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AMD Ryzen 3000 Threadripper CPU With 64 Cores Coming in 2019 | Digital Trendsedit
Although Intel is putting up a brave fight on the CPU front, challenging AMD to ” come meet us in real-world gaming,” there’s no denying that AMD has everyone’s attention with its upcoming line of Ryzen 3000 CPUs. They’re expected to steal the performance crown from Intel for the first time in more than a decade. But the red team isn’t done yet. Following shortly after its mainstream 12-core Ryzen 3900X in July, and the monstrous 16-core, Ryzen 3950X in September, we’ve now heard tell that Ryzen 3000 Threadripper chips are coming before the end of the year. And one of them has 64 cores.
Publication: The Viral News
AMD Radeon RX 5500 Gets Benchmarkededit
AMD is preparing lower-end variants of its NAVI GPUs based on new RDNA graphics card architecture, which will replace all the existing cards based on aging GCN architecture. Today, AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 5500, as it is called, got benchmarked in GFXBench – a cross-platform benchmark which features various kinds of test for Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android.
Publication: Tech Power Up
AMD Radeon RX 5300XT and B550 Motherboards to Launch Next Month with Pre-Built Systemsedit
Several pre-built systems on the HP website have appeared listing the AMD Radeon RX 5300XT as the GPU. As per german website computerbase.de, the RX 5300XT will be exclusive to OEM manufacturers. And, HP is likely to be the first of them. Moreover, B550 motherboards are also likely to release by next month.
Publication: Techquila
Release delayededit
AMD has delayed the release of its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X drocessor by two months to sometime in November.
Publication: The Asian Age
AMD Ryzen 3000U APUs to Power Microsoft Surface 3; Radeon Navi 12 and 14 GPUs to Launch Soonedit
Earlier this week, it was confirmed that the upcoming Microsoft Surface laptops will be powered by Ryzen. A new leak suggests that the new Surface will feature the Ryzen 3000 APUs. A listing for an Acer laptop has the Ryzen 5 3500U listed as the processor. Let’s break down the rumors on-by-one. Moreover, the new Radeon Navi 14 and Navi 12 GPUs are expected to launch in less than a month (October 15th)
Publication: Techquila
AMD Radeon Navi 12 “Big Navi”, NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Killer Supposedly Launching Soon?edit
Eagle-eyed observers over at PC Games Network have narrowed down the potential release timeframe for AMD’s “2080 Ti Killer,” the Navi 12. How do we know this when AMD themselves have had very little to say? It comes from commit notes to the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Okay, first things first, what’s Mesa 3D? Mesa is an alternative graphics driver for AMD graphics cards running on Linux.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Ryzen Third-Gen Threadripper CPUs to arrive in Novemberedit
AMD is all set to battle it out against the arch-rivals Intel as the company is geared up to bring its highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5 3500X Third-Gen Threadripper processor in November. The new processor will compete against Intel Core i5-9400F.
Publication: The India Wire
Chinese Outlet Reviews the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X: Faster than the Intel Core i5-9400Fedit
We’ve got more information about the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X. The folks over at WCCFTech caught wind of a Chinese outlet that unboxed and benchmarked the processor well before any official announcement about the part. We’ve talked about the 3500X before but here’s a quick recap. The Ryzen 5 3500X is broadly similar to the 3600 on tier up, except for the fact that it doesn’t feature SMT.
Publication: Techquila
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Snapdragon 865 SoC Might Launch During September 24 Event: Reportedit
Taking steps further, Qualcomm is likely to introduce the world with the Snapdragon 865 flagship SoC during its September 24th event. According to a report, the latest processor is going to be an advanced version of the Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC. Furthermore, the new SoC is expected to be based on the 7nm EUV process. And, the chipset is believed to be manufactured by Samsung.
Publication: Gizbot
Amazon Brings AI Performance to the Cloud with NVIDIA T4 GPUsedit
Automated yet human-like customer service. Professional workstation performance on any connected device. Cinematic-quality PC gaming. These are a few of the diverse capabilities coming to cloud users with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs now in general availability on AWS in North America, Europe and Asia via new Amazon EC2 G4 instances.
Publication: CIOL
Intel Ships New Stratix 10 DX FPGAs, VMware Among Early Partnersedit
Intel has announced shipments of new Intel Stratix 10 DX field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The new FPGAs are designed to support Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI), PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen4 x16 and a new controller for Intel Optane technology to provide flexible, high-performance acceleration. VMware is one of many early access program participants. “Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGAs are the first FPGAs designed to combine key features that dramatically boost acceleration of workloads in the cloud and enterprise when used with Intel’s portfolio of data center solutions.
Publication: Biz Wire Express
AMD Radeon Navi 12 “Big Navi”, NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Killer Supposedly Launching Soon?edit
Eagle-eyed observers over at PC Games Network have narrowed down the potential release timeframe for AMD’s “2080 Ti Killer,” the Navi 12. How do we know this when AMD themselves have had very little to say? It comes from commit notes to the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Okay, first things first, what’s Mesa 3D? Mesa is an alternative graphics driver for AMD graphics cards running on Linux.
Publication: Techquila
Chinese Outlet Reviews the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X: Faster than the Intel Core i5-9400Fedit
We’ve got more information about the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X. The folks over at WCCFTech caught wind of a Chinese outlet that unboxed and benchmarked the processor well before any official announcement about the part. We’ve talked about the 3500X before but here’s a quick recap. The Ryzen 5 3500X is broadly similar to the 3600 on tier up, except for the fact that it doesn’t feature SMT.
Publication: Techquila
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AMD Radeon RX 5300XT and B550 Motherboards to Launch Next Month with Pre-Built Systemsedit
Several pre-built systems on the HP website have appeared listing the AMD Radeon RX 5300XT as the GPU. As per german website computerbase.de, the RX 5300XT will be exclusive to OEM manufacturers. And, HP is likely to be the first of them. Moreover, B550 motherboards are also likely to release by next month.
Publication: Techquila
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4 Instancesedit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of G4 instances, a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance designed to help accelerate machine learning inference and graphics-intensive workloads, both of which are computationally demanding tasks that benefit from additional GPU acceleration.
Publication: IT News Online
Industry news
With firing rises hiring of outplacement companiesedit
“Times are busy,” said Sue Ann Vaz, the head of value-added services at ABC Consultants. Vaz’s team, among other things, is engaged by companies to provide outplacement and career-transition services to employees who are being let go of. Given the recent spurt in layoffs in India Inc, she said she had, at times, been juggling up to four meetings a day. While the tax reforms announced by the government on Friday have cheered businesses and will likely provide a boost to the employment market, the slowdown that had gripped the economy for months has led to job losses in several sectors.
Publication: The Economic Times
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