April 21, 2020

AMD specific news

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X Prices Reportedly Leak Outedit

AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen 3 parts are expected to launch in the coming months with four cores and eight threads and a boost clock of up to 4.3GHz. This would put them directly in competition with the Intel Core i3-9100 and its upcoming Comet Lake successors. The prices of the latest Zen 2 parts have also reportedly found their way to the internet.

Publication: Hardware Times 

How to Auto Overclock Your NVIDIA/AMD GPU Safely – MSI Afterburner and Radeon Software Guideedit

So you recently got your hands on a shiny new graphics card? And you want more performance than what you paid for? With both AMD and NVIDIA packing in more cards in mid-range budgets, it’s getting harder to distinguish between each other’s value. You could get 2 different GPUs at the same price but get a wildly different performance out of them. That’s where overclocking comes in. MSI Afterburner has a neat auto overclocking feature (called OC Scanner) that you can use without getting into the nitty-gritty.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD’s upcoming Zen 4 CPUs will be built on TSMC’s 5 nm enhanced nodeedit

The Silicon giant is having great days, overtaking Intel in sales and making great improvement in performance as well. Soon in the coming months, expectedly in September, launching its Ryzen 4000 processors based on the refined 7 nm Zen 3 microarchitecture later this year.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD RYZEN 7 4800U on board GPU almost matches NVIDIA MX250 performanceedit

There is no doubt that AMD has been killing it with its Ryzen lineup of chips. The 7nm based Zen 2 architecture has allowed AMD to push some serious performance from its desktop processors and now with the Zen 2 based mobile processors on the verge of making it into users’ hands, things are getting very exciting.

Publication: Digit

AMD brand mentions

MSI Launches Ryzen 7 4800H Gaming Laptop w/ Radeon RX 5500M dGPU; Starting @ $929edit

MSI has decided to Renoir club with two new all-AMD laptops featuring the Ryzen 4000 APUs and the Radeon RX 5500M. The MSI Bravo 15 and 17 are now officially up for pre-order, starting at $929 and $1,099, respectively. These notebooks are targeting budget-conscious gamers looking to play eSports and FPS on the go.

Publication: Hardware Times 

These Laptops With 1TB Storage Space Are Available Under Rs. 20,000edit

Lenovo Ideapad S145 (81N30063IN) laptop features an AMD dual-core A6 processor, 4GB of RAM, 1TB of storage space, Windows 10 OS, and a 15.6-inch display. It gets the power from a 2 Cell Li-Ion battery under its hood.

Publication: Gizbot

NVIDIA’s Mellanox Acquisition Gets Nod from China: What’s Next?edit

NVIDIA, very much known for its powerful gaming graphics chips. The Mellanox acquisition (its biggest deal) hints the chipmaker’s keen interest in pushing its data center and artificial intelligence business. This will even help the corp to fight its market game with rivals like IntelAMD, etc.

 Publication: TechQuila
MSI Optix MAG301CR ultra-wide 30-inch gaming monitor with 200Hz refresh rate launchededit

The monitor is also AMD FreeSync certfied which helps to minimize screen tearing. Even though MSI is marketing the MAG301CR as being “HDR-ready” but its not actually certified by any HDR standards. For the I/O ports, we have two HDMI 2.0b ports, one DisplayPort 1.2a port and a single USB Type-C port.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel Core i5-10600K & Core i5-10600KF spotted on Geekbench running at 4.98 GHzedit

Intel’s new desktop processors will be arriving in a few days after its official launch at the end of this month. Both the mid-range CPUs, the unlocked Comet Lake Intel Core i5-10600K and the unlocked Core i5-10600KF without iGPU has been spotted on Geekbench 4 by none other than @TUM_APISAK.

Publication: TechnoSports

Competition in news

These Laptops With 1TB Storage Space Are Available Under Rs. 20,000edit

Lenovo Ideapad S145 (81N30063IN) laptop features an AMD dual-core A6 processor, 4GB of RAM, 1TB of storage space, Windows 10 OS, and a 15.6-inch display. It gets the power from a 2 Cell Li-Ion battery under its hood.

Publication: Gizbot

NVIDIA’s Mellanox Acquisition Gets Nod from China: What’s Next?edit

NVIDIA, very much known for its powerful gaming graphics chips. The Mellanox acquisition (its biggest deal) hints the chipmaker’s keen interest in pushing its data center and artificial intelligence business. This will even help the corp to fight its market game with rivals like IntelAMD, etc.

 Publication: TechQuila
Intel Core i5-10600K & Core i5-10600KF spotted on Geekbench running at 4.98 GHzedit

Intel’s new desktop processors will be arriving in a few days after its official launch at the end of this month. Both the mid-range CPUs, the unlocked Comet Lake Intel Core i5-10600K and the unlocked Core i5-10600KF without iGPU has been spotted on Geekbench 4 by none other than @TUM_APISAK.

Publication: TechnoSports

How to Auto Overclock Your NVIDIA/AMD GPU Safely – MSI Afterburner and Radeon Software Guideedit

So you recently got your hands on a shiny new graphics card? And you want more performance than what you paid for? With both AMD and NVIDIA packing in more cards in mid-range budgets, it’s getting harder to distinguish between each other’s value. You could get 2 different GPUs at the same price but get a wildly different performance out of them. That’s where overclocking comes in. MSI Afterburner has a neat auto overclocking feature (called OC Scanner) that you can use without getting into the nitty-gritty.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD’s upcoming Zen 4 CPUs will be built on TSMC’s 5 nm enhanced nodeedit

The Silicon giant is having great days, overtaking Intel in sales and making great improvement in performance as well. Soon in the coming months, expectedly in September, launching its Ryzen 4000 processors based on the refined 7 nm Zen 3 microarchitecture later this year.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD RYZEN 7 4800U on board GPU almost matches NVIDIA MX250 performanceedit

There is no doubt that AMD has been killing it with its Ryzen lineup of chips. The 7nm based Zen 2 architecture has allowed AMD to push some serious performance from its desktop processors and now with the Zen 2 based mobile processors on the verge of making it into users’ hands, things are getting very exciting.

Publication: Digit

Intel pips Samsung as top chipmakeredit

Semiconductor manufacturer Intel pipped Samsung to regain the top spot in the market as the downturn in the memory market affected leading vendors, according to advisory firm Gartner. Samsung Electronics, the number one vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017, moved to the second spot. Worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 12 per cent to $419.1 billion in 2019 from the previous calendar year, Gartner said.

Publication: Mail Today

Intel reclaims top spot in global semiconductor marketedit

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $419.1 billion in 2019, down 12 per cent from the previous calendar year, according to final results by Gartner, Inc. Intel reclaimed top spot in global semiconductor market, moving Samsung to the second position, the research and advisory firm said in a statement Oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the overall memory market down 32.7 per cent 2019.

Publication: Millennium Post 

Partner in news

MSI Launches Ryzen 7 4800H Gaming Laptop w/ Radeon RX 5500M dGPU; Starting @ $929edit

MSI has decided to Renoir club with two new all-AMD laptops featuring the Ryzen 4000 APUs and the Radeon RX 5500M. The MSI Bravo 15 and 17 are now officially up for pre-order, starting at $929 and $1,099, respectively. These notebooks are targeting budget-conscious gamers looking to play eSports and FPS on the go.

Publication: Hardware Times 

These Laptops With 1TB Storage Space Are Available Under Rs. 20,000edit

Lenovo Ideapad S145 (81N30063IN) laptop features an AMD dual-core A6 processor, 4GB of RAM, 1TB of storage space, Windows 10 OS, and a 15.6-inch display. It gets the power from a 2 Cell Li-Ion battery under its hood.

Publication: Gizbot

MSI Optix MAG301CR ultra-wide 30-inch gaming monitor with 200Hz refresh rate launchededit

The monitor is also AMD FreeSync certfied which helps to minimize screen tearing. Even though MSI is marketing the MAG301CR as being “HDR-ready” but its not actually certified by any HDR standards. For the I/O ports, we have two HDMI 2.0b ports, one DisplayPort 1.2a port and a single USB Type-C port.

Publication: TechnoSports

How to Auto Overclock Your NVIDIA/AMD GPU Safely – MSI Afterburner and Radeon Software Guideedit

So you recently got your hands on a shiny new graphics card? And you want more performance than what you paid for? With both AMD and NVIDIA packing in more cards in mid-range budgets, it’s getting harder to distinguish between each other’s value. You could get 2 different GPUs at the same price but get a wildly different performance out of them. That’s where overclocking comes in. MSI Afterburner has a neat auto overclocking feature (called OC Scanner) that you can use without getting into the nitty-gritty.

Publication: TechQuila

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus dual-screen laptop to go on sale in China starting April 24edit

At CES 2020 in January, One of the eye-catching products was the Lenovo Thinkbook Plus. The dual-screen notebook featured a secondary e-ink screen to improve its resourcefulness. However, we now learn that the laptop is now on reservation in China via Jingdong (JD.com). The notebook now carries a 8,499 Yuan price tag (about Rs 91,700). The device will go on sale starting on April 24, 2020.

Publication: BGR India 

Lenovo starts free one-on-one online education platform for students, teachersedit

IT hardware company Lenovo on Monday started a free online education platform which allows students to get guidance from teachers on a one-on-one basis. The company has launched the online platform, SmarterEd, in collaboration with a non-profit organisation and has registration of volunteers to teach on the platform.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

Dell Technologies bolsters PC security for remote workersedit

With remote work increasing security gaps and the high economic pressure for businesses large and small to perform, Dell Technologies is arming customers with security solutions and best practices to better secure their PCs so they can stay focused on serving their end customers.

Publication: Express Computers 

 

 

Covid 19 situation provides important lessons on dealing with future large-scale crises: Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO, Acer Indiaedit

At Acer, we make sure employees have up to date passcodes, know how to authenticate to their systems, and are aware of increased scams and phishing attempts that are happening around COVID, states Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Consumer Business Head, Acer India, as he describes how Acer is handling the Covid 19 crisis.

Publication: Express Computers 

Apple game controllers may launch in next one year, details emergeedit

A couple of rumours on the web have already pointed out towards the arrival of an ARM-based Apple Macbook later this year among other products. However, as per a tipster Apple may also have a game controller in the pipeline. It is worth adding that the tipster named @L0vetodream talked about iPhone 9 (now iPhone SE) to launch in second week of April, in late March (which turned out to be true).

Publication: Hindustan Times 

Intel pips Samsung as top chipmakeredit

Semiconductor manufacturer Intel pipped Samsung to regain the top spot in the market as the downturn in the memory market affected leading vendors, according to advisory firm Gartner. Samsung Electronics, the number one vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017, moved to the second spot. Worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 12 per cent to $419.1 billion in 2019 from the previous calendar year, Gartner said.

Publication: Mail Today

Industry news

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X Prices Reportedly Leak Outedit

AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen 3 parts are expected to launch in the coming months with four cores and eight threads and a boost clock of up to 4.3GHz. This would put them directly in competition with the Intel Core i3-9100 and its upcoming Comet Lake successors. The prices of the latest Zen 2 parts have also reportedly found their way to the internet.

Publication: Hardware Times 

MSI Launches Ryzen 7 4800H Gaming Laptop w/ Radeon RX 5500M dGPU; Starting @ $929edit

MSI has decided to Renoir club with two new all-AMD laptops featuring the Ryzen 4000 APUs and the Radeon RX 5500M. The MSI Bravo 15 and 17 are now officially up for pre-order, starting at $929 and $1,099, respectively. These notebooks are targeting budget-conscious gamers looking to play eSports and FPS on the go.

Publication: Hardware Times 

IT-BPM firms may continue work from home till 3 Mayedit

Work from home is expected to continue for employees in the information technology-business process management industry for some more time as many states like Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka have decided to continue with full lockdown without any relaxations.

Publication: Livemint

AMD’s upcoming Zen 4 CPUs will be built on TSMC’s 5 nm enhanced nodeedit

The Silicon giant is having great days, overtaking Intel in sales and making great improvement in performance as well. Soon in the coming months, expectedly in September, launching its Ryzen 4000 processors based on the refined 7 nm Zen 3 microarchitecture later this year.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo starts free one-on-one online education platform for students, teachersedit

IT hardware company Lenovo on Monday started a free online education platform which allows students to get guidance from teachers on a one-on-one basis. The company has launched the online platform, SmarterEd, in collaboration with a non-profit organisation and has registration of volunteers to teach on the platform.

Publication: Hindustan Times 

Dell Technologies bolsters PC security for remote workersedit

With remote work increasing security gaps and the high economic pressure for businesses large and small to perform, Dell Technologies is arming customers with security solutions and best practices to better secure their PCs so they can stay focused on serving their end customers.

Publication: Express Computers 

 

 

‘Data centres are becoming smaller in enterprises and mid-markets, giving impetus to micro data centres’edit

The demand in the  data centre can be segregated into two areas- first is the infrastructure consisting of racks, power, cooling and management and the second is the compute, network and virtualization which is now converging and is known as Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).

Publication: CRN

Covid 19 situation provides important lessons on dealing with future large-scale crises: Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO, Acer Indiaedit

At Acer, we make sure employees have up to date passcodes, know how to authenticate to their systems, and are aware of increased scams and phishing attempts that are happening around COVID, states Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Consumer Business Head, Acer India, as he describes how Acer is handling the Covid 19 crisis.

Publication: Express Computers 

Apple game controllers may launch in next one year, details emergeedit

A couple of rumours on the web have already pointed out towards the arrival of an ARM-based Apple Macbook later this year among other products. However, as per a tipster Apple may also have a game controller in the pipeline. It is worth adding that the tipster named @L0vetodream talked about iPhone 9 (now iPhone SE) to launch in second week of April, in late March (which turned out to be true).

Publication: Hindustan Times 

Intel pips Samsung as top chipmakeredit

Semiconductor manufacturer Intel pipped Samsung to regain the top spot in the market as the downturn in the memory market affected leading vendors, according to advisory firm Gartner. Samsung Electronics, the number one vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017, moved to the second spot. Worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 12 per cent to $419.1 billion in 2019 from the previous calendar year, Gartner said.

Publication: Mail Today

Intel reclaims top spot in global semiconductor marketedit

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $419.1 billion in 2019, down 12 per cent from the previous calendar year, according to final results by Gartner, Inc. Intel reclaimed top spot in global semiconductor market, moving Samsung to the second position, the research and advisory firm said in a statement Oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the overall memory market down 32.7 per cent 2019.

Publication: Millennium Post 

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