NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 is easily the most balanced RTX card out there. Selling at just $299, it offers a taste of ray-tracing to the masses. It also happens to be one of the few GeForce GPUs without any direct competition from the rival Radeon Team. The RX 5600 XT was supposed to be a solid mid-range Navi GPU, but given how the launch was handled, it has made many gamers wary.

Publication: Hardware Times 

A taskforce of Nvidia computer scientists has reportedly joined the COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium, a collective of industry, academia and federal agencies accelerating methods to detect, contain and treat the coronavirus pandemic, using the world’s most powerful HPC resources. Nvidia asserted that its taskforce joining the fight has expertise across a range of domains including AI, supercomputing, drug discovery, molecular dynamics, genomics, medical imaging, and data analytics.

Publication: News 18 

Intel is pledging an additional $50 million for coronavirus (Covid-19) relief efforts by accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning for students. This is in addition to prior announcements of $10 million in donations to support local communities during this critical time, the California-based company said in a statement.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine 

The Blue team is facing a stiff competition from AMD in the mobile processor lineup as well this time and their Tiger Lake-U series is the only one thing that Intel can fight back with. The new 10nm architecture will be succeeding Ice Lake CPUs along with a new CPU core architecture and a new Xe graphics engine. Being limited to quad-core only, Ice Lake wasn’t that overwhelming but it was an efficient set of CPUs and there’s no doubt we have some high expectations for the Tiger Lake architecture.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel gave the world the first glimpse of its 10th gen Comet Lake-H processors at the CES 2020. A couple of months later, Intel has launched six Comet Lake-H processors to take on the AMD Ryzen CPUs. The Comet Lake-H 10th Gen mobile processors line-up includes the Intel most powerful chips targeted towards high-end gaming laptops and creators. Four out of the six Comet Lake-G CPUs manage to cross the 5GHz barriers at 45W. The Intel 10 Gen H-series includes two quad-core i5, two quad-core i7s and one Octa-Core processor in i7 and i9 lineup.

Publication: Daily Hunt 

A laptop is a great tool for creators and gamers who wants high-performance computers on-the-go. Though most of the users prefer a 14-inch or a 15-inch laptop, some users are still looking for a laptop with massive 17-inch screen laptops. We have listed some of the best laptops available in the market with a 17-inch screen, that offers high-end CPU and GPU performance. These laptops will be great for consuming multimedia and playing games. Here are some of the best 17-inch laptops that one can buy in India.

Publication: Gizbot

Gaming PCs have become more powerful and affordable over the years. They are portable and are great to run high-intensity games. But gaming laptops cannot beat a custom-built desktop in terms of specifications, components, and scalability. My biggest concern, however, with a desktop is the cost and time spent on building your own gaming machine. Finding the right graphics card, motherboard, processor, memory, computer case, gaming monitor, power supply, CPU cooler, and peripherals can be a daunting task.

Publication: Indian Express 

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is reportedly launching a new 13-inch MacBook Pro next month with the codename J223. According to a noted Apple leaker Jon Prosser, Apple will bring out a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro “next month”. The current 13-inch MacBook Pro still uses butterfly keyboards that can suffer from issues such as sticky or unresponsive keys after prolonged use, which prompted Apple to initiate a free repair program worldwide in 2018.

Publication: Business Standard 

Apple is reportedly launching a new 13-inch MacBook Pro next month with the codename J223, says noted Apple leak- er Jon Prosser. Apart from a new keyboard, the new MacBook Pro is expected to get one of Intel’s 10th-genera- tion Ice Lake chips, built using a 10-na- nometer architecture, says the leaker.

Publication: The Economic Times