2019 was a busy year for the graphics card market. We saw the launch of AMD’s Radeon Navi cards based on the new RDNA architecture, NVIDIA countered with the RTX 20 Supers and later the GTX 16 Supers. This year also got some action from AMD in the form of the Radeon RX 5600 XT, but it’s too early to tell how well it has done. We’ve pulled out the Steam Hardware Survey scores which give us an idea of which GPUs are most popular among Steam gamers.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s semiconductor manufacturing division has won a contract to make new Qualcomm Inc 5G chips using its most advanced chip-making technology, two sources familiar with the matter said, boosting the Korean firm’s efforts to gain market share against rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Publication: The Economic Times

In line with the ambitious plans of Telangana to establish Hyderabad amongst the top 25 global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation Hubs, and the State’s announcement of 2020 as the ‘Year of AI’, Intel has announced its ‘Intel AI Applied Research Centre’ in Hyderabad and IT Minister KT Rama Rao officially inaugurated its centre from the dais of BioAsia 2020.

Publication: Telanagana Today 

Single core and multi-core Cinebench R20 scores were recently spotted for what appears to be the Intel i7-10700F, an unannounced 8-core, 16-thread Comet Lake part. The alleged i7-10700F features a 2.9 GHz base clock, on par with leaked specs for the vanilla i7-10700. The i7-10700F scored 4781 on the multi-core test and 492 on the single core test. The single-threaded score is approximately 2 percent higher then Ryzen 7 3700X, while the multi-threaded score is well within the margin of error.

Publication: NoteBook Check 

An Applied AI Research Centre for Mobility and Healthcare, which is an in­itiative involving IIIT ­Hyderabad, chipmaker Intel, In­dian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) and Telanga­na government, was for­mally launched by Indus­tries and IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao here on Wednesday.

Publication: The Hindu 

US-based chipmaker Qualcomm may be about to suffer a setback and that may be at the hands of Chinese smartphone makers including Oppo and OnePlus. It seems like Oppo and OnePlus are said to join Samsung, Huawei and Apple by launching its own chipsets that may power all future handsets from these Chinese smartphone players. Till now, Oppo has used both MediaTek as well as Qualcomm SoCs for its smartphones.

Publication: The Times of India

The ROG G21 has top-of-the-line specifications for a Windows PC and you can pretty much run anything on this one in the best of ways. For my review, I had it connected to my 4K TV, which is not the best way to play games on a PC as capable as this one. However, I don’t have a monitor and hence, the TV was the only way to use the PC.

Publication: India Today

Intel Labs, in collaboration with QuTech which is an advanced research centre for quantum computing and quantum internet, has unveiled details about its first cryogenic quantum control chip called “Horse Ridge.” The “Horse Ridge” chip addresses fundamental challenges in building a quantum system powerful enough to demonstrate quantum practicality: scalability, flexibility and fidelity, Intel said in a statement on Wednesday.

Publication: Telangana Today

Only two companies in the world manufacturer CPU – Intel and AMD. While Intel is easily seen, AMD is popular for its graphics card which makes playing almost every game easy. However, it usually hard to recognize AMD and this makes it difficult to trust a relatively unknown name.

Publication: News Nation