Richard Lobo, EVP and Head HR, Infosys said, “The kind of roles we see increasing will be concentrated in areas of managing new technologies, as companies as well as governments ramp up their technology spend to deal with the challenges the crisis has presented.”Gig-friendly work will largely be in the domains of Artificial Intelligence, data analytics, product engineering, cloud computing and those that focus on the intersection of people and technology such as interface design and consumer behaviour analysis, Lobo said.

Publication: The Economic Times 

The alleged Matisse refresh Ryzen 7 3800XT is already making its way in a number of benchmarks, recently spotted on 3DMark and now makes its way to the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark, paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 GPU. As per rumours and leaks, the new 8 core and 16 threaded AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU should come with 3.9 GHz base clock and with a boost clock speed of between 4.7-4.8 GHz, which seems unclear now.

Publication: TechnoSports

The IdeaPad Slim 3 comes configured with Intel 10th-generation processor, features hybrid storage with SSD and HDD option, Wi-Fi 6 support, HDMI port and two USB 3.1 ports for fast data transfer. Users can also use Q-Control technology to swap between Max Mode and Stealth Mode. While in the Max Mode the CPU provides the best performance, the Stealth Mode is for a quieter experience.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

As new brands like Xiaomi and Honor gear up to launch their first products in the thin and light notebook segment, leading player Lenovo on Wednesday said that new entrants will only help the laptop market grow. The notebook market in India currently is around six-seven million unit sales per year — 50 per cent consumer notebooks and 50 per cent commercial notebooks.

Publication: Telangana Today 

HP14s, which comes with Intel core i3 processor, has 4 GB RAM, while the model with 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processor is equipped with 8 GB RAM. It runs on Windows 10 with built-in Intel XMM 7360 4G LTE6. HP 14s comes with a 14-inch full-HD display with 250 nits of brightness and 45 percent NTSC colour gamut. The company has also equipped it with 1 TB 5400rpm SATA HDD and 256 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD storage options.

Publication: First Post 

HP India is witnessing a strong demand in its PC business with more people working and studying from home as part of physical distancing measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior company official said.  “In the current environment especially, I think it’s clear to people and customers how critical and essential PCs have become to their life, whether they’re working from home, studying from home or even earning from home,” Vickram Bedi, senior director, personal systems at HP India Market, told The Hindu.

Publication: The Hindu 

Calls for measures to urgently prop up demand have occupied centre-stage in most corporate wishlists and the Lenovo India CEO’s is no different. On Wednesday, Rahul Agarwal, chief executive of the China-headquartered computer major, sat down for a chat with author and senior journalist Kaveree Bamzai as part of The New Indian Express’ Express Expressions, a series of live webcasts with people who matter.

Publication: The New Indian Express 

The sudden shift to work from home and remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in increased demand for laptops between Rs 32,000 and Rs 52,000 in India, according to Lenovo. “We are seeing the biggest traction in the Rs 32,000 to Rs 52,000 price bracket which covers the mainstream laptop segment,” Shailendra Katyal, Executive Director and Head of Consumer PCSD, Lenovo India told indianexpress.com. “In this segment, there are good plug-and-play solutions with decent speed, large displays, and good RAM.”

Publication: Indian Express 

As widely speculated since months, Apple may finally announce shift to its own processors at the upcoming developers conference WWDC. According to a report in Bloomberg, “Apple is preparing to announce shift to its own main processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel Corp, as early as this month at its annual developer conference.”

Publication: The Times of India 

Apple is gearing up for its first-ever online-only Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 22. The Cupertino-based tech giant typically gives the first look of all its next-generation software like the iOS, macOS, etc. Apple has been relying on Intel for its processors across the Mac lineup for quite some time. It first switched from Motorola to PowerPC chips in the 1990s and then launched its first Intel-powered Mac in 2006.

Publication: Moneycontrol

To be sure, 2020 though is unlikely to mark an absolute turn around for the segment, which has been under constant pressure from larger screen-size and feature- rich smartphones. According to market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR), the pandemic has given the PC industry a boost and the demand for tablets is more enhanced, benefiting the likes of Lenovo (47% market share), Samsung (15%), iBall (11%) and Apple (11%). Samsung this week launched the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite with WiFi and LTE variants priced to tap into the demand surge.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Acer is also offering two budget gaming laptops in the form of the Aspire 7 and Nitro 5. The Nitro 5 starts from Rs 52,990 with the base model configured with an AMD Ryzen 5 quad-core processor, an Nvidia GTX 1650 GPU and 8GB of RAM. The Aspire 7 replaces the Ryzen CPU with a superior 9th Gen Intel Core i5 chip and opts for a 512GB SSD as opposed to a 1TB HDD on the Nitro 5. The Aspire 7 starts from Rs 54,990 look like a better deal on paper, but the Nitro 5’s cooling and form factor should give it an edge in competitive gaming.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Intel and AMD are known to be the biggest rivals in the CPU market but they surprisingly worked together on a project called Kaby Lake-G processors which is nothing but 8th gen Intel CPUs with AMD’s Radeon RX Vega M graphics. These processors with strong graphics were found in laptops from Acer, HP and Dell and in mini PCs like Hades Canyon NUC.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo is expanding the IdeaPad lineup to gaming with the launch of IdeaPad Gaming 3 in India. The laptop starts at Rs 73,990 and comes with 10th generation H-Series Core i7 or AMD Ryzen processors. It also features discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics, rapid charging, Dolby Audio and Gen 5 thermals. It also sports an FHD display with 83 percent active area and 60Hz refresh rate. There is also Q Control for maximum performance and IdeaPad Gaming Keyboard inspired by ThinkPad’s iconic keyboard layout.

Publication: BGR India 

AMD will soon be including a copy of Horizon Zero Dawn – Complete Edition with every purchase of their Ryzen CPUs. The new bundle was spotted on AMD’s EMEA region websites. While we still don’t know the exact release date of HZD on Steam, we do know that it’s bound to be soon. The AMD bundle on the other hand though does bring up some interesting questions. Is Horizon Zero Dawn PC an AMD-partnered title?

Publication: TechQuila