AMD’s Renoir APUs bring the company’s 7nm Zen 2 core architecture to the mobile market, with as many as eight cores and twelve threads in a 14″ form factor. Till now, the maximum you could get was four cores and eight threads with Intel-based laptops in the ultrabook space. It’s what the average user looks for. True to their tradition, AMD has gone with the “moar core” philosophy, and for good reason. Pretty much every application from gaming to browsers leverages up to 8 cores nowadays.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Lenovo has launched an AIO PC based on AMD’s Renoir mobile chips without the need for a bulky cabinet. That’s right: The motherboard and CPU are integrated into the monitor chassis. You get a Ryzen 5 4600U (15W) featuring six cores and twelve threads paired with the 16GB of main memory and a 512GB SSD. The monitor itself is a 24″ IPS panel covering 100% of the sRGB color gamut.

Publication: Hardware Times 

ASUS was the first laptop vendor to bring AMD Ryzen 4000H powered gaming laptops to India in the form of the ASUS TUF Gaming A15 which is a massive hit in the country for its exceptional performance. But obviously, the build quality and other specs still remain on the downside especially the battery life, while its ROG Zephyrus G14 is a premium one with a low profile and featuring an efficient 4800HS or 4900HS processors for longer battery life.

Publication: TechnSports

hen a new range of CPUs is released, we don’t really really talk about the utilities/tools associated with it but maybe we should. With the release of the AMDs Ryzen 3000XT series of processors also comes some welcome upgrades to its utility software. Namely, the AMD StoreMI and the AMD Ryzen Master. Starting off with AMD StoreMI, it was AMD’s answer to Intel Optane when it came to storage acceleration.

Publication: TechQuila

With more people working from home (WFH), and school and college education going online, there has been a sharp rise in the demand for laptops and desktop computers. After two months for electronics retailers having resumed business, the demand continues to be high, so much so that laptops and computers are rapidly going off shelves, leaving retailers’ stocks dried up. Industry estimates suggest that laptops, desktops and web cameras have seen at least 30% spike in demand over the past couple of months, against the pre-Covid period.

Publication: The Times of India 

The Mi Notebook 14 and Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition laptops were launched in India earlier last month, and since then, the two have emerged as fan favourites. However, because of the company continuing with flash sales for the laptops, it was proving difficult for users to get their hands on the device. However, this may be about to change as the company has now announced that these laptops will now go on open sale in India and will be available 24×7 via the Mi Online Store (Mi.com) and Amazon India. For the uninitiated, the Mi Notebook 14 and Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition are the first laptops launched by the company in India.

Publication: India Today 

Last month, I wrote about this laptop finding its way into the US market but its finally in India as well. The new HP Envy x360 2-in-1 laptop with Ryzen 4000U mobile processors are now in India, the same 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 4500U powered model is available in the country but for hefty pricing of ₹ 75,686. Talking about specs, the HP Envy x360 13-ay0044AU is a 2-in-1 Laptop that features the 6 core and 6 threaded Ryzen 5 4500U APU. It is clocked at 2.3GHz base and up to 4.0GHz boost along with 8MB L3 Cache. The graphics of the laptop handled by the Vega 6 iGPU with 1500 MHz frequency.

Publication: TechnoSports

The first benchmark leak of AMD Ryzen 7 4700G APU came at the beginning of this month. The scores came from ITCooker (via Xfastest HK unit). The APU was tested mainly for its multitasking abilities. The benchmark of the APU leaked once again and the results are quite impressive. The AMD Ryzen 7 4700G APU’s scores confirmed that the APU is an impressive overclocker. The company is aiming to make the chip one of the best overclockers. However, the benchmarks are leaked from ITCooker (via HXL) again and the latest benchmarks show that the APU has a lot to offer to the customers who do overclock.

Publication: DailyHunt

Today, information technology has become central to business, enabling critical competitive advantages. Due to the rapid adoption of digital transformation and increased proliferation of new-age technologies like AI, IoT, analytics etc., it is more critical than ever for IT teams to adapt quickly to meet changing workload, scalability and performance requirements. However, in reality, Indian businesses often struggle with workload management due to their traditional, inflexible, and siloed IT infrastructures.

Publication: BW SmartCities 

Among everything that Apple showed at its first-ever virtual WWDC, the announcement of the company making its own chipsets for MacBooks was certainly among the key highlights. While the company talked about the powerhouse that these chipsets are likely to be and it seems we may not have to wait too long to see them in action. According to a report by MacRumors, DigiTimes has claimed that the first ARM-based MacBooks are going to be launched by the end of 2020. The company is expected to launch a 13-inch MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air with these chipsets powering them, claims the report.

Publication: The Times of India

The Redmond, Washington-based software giant, Microsoft is reportedly laying off 1,000 employees across its news, Cloud Azure service divisions globally even though its revenues shot up significantly in the third quarter of FY20. Sources privy to the development said that India is also one of the impacted geographies where Microsoft has cut an unspecified number of roles.

Publication: The New India Express 

Over hundred content items including articles, news pieces, research reports and social conversations have been used to write the content only of this 900 worded article. Imagine a marketer responsible to decide the annual strategy for a brand. She or he will be seen skimming and scanning thousands of content items available all over to get it right. What if, it is a new market entry? Or what if there are biases and misconceptions about the market? The key to that ‘magic in the madness’ is, Marketing Intelligence.

Publication: Financial Express 

But when one gets down to the business, you are looking at a pretty formidable package. This notebook is based on Intel’s Core i7 comet lake chip which is built on a 14nm node. Uniquely, this laptop gets discrete graphics from Nvidia – the MX 350. It also gets 8GB RAM and up to 512GB storage. As you can imagine, this is a pretty fast laptop. It works really well for day to day tasks like web browsing, calls, watching content and at the same time, it can handle some professional-grade tasks like video editing for YouTube videos including footage that’s shot in 4K and exporting big dumps of PSD files on Photoshop.

Publication: CNBC TV 18 

Intel has been enjoying a lion’s share when it comes to notebooks and ultrabooks. But this year with the advent of AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile processors it is losing its ground in both performance and efficiency. Intel’s 14nm CPUs cannot keep up with AMD’s 7nm ones when it comes to efficiency while Intel’s 10nm is just not enough to beat AMD’s performance. So all in all Intel has got worthy opponent this time to compete in the laptop market as well.

Publication: TechnoSports 

After numerous complaints, Microsoft has finally confirmed about a major issue with Windows 10. Apparently, there is a bug in the operating system which is causing internet connectivity issues. Because of which, Windows 10 users are seeing the ‘Not connected’ alert. The company pointed out that users are seeing ‘no Internet’ access in the Network Settings icon on the taskbar. Reports suggest the issue or bug was reported for systems that were updated to Windows 10 version 2004. And even though the icon says not connected, people were able to access the internet through web browsers.

Publication: BGR India 

This is not the first time there has been an attempt to set up a semiconductor fab in the country. India has been trying to get a private semiconductor fab since 2006, but all the previous efforts have failed. Semiconductor manufacturing comprises the front-end fab manufacturing and the back-end assembly, including packaging and testing. There are only a handful of companies globally that do front-end manufacturing at scale.

Publication: Deccan Herald 

These microchips are produced in units called semiconductor fabrication plants (also called fabs or foundries), which turn silicon into microchips. There are about 170 commercial foundries globally, yet there isn’t a single one in India. This is because chip manufacturers like Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, citing uncertain domestic demand and poor cost efficiencies in India, choose other countries to produce microchips.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine