AMD’s Q1 2020 earnings report points to substantial growth on the back of Ryzen 3000 CPU sales. AMD recorded a phenomenal 40 percent year on year increase in revenue between Q1 2020 and Q1 2019. Additionally, Team Red’s earnings per share increased by nearly 15 times over this same period, good news for anyone who bought AMD shares over the last year.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Riding on the back of excellent sales figures for Ryzen 3000 processors like the Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 7 3700X, AMD recorded a mammoth 1300 percent increase in earnings per share between Q1 2019 and Q1 2020. Savvy buyers who held onto AMD shares have seen their portfolios increase in value by as much as 14 times. AMD’s Q1 2020 financial report indicates that the company generated US$1.79 billion in revenue with a net income of US$162 million. This is actually slightly down from Q4 2019 when the company recorded revenue figures it hadn’t seen in over a decade.

Publication: Notebook Check 

Global technology giants Amazon Inc, Microsoft and Google continued to witness strong growth in the cloud infrastructure market during January-March as more and more establishments turned to remote access to work in the backdrop of covid-19 induced lockdowns. Cloud infrastructure services spend hit yet another record in Q1 2020, growing 34% (YoY) to $31 billion. Growth in cloud services was driven by organisations around the world moving to remote working as the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Publication: Livemint

Acer Swift 5 is equipped with 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce MX350. It runs on Windows 10 and packs a 16GB LPDDR3 RAM. The processor is an absolute powerhouse thanks to its quad-core design, and the flashy new Iris Plus inte- grated graphics. The quad-core CPU by Intel delivers solid per- formance.

Publication: The Economic Times 

As lockdown orders force billions of people to work, learn and play from home during the novel coronavirus outbreak, usage has surged for the cloud computing services that power video conferencing, streaming television and online games. The world’s three leading cloud services providers – Amazon’s Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud – have all seen demand for their services jump.

Publication: ET Tech

Intel announced its 10th Gen H series mobile processors for the next generation of gaming laptops at the start of April. Several processors in Intel’s H series offered boost clock speeds upwards on 5.0 GHz. Now, the semiconductor chip manufacturer just dropped its 10th Gen powerhouses for desktops in what is its biggest unveiling of the year.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Intel is expanding its processor lineup with the 10th-generation CPUs that are touted to be the “world’s fastest gaming processor.” The chipmaker has announced the launch of the 10th-generation Comet Lake processor series include Pentium, Celeron, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 variants, which are total 32 in number. The top-end processor variant has 10 cores and can offer a turbo clock speed of 5.3GHz.

Publication: India Today

AMD has announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are powering the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform, bringing a new level of high-performance computing to Oracle Cloud. Using the AMD EPYC 7742 processor, the Oracle Cloud “E3 standard” and the bare metal compute instances are available today and leverage key features of the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors including robust memory bandwidth and the highest core count for an x86 data center processor.

Publication: CRN

After the latest controversy with their Exynos 990, Samsung finally has something to cheer about. Samsung had already forged a partnership with AMD way back in 2019 to use their Radeon GPUs on their SoCs. But there was radio silence since that announcement until now as we have learned new details about AMD’s new offering. It seems to be lining up quite well with their original plans of a 2021 launch date with this leak.

Publication: TechQuila

Samsung’s in-house Exynos chips have been at the receiving end of a lot of flak, primarily due to their lackluster performance compared to equally-powered Qualcomm offerings. The company’s SoC division is in dire straits, and is even considering a refresh for its Exynos 990. Although nothing meaningful has come out of Samsung’s partnership with AMD, that is set to change next year. And it just might be the shot in the arm Samsung needs to get back in the game.

Publication: Notebook Check 

AMD and Oxide Games today announced a multi-year partnership to co-develop graphics technologies for the growing cloud gaming market. By combining leadership gaming hardware and graphics expertise from AMD with Oxide’s proven development capabilities and innovative Nitrous game engine, the companies plan to create a robust set of tools and technologies for cloud rendering designed from the ground up to embrace the real-time demands of cloud-based gaming.

Publication: TechQuila

Dell Technologies sees plenty of opportunities in digital transformation even as technology spending has declined globally due to the impact of covid-19 pandemic. “In FY21, our focus on digital transformation will be more relevant than ever, especially in sectors like healthcare, online collaboration, education, telecommunication and digital cities,” Alok Ohrie, president & managing director, Dell Technologies India told Mint.

Publication: Livemint

Microsoft had already announced that all of its event till July would be digital-only. However, it seems like the company is going a step further and making its Build developer conference free for anyone to attend. Those interested in attending the two-day conference can register for the event here. Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft made the announcement on the company’s official blog.

Publication: Digit

Dell XPS 15 9500 and XPS 17 9700 laptops got accidentally listed on its official website prior to its official launch. The official Dell France website listing revealed all the specifications of both the devices. The listing has not been removed after a short period of time but somehow Notebookcheck was able to gather all the information. In terms of design, the Dell laptops will be featuring thin bezels and are lighter in weight than its predecessors.

Publication: Gadget Bridge 

AMD and Oxide Games have announced a multi-year partnership to co-develop graphics technologies for the growing cloud gaming market. By combining gaming hardware and graphics expertise from AMD with Oxide’s development capabilities and Nitrous game engine, the companies plan to create a robust set of tools and technologies for cloud rendering designed from the ground up to embrace the real-time demands of cloud-based gaming.

Publication: IT News Online

Software services exporters, including Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, HCL Tech and Tech Mahindra, have predominantly moved Indian engineers onsite to debug technology issues or to co-innovate. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic however, more work-from-home clauses are likely to disrupt the current service delivery model.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Covid-19 and the resultant impact on the economy have necessitated growth oriented organisations to rethink their business offerings, processes and business models. Business leaders are engrossed with the thinking around how to rejuvenate their businesses using lean principles with an eye on preserving their cash. HR leaders are therefore required to support their business leaders in purposeful ways which would enable the businesses to continue to function while the changes are being introduced.

Publication: The Financial Express 

Chipmaker Intel Corp is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli public transit app developer Moovit for $1 billion, financial news website Calcalist reported on Sunday. Moovit has raised $133 million from investors including Intel, BMW iVentures and Sequoia Capital.

Publication: Reuters

We are at a point where AMD can be hyper-competitive even in the mobile space. This bears true with this Ryzen 5 beating out an Intel i7, which is a tier higher. In other words, AMD’s new Ryzen 5 4600HS one-ups the Intel i7-10750H in the benchmark scores. The new Renoir APUs have injected the much-needed boost to AMDs Arsenal to tackle Intel’s dominance with mobile CPUs. For instance, the i7 has been the defacto choice for gaming laptops for many generations now even though Ryzen CPUs exist.

Publication: TechQuila

Since the lockdown was implemented in India on 25 March, work from home has been the sole option for employees. Asus India is planning to tap in to this surge in demand by launching new laptops in India once the lockdown is lifted. According to a top company executive in an interview to IANS, Asus is preparing a couple of launches in June this year. On Monday, the government will be allowing few districts in the country to start selling non-essential items that also includes laptops and smartphones.

Publication: Livemint

Despite the disruptions owing to the COVID-19 pandemic on global supply chain, Taiwanese electronics major ASUS expects a surge in demand for laptops in India once the lockdown is lifted, even as the company prepares for a couple of launches in June this year, a top company executive has said. Due to the nation-wide lockdown that started on March 25, IT hardware production distribution had largely remained shut in India, impacting sales revenue in April.

Publication: Livemint