Resident Evil 3 Remake is a very well optimized game, at least on PC. The console ports, however, may need some more work. With it being an AMD partnered title, it performs better than expected on team red’s cards. However, with the optimization being as good here, it performs better than most AAA games across the board right now. I’m guessing level design here really takes the cake, as the game is segmented off with different, limited open areas to explore. Overall, I’m really impressed with the work Capcom has done here.

Publication: TechQuila

Hey guys! We are back with a brand new gameplay video and this time my sister will be playing it. Special mention to AMD for sharing the game code with us.

Publication: Vimal Chintapatla – YouTube

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 powered notebooks finally hit retail today after a long wait, and oh boy, do they deliver. Just hours after launch, and it’s a bloodbath. The Ryzen 7 4800H has already started topping benchmark charts. This includes Cinebench R15, R20, Blender, 7-zip and the PassMark laptop benchmark database. The top-end Renoir chips crush the Intel’s Core i9-9980HK by a sound margin and leave the i7 parts far behind. Granted, the 10th Gen Comet Lake lineup is about to launch soon, but they won’t be more than 10-15% faster than their predecessors. And that’s per Intel’s official marketing materials. The actual gains will be in the ~10% range.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD just launched the Ryzen 4000 notebook APU family, highlighted by the heavy-hitting Ryzen 7 4800H and flagship, Ryzen 9 4900HS. With the arrival of these 7nm Zen 2 parts in the mobile space, there is no reason to buy an Intel Coffee Lake H part: AMD beats Team Blue in both price and performance.  As per our earlier report, the Ryzen 7 4800H, which is actually shipping in laptops at present, is now the world’s fastest mobile CPU. The Ryzen 9 4900HS will likely take the throne in the weeks to come, but it’s remarkable how even the mid-range Ryzen 7 part does so much better than Intel’s top-end i9-9980HK.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel is wary of AMD’s Ryzen 4000H laptop gaming processors so they will launch quite a few Comet Lake H gaming CPUs to counter the red team. Already we have spotted a few of them on benchmarks and soon they will release in the coming months. Intel is preparing an eight-core, sixteen thread Comet Lake Core i7-10875H which was recently spotted on Geekbench with an impressive multithreaded score of 8369. This makes it faster than the Coffee Lake i9 series, around 45% higher than the Core i9-9880H.

Publication: TechnoSports

It suddenly seems working from home is an attractive prospect for more people, or perhaps even the only option. This is how things currently stand, and we are left to make the most of the resources available to us. Thankfully, delivery is still possible in most cases, so an upgrade on your workstation could be the perfect way to set up your home office and stay safe. Your business may well require some extra support during these difficult times. Some of this can be arranged remotely, such as consultancy or cloud services. For British businesses that are trying hard to keep things remote, a company offering IT support in London is on hand to meet your requirements within the new ...

LG has already launched the 27-inch UltraGear gaming monitor dubbed as LG 27GN750 and is a CES 2020 award-winning monitor of the UltraGear series. The monitor has an IPS panel with a 1ms (gray-to-gray (GtG)) response rate. The monitor has an FHD panel that supports HDR10 and covers 99% of the sRGB colourspace. The LG 27GN750 monitor is also both Radeon FreeSync (for Adaptive Sync) and NVIDIA G-SYNC compatible. The 27GN750 monitor includes gaming-specific options, such as Dynamic Action Sync mode, Black Stabilizer and Crosshair.

Publication: TechnoSports

It was coming and now the much-hyped Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 featuring the Ryzen 4000H gaming processors are here. Already the Asus TUF Gaming laptops have been launched and now the new 14-inch gaming laptop makes its way to the market. Last year Asus launched the ROG Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 7 3750H and now the OEM has launched the laptop with the custom 35 W Ryzen 9 4900HS. The CPU is expected to outperform a 45 W Intel Core i9-9880H and even the unlocked Core i9-9980HK.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD’s Renoir Ryzen 4000 series APUs just arrived in the notebook space. Cinebench, Blender, and Passmark benchmarks show the higher end Ryzen 7 4800H zooming past the Intel i9-9980HK to become the fastest mobile CPU on the market at the moment. This is likely to change as soon as AMD’s higher end Ryzen 9 4900 series SKUs and Intel’s Comet Lake H parts arrive on the market. But for a part that goes up against the i7-9750H, the Ryzen 7 4800H offers frankly ridiculous value for money.

Publication: Notebook Check 

A lot of upcoming Surface devices have appeared on popular benchmarking websites recently, including the ‘so-called’ Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3. Now, a new Surface device has passed through UserBenchmark, listed as the OEMQN EV1. The interesting thing though is which Surface device it might actually be as the device, brought to our attention by @_rogame, features an Ice Lake processor. As per our previous Surface Go 2 benchmark listings featuring a Core M3, suggests that Microsoft is planning a modest upgrade for its smallest Surface 2-in-1 with a 15W Intel CPU.

Publication: TechnoSports

Microsoft reported a whopping 775% surge in usage of its cloud services where the governments have enforced social distancing or restrictions. Its top services include Xbox Live gaming platform, Teams collaboration tool, and Windows Virtual Desktop. The growth in usage has also forced Microsoft to make some important changes to these platforms to reduce the stress on telecommunications infrastructure. “Although the majority of deployments still succeed, (so we encourage any customers experiencing allocation failures to retry deployments), we have a process in place to ensure that customers that encounter repeated issues receive relevant mitigation options.”

Publication: Hindustan Times 

Microsoft has seen a huge 775 per cent increase in its Cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or ‘shelter-in-place orders. Microsoft Teams now has more than 44 million daily users and they generated over 900 million meeting and calling minutes, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate VP for Microsoft 365. “Windows Virtual Desktop usage has grown more than 3 times. Government use of public ‘Power BI’ to share COVID-19 dashboards with citizens has surged by 42 per cent in a week,” Spataro said in a statement late Sunday.

Publication: Business Standard

All organisations in India are in their digital transformation journey. The challenge at this juncture is in finding the right solution to protect the data, as not only are data volumes seeing a surge, but are becoming more valuable and complex, said Ripu Bajwa, Director and General Manager (Data Protection Solutions), Dell Technologies.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine 

Nvidia will reportedly launch its Super Turing series graphics cards for notebooks with the Mechrevo Z3 series of gaming laptops on April 2. According to notebook maker Mechrevo’s Weibo page, there will be an online conference on April 2 where it is expected to unveil the new laptops featuring the new graphics cards by Nvidia. The conference will be held at 7pm CST Asia as stated in the Weibo post. Interestingly, Intel will also be launching its rumoured 10th-gen Comet Lake-H CPUs on the same date, according to previous reports.

Publication: Gadgets 360 

AMD announced that the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs are extending performance advantages through Microsoft Azure NVv4 virtual machines (VMs). These VMs, which are now generally available to customers in South Central U.S. and Europe West Azure regions, provide a virtual desktop experience, enabling customers to power remote visualization services and virtual desktops in the cloud to support entry-level workers, as well as graphics-intensive visualization workloads like CAD and simulations.

Publication: IT News Online 

AMD, in an official statement, has shared that back in December last year, a hacker got access to test files related to the company’s current and future graphics products. Some of these test files or source codes have been leaked online but the company has taken strict action to take them down. It states that the hacker has additional files as well. The person who claims to have hacked the source code spoke with a publication and said that the files are related to AMD’s upcoming products, including the Arden GPU rumoured to be present in the Xbox Series X.

Publication: Gadgets 360 

US-based semiconductor company AMD claimed that a hacker has obtained source files for some of its current and future GPUs, including details about the Xbox Series X. “In December 2019, we were contacted by someone who claimed to have test files related to a subset of our current and future graphics products, some of which were recently posted online, but have since been taken down,” AMD spokesperson said in a statement.

Publication: News 18 

Could you get a better deal? This is the cheapest laptop available, comes with a 256GB SSD and weighs just 1.47 kg, making it very portable and great for everyday use. It has a 14-inch LED display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels and a stylish matte finish on the top-lid. Powered by a dual-core AMD A4 processor with 4GB of RAM, it also features the pre-installed Windows 10 Home operating system. In terms of ports, it has 2 x USB 3.1, USB 2.0, HDMI, Ethernet, card reader along with HD webcam and dual speakers.

Publication: The Economic Times 

HP Inc has announced a series of new advanced security solutions designed to provide enterprises, SMEs and remote workers with complete protection against threats. The company’s new offerings include HP Pro Security Edition, HP Proactive Security and HP Sure Click Enterprise. HP Pro Security Edition provides SMBs with advanced application isolation and deep learning Endpoint protection on Windows 10 PCs.

Publication: News Dio 

Dell Technologies World 2020, which was changed to a virtual event due to the coronavirus pandemic, will move from May to October in order to focus on helping customers in this time of need. “Three weeks ago, with the information we had at the time, we made the decision to take Dell Technologies World virtual. Much has changed in those three weeks,” said the company in a blog post on Friday. “And it’s clear to us that we need to stay focused on supporting our customers and partners with their most immediate needs.”

Publication: CRN

Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities tells investors that Apple is very likely to use ARM-based processors on its forthcoming Mac notebooks and desktops as early as next year. In a research note obtained by MacRumors, Kuo claims the decision to ditch will cut processor costs down by 40 per cent to 60 per cent. Switching to ARM-based processors instead of the x86 ones could be a part of the bigger strategy.

Publication: Indian Express

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 APUs will feature the world’s first low-power octa-core processors, bringing desktop levels of performance to the notebook PC space. We’ve already seen many Renoir benchmarks and in nearly every test, they eat Intel’s Comet Lake CPUs for breakfast. Ice Lake manages to stay afloat in the single-threaded tests due to a superior IPC, but the low core count means it’s not effective in multi-threaded workloads. Today, we have a leaked CPU-Z benchmark of the Ryzen 7 4800H. Normally we wouldn’t share it, not being a real-world test and all that, but considering how well it performs, we just had to:

Publication: Hardware Times 

The Red team’s new mobile APUs will be very powerful and we all have seen the demos but how exactly they will perform against the desktop CPUs? The benchmarks of the custom AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS APU made for Asus has popped up on UserBenchmark.  The Ryzen 9 4900HS is an absolute monster with a bit lower TDP (35W) and features the same 8-core and 16-threaded configuration like the Ryzen 7 APUs but with higher clock speeds.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD announced that the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs are extending performance advantages through Microsoft Azure NVv4 virtual machines (VMs). These VMs, which are now generally available to customers in South Central U.S. and Europe West Azure regions, provide a virtual desktop experience, enabling customers to power remote visualization services and virtual desktops in the cloud to support entry-level workers, as well as graphics-intensive visualization workloads like CAD and simulations.

Publication: IT News Online 

In a bid to focus on security updates, Microsoft is pausing all optional non security releases for supported versions of Windows and its server products. The tech giant is particularly suspending C and D updates, which are usually released during the 3rd and 4th week of each month, respectively. These include non-security improvements and fixes. But the changes don’t go into effect until May, so we can still expect a few last optional non security releases next month.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

The Core i7-1065G7 is mostly seen in ultrabooks including the Razer Blade Stealth, HP Spectre x360, and the Dell XPS 13 while the Core i7-1068G7 is seen nowhere being used. Already AMD has launched the revolutionary Ryzen 4000 series mobile processors and Intel is wary of the fact. Intel is expected to make the CPU available to OEMs before the end of Q1 2020 for a launch in Q2 to give competition to the Ryzen 4000 APU laptops. Both the Ryzen 7 4700U & 4800U can be a tough competitor to Intel as the 7nm architecture plays a key role in AMD’s performance and efficiency to that to Intel 14nm process.

Publication: TechnoSports

Firstly, you need to check if you have the latest video card drivers for your Nvidia or AMD graphics card. For an Nvidia graphics card, you can go to the GeForce Experience control panel and update all the drivers. AMD users can do so by visiting the official AMD website and downloading the relevant video card driver for your graphics card.

Publication: Republic World 

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPUs for gaming laptops are reportedly launching on the 2nd of April. Paired with NVIDIA’s RTX Super GPUs, these notebooks will try to fight off AMD’s new Renoir machines. Considering that Comet Lake-H is another 14nm Skylake spinoff, the results aren’t going to be all that positive. The main highlight of Intel’s 10th Gen high-performance gaming laptops is the 5GHz boost clock, offering premier gaming performance.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Ubisoft has introduced support for Vulkan API in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, enabling Radeon gamers worldwide to take full advantage of the low-overhead, high-performance API in the title. With Vulkan support, Radeon gamers enjoy eyewatering framerates, crystal clear visuals, and fluid gameplay, offering more performance and value versus the price-matched competition.

Publication: TechQuila

On the back of its strength in managing complex supply chains, Lenovo India is aiming to double its PC shipment volume in the financial year 2020-21 and log 15 per cent year-over-year revenue growth during that period despite the challenges brought about by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a top company executive said on Monday.

Publication: Silicon India 

According to a report from WCCFTech, AMD is looking to launch its Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs and the 2nd Gen Navi 2x GPUs simultaneously in October this year. The announcement is expected to come earlier, somewhere in early Q3 2020, either late August or September while the hard launch will follow in October. Keep in mind that this rumor hasn’t been confirmed by any of our sources, so take it with a grain of salt. However, as AMD already confirmed at the FAD earlier, their next-gen CPUs and GPUs are slated for launch in Q4 2020, so it can’t be too far off the mark either.

Publication: Hardware Times 

With work from home a reality for many now, ET Wealth looks up some of the best laptops available for those on a budget. UNDER Rs 25,000- HP 14Q (cy0005AU): The cheapest laptop with a 256GB SSD weighs just 1.47 kg, making it great for travel and daily use. It has a 14-inch LED display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels and comes with a stylish matte finish on the top-lid. It is powered by a dual-core AMD A4 processor with 4GB of RAM and also has Windows 10 Home operating system pre-installed.

Publication: The Economic Times 

The RX 5600 XT is a great choice for gamers who want to upgrade from the aging GTX 1060. AMD has cleverly put the card at that exact price range to entice modest budget PC builders. The card pushes above 60 FPS in most instances at 1080p, and the continued driver support from AMD should help the card survive the onslaught of more demanding games over the next few years.

Publication: TechQuila

Last time, we heard about Manjaro Linux’s own laptop in 2017, when they first released Manjaro Spitfire in collaboration with Station X. Currently, we can hardly find any update about the Manjaro Spitfire laptop. It looks like the project has already been closed. But here’s another big news for all Manjaro and Linux gaming fans. On their official Twitter handle, Manjaro Linux has revealed their collaboration with AMD Ryzen to bring a new Linux gaming laptop.

Publication: Fossbytes

ASUS has revealed its top segment ROG Strix GA35-G35DX gaming desktop. It supports high-end games with a resolution of 4K UHD and should remain relevant for many years to come. The ROG Strix GA35-G35DX comes with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 3950X processor, mounted on a ROG Strix X570 board, and cooled with a 240mm radiator. The configuration also includes an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Graphics card and 64GB of DDR4-3200 memory.

Publication: TechQuila

Microsoft has announced new measures to help businesses and organisations grappling with the COVID-19 outbreak and the increased usage of resources owing to people working from home. In an official blog, the tech giant notes that it is managing cloud services capacity to support critical operations, and prioritizing the needs of first respondents, emergency organisations, and critical government agencies.

Publication: Telangana Today 

On the back of its strength in managing complex supply chains, Lenovo India is aiming to double its PC shipment volume in the financial year 2020-21 and log 15 per cent year-over-year revenue growth during that period despite the challenges brought about by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a top company executive said on Monday.

Publication: Business Standard

Shortly after the specification-unveil of the Xbox Series X, Microsoft announced the DirectX 12 Ultimate API for the next-gen gaming PCs and the accompanying XSX console. While it basically it’s an incremental upgrade over the existing DirectX 12 (tier 1.1), its core advantage is cross-platform support: Both the next-gen Xbox Series X as well as the latest PC games will leverage it. This not only simplifies cross-platform porting but also makes it easier for developers to optimize their games for the latest hardware.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD is in a very competitive position at the moment. Their market shared in both the consumer and server segments are growing and they’ve got a process lead over Intel. This is all thanks to the new Zen microarchitecture that powers the existing Ryzen CPUs. Before Zen, AMD was in a very precarious situation, nearly on the verge of bankruptcy. The older Bulldozer based FX processors were slow, inefficient and overall an architectural disaster.

Publication: Hardware Times 

When AMD revealed the two newest members of their family of the first-gen RDNA powered cards, we were excited. After all, when you have at least one GPU in each price segment, it becomes easier for consumers. Today we’re taking a look into the Radeon RX 5500 XT, or rather the Powercolor Red Dragon variant of it. Before jumping in, I’d like to set expectations for this card. While its bigger brother, the RX 5600 XT is targeted towards luxury 1080p gaming, this one’s not. The 5500 XT is really meant to tackle the NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super. So, with that in mind, let’s jump into it.

Publication: TechQuila

Microsoft has now updated its DirectX API with DirectX 12 Ultimate, whose core focus is one raytracing and other nifty features for video game development. In their new blog post on the API update, Microsoft explained how DX12 Ultimate will help developers and GPU platform creators (AMD and NVIDIA). As seen in the video above, DX12 Ultimate will aim to become the leading API for cross-platform development. It brings updated features on DXR (DirectX Raytracing), Variable Rate Shading, Mesh shaders, and sampler feedback.

Publication: Daily Hunt 

Microsoft has now updated its DirectX API with DirectX 12 Ultimate, whose core focus is one raytracing and other nifty features for video game development. In their new blog post on the API update, Microsoft explained how DX12 Ultimate will help developers and GPU platform creators (AMD and NVIDIA).

Publication: TechQuila

The Red team’s upcoming Ryzen 4000H gaming APU will be seen on next-gen gaming laptops with all the Zen 2 architecture goodness. We know that the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 will be one of the firsts to debut in the market with this APU. Also the Ryzen 7 4800HS which is custom made by AMD for ASUS coming with 35W TDP is also a 8 core, 16 threaded processor with 3GHz base clock and 4.3GHz boost. So it should give superior performance both in terms of gaming and productivity.

Publication: TechnoSports

Ecosystem is the biggest and most renowned fight in the tech industry. Microsoft and Apple fought for the PC market with Windows and Mac respectively. Google and Apple are fighting for the mobile market with Android and iOS respectively. While we thought the PC market fight is a long decided battle, Google thinks there is an opportunity for a third player. Its challenger is the Chrome OS, and we got a chance to test it on HP Chromebook x360.

Publication: BGR India 

Affordable gaming laptops that suit your needs perfectly are always challenging to find and that’s simply because of the sheer number of things you need to take into account before splashing the cash. Well, ASUS is one brand which is among the few out there in India to have something for you, regardless of how niche your requirements are. Even if we talk about gaming laptops, ASUS offers a wide range of products under its affordable TUF range and the more premium ROG (Republic of Gamers) range.

Publication: MensXp

PC maker Asus India has made it mandatory for all employees to work from home (WFH) from March 23, in line with government advisory to check the spread of Coronavirus. “Effective 23rd March we have made WFH mandatory for all employees across India till 31st March, following the recent guidance from the government.

Publication: Business Insider 

India has set a good audacious goal to rally the entire country towards the aggressive target of becoming a $5-trillion economy. Amit Midha, president, APJ & Global Digital Cities, Dell Technologies, believes India has the right demographics and capabilities to realise this digital future and achieve the $5-trillion target. “With a significant focus on Make in India, India can leapfrog the digital economy phase and be amongst the top players, globally,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interview.

Publication: Financial Express 

Apple has just introduced its brand-new iPad Pro 11-inch and 12.9-inch models that are more feature rich than before and are more powerful as well. To be precise, the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro is in its 4th-generation while the 11-inch model is in its 2nd-generation. Apple, like the last time, is pitching both tablets as a replacement to your laptops for everyday work. And adding to it is the new Magic Keyboard that now comes with a trackpad. So, with the keyboard accessory and the tablet Apple claims to deliver users a similar experience that they get when working on traditional laptops.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Despite launching new iPad Pro models this week, Apple is still on course to launch a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with a mini-LED display later this year. A new supply chain report says that Apple will utilize mini LED in an iPad Pro and the source further claims that this is only the start of Apple adopting this display technology, as the company aims to increasingly deploy it over the next five years, Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes reported recently.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

AMD has posted a video showing the RDNA 2 ray-tracing capabilities of upcoming video cards – with the technology also found in PS5 and Xbox Series X – and this gives us an idea of the kind of graphic effects we can see in future games. Using Microsoft’s just-announced DirectX 12 Ultimate API, which brings DirectX Raytracing tools, variable-rate shading and more, the video shows advanced lighting effects and reflections, including bells and whistles. Although this is just a technical demo – and in some cases goes a bit overboard with some of the effects – it does show what the Xbox Series X and future AMD Radeon graphics cards can do.

Publication: Compsmag

The main function is DirectX Ray Tracing 1.1, which was developed by Nvidia together with Microsoft and AMD. This upgrade to ray tracing rendering brings better lighting, reflection and shadow effects for a larger number of future games. It is also planned to make some of the current games look better, with Minecraft being one of the great examples.

Publication: Bolly Inside

The Sony PlayStation 5 will come with a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU clocked at 3.5GHz and a custom GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture hardware that goes up to 10.28 teraflops and has 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz. Both the CPU and GPU will support variable frequencies. The PS5 is set to have 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and a custom 825GB SSD. Sony promises that the SSD will have super fast load times in games. The PS5 SSD is set to have a bandwidth of 5GB per second while it will have a load time of 2GB in 0.27 seconds.

Publication: BGR India 

The PlayStation 5 is already sounding closer to a gaming PC with impressive specifications that will power the console. From super-fast Solid State Drives (SSD), to new CPU and GPUs by AMD and interesting audio features – the console has a lot going for it. We also know that the console will be able to support up to 8K resolution and higher refresh rates, thanks to the upgraded hardware.

Publication: MensXp

AMD hs finally started to reveal more about their plans for raytracing on their upcoming RDNA 2 graphics cards. Yesterday, AMD released the following video which showcases raytracing via Microsoft’s Direct X API. An interesting thing to note is that this comes right after Microsoft unveiled Direct X 12 Ultimate, which is an updated version of the same API.

Publication: TechQuila

Together with the PLI, the government also announced a scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronics Components and Semiconductors (SPECS) with an outlay of ~3,285 crore over eight years, and Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC) 2.0 with a budget of of ~3,762.25 crore spread over eight years

Publication: Business Standard

Industry executives say demand for laptops have gone up by 40-45 per cent in the past week mirroring a trend in Europe and other parts of the world. Firms are placing bulk orders with laptop makers such Dell, Acer, HP and Lenovo. “Our services and sales teams, supply chain partners are continuously working together to meet our customers’ demand,” said a spokesperson of Dell.

Publication: The Morning Standard 

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Series X will be using a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU with eight cores at 3.8 GHz each and a custom AMD RNDA 2 GPU with 12 tera flops and 52 compute units at 1.825 GHz each, coming with 16GB of GDDR6 RAM with a 1TB custom NVME SSD storage drive. Microsoft is targeting overall performance at 4K 60fps, up to 120fps.

Publication: Indian Express 

The folks over at UltraBook Review recently shared a complete list of all laptops currently known to feature AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800H and Ryzen 7 4800HS processors. We’ll get to that list shortly but first, a little bit about these two processors. As part of AMD’s Ryzen 4000 APU lineup, the Ryzen 7 4800H and 4800HS are premium-spec eight-core sixteen thread chips, with Vega 7 iGPUs. They deliver stellar performance: the 45W TDP on the 4800H and the 35W TDP on the voltage-binned 4800HS, mean that both are able to deliver sustained performance that’s not far off the mark from the desktop Ryzen 7 3700X.

Publication: Hardware Times

After months of rumours and speculations, Sony has announced what the next generation of the PlayStation will have in store for the gamers. This comes just a few days after Microsoft also unveiled the key specifications of its next Xbox, the Series X.  The PlayStation 5 will come with an ultra-fast SSD storage, an integrated custom I/O system, a custom AMD GPU with ray tracing, and immersive 3D audio, among other things.

Publication: Gadgets 360 

Sony is using a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU that is clocked at 3.5GHz. The PlayStation 5 will also have a custom AMD GPU based on RDNA 2 architecture, promising 10.28 teraflops and 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz. The PS5 also gets 16GB of DDR6 RAM, similar to that on the Xbox Series X. The Sony PlayStation 5 will also have full support for real-time ray tracing.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Sony and Microsoft have both revealed their upcoming next-gen gaming consoles – the PS5 and the Xbox Series X. The latter has been confirmed to include a GPU with 12 Teraflops of power. It’s the same architecture that AMD has been using in its latest products in the graphics card division. All the RX 5000 series cards are based on the same architecture and provide a huge benefit in terms of power and efficiency over the previous GCN-based cards.

Publication: TechQuila

Sony has finally released the specifications of its much-awaited next-gen console, PlayStation 5. The company released new details about the console at a virtual keynote for Game Developers Conference 2020, where Sony’s lead system architect Mark Cerny spoke at length about all the new features coming to the console. Apart from this, the company has also revealed that the PlayStation 5 will come with an x86-64-AMD Ryzen Zen 2 CPU that can run at speeds up to 3.5 GHz and will be paired to 16GB of DDR6 RAM.

Publication: India Today 

HP has been pushing hard in the gaming laptop industry with its Pavilion Gaming series and unlike the competition, it has tried to maintain its own identity. The Pavilion Gaming notebooks appeal to a different class of users those users who want the best performance without compromising on build quality and design at a price that does not burn the wallet. HP updated the series last year with the 9th Gen Intel processors and now, it has introduced a couple of AMD powered models as well.

Publication: India Today 

The new Dell G5 gaming laptop will be blessed with Ryzen tech. The two companies joined forces in order to create the Dell G5 special edition lineup of gaming notebooks. Dell over the years has built up a decent reputation when it comes to high-end gaming notebooks. The Alienware is one of their products that has a small cult following. While the Alienware is still around and on the shelves, Dell went further to work on something bigger and better this time.

Publication: SegmentNext

Acer posted on Twitter about its upcoming gamebook, the Shadow Knight 5. Acer announced that its new gamebook is equipped with AMD Ryzen 7 processor and GTX 1650 Ti graphics card. AMD announced the full lineup of the Ryzen 4000 series on March 16, 2020. The Ryzen 4000 outperforms Intel’s laptop CPU offerings on multi-threaded performance or graphics performance. On the other side, the GTX 1650 Ti has not been announced by Nvidia yet.

Publication: Scoop Whoop 

With the upcoming PS5’s specs finally revealed by Sony, it’s time to compare it to the current-gen PS4. While we still haven’t seen any real gameplay on the PS5, the numbers that were revealed at Sony’s announcement sure have us intrigued. This PS4 vs PS5 comparison is in no way 100% accurate, as there are multiple factors that go into a console’s design and architecture beyond pure numbers. With that said, let’s see what improvements Sony has made over the last generation of PlayStation console.

Publication: TechQuila

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday the coronavirus pandemic would hurt sales of smartphones and consumer electronics this year, while demand from data centers would fuel a recovery in memory chip markets. Samsung Galaxy A8+ in IndiaSamsung Electronics CEO Kim Ki-nam said the coronavirus and U.S.-China trade disputes were casting a shadow over the outlook for the South Korean tech giant, whose Galaxy smartphones vie with Apple’s iPhones for global dominance.

Publication: Telecomlead

Google on Wednesday appointed long-time industry veteran Karan Bajwa as Managing Director of Google Cloud in India. A senior leader with over three decades of leadership experience, Bajwa will be responsible for driving all revenue and go-to-market operations for Google Cloud’s extensive solution portfolio that includes Google Cloud Platform and G Suite in the country. “His experience will be a tremendous asset to Google Cloud’s business, our partners and our customers as we embark on this next phase of growth,” Rick Harshman, Managing Director of Google Cloud in Asia Pacific, said in a statement.

Publication: Business Standard 

As part of its global efforts to support innovation enabling human progress, Dell Technologies in partnership with NITI Aayog, Hope and Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the launch of its first ‘Atal Tinkering Lab’ in Mumbai at Rajda Municipal School (BMC), Borivali. Through this partnership, together Dell Technologies’ and NITI Aayog have impacted more than 1,33,000 students to foster innovation and entrepreneurial mindset from a very young age.

Publication: Business Wire 

Apple just announced the MacBook Air 2020 with significant improvements across the board. The new MacBook Air is priced starting from USD 999 (Approx. Rs 74,200) with a USD 100 discount for educational customers. Apple also promises big gains in performance over previous-generation MacBook Air laptops.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Speces are scarce, but AMD is on processor/graphics duty and it will use rapid GDDRG memory. Far more exciting is Microsoft’s claim that the Series X will support 8K gaming at up to 120fps with a variable refresh rate. This simulates lighting in the most realistic way yet, so enviornments look true to life because being reminded of the real world is what everyone wants when playing video games. Sony’s PS5 is expected to go pretty much toe to toe in the speces stakes, although leaked benchmarks suggest the Series X wins by 12 teraflops to 9 (with a teraflop measuring theoretical measuring theoretical performance).

Publication: Stuff

The sole purpose of any Ryzen-powered laptop is to bring down its price, but you still can’t get a capable 1080p gaming laptop around the Rs.75,000 mark.. until Now. The pricing is a bit confusing as MSI’s MRP pegs the device at Rs.99,990, but you can get it for Rs.74,990 online, so the pricing makes sense.

Publication: Stuff India

T ech giant Microsoft has an- nounced that there are now over a billion active devices running Windows 10 worldwide. “We are delighted to announce that over one billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 200 countries resulting in more than one billion active Windows 10 devices. We couldn’t be more grateful to our customers, partners and employees for helping us get here,” Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice-president, Modern Life, Search and Devices, Microsoft, said.

Publication: Telangana Today 

M icrosoft has announced that the Xbox Series X will be using a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU with eight cores at 3.8GHz each and a custom AMD RNDA 2 GPU with 12 teraflops and 52 compute units at 1.825GHz each, coming with 16GB of GDDR6 RAM with a 1TB custom NVME SSD storage drive. Microsoft is targetting overall performance at 4K 60fps, up to 120fps.

Publication: Telangana Today 

When Microsoft revealed the official specs of the Xbox Series X a couple of days ago, some interesting information regarding AMD’s RDNA 2 GPU was uncovered. The console, along with the PS5, will be running a custom variant of and AMG GPU built on the 7nm RDNA 2 process. Considering AMD hasn’t released these cards officially yet, there are some interesting things to talk about here regarding their proposed ‘Big Navi’ card coming later this year.

Publication: TechQuila

Xbox Series X is the next gaming console by Microsoft and those looking forward to it would be curious about the new features it brings. Recently, an XBox Series X Technology Glossary was shared on the Xbox news website and here are some of the technologies that the upcoming console will come with.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Samsung’s game streaming platform, the PlayGalaxy Link that was launched alongside the Galaxy Note 10 smartphone last year, is shutting down on March 27, 2020. It is worth adding that Samsung’s PlayGalaxy Link platform never came out of the beta version. When you visit the company’s dedicated website, the page shows the announcement notice up front. Although the exact reason has not been confirmed, the statement adds that the step was taken due to ‘internal policy changes’.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

San Francisco: Facebook Inc. chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said that as the social network gets more aggressive in policing misinformation about the coronavirus, even politicians, celebrities and those posting in private groups aren’t exempt from the rules.

Publication: Livemint

Infosys said that it had joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program to offer end-to-end solutions for smart stadiums, smart venues and smart event management. The program is designed to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies, and enterprises with Qualcomm Technologies’ ecosystem to help deliver greater efficiencies, cost savings, and broad access to solutions for smart cities’ problems.

Publication: The Economic Times 

It seems that AMD’s Ryzen 4000 laptops will finally hit the market later today after multiple rounds of speculations. As per a report from Videocardz, pre-orders should go live today itself, albeit the actual shipping dates will probably be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AMD has also added the top-end Ryzen 9 4900H and 4900HS SKUs to its slides that feature a higher boost clock and beefed up integrated graphics.

Publication: Hardware Times 

After months of speculation and several dozen “leaks”, AMD has finally taken the wraps off their Ryzen 4000 APUs “Renoir”. Pre-orders are going to start in the coming days and the reviews are slated to go live no earlier than April. AMD today also confirmed the existence of the top-end Ryzen 9 SKUs with higher operating frequencies and souped-up graphics. However, these will be released at a later date (tentatively Q2).

Publication: Hardware Times 

The rise of Nvidia’s GTX 16 and RTX series has dramatically improved the price-to-performance ratio of gaming laptops in India. The MSI GL63 has been updated with those GTX 16 series graphics and 9th Gen Intel processing hardware. At Rs 65,500, the MSI GL63 is one of the better performing GTX 16 series gaming laptops on the market. From previous benchmark tests, we gathered that the Core i5-9300H is marginally faster than the AMD Ryzen 3750H in multi-threaded performance and noticeably faster in terms of single-core performance.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Getting an AMD-powered laptop can be quite the hassle given that not all retailers stock them and manufacturers are a little slow to bring the same into the Indian market. All of that is set to change today with the launch of the AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile processor lineup. Announced at CES 2020, the AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile processor lineup, codenamed “Renoir”, consists of eight SKUs of varying configurations that have up to 8 cores / 16 threads and have their TDP ranging from 15W to 45W.

Publication: Digit

AMD showcased the 3rd generation Ryzen 4000 Mobile CPU family at CES 2020 and today, the company has launched them globally. Codenamed as Renior, the new processors from AMD come with new Zen 2 Core and are built on the 7nm architecture. The latest CPUs from the company now feature a wide range of processors that range between low power 15W TDP to all the way to high-performance 45W SKUs. AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile also comes with improved power efficiency as AMD has ensured that the new CPUs by using low power components and LPDDR4X RAM.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

AMD showcased the 3rd generation Ryzen 4000 Mobile CPU family at CES 2020 and today, the company has launched them globally. Codenamed as Renior, the new processors from AMD come with new Zen 2 Core and are built on the 7nm architecture. The latest CPUs from the company now feature a wide range of processors that range between low power 15W TDP to all the way to high-performance 45W SKUs. AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile also comes with improved power efficiency as AMD has ensured that the new CPUs by using low power components and LPDDR4X RAM.

Publication: The Times of India 

AMD is announcing two new laptop CPUs this morning: the Ryzen 9 4900H and the 4900HS. The chips are the top-performing members of AMD’s new 4000 mobile series, which is based on the company’s 7nm Zen 2 architecture, and they aim to take on Intel’s Core i9 laptop line. You should see them in new laptops starting this upcoming Spring. The chips are designed to power desktop-class gaming and productivity in (relatively) portable laptops.

Publication: Betroid

Gaming laptops have a repute for being massive, unwieldy machines that merely can’t be lugged to and from work or faculty on a regular basis; or a minimum of they shouldn’t. However, I actually admire Asus for his or her ROG Zephyrus sequence of gaming laptops that carry excessive finish gaming in machines that don’t look misplaced in a non-gaming setting. So when Asus despatched over the Zephyrus M GU502GU (Rs. 1,49,990) to us, I used to be excited to see what Asus had achieved with this Zephyrus laptop computer.

Publication: Enter21st

Indeed, Bengaluru, as a back-office to the world, ought to be in the vanguard. With videoconferencing made easier by companies such as Zoom, information sharing made seamless across teams by software from Google, Slack and Dropbox, even small firms are able to allow remote work very easily.

Publication: Livemint 

Walmart-owned Flipkart and Infosys Ltd along with other technology firms have extended work-from-home option to all those who needn’t be in office.(Walmar,Infosys,Flipkart,IBM,Dell)

Publication: Livemint

As worrying as it may be, the COVID-19 outbreak has forced a large portion of the world’s population to stay indoors. This means many of our weekends are spent sitting in front of the laptop and TV and not roaming about in malls and parks. Incidentally, the PC gaming market has in recent weeks and months seen an increase in the number of AMD Ryzen-powered laptops.

Publication: Digit

If you have a gaming PC at home or even a gaming laptop, you can help in fighting the deadly Coronavirus. Sure, it doesn’t sound like something that is possible but you can lend the graphical power of your gaming PC to help fight the virus. Of course, you don’t have to be in a specific region to make your PC available for researchers.

Publication: MensXp

Midrange server revenue declined 14.1 percent to $3.3 billion. High-end server systems grew 8.9 percent to $2.4 billion. HPE is the #1 server supplier with revenue shares of 16.3 percent. Dell Technologies has server revenue shares of 15.7 percent. HPE’s server revenues were down 3.4 percent. Dell Technologies server revenue declined 9.9 percent.

Publication: InofoTech Labs 

Whenever we get a brand new laptop computer in to evaluation on the Beebom workplace, I’m normally pretty excited. Sometimes, I’m too excited, and typically I’m not, however I am excited to a sure diploma nearly each single time. So when Asus despatched us the Vivobook 14 X403 for a evaluation some time again, I used to be undoubtedly wanting ahead to utilizing it as my major laptop computer for a couple of days to see what it’s like.

Publication: Enter21

With all of the gaming laptops that I’ve reviewed, a few themes have at all times stood out to me, and anybody who has learn any of the opposite gaming laptop computer critiques that I’ve written would know, that I love ASUS for constructing gaming laptops that don’t appear like large, unwieldy behemoths that I can’t carry on my desk with out attracting an excessive amount of consideration.

Publication: Enter21

A rare ‘PlayStation’ prototype developed by Nintendo and Sony during the 1990s, sold for $360,000 at an auction. The ‘PlayStation’ is believed to be the “only surviving example of 200 pre-production consoles that spawned from a once promising partnership between Sony and Nintendo,” according to the US-based Heritage Auctions, which sold the console.

Publication: The Economic Times – ET Panache

Chinese PC-maker, Chuwi is planning to launch an interesting device: A mini-PC that essentially looks like an Xbox console. The specs were shared by a Japanese website, PC Watch and they put it more or less on par with present-gen handheld consoles. This Chuwi mini-PC is powered by an embedded AMD APU, the A9-9820 which packs 8 cores (no SMT) and a max boost clock of 2.35GHz.

Publication: Hardware Times 

If you are out in the market to build a gaming rig, its a pretty ‘straight-forward’ process. Of course, that’s the case for someone like me. But if you are someone who isn’t very adept with hardware, and don’t want to go through the process of getting the right parts, then there is the option of directly getting a CPU tower. While there are some local brands out in the market, if you want peace of mind, then Dell has an interesting offering.

Publication: News18

Apple is working on launching new MacBook models in the second quarter of 2020, according to a report by MacRumors that cites a research note by known tipster and former KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo. As per the report, Apple is expected to launch both MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models that will come with scissor keyboards.

Publication: The Times of India 

Today’s gamers are voracious multitaskers. They use their mobile phones for messaging during gaming sessions, listen to music, watch game-related live streams, video content and even browse websites. This trend has led to the genesis of dual screen gaming laptops and we can expect more innovation on in these devices in future.(HP)

Publication: Mint

Microsoft confirmed that the Xbox Series X will have an AMD Zen 2 custom processor along with Radeon RDNA 2 GPU. The GPU will have 12 teraflops of computing power and will support Variable Rate Shading and hardware accelerated DirectX ravtracing.

Publication: Digit

RedmiBook 14 was launched in China last year. In October, Xiaomi launched RedmiBook 14 Ryzen Edition. The laptop sports an AMD Ryzen 7 3700U processor and comes with a 14-inch FHD IPS display with a 5.75mm ultra-narrow bezel. The laptop has screen-to-body ratio of 81.2%. Xiaomi’s RedmiBook 14 is said to deliver up to 10 hours of usage and supports quick charge as well. Other important features of the laptop include MiDrop, Mi Smart Unlock 2.0.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

BIOSTAR, a leading brand of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices, today unveils the A10N-9630E motherboard with built-in AMD Bristol Ridge, 7th generation processor. BIOSTAR has been a manufacturer of robust and highly reliable motherboards for many years and has a wide range of models on both Intel and AMD platforms to choose from and a plethora of supplementary components catering to many user preferences.

Publication: IT Voice 

San Francisco, Google has announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource that contains all the information people need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, reducing the amount of time people spend managing their Cloud environment. Custom images capture the contents of a single disk, for example, a boot disk, which can be used to create new instances that are preconfigured with the apps that you need.

Publication: The Economic Times – ETCIO

Will 2020 be the year of Linux Desktop? Well, within the past three months, various news regarding the support for Linux has already witnessed it at some level. For instance, Microsoft’s previewed antivirus for Linux and the Linux-based Azure Sphere for IoT solutions or the latest Zen 3 code push by AMD for its 19h family graphic driver. The open-source community is moving swiftly along with propriety stakeholders. And the recent job posting by AMD for Lead Linux kernel developer is cherry on the cake. AMD plans to grasp the market of open-source graphics drivers for Linux.

Publication: Fossbytes

Designed to make a bold and personal statement, its optional gigabit class 4G LTE allows workers to connect and collaborate from almost anywhere. HP Elite Dragonfly claims to be the world’s first business convertible with a 4×4 LTE antenna and pre-installed personal wellbeing software, HP WorkWell.

Publication: Financial Express

Asus has been offering a wide range of products for gamers under its affordable TUF range and the more premium ROG (Republic of Gamers) range. Now if you are particularly looking for a gaming laptop that brings you the ROG experience at a slightly affordable range, the company has the ROG Strix G. Launched in the second half of 2019 this is more of an entry-level ROG product. Available at a budget of under Rs 1 lakh, the Strix G is available 15-inch (G531) and 17-inch (G731) screen sizes and we took the larger model through its paces.

Publication: News18 

Acer Swift 5 Designed to be carried around all-day for work and entertainment, the Swift 5 is one of the lightest 14-inch clams hell notebooks that weighs just 990 grams. Apart from a powerful Nvidia graphics card, it also has the latest Intel Core CPU and is only 14.95mm thin.

Publication: The Economic Times – ET Panache 

Laptops powered by AMD Renoir Ryzen 4000 APUs are not too far from release, and we have been seeing several benchmarks featuring the new APUs leak over the past few weeks. AMD offers a Pro- version of the APUs for business customers, which we have seen in the likes of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 and 15 that were recently announced. A comparative benchmark between the Ryzen 5 4500U and the Ryzen 5 Pro 4650U has now emerged showing the kind of performance difference that can be expected between them.

Publication: Notebook Check 

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 powered laptops are finally available for pre-order in the form of the ASUS TUF Gaming and Zephyrus laptops with a shipping date of 16th March. Newegg Canada’s listings for the first wave of Renoir laptops are now live after a prolonged wait. The laptops feature the Ryzen 4000H series APUs paired with NVIDIA’s GTX 16 series discrete GPUs, making them ideal for gamers and power-users. They all feature high-speed NVMe SSDs and 16GB of DDR4 memory, while the display varies from 1080p 60Hz to 144Hz for eSports and FPS fans.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Bantu celebrates Women’s Day with his sister with a PC Build video on his channel. For his budget PC build, he uses the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, ASRock Mini-ITX, G.SKILL Ripjaws V (2 x 8GB) 3600MHz, ZOTAC GTX 1660Ti Twin Fan , Ant Esports GM300, InWin A1 Plus Mini-ITX Tower, Gamdias Pheripherials, MantisTek GH2 Headphones, BenQ GW2480 24-inch Monitor, etc.

Publication: Bantu Tech Insights – YouTube 

Security researchers from Positive Technologies have found a new flaw in the latest Intel processors launches in the past five years. These Intel processors are likely to be powering your Windows and Apple MacBook laptops. The flaw is said to fail the hardware-based encryption and DRM protections and can go unnoticed by traditional anti-virus software. Also mentioned on the website’s blog post is that Intel’s latest 10th-gen processors are not vulnerable to this flaw. “This vulnerability jeopardizes everything Intel has done to build the root of trust and lay a solid security foundation on the company’s platforms,” said Mark Ermolov from Positive Technologies.

Publication: Hindustan Times

AMD had revealed that Zen 3 will be based on 7nm+ architecture. However, in its Financial Analyst Day 2020, AMD dropped the “+” from 7nm in their presentation slides. While this might seem surprising, AMD has a pretty viable yet vague clarification for the same. AMD says that it dropped the “+” to keep the nomenclature in line with TSMC’s 7nm process nomenclature.

Publication: TechQuila

On its Financial Analyst Day, AMD did not launch any product though but still said some interesting things regarding their upcoming GPUs. The RDNA 2 architecture is being much speculated off recently as because it will power the Xbox Series X and PS5 gaming consoles and the upcoming Navi 2X GPUs as well.

Publication: TechnoSports

Today, we have honoured Shanti Raghavan of EnAble India. It is inspiring to know that her organisation has placed thousands of divyang people in corporate jobs. I am happy to know that her organisation, EnAble India, focuses on comprehensive development and people skills in order to ensure that differentiated candidates are well equipped to face work challenges in the corporate sector.” The BusinessLine Changemaker Awards ceremony is supported by LIC, Tata Sons, Dell, Qualcomm, PepsiCo and Nestle among other partners.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

U.S. judge said Amazon Inc is likely to succeed on a key argument of its challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to award cloud computing deal worth up to $10 billion to Microsoft Corp. The opinion by US Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith was unsealed on Friday. On February. 13, she issued an order blocking work on the contract pending resolution of Amazon’s court challenge.

Publication: The Asian Age 

Lenovo Ideapad S340 81VV00GHIN | `41,990 | The Ideapad S340 is equipped with an entry-level 10th Gen Intel i3 processor, but you get an option of a backlit keyboard, 8GB RAM, as well as a “privacy shutter” for its webcam.

Publication: The Times of India 

AMD joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and HPE, in announcing that El Capitan, the upcoming exascale class supercomputer at LLNL, will be powered by next generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs, AMD Radeon™ Instinct GPUs and open source AMD ROCm heterogeneous computing software. With delivery expected in early 2023, the El Capitan system is expected to be the world’s fastest supercomputer with more than 2 exaflops of double precision performance.

Publication: CellIt

Sony released its PlayStation 2 (PS2) gaming console in Japan on March 4, 2000, which according to the time difference was March 5, 2000 in India. The console was then released in North America on October 26, 2000, and in Europe and Australia on November 24, 2000. The PS2 was Sony’s second instalment of the PlayStation console line-up, a successor to the original PlayStation, which was released back in 1994. (Express Photo: Karanveer Singh Arora) (Source: Photo by Karanveer Singh Arora)

Publication: Indian Express 

A s far as gaming notebooks are concerned, brands have been conforming to a singular design of thin bezels and compact form factors. Take the new Acer Nitro 7, for instance. It has a full metal chassis that adds to its sturdiness and slim bezels that look smart and also keep the size in check. At 2.5kg, it isn’t the lightest gaming notebook, but fits easily into a regular-sized bag. Its edges are a bit sharp and makes carrying it in your hand a tad uncomfortable.

Publication: Mint

T he HP Elite Dragonfly is meant to bring style into business class notebooks. It’s meant for HP’s enterprise customers, but unlike the usual boring black or grey ultrabooks, the Dragonfly has a sleek matte finish.

Publication: Livemint

With days, computing has shrunk in its size and got more powerful with days and laptops these days play a key role in our daily lives. For work, laptops have become a primary concern, and people tend to make wrong decisions too often while buying a budget laptop. In India, laptops under Rs.30k are in huge demand but some do lack the performance you require for your laptop’s longevity.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD today announced that they have joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and HPE to build the upcoming exascale class supercomputer, El Capitan, at LLNL. El Captain will be the world’s fastest supercomputer and will be powered by next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs and open-source AMD ROCm heterogeneous computing software.

Publication: The Times of India 

We’ve seen AMD’s higher-end Navi cards with the RX 5700 and the RX 5700XT, and the entry-level Navi GPU with the RX 5500 XT. But we hadn’t seen anything for the gamers who play in the mid-range. Finally, that wait is over too. With the launch of the RX 5600 XT, AMD seems to have covered all the segments. But was it worth waiting all this time? Today we find that out, with the Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT.

Publication: Gaming Monk – YouTube 

Today, Hyper-Converged technology is going mainstream. Big, small and medium sized organisations are all deploying this technology to transform their IT infrastructure. However, amidst the increasing emphasis on software (in software-defined infrastructures), hardware is being overlooked. A closer analysis clarifies that hardware is extremely essential to HCI, in order to achieve the highest level of performance.

Publication: BW Smartcities – Businessworld 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and Advanced Micro Devices Inc on Wednesday said they had won a $600 million deal to deliver a supercomputer that will be used by the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear security arm to support the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The computer, dubbed El Capitan after the famous rock face in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It will also be used by two other national nuclear labs, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Publication: Devdis Course

When the PlayStation 5 eventually launches later this year, there is a possibility you will need to make a choice between two consoles.  There are rumours and speculations that indicate Sony has planned to launch two models of the PlayStation 5 together out of which one will be a “Pro” model. Sony launched the PlayStation 4 Pro towards the middle of the console’s life-cycle, however, this time Sony may want to have a head start.

Publication:: MensXp

Today, Hyper-Converged technology is going mainstream. Big, small and medium-sized organisations are all deploying this technology to transform their IT infrastructure. However, amidst the increasing emphasis on software (in software-defined infrastructures), hardware is being overlooked. A closer analysis clarifies that hardware is extremely essential to HCI, in order to achieve the highest level of performance.

Publication: CRN

If your choice is between the RX 5600 XT and the RTX 2060, it mainly boils down to one question – how much do you care about ray tracing? Just go through the list of current and upcoming titles that have ray tracing support. If you think they’re the kind of games you’d enjoy more and want to see RTX in action, by all means go with the 2060. But if all you’re looking for is raw performance and want the best framerate at highest settings when gaming at 1080p, the RX 5600 XT is hands down the best option available in the market right now.

Publication: Gaming Monk

AMD’s wraith prism cooler is easily the best stock CPU thermal solution out there. But RGB and aesthetics aside, is it any good is it in terms of actual function? The Ryzen 3000 processors are governed by the Precision Boost 2 algorithm which in turn is fairly temperature-sensitive, among other things. Without a liquid cooler, it’s nearly impossible to get to the spec boost frequency, let alone overclock the CPUs.

Publication: Hardware Times 

In an explosive piece by Business Insider, developers and publishers told the publication that Google didn’t offer enough money to make games for the new cloud-based game service, Stadia. Some developers said that the lack of financial incentives is hurting the game development for Stadia, while others are worried about Google’s lack of commitment in the long run for the platform. This is a major setback for Google’s ambitious streaming video game service, which was seen as the future of gaming.

Publication: Indian Express 

Microsoft launched the Surface Go tablet in India a little over a year ago but appears ready to give it a quick upgrade sometime soon. According to a recent report from Windows Latest, Microsoft will equip the second-generation Surface Go with an Intel 8th Gen Core m3 CPU. Expected to hit the stores later this year, the Surface Go 2 will feature some minor design changes but won’t look drastically different from the way it does now. We can expect the Surface Go 2 to cost the same $399 (Rs 28,870 approx) as before.

Publication: Digit

Samsung Electronics has started building a $220 million research and development centre in Vietnam, the South Korean tech giant’s local unit said on Monday. Construction of the centre in Hanoi will be completed by the end of 2022, Samsung Vietnam said in a statement, adding that the centre will employ between 2,200 and 3,000 people.

Publication: The Economic Times

The review unit of the MacBook Pro that we received is powered by a 9th generation Intel Core i9-9880H processor. This eight-core CPU has a rated TDP of 45W, a base clock of 2.3GHz and a boost clock of 4.8GHz. In addition to the processor, there is also the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M discrete graphics with 4GB of GDDR6 memory along with 1TB storage and 16GB DDR4 RAM. This configuration currently costs Rs 2,39,990 and is available off the shelf at various Apple authorized retailers both online and offline.

Publication: Digit

Chromebooks can be considered niche products if you talk in the context of the Indian market. There are a few things that these machines are marketed for: mobility, long battery life and the ability to use Android apps on a laptop. Over the past year, HP has been going about its way to cement its position as the Chromebook king in the country. The Chromebook x360 and the budget-grade Chromebook 14 were considered worthy challengers to offerings from Lenovo, ASUS, and even Google’s Pixel Slate.

Publication: 91 Mobiles

A game developers conference in San Francisco was postponed Friday, after Facebook and Microsoft withdrew from the event due to concerns about the spread of novel coronavirus. The annual gathering was due to start March 16 in a downtown convention center but will be held later this year instead, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference said.

Publication: The Economic Times

‘Versatile’ is the name of the game and HP is one of those brands that we reckon with when talking about convertibles. The convertibles (or as you call it: 2-in-1s) are not just for the media consumers but for heavy users and students as well. And HP is betting big on the Spectre X360 (Intel Core 10th-gen) laptop for this. These 2-in-1 adds the ‘premiumness’ with ‘power’ to deliver a clamshell device that not many brands can’t pull off easily.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

The page talks about the fact that the console can play physical discs, something we are aware of. It also talks about the new features of the PS5 controller including the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, again features we have been aware of for months now. The listing also says that the console will have “full 8K TV support, Bespoke 8-core AMD chipset, 3D Audio, built-for-purpose SSD storage, backward compatibility with PS4 games/PSVR hardware.

Publication: Digit

Dell Technologies partnered with AMD to develop a portfolio of new-age high performance servers that are designed to address the most complex requirements, regardless of any workload. The new portfolio called Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with 2nd Generation AMD EPYC, offers new ready solutions for High-Performance Computing (HPC), and simplified management integrations with leading software and public cloud providers.

Publication: The Financial Express 

Tech companies like TCS, Infosys, SAP Labs India, AMD, Texas Instruments, Cognizant, Mindtree, Mphasis are set to crack the gender diversity code. These companies are building initiatives like hiring more women at all levels, up-skilling and leadership programmes for women to even providing support to women employees in terms of flexibility at work that may further improve the gender balance in the Indian tech space.

Publication: The Economic Times

Tell us about the partnership with AMD for the new range of servers. Dell Technologies partnered with AMD to develop a portfolio of new-age high performance servers that are designed to address the most complex requirements, regardless of any workload.

Publication: The Financial Express