Technology giants are increasing- ly designing their own semiconductors to optimise everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life. Google has the Tensor Processing Unit, Apple has the A13 Bionic and Amazon.com has the Graviton2. What the titans all lack, however, is a factory to build the new chips they are dreaming up. Enter Samsung Electronics, which is planning a decade-long, $116-billion push for their business. (Alibaba)

Publication: The Economic Times 

A growth-oriented business needs a growth-oriented team to support it. Any organization is built by individuals having distinct roles and different responsibilities. But when the roles are so different, is it justified to have the same systems across the organization? Dell identifies three different categories of employees working in any organization: the Movers, the Makers and the Doers. And to empower your team to do more than they ever thought possible, Dell’s got something for everyone!

Publication: Livemint

Technology for MSMEs: Running personal computers (PC), which are more than four-year-old in businesses and having older operating systems, can cost SMEs over double productivity losses vis-a-vis new computers, said a study by Microsoft and global small business IT market research firm TechAisle. The chances of old computers requiring repairs are 3.8 times higher for SMEs that can lead to a minimum loss of 132 hours worth of productive time.

Publication: Financial Express 

It looks like India will have its own line of supercomputers by 2022. According to the latest report, the Government of India has approved to begin the second phase of the National Supercomputing Mission with plans to set up 73 supercomputers across the country. The National Supercomputing Mission or NSM is a government body under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Department of Science and Technology, located in Pune and Bengaluru.

Publication: Gizbot

These are still early days for Cloud as globally, the enterprises still reserve 97 per cent of their IT spend for on-premises jobs and devote just 3 per cent to the Cloud. In India, the story is no different but with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) now driving Cloud, the year 2020 is going to witness more businesses in the country moving their workloads to the Cloud, according to the industry experts.

Publication: Gadgets Now

The CES 2020 is slated to take place from 7 January to 10 January. The event will take place in Las Vegas this time as well. The official CES website says, more than 4,500 exhibitors will be taking part, covering a million square feet area to set up their stalls. On the sidelines of the event, brands like AMD, Intel and Panasonic among others will be unveiling new concept products that will displayed for the public.

Publication: The Quint

Some of the biggest and high remuneration openings are with industry leaders such as Accenture, Capgemini, IBM, Dell, NVIDIA, the Xpheno survey found. The funded startups are also competing with the branded big boys chasing some of the best available talent in the market.

Publication: The Economic Times

Gone are the days when customers were defined on the basis of mere demographics or numbers. Brands are now placing customers at the very heart of their mission, with the intent of building a stronger and deeper relationship, and data is turning out to be a brand’s most important toolk it, says Shashi Seth, Senior Vice-President, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

“Adoption of cloud technologies within Indian organizations will be on the rise in the next few years, with a majority of them moving towards a Hybrid multi- cloud strategy starting 2020 on- wards”, said Vikas Arora, Vice President, Cloud & Cognitive Software & Services, IBM India/South Asia.

Publication: The Hans India