AMD CTO, Mark Papermaster has confirmed that the company will be launching its first CDNA based compute card, the Radeon Instinct MI100 “Arcturus” in the second half of 2020. Like the 1st Gen Navi parts, Arcturus based on CDNA won’t be that different from the preceding GCN based design (Vega), and will likely be a fine-tuned design for data-centers and AI/HPC acceleration.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Cooper Lake-SP offers 48 PCIe 3.0 lanes, still a far cry from AMD Rome’s 64 PCIe 4.0. Although it’s a step up from Cascade Lake, it’s still not quite up there. Explains why NVIDIA ditched the Xeons for Epyc in the DGX A100. The prices aren’t representative of the features you get either. The Rome parts are roughly half as expensive, all the while offering twice as much performance.

Publication: Hardware Times 

In a press release, AMD has acknowledged a potential vulnerability in UEFI motherboard firmware and promised to roll out fixes by the end of June. The security flaw called, “SMM Callout Privilege Escalation” is supposedly present in the AGESA microcode provided by AMD to board partners. It allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code without the OS being aware (via AGESA).

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD is making significant enhancements to its channel strategy for its commercial-client and datacenter business verticals in India. To further enable the IT channel ecosystem to deliver high performance computing across large enterprises and SMBs, the company has recently launched two key initiatives AMD Partner Hub and AMD Arena.

Publication: CRN India

AMD recently launched three new processors as part of the Ryzen 3000 family. The new [processors will offer higher frequencies and add to the lineup of 3000-series processors the brand already offers. The processors will start being available through many regions starting July 7, 2020.

Publication: Newzz

AMD has finally revealed three new processors in the Ryzen 3000-series, the long-awaited Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and the Ryzen 5 3600XT. The new processors are built using a more refined 7nm process than the one used to manufacture the non-XT counterparts. The result? Slightly higher performance.

Publication: NewZZ

NVIDIA unveiled the Jetson Xaview NX at GTC 2020 in as a significant upgrade over the NVIDIA Jetson TX2. At 21 TOPS of AI performance, it has more than 10 times the performance of its predecessor, the NVIDIA Jetson TX2. The Jetson Xaview NX relies on 384 CUDA Cores, 48 Tensor Cores, 6 Carmel ARM CPUs and 2 NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) engines.

Publication: Digit

Surface Pro 7 specs: 12.3- inch PixelSenseTM Display (2736 x 1824p, 267 PPI) | Quad-core 10th Gen Intel® CoreTM i7-1065G7 Processor + 16GB RAM | Intel Iris Plus graphics | 256GB storage | Windows 10 Pro | USB-A, USB-C | 5MP front + 8 MP rear camera | 790 grams

Publication: Indian Express 

Intel on Thursday unveiled new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio. The new chip, memory, storage and FPGA solutions would help customers accelerate the development and use of AI and analytics workloads running in data centre, network and intelligent-edge environments.

Publication: India TV 

AMD has officially announced the new Ryzen 3000XT series of processors. These new chips are refreshed chips of their popular 7nm desktop processors and offer a higher boost clock than the regular versions.The new chips feature the refreshed Zen 2 architecture that the Ryzen 3000 series is built on. The announcement revealed three new chips, which included the Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 5 3600XT.

Publication: MI Community 

AMD announced it is making significant enhancements to its channel strategy for its commercial-client and datacenter business verticals in India. To further enable the IT channel ecosystem to deliver high performance computing across large enterprises and SMBs, the company has recently launched two key initiatives AMD Partner Hub and AMD Arena.

Publication: Digital Terminal 

This is one of the most exciting times for the telecom industry as they get ready for the next frontier in ICT – 5G. Globally, as well as in India, telcos are shifting to a software-defined infrastructure that enables them to focus on innovation, drive down operational costs, and differentiate their products offerings. Their datacenters come in many forms, from large cloud and on-premise datacenters to geographically distributed CDNs and micro edge datacenters.

Publication: TelecomLead

AMD has finally revealed three new processors in the Ryzen 3000-series, the long-awaited Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and the Ryzen 5 3600XT. The new processors are built using a more refined 7nm process than the one used to manufacture the non-XT counterparts. The new 7nm process employed to manufacture the XT variants of the AMD desktop CPUs allows for higher performance while maintaining the same TDP as their non-XT counterpart.

Publication: Digit

AMD has refreshed its Ryzen 3000 series of desktop processors with their higher-clocked versions. The latest desktop CPUs from AMD are called Ryzen 3000XT and they are based on the 7-nanometre Zen 2 architecture. The company has said the Ryzen 3000XT series are designed to maximise performance “under any workload” with higher boost frequencies. The Ryzen 3000XT series are expected to be available starting July 7 in global markets.

Publication: India Today