AMD specific news
AMD Rumored to be Working on 18 TFLOP RDNA 2 GPU, Up to 50% More Efficient in Ray Tracing than NVIDIA’s RTX Cards?edit
Okay, so this is exciting news. It’s Big Navi, based on RDNA 2 with ray-tracing support, VRS and AI-based upscaling. Before we continue, yes this is an unverified rumor, but it’s a juicy one, so I decided to cover it nonetheless. Turns out AMD will be unveiling (not launching mind you) three, not one RDNA 2 based Radeon graphics cards at their Financial Day three days from now. These monster GPUs will compete in the enthusiast space with the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and the RTX 2080 Ti.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 590 GME is Real and China Exclusive?edit
It’s been a while now that Chinese market has introduced wide range computer hardware to their local online stores. Most of these products were not official releases from the actual brands and appeared to be a bit sketchy. However, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been dealing with things differently. With the release of the RX 5500 XT, AMD also launched a new RX 590 Golden Mouse Edition (GME)
Publciation: SegmentNext
Mysterious AMD Radeon RX 590 GME GPU Spotted in Asian Marketsedit
The official reference clock frequencies of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME are still unknown but it’s expected to be around 120 MHz slower than the non-GME variant. This puts the upcoming card much closer to Radeon RX 580 than to the standard Radeon RX 590. All other specifications are probably going to be exactly same as the classic RX 590 with 2304 processing cores, 12nm Polaris 30 XT GPU, 144 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The card will feature 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM with a 256-bit memory bus.
Publication: TechQuila
Competition in news
AMD Rumored to be Working on 18 TFLOP RDNA 2 GPU, Up to 50% More Efficient in Ray Tracing than NVIDIA’s RTX Cards?edit
Okay, so this is exciting news. It’s Big Navi, based on RDNA 2 with ray-tracing support, VRS and AI-based upscaling. Before we continue, yes this is an unverified rumor, but it’s a juicy one, so I decided to cover it nonetheless. Turns out AMD will be unveiling (not launching mind you) three, not one RDNA 2 based Radeon graphics cards at their Financial Day three days from now. These monster GPUs will compete in the enthusiast space with the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and the RTX 2080 Ti.
Publication: Hardware Times
Another NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 8,000 Cores and 32GB HBM2 Memory Spottededit
Another unknown NVIDIA GPU has been spotted which can only be an Ampere part with as many as 8,000 CUDA cores (nearly). The graphics processor is paired with 32GB of HBM2 memory across a potential 1,024-bit (if one stack) or 2,048-bit (if two stacks) bus. It has a total of 124 SMs and a whopping 32MB of L2 cache, five times more than the V100’s (Pascal-based Tesla) 6MB.
Publication: Hardware Times
As mentors step in, more women are becoming leadersedit
Bryant was then CIO and one of Intel’s most storied executives. “She got me talking and asked if I have a sponsor.” A sponsor is a senior executive who mentors some- one junior to them. Rai then was not even aware of what a sponsor meant. “Diane signed me up for the Senior Women Network within In- tel. I got invited to speak at a TEDx event. After that, I became such a visible face that it helped build my network within Intel and outside,” recollects Rai, who is now country head of Intel India and VP of Intel’s data centre group. (ACCENTURE)
Publication: The Times of India
Work from home is the bug fix for technology companies operating in Indiaedit
On Tuesday morning, Intel India issued an extensive email advisory to its employees in Bengaluru mentioning travel restrictions, selective home quarantine, guidance to attend large gatherings and even handling packages. Intel’s pandemic leadership team and emergency operations centre teams are monitoring the situation closely, the tech firm said in the email, adding that it has begun screening visitors, delivery people and new contingent workers arriving at all its sites.
Publication: Livemint
Partner in news
Sony Expected To Launch Two Models Of The PS5 This Year And Here’s What It Meansedit
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
Dell Technologies shares 5 secrets for CIOs to harness HCI technologyedit
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
Industry news
Budget 2020 hits the right chord on data and technology: Is India Inc ready for the quantum leap?edit
Budget 2020 has stood out for its special focus on technology, talent and infrastructure. Specific wants of India Inc and businesses around incentivising innovation, skilling, entrepreneurship and ease of doing business have been directly addressed. The boost given to digital and emerging technologies as the pivot for a disruptive new economy is quite heartening. Israel, for instance, provides a big collaborative opportunity for India to adopt that country’s very successful practices as an incubator and catalyst for driving innovation through deep technologies.
Publication: The Economic Times
How is India dominating the Gaming sector globallyedit
Game Downloads– India is leading in terms of the number of games downloaded in 2018. 5 Billion Games were downloaded in 2018 and an year-on-year growth of 14% is being observed. These surging numbers indicate a growing ecosystem of gaming in India which was only possible because of the advent of Jio that made the internet accessible to the niche audience as well.
Publication: Tech Nuter
Dell Technologies shares 5 secrets for CIOs to harness HCI technologyedit
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
As mentors step in, more women are becoming leadersedit
Bryant was then CIO and one of Intel’s most storied executives. “She got me talking and asked if I have a sponsor.” A sponsor is a senior executive who mentors some- one junior to them. Rai then was not even aware of what a sponsor meant. “Diane signed me up for the Senior Women Network within In- tel. I got invited to speak at a TEDx event. After that, I became such a visible face that it helped build my network within Intel and outside,” recollects Rai, who is now country head of Intel India and VP of Intel’s data centre group. (ACCENTURE)
Publication: The Times of India
Work from home is the bug fix for technology companies operating in Indiaedit
On Tuesday morning, Intel India issued an extensive email advisory to its employees in Bengaluru mentioning travel restrictions, selective home quarantine, guidance to attend large gatherings and even handling packages. Intel’s pandemic leadership team and emergency operations centre teams are monitoring the situation closely, the tech firm said in the email, adding that it has begun screening visitors, delivery people and new contingent workers arriving at all its sites.
Publication: Livemint
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