EMEA PC Gaming Devices decline 5% in Q1: IDCedit
IDC identifies gaming PCs as desktops or notebooks that have a premium- or performance-grade GPU. This includes the midrange and high-end offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Professional-grade GPUs such as the Quadro and Radeon Pro are excluded from IDC’s gaming PC definition.
Publication: Var India
Competition in news
Intel Turns to Samsung in Order to Resolve CPU Shortage on the 14 nm Processedit
ntel has seemingly partnered with Samsung, one of the largest manufacturers of Integrated Circuits, in order to help reduce the CPU shortage currently affecting the PC market. It is the first time ever that Intel turned to Samsung for it’s CPU manufacturing given that, historically, Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) has always relied on Intel’s internal fab to manufacture all of its components.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
10th Gen Intel Core i7-10510U “Kaby Lake” Spotted, Slower than AMD Ryzen 7 3700Uedit
Intel’s 10th Gen lineup is turning out to be a mixed bag, with the 10nm Ice lake parts delivering decent IPC upgrades, but the 14nm Comet Lake chips being more or less similar to the existing Coffee Lake architecture, with negligible gains.
Publication: Techquila
Nvidia to work with this company for building supercomputersedit
Nvidia Corp on Monday said it will make its chips work with processors from Arm Holdings Inc to build supercomputers, deepening Nvidia’s push into systems that are used for modeling both climate change predictions and nuclear weapons.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Intel “Ice Lake” IPC Best-Case a Massive 40% Uplift Over “Skylake,” 18% on Averageedit
Intel late-May made its first major disclosure of the per-core CPU performance gains achieved with its “Ice Lake” processor that packs “Sunny Cove” CPU cores. Averaged across a spectrum of benchmarks, Intel claims a best-case scenario IPC (instructions per clock) uplift of a massive 40 percent over “Skylake,” and a mean uplift of 18 percent.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
Intel launches project to help Israeli tech start-upsedit
Intel Corp launched a project on Sunday to help start-ups in Israel develop technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems, and said it planned to bring the scheme to other countries as well.
Publication: The Asian Age
Intel evaluating ways to move global supply chain away from China, says CEOedit
Intel Corp. is considering moving part of its global supply chain away from China amid that country’s trade war with the US, Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan said Sunday. Intel doesn’t believe tariffs are an “effective way to drive global trade,” Swan said, and is encouraging the governments to engage in constructive dialogue — even as Intel tries to mitigate the impact of the dispute.
Publication: Business Standard
Industry news
Hiring activity increases 11% in May; IT, BPO, education take the lead: reportedit
Hiring activity registered 11 per cent jump in May over the corresponding month last year. This uptick has been fuelled by recruitment activity in the IT-software sector, BPO and education according to the Naukri JobSpeak report. The Naukri JobSpeak Index for May 2019 stood at 2,346, while in May 2018 it was 2,106.
Publication: Business Today
PC Gaming Devices Will Post Solid Growthedit
IDC identifies gaming PCs as desktops or notebooks that have a premium- or performance-grade GPU. This includes the midrange and high-end offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Professional-grade GPUs such as the Quadro and Radeon Pro are excluded from IDC’s gaming PC definition.
Publication: Cell IT
EMEA PC Gaming Devices decline 5% in Q1: IDCedit
IDC identifies gaming PCs as desktops or notebooks that have a premium- or performance-grade GPU. This includes the midrange and high-end offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Professional-grade GPUs such as the Quadro and Radeon Pro are excluded from IDC’s gaming PC definition.
Publication: Var India
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