MSI has reportedly announced its AM4 A520 motherboard lineup for AMD’s lower-end Ryzen lineup. Succeeding the A320 platform, these boards won’t extend support from PCIe 2.0 to PCIe 3.0. You won’t get any Gen 4 or overclocking support here, as it’s truly the bottom of the barrel. There are still ample I/O options for the mainstream user with support for PCIe x16 discrete graphics cards, NVMe (PCIe Gen3) SSDs, USB 3.1 Gen2 and memory speeds as high as 4600MHz (A-XMP profile support included).

Publication: Hardware Times 

As you can see from the above benchmarks, the situation hasn’t changed by leaps and bounds. The quad-core Ryzen 3 3300X is still more than enough in most titles. In fact, if you’re looking to play at 60Hz or even 75Hz, the 3300X will easily satisfy your needs. As for scaling, most games show a notable increase in going from the quad-core 3300X to the hex-core 3600X. After that, although, there is a marginal increase, it’s hardly worth it considering the price gap between the various chips. Certain titles like Metro Exodus literally show zero scaling across the four processors.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Performance seems to have improved with the patch, however, some issues remain. Guerrilla has already stated that a bigger patch will come later this week. We’ll be updating the article with more performance benchmark metrics as soon as it drops. The game also ships with AMD’s FidelityFX SPD (Single Pass Downsampler), TressFX (for better hair rendering), and Asynchronous Compute for Radeon GPUs. For some reason, it performs better on AMD GPUs right now (as shown here).

Publication: TechQuila

Both IBM and AMD use outside chip factories to compete against Intel Corp, the dominant provider of central processor chips in data centers and one of the few players left that both designs and manufactures its own chips.

Publication: Business Standard 

In terms of hardware, the Redmi G is built on the back of six cores and 12 threads up to the 10th generation Intel Core i7-10750H CPU. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPU along with 6 GB of DDR4 RAM clocked at 2.933MHz and 512 GB PCIe x4 NVMe SSD for storage make the Redmi G gaming laptop series one to look forward to in coming months. All variants of the Redmi G gaming laptop possess full-HD screens and angled corners along with thin bezels.

Publication: Financial Express 

Intel Corp on Thursday disclosed a new method for making transistors on semiconductors that its chief architect said could boost the performance Intel’s next round of processors by as much as 20%. The Santa Clara, California-based company is one of the few remaining in the world that both designs and manufactures its own chips. But its manufacturing operations have become a concern among investors after Intel last month said that its next-generation chip-making process, called its 7-nanonmeter process node, would be delayed.

Publication: Financial Express 

As the rumors surrounding Nvidia’s ambitions to buy ARM have been gaining steam, sources say a takeover is on course to be completed by the end of summer. Apple’s recent announcement to make the switch from Intel to ARM was arguably one of the biggest announcements of the year, making ARM a major player in the silicon sphere.

Publication: Moneycontrol

The Blue team has just launched its new “Intel Core Desktop Processor featuring Marvel’s Avengers Collector’s Edition Packaging” via Twitter. It’s basically the same 10th gen Intel desktop processors involving the artwork by the mural painter Tristan Eaton based on Marvel’s Avengers. Intel is also promoting its CPUs and its gaming reach celebrating the launch of the new Square Enix-developed Marvel’s Avengers, scheduled to launch on September 4, 2020. Intel is already Square Enix’s official PC hardware partner for Marvel’s Avengers and bringing special CPUs for the launch of this massive game does make sense.

Publication: TechnoSports

While the design and build are one side of the coin, the other side, which is the ‘performance’, is more important here. The ROG Zephyrus G14’s runs on AMD’s Series 4000 Ryzen 9, which is no doubt, a beast of a processor you can find these days, giving a really good competition to Intel 10th-gen processors and even excelling in some factors. In our review of the Asus TUF A15 laptop with AMD Series 4000 Ryzen 5, we did talk about how well it handled certain gaming titles and the same goes for the Ryzen 9 4900HS. Although not as powerful as 4900H, the 4900HS works as smoothly as a processor can.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

We’d recommend you go for the Ryzen 3300X instead of Ryzen 3100 because of the performance which almost levels the Ryzen 3600 in terms of gaming. That too, in ₹3,000 extra. This would make your system just a little more future proof and also let you do other tasks faster.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

As per the report, the market was led by Lenovo with 13.6 million units shipped in this quarter. It recorded a 17% quarterly growth year over year and shipped 25% of the total notebook PCs that were shipped. At the second position was HP that recorded the highest quarterly growth annually among all the top 5 vendors of 42%. The company constituted 24.8% of the total sales of the period and together with Lenovo, the company had almost 50% of the total notebook PC market.

Publication: The Times of India 

Running the show on the Yoga Slim 7i is a 10th-generation Intel Core i7 (Ice Lake) processor but there is an option to go for the Core i5, as well. For graphics, you have Nvidia GeForce MX350 GDDR5 with 2GB VRAM, which should get you playing high-end games without much stutter and work on video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro. There is up to 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM with a maximum clock speed of 3200MHz. And finally, you have up to 512GB of SSD storage space on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i.

Publication: India Today 

As families around the world struggled to stay productive in work and school during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic hardship was buoyed by government assistance. Consumers, commercial clients, and schools scrambled to purchase mobile productivity devices once thought to be redundant, driving 27% year-on-year growth for notebook shipments, according to Strategy Analytics’ latest report.

Publication: EET India 

Asus India has finally launched its much-anticipated 14-inch flagship laptop, the ROG Zephyrus G14 in the market. It initially revealed the laptop on the global stage back in January at CES 2020. We also got the chance to play with the laptop for some time back in January. Now, almost 5 months after the international launch, we can finally put Zephyrus G14 through its paces. It is likely the first laptop to feature 8 cores and 16 threads in India. Asus will compete with the likes of Dell, HP, Acer, Xiaomi, and more in the high-end to premium laptop segment. After about two weeks with the laptop, here is our review for the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14.

Publication: India ...

The Asus ZenBook 13 we received features an Intel Core i7 – 1065G7 1.30GHz Ice Lake generation CPU. This is part of the newest chips from Intel which are made using a 10nm manufacturing process. This comes with a 16GB 3200MHz LPDDR4X RAM, but there is no dedicated GPU on the device. The device uses Intel Iris Plus Graphics, which is surprisingly capable. It has a 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x2 M.2 SSD for storage which makes things zippy quick.

Publication: BGR India 

The configuration ensures that the Pavilion Gaming 16 can play most of your high-end games at medium to high settings with decent frame rates. Single-core performance is really good for a laptop of its class. Multithreaded performance is also mostly good but if you’re looking to get this laptop for content creation, an AMD equivalent is the way to go right now. Basic day-to-day tasks are handled well by the Pavilion Gaming 16 though which means it’s a capable machine for basic work from home scenarios. Its thin and light form factor means it’s easy to carry around, which is always a nice thing to have.

Publication: Financial Express 

So far, we have seen Intel toy around with the hybrid CPU concept first with Lakefield and now with the upcoming Alder Lake. It looks like AMD could also be working on its own hybrid or heterogeneous processor, according to a recent patent discovered by @Underfox3.

Publication: Notebook Check 

Chipmaker Nvidia is reportedly very close to buying Advanced RISC Machines (ARM), the company that designs chips for almost every smartphone today. The company had been battling competition like Qualcomm and Samsung for buying the chipmaker for over a year now, but a report from UK’s Evening Standard says it may win that race. ARM specializes in designing chips that are more efficient that traditional PC and data centre chips, something that traditional PC chipmakers like Nvidia, Intel and AMD have been interested in too.

Publication: Livemint 

With most of India under lockdown, IT companies such as TCS, HCL, Infosys, and Wipro have all announced arrangements for employees to work from home for the foreseeable future. The pandemic forced most IT companies in India to forego their strict office-based working policies in favor of adopting new hybrid working arrangements to ensure business continuity during the lockdown. Despite the uptick in demand for notebooks, both IDC and Canalys project challenging times ahead for the traditional PC market, which includes desktops, notebooks and workstations.

Publication: Financial Express 

More than half the employees at Dell Technologies will continue to work remotely even after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, Amit Midha, president, Asia Pacific and Japan, said on Friday. Midha said productivity of Dell’s employees has not been adversely impacted by remote working. In fact, employees are “more productive” with a flexible mode of working, he added.

Publication: Mint

Nvidia is looking to aquire Sodtbank Groups chip designer Arm Holdings that could potentially become the biggest-ever semiconductor deal, reports said.

Publication: VAR India