Intel Corp said on Wednesday it has not been able to keep up with the increasing demand for CPUs and said supply remained “extremely tight” in its personal computer business. “Despite our best efforts, we have not yet resolved this challenge,” the chipmaker said here in a letter, in which the company also apologized to its customers and partners for the shipment delays. Shares of the chipmaker were down nearly 1% in after-market trading.

Publication: Reuters

Companies with multiple addresses in a city can easily help their employees tide over commuting-related problems. In August 2018, semiconductor multinational company Advanced Micro Devices set up a “satellite office” in Bengaluru, and the move is said to have been shaped by a survey that showed 40% of its workforce lived in areas close to the Central Business District. When a company has multiple addresses, it can help its workforce tide over commuting-related problems. It can come in handy particularly for companies whose nature of operations is not conducive to readily offering a work-from-home arrangement.

Publication: The Hindu

IT giant Tata Consultancy Services on Wednesday announced that it has launched an innovation hub in Hyderabad with support from Qualcomm Technologies to build domain-specific solutions that leverage AI, IoT and 5G technologies. The new hub will utilize TCS’ expertise in digital technologies, along with Qualcomm Technologies’ depth in 5G, edge AI and edge devices to build solutions. It will explore the possibilities opened up by 5G in different industries such as healthcare, auto- motive, manufacturing, retail, utilities. However, none of the companies disclosed the investments made in this facility.

Publication: The Times of India 

ASUS today announced the new ProArt StudioBook Pro X (W730), which provides a wide range of features designed for professional creators. It’s the first Quadro laptop that is powered by 9th Gen Intel Xeon processor with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 graphics. This combination of cutting edge graphics and portability makes it perfect for creative professionals to achieve their goals on-the-go or in office.

Publication: Tech Power Up

NVIDIA could launch a “GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super” after all, if a tweet from kopite7kimi, an enthusiast with a fairly high hit-rate with NVIDIA rumors is to be believed. The purported SKU could be faster than the RTX 2080 Ti, and yet be somehow differentiated from the TITAN RTX. For starters, NVIDIA could enable all 4,608 CUDA cores, 576 tensor cores, and 72 RT cores, along with 288 TMUs and 96 ROPs. Compared to the current RTX 2080 Ti, the Super could get faster 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory.

Publication: Tech Power Up

The next generation of AMD and Intel motherboards are all set to arrive. According to a Biostar executive, Vicky Wang, the OEM manufacturer has access to both AMD’s B550 chipset and Intel’s 400 series chipset. Wang said this during an interview with Brainbox. Sure, newer motherboards (and newer tech in general) is always a good thing. But what’s special about these boards? The B550 is to be the successor to the B450, a price-performance champion. This is a bit of a tough ask, though: AMD’s 5-series boards feature an expensive multi-layer PCB layout to accommodate PCI-e 4.0 wiring.

Publication: TechQuila

ARM at Hannover Messe event 2019Arm, Qualcomm, Apple, Imagination Technologies and Intel captured the top-five unit share spots in the global smartphone and tablet GPU market in Q2 2019. Arm GPU IP-based smartphone and tablet GPU shipments declined 16 percent in Q2 2019. Arm’s other significant GPU licensee Samsung has partnered with AMD and the partnership could further affect Arm’s GPU position in the smartphone and tablet GPU market in future, Sravan Kundojjala, associate director of Strategy Analytics, said.

Publication: Telecomlead