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41% Of PC Gamers Own AMD Processors: Surveyedit
John Peddy research, Antikythera Intelligence and Research, and Wccftech, held a worldwide survey of PC gamers. The survey was conducted on 3.5 million Wccftech visitors to find out what gaming rigs PC gamers own. Shockingly, the study concluded that 41% of PC gamers are using AMD processors.
Publication: Fossbytes
AMD Radeon RX 5950 XT Flagship GPU spotted in EEC Registrationedit
There have been speculations regarding AMD’s upcoming flagship Navi GPUs in 2020 and we have some solid leaks to justify the speculations as well. It has been a year since AMD has launched their last flagship GPU – the Radeon Vega VII and to give a tough fight to the market leaders NVIDIA, AMD is surely planning something in 2020.
Publication: TechnoSports
We expect more innovation from India team (PROACTIVE)edit
Buoyed by the demand for high-performance computing (HPC) to support R&D efforts, US-based semiconductor major Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) expects opportunities to emerge in meteorological studies, manufacturing and finance, among others, in India. Further, the telecom sector readying to launch 5G will increase the adoption of HPC server CPUs, said Forrest Norrod, Senior Vice-President and General Manager (Datacentre and Embedded Solutions Group), at AMD.
Publication: The Hindu Business Line (Print) (Online) India Finance News World News Monitor News Now Snewsi
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Sony PlayStation 5 could be revealed next month, leak suggestsedit
The PS5 is likely to come with a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU with a custom AMD GPU that supports ray-tracing and 3D audio technology. The memory of the upcoming PS5 is still not revealed but it does have SSD storage. It carries HDR support and now even supports 8K resolution. The PlayStation 5 will also have an upgraded controller for next-gen gaming and a Blu-ray player built in.
Publication: BGR
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Dell leads Indian external storage systems market, shows dataedit
Dell Technologies held a stake of 32 per cent in India’s enterprise storage systems industry in Q3 of 2019. This information comes from the IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker Q3 2019, that showed that the company held nearly 2.6 times the share of the competitor in 2nd place during that time.
Publication: The Asian Age
Acer Swift 7 SF714-52T Reviewedit
How light do you need your laptop to be, and how much are you willing to sacrifice to reduce weight? Acer has decided to test where the answers to those questions like with its new Swift 7, a 14-inch laptop that weighs just 890g and is only 9.95mm thick. Yes, that’s thinner and lighter than some magazines. It’s a far cry from the 4kg+ laptops that were normal just a few years ago, and will even stand out compared to today’s 1-2kg ultrabooks. In addition to alleviating back pain, it’s also quite a style statement.
Publication: Gadgets360
Global PC shipments up 2.3% in Dec quarter; Lenovo retains top slotedit
According to research and advisory firm Gartner, Lenovo, HP and Dell together accounted for nearly 65 per cent of PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2019, up from just more than 61 per cent in Q4 2018. Barring the Asia-Pacific, Lenovo recorded year-on-year growth in all the regions; in the US, its growth stood at over 30 per cent.
Publication: The Hindu Business Line
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Another 16,500 laptops have been allotted to high-tech school labsedit
As many as 16,500 laptops will be made available to high-tech school labs implemented by Kite as part of the public education protection program. This is in addition to the 1,17,723 laptops provided so far for classes one through twelve.
Publication: Mathrubhoomi
Data Center Trends 2020edit
As the world charges into 2020, organizations increasingly will forego the enterprise-or-cloud debate that dominated C-level conversations in recent years in favor of hybrid architectures that incorporate public and private cloud models and edge assets around a reconfigured core. This evolving approach to managing data and computing resources is one of five emerging 2020 data center trends identified by experts from Vertiv, a global provider of IT infrastructure and continuity solutions.
Publication: CIOL
A look under the hood: Here’s how IT companies are upskilling tech savvy employeesedit
The recent earnings season sharply underlined Indian IT’s big opportunity – surging growth from digital business. On the back of this resurgence, with over a third of revenue coming from digital solutions, the IT industry is now going after a much larger share of the digital pie. To make this leap, IT enterprises will have to move faster to bolster their digital transformation capabilities.
Publication: Financial Express
Good 2020 ahead for IT: Global spends to rise 3.4% to $3.9 tedit
The Indian IT industry is set to have a good year. Research firm Gartner predicts that the software pie is set to see double-digit growth of 10.5 per cent globally as it foresees 3.4 per cent growth in IT spending in 2020. According to Gartner, global IT spending will rise to $3.9 trillion — growing 3.4 per cent over last year. “With the waning of global uncertainties, businesses are redoubling investments in IT as they anticipate revenue growth, but their spending patterns are continually shifting,” said John-David Lovelock, Vice-President, Gartner.
Publication: The Hindu Business Line
Global PC shipments up 2.3% in Dec quarter; Lenovo retains top slotedit
According to research and advisory firm Gartner, Lenovo, HP and Dell together accounted for nearly 65 per cent of PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2019, up from just more than 61 per cent in Q4 2018. Barring the Asia-Pacific, Lenovo recorded year-on-year growth in all the regions; in the US, its growth stood at over 30 per cent.
Publication: The Hindu Business Line
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