The present and future success of any organisation largely depends on having the right people in the right roles, at the right time. This makes, succession planning a key priority for management across companies, especially in large, global organisations. In simple terms, succession planning refers to the proactive and systematic effort made to ensure continuity in leadership. It is meant to sustain and enhance intellectual capital for the future, while also enabling individual employee growth and development.

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There’s nothing we like more than a good sale and this is the kind of deal that only comes around once in a blue moon. Get this: the first-gen Ryzen Threadripper 1920X is selling for $199.99 on Amazon. (Disclaimer, we have no idea how long stocks will last and there’s no guarantee that this price will stick). Yes, we’re not kidding and no, you didn’t teleport into the crazy sale deals dimension when you were sleeping. The 12-core 24-thread 1920X is currently available for less than the launch price of the Ryzen 5 1600.

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AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 XT custom cards are finally available in the Indian market. All major board partners including Gigabyte, Powercolor, Sapphire, Asus and MSI have revealed their products, with the prices being slightly on the disappointing side. The cheapest AIB card is the MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Mech with a price-tag of Rs. 39,199 while the rest are all priced in the early 40,000s.

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AMD updated its technology roadmaps to reflect a 2020 launch window for its upcoming CPU and graphics architectures, “Zen 3” and RDNA2. The two will be based on 7 nm+ , which is AMD-speak for the 7 nanometer EUV silicon fabrication process at TSMC, that promises a significant 20 percent increase in transistor-densities, giving AMD high transistor budgets and more clock-speed headroom. The roadmap slides however hint that unlike the “Zen 2” and RDNA simultaneous launch on 7th July 2019, the next-generation launches may not be simultaneous.

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AMD’s $5.4 billion purchase of ATI Technologies in 2006 seemed like an odd match. Not only were the companies in separate markets, but they were on separate coasts, with ATI in the Toronto, Canada, region and AMD in Sunnyvale, California. They made it work, and arguably it saved AMD from extinction because it was the graphics business that kept the company afloat while the Athlon/Opteron business was going nowhere. There were many quarters where graphics brought in more revenue than CPUs and likely saved the company from bankruptcy.

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