NVIDIA is absolutely killing it in the graphics card market. All the top-three bestselling GPUs of May were part of Team Green’s Super lineup, namely the GTX 1650 Super, the RTX 2070 Super, and the GTX 1660 Super. There were only two AMD Radeon products in the top-ten: The older Polaris based Radeon RX 570 and 580. The Navi based RX 5700 XT falls short by two spots, coming in at 12th, with 0.67% of the total market share.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs are going to launch in the last quarter of 2021, according to a leaked slide. Sapphire Rapids will succeed the Ice Lake-SP and leverage the Willow Cove architecture and the third iteration of the 10nm+++ node. They are rumored to be Intel’s first processor family to make use of DDR5 memory and the PCIe 5 standard.

Publication: Hardware Times 

IT services providers are treading cautiously over bringing employees back to offices, as India has yet to flatten the coronavirus pandemic curve and workforce productivity has been either unaffected or rising in the last few months. As Covid-19 infections started to climb in March, the $147 billion Indian outsourcing industry moved to a work-from-home model for its over 4 million workers across the country.

Publication: The Economic Times 

The global IT/ITeS sector is starring at negative growth of 5 to 10 percent in FY21, probably for the first time, due to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. This will in turn hurt Indian IT/ITeS industry as well, according to analysts.  V Balakrishnan, former CFO, Infosys, said: “In all probability, IT industry may end up with a negative growth for FY21.”

Publication: Moneycontrol

Intel is having a hard time in both laptop and PC department, most of its CPUs are not much appealing to high performance craving buyers. The inability to shift to a 10 nm or 7 nm has resulted Intel in loosing market share to AMD rapidly, and this needs a fix for such a big company like Intel. Recently, a Weibo user posted the estimates for process node and IPC gains for Intel’s upcoming Ocean Cove and Golden Cove architecture. This was spotted by the reliable Twitter user @MebuiW.

Publication: TechnoSports

Fortnite’s next live event and Season 3 have been postponed once again, this time due to the protests in the US. Epic Games made the announcement through its blog post stating that the teams need to “focus on themselves, their families, and their communities”. It added that the live event called ‘The Device’ and Season 3 will be pushed back to June 15 and June 17 respectively. This comes after two previous delays, one in April and the other one last week.

Publication: Gadgets 360 

Dell Technologies has announced the availability of its premium commercial PC – the Latitude 9510, the world’s most intelligent and secure business PC for India. Earlier this year at CES 2020, Dell introduced the ultra-premium 9000 Latitude series, designed with the finest details in mind to be smaller and thinner than ever before, with a larger display and a superior experience. Dell’s new Latitude 9510 delivers on what enterprise users seek- the longest battery life of any 15-inch business PC with a target of up to 34 hours, 5G-ready design, powerful audio features, and intelligent solutions that increase productivity.

Publication: NFA Post 

HCL Technologies has expanded its strategic partnership with Google to bring HCL’s software offerings, starting with HCL Commerce, to Google Cloud. HCL Commerce drives more than $100 billion in annual client re- venues for the company. Bringing HCL Commerce to Google Cloud will enable businesses to maintain their investments in HCL’s Commerce platform while also taking advantage of the global reach, security and elasticity of Google Cloud.

Publication: The Economic Times

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in a video message said racism is tearing American communi- ties apart. IBM, he said, will not condone racism of any kind, and it is committed to fighting discrimination in all its forms wherever it exists. He said the widespread protests “bring to light the inequality, bias, prejudice and racism that people have dealt with for far too long and continue to deal with on a daily basis.”

Publication: The Times of India 

With more parents and organizations purchasing laptops, tablets and television sets for facilitating online classes for students in the state, there is a dearth of such electronics items in the state. “Normally, the average sales of laptops had been 7,000-8000 pieces a month. But, the combined sales of laptops brought out by all brands in the state in May were more than 20,000. This is the data pertaining to the sales through retail outlets or consumer sales. If the commercial sales or bulk sales are also taken into consideration, the total number will go up further,” said Aji Thomas, area sales manager, AMD, a US-based processor manufacturer which supplies the product to major brands.

Publication: The Times of India 

Asus TUF A15 is the company’s latest gaming laptop in India that starts at ₹60,999. The device is also among the first few in the country that runs on AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series processors and boasts of a 144Hz Adaptive Sync display. We take a quick look at the laptop and what you get inside the box.

Publication: HT Tech- Hindustan Times 

Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company will buy 1.85 per cent stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 9,093.6 crore, RIL said on Friday. With this investment, Jio Platforms has raised Rs 87,655.35 crore from leading global technology and growth investors, including Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners, General Atlantic, KKR and Mubadala, in less than six weeks. Mubadala owns electronic chip manufacturing company Global Foundries and has stake in several technology companies like AMD.

AMD was the first company to launch the concept of “APU” i.e. CPU + GPU in a single chip which disrupted the market totally. It now reigns both in GPUs and CPUs, a recent report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) says that the Red team has shipped approximately 553 million chipsets in the last 7 years. Now, this includes both discrete and integrated graphics, and the figures even beat the corresponding numbers from Intel and NVIDIA.

Publication: TechnoSports