AMD specific news
AMD’s New GPUs and CPUs Keep the Pressure on the Intel and Nvidia Competitionedit
E3 hasn’t been just for games for a while. While the video games are certainly the focus, companies like AMD are reminding us that what we play on is sometimes crucial to what we play. Today the company announced a whole line of CPUs and GPUs intended to make gaming better, and the thing they all had in common? They run on 7nm.
Publication: True Viral News
AMD’s Radeon 5700 XT wants to put a dent in the world like the dent in its chassisedit
If you’re an AMD fan hoping that this will be the moment in history when the company finally pulls ahead of Nvidia with a high-end video card – like it may be doing against Intel with desktop CPUs – this isn’t that moment. Despite its new Navi architecture, which offers 1.25x the performance per clock and 1.5x performance per watt, these aren’t even as high-end as AMD’s existing (and complicated) 13.8 TFLOP Radeon VII GPU.
Publication: True Viral News
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3rd Gen ‘Sharkstooth’ CPU with 32 Cores Spotted, 20% Faster than 299WXedit
AMD’s next generation of Zen 2 Threadripper CPUs may have leaked online on Geekbench. TechPowerUp spotted an entry of a 32-Core, 64-Thread processor with a clock speed of 3.6GHz and some extremely impressive performance metrics. This next-gen Threadripper will be based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture and a part of the ‘Sharkstooth’ family.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Ryzen 3000 Mobile CPU Lineup Surfaces with Vega 9 Graphicsedit
After the launch of the Ryzen 3000 desktop lineup, we’re all waiting on the mobile chips based on the 7nm Zen 2 design. However, it seems like we’ll have to be patient for the time being as AMD is looking to release the low-power U variants of the Picasso APU parts. The mobile-based Ryzen 5 3550H and the Ryzen 7 3750H are already available, but those are meant for gaming laptops with a more relaxed TDP envelope of 35W.
Publication: Techquila
AMD’s next-gen Renoir chips could skip Navi for older integrated graphicsedit
AMD’s next-generation APUs, codenamed Renoir, will be 7nm chips featuring Zen 2 architecture, but there’s fresh speculation that the processors will run with Vega 10 graphics, as opposed to Navi (AMD’s latest graphics solution, which was previously rumored for Renoir).
Publication: NewsR
Competition in news
PC gamers rejoice: PlayStation 5 won’t be as powerful as an Nvidia RTX 2080edit
A new rumor suggests that the PlayStation 5 will feature a powerful graphics card, but it still won’t be a match for a PC with an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU. This will be good news for PC gamers – as it means the PC remains the ultimate gaming platform.
Publication: NewsR
Intel’s Pentium microprocessor developer,Vinod Dham, others back Orbo AIedit
Vinod Dham, developer of Intel’s Pentium microprocessor and technology mentor, has taken part in a Rs 11.4 crore ($1.6 million) funding round in Orbo, a maker of artificial intelligence-based image enhancement software.
Publication: The Economic Times
Intel, Marvell, NVIDIA and Arista acquisitions repaint data center market landscapeedit
Intel, in June, announced an agreement to acquire Barefoot Networks, an Ethernet switching, programmable-silicon vendor. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2019 and will combine Intel’s ubiquitous central processing unit (CPU) silicon business with Barefoot’s programmable data-plane switching silicon.
Publication: Dataquest
Industry news
Automation & AI won’t make low-skilled jobs disappearedit
Whether AI and automation will create, eliminate or modify jobs, and how much, is the central question of a never-ending debate. In 2013, the Oxford academic duo Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published a study titled “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?”, which estimated that 47% of American jobs are at high risk by mid-2030.
Publication: The Print
India’s big 3 IT firms to offer AI as a platformedit
Indian IT services providers Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosysand Wipro are betting on artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to improve delivery of solutions and drive faster growth from clients. These companies are also looking to offer the AI platforms, embedded as part of solutions until now, separately to clients.
Publication: ET Brand Equity
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