Intel’s overall Q2 revenue report may have been positive, but not all segments did as well as the rest. The desktop platform which is part of the Client Computing Group (CCG) saw a massive drop of $460 million (nearly half a billion) amid intensive competition from AMD and lower-than-expected demand. Compared to last year, this is a drop of 14% or $460 billion YoY, the exact opposite of AMD’s fortunes in the desktop market as of late. On the bright side, the notebook platform was up by 9%, thanks to strong demand due to pandemic.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The notebook PC market is easily one of the primary markets for Intel, accounting for around 30% of the company’s total revenue in Q2 2020. Knowing that, it’s no surprise that the 10nm process first debuted on 15W notebook platform and upcoming Tiger Lake CPUs will also get the same treatment later this summer.  Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) is primarily formed of the desktop and notebook platform. And lately, it’s the latter that has brought in the lion’s share of the revenue for the company.

Publication: Hardware Times 

NVIDIA’s GPU inventory for Q3 is going to be 30% lower than Q2 as per info from the supply chain. As such, you can expect the prices of the entire RTX 20 series lineup to go up by a notch in the coming months. The reason for the drop isn’t clear, but the halt in RTX Turing GPU production is certainly a factor. As per a notification sent by NVIDIA to ASIC partners, the GPU die supply from August to October will be 70% compared to that of last quarter.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that Artificial Intelligence will be ‘vastly smarter’ than any human and would overtake us by 2025. “We are headed toward a situation where AI is vastly smarter than humans. I think that time frame is less than five years from now. But that doesn’t mean that everything goes to hell in five years. It just means that things get unstable or weird,” Musk said in an interview with New York Times over the weekend.

Publication: ETCIO

Intel Corp’s Chief Engineering Officer Murthy Renduchintala is departing, part of a move in which a key technology unit will be separated into five teams, the chipmaker said on Monday. Intel said it is reorganizing its technology, systems architecture and client group. Its new leaders will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan. Ann Kelleher, a 24-year Intel veteran, will lead development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chip technology processes. Last week, the company had said the smaller, faster 7-nanometer chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule and it would have to rely more on outside chipmakers to keep its products competitive.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Despite the nationwide lockdown and just 45 operational days in April-June quarter this year, as many as 2.9 million PCs were shipped in the channel. Lenovo was the market leader with 818,000 PCs. Also a prominent player in the tablet segment, it helped the company have an edge over the competition, accounting for 29 per cent of its total shipments this quarter. HP with 629,000 units shipment was at the second spot. It, however, led the individual categories of desktops and notebooks with shipments of 572,000 and 119,000 units, respectively.

Publication: Business Today

Dell Technologies sponsored an IDC white paper to explore the need for CIO’s to innovate and create real digital transformation by utilizing the potential of emerging technologies like AI, Edge and 5G. If acted upon swiftly, these technologies can aid them and can lay the path to career-defining springboards for future CIO’s.

Publication: CRN India 

The next-gen consoles, namely the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, pack quite powerful hardware akin to a high-end gaming PC. As such, we’ve all been wondering just how taxing next-gen games are going to be on PCs going forward, and now we have an idea. It’s the recommended settings that are way more interesting to assess. Right off the bat, a top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is recommended here, with a Core i5-9600 on Intel’s side.

Publication: TechQuila

Technology giant Microsoft India has emerged as the country’s most attractive employer brand, followed by Samsung India and Amazon India in the second and third place, respectively, says a survey. According to Randstad Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2020, Microsoft India scored high on financial health, strong reputation and utilization of the latest technologies.

Publication: ET Telecom 

Investment by communications service providers (CSPs) in 5G network infrastructure accounted for 10.4 per cent of total wireless infrastructure revenue in 2019. This figure will reach 21.3 per cent in 2020, said the report. “Early 5G adopters are driving greater competition among communications service providers,” Kosei Takiishi, Senior Research Director at Gartner, said in a statement.

Publication: ET Telecom

US chip maker Intel Corporation has announced the departure of Venkata Murthy Renduchintala, the firm’s chief engineering officer and group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group (TSCG), as part of a restructuring move that splits the group into five teams. This comes on the back of the Santa Clara-based company announcing a delay in transition to its next generation chips at its earnings call last week.

Publication: Telegraph India 

CES, the biggest global tech and gadget show, held every January in Las Vegas, will be only online in 2021 due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, organiser Consumer Technology Association said on Tuesday. While big tech companies like Apple , Alphabet’s Google and Samsung have separate product launch events and companies launching electronic gadgets at CES have generally been smaller, the event has been an important venue for technology companies and buyers to meet to conduct business .

Publication: ET Telecom 

Lenovo is just not stopping by launching the Ideapad Slim 5 but also bringing its best-selling 2-in-1 laptop in the US to India finally. Yes, all the Indian AMD fans had been waiting for this 2-in-1 budget laptop for quite a long time now and it seems now we have a lot of AMD Ryzen 4000U laptops now in India. The specs the laptop offers in a small form factor makes it even more interesting and a good companion for all-day work and productivity with its great battery life.

Publication: TechnoSports

Dell recently launched its latest G series gaming laptops along with the new Alienware m15 R3 high-end gaming laptop. Though the Alienware was the main highlight of the event, the new G series models — the Dell G5 15, Dell G3 15, and the Dell G5 SE also offer some unique features, making them some of the best gaming laptops at the respective price points. When I asked about the difference between the Dell G5 15 and the Dell G5 15 SE, Anand replied that the G5 15 SE comes with CPU and GPU from AMD, whereas the G5 15 is fitted with an Intel CPU and an NVidia GPU.

Publication: Gizbot

Advanced Micro Devices Inc raised its full-year revenue forecast on Tuesday, driven in part by an overall surge in chip demand due to a global shift to work from home, and market-share gains from larger rival Intel Corp . AMD’s shares jumped 10% in extended trading after it also forecasts current-quarter sales above Wall Street targets. The stock has gained about 50% this year through Tuesday’s close as investors cheered its success in next-generation chips, at a time when Intel faces delays in building the smaller, faster 7-nanometer chip technology.

Publication: ET Telecom