AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs are some of the most cutting-edge chips on the market. TSMC’s 7nm node paired with the brand new Zen 2 microarchitecture has allowed AMD to claw their back into the high-performance CPU market. Not only are the Ryzen chips faster than competing Intel CPUs, but they are also a lot more power-efficient. AMD’s core clock scaling algorithm, Precision Boost 2 was introduced with the 2nd Gen Ryzen processors and an additional feature, Precision Boost Overdrive was introduced with present Gen Ryzen 3000 chips.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD’s “fine wine” and demonstrated prowess on Vulkan appear to be holding true when it comes to Doom: Eternal. ID Software’s latest demon disembowler runs startlingly faster on last-gen AMD hardware compared to the Nvidia competition. The folks over at Hardware Unboxed recently tested out Doom Eternal on previous-gen AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards and came to some eye-opening conclusions. NVIDIA’s GTX 600 and GTX 700 series of Kepler parts fall far, far behind the AMD competition.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H laptops are supposed to be announced on the 2nd of April, but the specs have already been leaked. We know that most of these chips are overclocked variants of the existing 9th Gen parts, other than that one octa-core i7. The only missing part of the puzzle was the pricing, and now we have that too. Newegg has already put up the listings of Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H laptops and to be blunt, the prices are downright ridiculous, especially in light of the recent Renoir launch.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Apple, Google, Facebook and others are continuously encouraging people to self-isolate and stay at home. And at the centre of everything is the World Health Organisation or WHO. But tech companies and governments partnering with WHO doesn’t seem to be enough, so WHO has now joined hands with the gaming industry for the ‘Play Apart Together’ campaign, as first reported by The Next Web. The campaign is said to be backed by some big gaming companies including Activision Blizzard, Twitch, Riot Games, and YouTube Gaming.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

The Indian laptop market filled with a plethora of options from various manufacturers. Some of these computers are as powerful as a full-sized PC and offers features like octa-core CPU, 8GB GPU, up to 32GB RAM, and 2TB internal storage. There is also a lineup of laptops, that offers features a super-high-resolution 4K display that will be useful for video editors and graphic designers. Here are some of the best laptops available in India with a 4K or an ultra-HD screen.

Publication: Gizbot

The German retailer’s latest sales data has been spotted online, and it seems to be a great week for AMD. Already the Red team has been dominating Intel since last year in terms of desktop CPU sales and now the latest sales figures make the thing much more humiliating for Intel. The budget-end Ryzen 5 3600 has always been the best seller for AMD and the latest Mindfactory CPU sales show 2,030 units were sold in comparison the top seller for Intel was the Core i7-9700K with just 130 sales. Both the Ryzen 5 3600 and the Ryzen 7 3700X has topped the charts for AMD.

Publication: TechnoSports

When AMD launched the Ryzen 4000U mobile processors at CES 2020, a lot of OEMs did pledge to use the new exciting APUs in their laptops and one of them included Acer as well. Acer’s Swift 3 and Aspire 5 series are the best selling laptop series for the company as they target the mid-range and budget audience respectively.

Publication: TechnoSports

The technology and data management committee is set to work with US technology majors Microsoft and Cisco, among private corporates, to efficiently manage flow of information critical to tackling the Covid-19 outbreak, but critical government communication would continue to be through the National Informatics Centre (NIC). “Start-ups and large corporates are also giving ideas on tackling this emergency.”

Publication: ET Telecom – The Economic Times