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AMD Zen 4 Will Leverage TSMC’s 5nm Node with a Higher Core Count: Reportedit
AMD’s Ryzen 3000 lineup has been the most successful CPU product stack of this decade. The 3rd Gen Ryzen chips beat rival Intel parts costing almost twice as much at times. All this was made possible thanks to the efficiency of the 7nm node and the IPC gains that came with the Zen 2 architecture. And of course, the chiplet design made the high core counts possible which otherwise would have costed a lot more. The red team hasn’t been sitting idle these days either. The next-gen Zen 3 design (7nm+) has already been taped while the Zen 4 design is being worked upon. We have two key bits of info today regarding the upcoming CPUs from AMD.
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT OpenCL Benchmarks Leak Out: Slower than NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 Superedit
AMD’s Navi based budget GPU, the Radeon RX 5500 XT can’t be far from launch now. The Polaris replacement is expected to hit shelves in the coming days, and we’ve started seeing initial benchmarks. Keep in mind that these tests are purely synthetic and not the actual representation of the real-time performance. Just take them as a rough estimate. Today, the OpenCL tests of the Navi 14 card were shared on Twitter and we ran some comparisons with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 and 1650 Super.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Adrenalin 2020 Edition Leaks Out: Radeon Boost to Supercharge your Gaming Experienceedit
AMD’s major software update for the coming year, dubbed Adrenalin 2020 Edition has been leaked. Expected to come with numerous improvements to the driver side of all Ryzen|Radeon, we only know of a select few features at the moment or well just one, Radeon Boost. According to speculations, Radeon Boost leverages the HiAlgo Boost technology. It’s essentially NVIDIA’s equivalent of adaptive shading, but it affects the frame resolution instead of the shaders.
Publication: TechQuila
Enabling business outcomes at the speed of innovationedit
Comprising of an exclusive panel discussion and session by Dell EMC experts, this evening event will give attendees an opportunity to discover the world’s largest portfolio of servers, fully optimized for 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. These servers will helps in meeting the new-age business challenges and help organizations to achieve a fully equipped digital journey. “With data deluge and complex business challenges, the datacenter is going through a dynamic transformation. There is a need to fulfil the changing IT needs of the cloud, HPC and enterprise multi-workloads. This has driven AMD and Dell EMC to collaborate and bring modern datacenter solutions with improved performance, scalability and integrated security.”
Publication: ETCIO
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Acer Nitro 5 AN517 reviewedit
The segment of affordable gaming laptops has expanded a lot over the past few years for casual gamers with not very deep pockets. ASUS has been a pioneer in this field with its FX505GT series of laptops which were packed with specs and came at a compelling price. If you prefer Intel over AMD (in my opinion you should) and don’t care about military-grade certification, then the Nitro 5 is a no brainer. The MSI offers a more portable package but sacrifices on storage by giving only 128GB option. An alternative to the Nitro 5 would be the Nitro 7 with the i7 9th-gen processors which would translate most likely to a 10-15 percent boost in performance with an asking ...
Competition in news
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon XR2 Platform For Advanced Applicationsedit
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon XR2 SoC which is an extended reality platform. The chipset incorporates Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor which greatly improves chip performance and graphics. With XR2, the graphics engine gets highly optimized featuring 1.5 times the pixel rate and 3 times the texel rate, offering lively visuals.
Publication: Gizbot
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8c, 7c will power Windows laptops that have mobile processorsedit
Qualcomm announced two new chipsets at the tech summit in Hawaii, the Snapdragon 7c and the 8c. These two new processors have been designed to create a new lineup of Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) chips for Windows laptops. This is an extension of Qualcomm’s efforts to promote Windows-based laptops that do not run traditional PC hardware and depend on mobile processors instead.
Publication: Hindustan Times
Intel CEO: I’m trying to destroy the thinking about having 90% share inside our companyedit
So, here’s something you don’t hear every day. Intel CEO, Bob Swan has claimed that having more than 90% share of the x86 CPU market has made them complacent. More context right? Okay, buckle up. In a recent interview with the man leading team blue, WCCFTech got some interesting answers. The most intriguing was with regard to Intel’s majority share in the CPU market. Over the past decade, Intel has had a near-monopoly in the x86 CPU market, with control of more than 90% of the market share. For most, this would be something worth remembering.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT OpenCL Benchmarks Leak Out: Slower than NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 Superedit
AMD’s Navi based budget GPU, the Radeon RX 5500 XT can’t be far from launch now. The Polaris replacement is expected to hit shelves in the coming days, and we’ve started seeing initial benchmarks. Keep in mind that these tests are purely synthetic and not the actual representation of the real-time performance. Just take them as a rough estimate. Today, the OpenCL tests of the Navi 14 card were shared on Twitter and we ran some comparisons with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 and 1650 Super.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Adrenalin 2020 Edition Leaks Out: Radeon Boost to Supercharge your Gaming Experienceedit
AMD’s major software update for the coming year, dubbed Adrenalin 2020 Edition has been leaked. Expected to come with numerous improvements to the driver side of all Ryzen|Radeon, we only know of a select few features at the moment or well just one, Radeon Boost. According to speculations, Radeon Boost leverages the HiAlgo Boost technology. It’s essentially NVIDIA’s equivalent of adaptive shading, but it affects the frame resolution instead of the shaders.
Publication: TechQuila
Qualcommedit
San Diego- based chipmaker Qual- comm has said it is work- ing with Reliance Jio, Flip- kart and Amazon India to build new use cases for 5G. The chipmaker also highlighted the need for markets like India to put conditions in place for speedy deployment of the fifth-generation services. Senior vice-president and general manager of the mobile business unit at Qualcomm Technologies Alex Katouzian said India could be instrumental in building new use cases for 5G.
Publication: The Statesman
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ASUS announces ASUS Exclusive Store launch in Delhiedit
ASUS India has announced the launch of its store in Delhi. Jignesh Bhavsar, National Sales Manager, ASUS India and Udip Sikri, Owner of store inaugurated the ASUS Exclusive Store today. The store is set to host an extensive range of electronics and computer hardware, including the brand’s flagship products such as VivoBook, ZenBook, Zenbook-Flip, Zenbook Duo and Republic of Gamers (ROG) laptops. The new store launch is part of ASUS’ vision to expand its market presence across different market tiers, by opening 100 stores before the end of this financial year.
Publication: CRN
Enabling business outcomes at the speed of innovationedit
Comprising of an exclusive panel discussion and session by Dell EMC experts, this evening event will give attendees an opportunity to discover the world’s largest portfolio of servers, fully optimized for 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. These servers will helps in meeting the new-age business challenges and help organizations to achieve a fully equipped digital journey. “With data deluge and complex business challenges, the datacenter is going through a dynamic transformation. There is a need to fulfil the changing IT needs of the cloud, HPC and enterprise multi-workloads. This has driven AMD and Dell EMC to collaborate and bring modern datacenter solutions with improved performance, scalability and integrated security.”
Publication: ETCIO
Acer Nitro 5 AN517 reviewedit
The segment of affordable gaming laptops has expanded a lot over the past few years for casual gamers with not very deep pockets. ASUS has been a pioneer in this field with its FX505GT series of laptops which were packed with specs and came at a compelling price. If you prefer Intel over AMD (in my opinion you should) and don’t care about military-grade certification, then the Nitro 5 is a no brainer. The MSI offers a more portable package but sacrifices on storage by giving only 128GB option. An alternative to the Nitro 5 would be the Nitro 7 with the i7 9th-gen processors which would translate most likely to a 10-15 percent boost in performance with an asking ...
Industry news
How AI is changing the recruitment game in 2019edit
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around in recruitment for a while now. AI is not a trend in recruitment, popular now, gone tomorrow, but a must-have technology here to stay. In a field where the numbers are overwhelming and time is of great essence, AI is becoming indispensable. So how is this technology changing our HR departments in 2019? According to 2019 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, the market for technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA)—software to automate manual tasks—is growing at 20 per cent annually and with the likelihood to reach US$5 billion by 2024.1.
Publication: Indian Express
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