Lo and behold: NVIDIA appears to be working on yet another variant of the budget Turing GPU, the GTX 1650. This one will be based on the same die as the GTX 1660 and the 1660 Ti, the TU116. As already reported, there are a total of 10 models in the GTX 1650 family, including the Supers, Tis and the mobile variants.

Publication: Hardware Times 

A Sony PS5 engineer by the name of Rosario Leonardi has claimed that the next-gen console won’t be based on RDNA 2, rather it’ll be a hybrid or middle ground between RDNA 1 and 2. This makes sense as, by the time the graphics processor design of the upcoming consoles was taped out, RNDA 2 and Navi 2x may not have been finalized.

Publication: Hardware Times

The Lenovo Legion Y540 with a 15.6-inch display and a 9th generation Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 GPU will be made available at Rs 78,990. Acer Nitro 5 15.6-inch, powered by 9th generation Intel Core i7 processor, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti will be made available at Rs 94,990.

Publication: Indian Express 

The latest MacBook Pro is what you need if you want the most gorgeous display in the world of laptops. This 16-inch Retina Display replaces the 15.6-inch canvas that was the highlight of the MacBook Pro 15. This supports the Display P3 wide colour gamut, True Tone and is rated at 500nits of brightness.  The AMD Radeon Pro 5300M and the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M add to the power stakes. The built-in microphones can do studio-quality audio recording.

Publication: Network 18 

The leaks just don’t stop here, ITCooker again pushes the limit on his new unreleased AMD APU – the 8 core & 16 threaded Ryzen 7 4700G that seems to be a new weapon for team red. The guy has been teasing some benchmarks with the APU and posting on Facebook but now the tipster has achieved around 5 GHz across all 8 cores without LN2 cooling.

Publication: TechnoSports

Major Indian information technology (IT) services companies reported strong growth from digital business in the June quarter, despite the covid-19 impact and global challenges. This helped maintain buoyancy as clients transitioned to work-from-home and demand for cloud, collaboration and cybersecurity-related technologies shot up. Typically, practices that cover emerging technologies like cloud, mobility, analytics, internet of things, and cybersecurity are clubbed under the digital business. Until recently, most IT services companies separately reported their digital revenues but the trend is changing as digital has increasingly become part of their mainstream offerings.

Publication: Livemint

The country’s 6 crore SMBs are seen as an important catalyst in helping India’s thriving economy; employing over 114 million people. In fact, SMBs in India account for 30 percent of the GDP as per the Confederation of Indian Industry. However, the total disruption due to COVID-19 has led to an economic slowdown. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that the global economy is expected to shrink by over 3 percent in 2020, which is the steepest slowdown since the Great Depression of the 1930s. India has already seen a rapid economic decline as FICCI recorded the economy growth at a six-year-low rate of 4.7 percent in the third quarter of the current fiscal year.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Having such a manufacturing plant in the country helps a country to evolve and make itself self-reliant. This eventually attracts other silicon designers and contractors like Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, NVIDIA and others. So, ultimately making these products much cheaper where it’s being developed.

Publication: TechnoSports

So, there is a lot of emphasis on the importance and resilience of tech infrastructure and business applications. That is a positive aspect from a tech services perspective and that is also driving some demand trends to invest in faster cloud migration, cybersecurity, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT)—all of these are only going to get accelerated due to the situation that has emerged post-COVID. Sec- tors like energy, manufacturing and auto will see slow recovery while others like technology, telecom, life sciences, financial services will continue to grow.

Publication: Mint