AMD specific news
AMD Radeon RX 5700XT only 3FPS faster than NVIDIA RTX 2070 in World War Zedit
Yesterday, I shared the UserBenchmark score of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 comparing it to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, where the Navi GPU was around 6% faster in the synthetic bench and just 6% in the effective gaming test. Today, we’ve gotten hold of an in-game benchmark of the Radeon RX 5700XT and guess what? It’s only 3 frames ahead of the RTX 2070 in World War Z which by the way is an AMD sponsored title, known to heavily favor red team.
Publication: TechQuila
More Ryzen 5 3600 Benchmarks Leaked; Zen 2 Looks Very Promisingedit
The hype train for 3rd Gen Ryzen has left the station and with the release date drawing closer and closer, more and more leaks seem to be popping up. And all these leaks have one thing in common, Ryzen being an absolute beast.
Publication: Gaming Monk
AMD Radeon Vega 56 and Vega 64 Dead? RX 5×0 Series To Last Till Q3edit
Ever since AMD launched Navi, its new GPU architecture at Computex, it was always expected for the production of older cards to decrease with time. Not just that, the fact that even more cards are expected to be launched in the Navi series in the future also puts a huge question mark on the availability of these previous generation GPUs like the Radeon RX 5×0 series, RX Vega 56 and Vega 64.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review Surfaces: Hot on the Heels of the Intel Core i9-9900K (for just $200)edit
The first review of the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 has surfaced and it’s every bit as impressive as the leaks and rumors had claimed. This maiden review comes from Spanish website, El Chapuzas and it’s way before the embargo date, mind you.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD brand mentions
US blacklists 5 Chinese companies involved in supercomputing owing to national securityedit
AMD is mentioned as a part of the companies associated with Chinese company Sugon.
Publication: Gujarat Samachar
AI, IoT fuel new chip designs, and India is at the centre of it (PROACTIVE)edit
Fathima Farouk, HR head for India at semiconductor company AMD, says they plan to add over 350 engineers in 2019, and there are a variety of openings, including for performance architecture, physical design, performance verification, machine learning, drivers and compiler development, and in embedded.
Publication: The Times of India (Hyderabad) (Bangalore)
Microsoft Surface Foldable Device Pegged For Q1 2020 Launchedit
The upcoming foldable phone from Microsoft is likely to run the Intel Lakefield 10nm hybrid SoC. Notably, the chipset is all set to be launched sometime later this year. This chipset will be a rival to the Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs for laptops and AMD Ryzen 3 lineup. It targets blurring the difference between mobiles, laptops and tablets, which is the intention of the foldable device from Microsoft.
Publication: Gizbot
Intel reportedly slashing price of its desktop CPUs amidst competition from AMD’s Ryzen 3000 seriesedit
AMD has pushed Intel on every front ever since the launch of the Ryzen and Epyc Rome CPUs. At Computex and E3 this year, AMD launched its new mainstream Ryzen 3000 series built using the 7nm manufacturing process.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Gaming PCs and Monitors Deliver Mixed Results with Steady Growthedit
“Growth in mid-priced systems is also expected to push the market forward and that’s where new CPUs and GPUs from AMD are expected to shine,” added Ubrani. “AMD’s resurgence in the PC market is also expected to carry over into the gaming market as the company’s technology investments from recent years are finally coming to fruition and offering both Intel and Nvidia some serious competition when it comes to performance per dollar.”
Publication: Cell IT
SUSE Provides Platform for Cloud-Native, Containerized Applicationsedit
Improved hardware-based data security – Service Pack 1 feature full support for AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology. First available as a developer preview in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, SEV enables guest virtual machines to run in encrypted memory, helping protect them from memory scrape attacks from the hypervisor. SP1 also supports AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) which uses a single key to encrypt system memory.
Publications: PC Quest CIOL SME Channels VAR India
Best student laptops under Rs 35,000 in India in June 2019: Dell, HP, Asus and moreedit
For someone with an even lower budget, the Asus VivoBook X540BA on Amazon India could be a good option. It is available for Rs 20,990 and comes with AMD 2-core A9 processor. You also get 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD and Windows 10 OS.
Publication: BGR
Competition in news
Dealing with Employees’ top priority – Foodedit
While most companies have third-party vendors supplying food, at least three -Goldman Sachs, NetApp and Intel – have set up massive internal kitchens, so that they have better control of quality and can serve exactly what employees want.
Publication: The Times of India
Nivruti Rai’s AI engine is now used across Inteledit
About six years ago, when Nivruti Rai travelled to Folsom in California on work, she happened to fall sick. She was then an engineering manager driving IP development for Intel from India. She wanted to check her temperature, but her hotel didn’t have a thermometer. Phones, laptops are all readily available to us, why not a thermometer, she wondered.
Publication: Times of India
As Intel and Qualcomm aim to improve productivity, they’ve forgotten to ask if we really need itedit
At Computex 2019, both Intel and Qualcomm pushed the boundaries of performance. Intel introduced Project Athena, while Qualcomm in collaboration with Lenovo gave us a look at the “always-on” PC.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Intel reportedly slashing price of its desktop CPUs amidst competition from AMD’s Ryzen 3000 seriesedit
AMD has pushed Intel on every front ever since the launch of the Ryzen and Epyc Rome CPUs. At Computex and E3 this year, AMD launched its new mainstream Ryzen 3000 series built using the 7nm manufacturing process.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Partner in news
Microsoft Surface Foldable Device Pegged For Q1 2020 Launchedit
The upcoming foldable phone from Microsoft is likely to run the Intel Lakefield 10nm hybrid SoC. Notably, the chipset is all set to be launched sometime later this year. This chipset will be a rival to the Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs for laptops and AMD Ryzen 3 lineup. It targets blurring the difference between mobiles, laptops and tablets, which is the intention of the foldable device from Microsoft.
Publication: Gizbot
Dell Technologies Accelerates Artificial Intelligence Adoption with New Dell EMC AI Experience Zonesedit
Andrew Underwood, Chief Technology Officer, High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence, Dell EMC, APJ said, “The Dell EMC AI Experience Zones provide a unique space where customers and our partners can explore, test out, and learn about the different physical and virtual components that make up an AI ecosystem. This initiative is the focal point of our commitment to fostering knowledge sharing between CIOs, our ready team of technology experts, and industry partners to accelerate AI adoption and innovation for the region.”
Publication: SME Street
Industry news
AI, IoT fuel new chip designs, and India is at the centre of it (PROACTIVE)edit
Fathima Farouk, HR head for India at semiconductor company AMD, says they plan to add over 350 engineers in 2019, and there are a variety of openings, including for performance architecture, physical design, performance verification, machine learning, drivers and compiler development, and in embedded.
Publication: The Times of India (Hyderabad) (Bangalore)
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