September 7, 2020

AMD specific news

4 best laptops are the right choice for work from home (PROACTIVE)edit

The Acer Swift 3 features a 14-inch full-HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display and comes with an AMD Ryzen 4000 Series processor, which is offered with up to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD storage. The notebook also has stereo speakers and comes with Windows 10 Home.

Publication: Digit Hindi 

MSI, the world—leading motherboard manufacturer, proudly announces AMD A520 series motherboardsedit

Ever since AMD launched Ryzen Desktop msi“ Processors with AM4 platform, MSI has occupied the market with its AM4 motherboards. A520 is the successor of A320, which does not support PCle 4.0 and upgrades all PCIe 2.0 lanes to PCIe 3.0. With the support of?nm 3rd Gen Ryzen and Ryzen 4000 G—series processors, A520 is the best choice for Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 3 PRO processors.

Publication: IT Voice  

AMD Radeon’s Fight For The Future of GPUs In 2020edit

If we take a look back at recent AMD Radeon releases and their product lineup currently on sale, there is a lack of straight competition between the two players in the high-end consumer space. NVIDIA’s top consumer GPU, the RTX 2080 Ti has no equal branded with a Radeon badge, or any badge, for that matter. The last GPU that AMD released that was priced and targeted to compete against NVIDIA’s -80 Ti GPUs was the Radeon Vega 64, and even that GPU was handily beaten by the 1080 Ti in several tests, especially gaming.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD EPYC™ Processors are ideal for HCI – from Edge to Coreedit

In order to understand Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), a brief history of the evolution of the legacy data center to the modern-day data center is needed. Legacy data centers are typically composed of a multi-tier architecture made up of a storage tier, a networking tier, and a compute tier. Each of these components would typically be managed by a different administrator using purpose-built hardware creating a natural barrier, or silo, because of the functionality and expertise required to manage them.

Publication: CellIT

Two new Ryzen 5 4500U powered laptops get price cuts on Amazon Indiaedit

A handful of AMD Ryzen 4000U powered laptops are in India and its due to their high demand that their prices have been fluctuating so much. AMD has admitted the fact that they are facing availability issues due to the unprecedented sales, so a lot of new laptops haven’t even made its way to India, and the ones there are either getting out of stock or getting extraordinary price hikes.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD’s StoreMI V2 update brings support to 400-series chipset motherboardsedit

The Red team introduced the AMD StoreMI technology for quite some time now and it is available for certain CPUs and motherboards. The software helps you accelerate your system performance by allowing you to merge a slower HDD with your faster SSD into one virtual drive. The AMD’s StoreMI software helps to move data between both the storage solutions and eventually analyzes your recent data and moves it to the faster SSD.

Publication: TechnoSports 

AMD brand mentions

PC’s have become more important, we are not done innovating: Intel India MDedit

The company’s 11th generation of Core notebook processors, as well as the evolution of Project Athena, could be crucial for Intel’s future in the long run. The company, which helped increase the penetration of PCs in the mid-1990s, has faced a lot of headwinds in recent years like the rise of ARM-based devices, AMD taking on Intel and the delay in next-generation 7nm chips. On top of that, Apple recently said it plans to move away from Intel’s processors in favour of its own chips.

Publication: Indian Express 

Honor Introduces Notebook And Smartwatches At IFA 2020edit

Honor has introduced a new notebook and two smartwatches at the IFA 2020. The company has launched the MagicBook Pro, along with the GS Pro smartwatch, and the Honor Watch ES. The Honor MagicBook Pro notebook comes with a 16.1-inch FullView display, pre-installed Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor Radeon Graphics and 6 cores, and 12 threads.

Publication: Gizbot

Intel’s Tiger Lake iGPU is heavily dependent on LPDDR4x 4266MHz RAMedit

Not to everyone’s surprise, Intel did announce its much-awaited Tiger Lake mobile CPUs with their revolutionary Xe graphics, which did get a lot of appreciation worldwide and more often than not doubts in our minds, is Intel bluffing with its iGPU or is it real. In comparison with AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800U, the new Core i7-1165G7 was touted to deliver around 20-30% better performance in games.

Publication: TechnoSports

Competition in news

NVIDIA RTX 3080 Beats the RTX 2080 by 60-70% in Compute Tests, 2080 Ti by 25-40%edit

A bunch of CompuBench tests of NVIDIA’s next-gen Ampere flagship, the RTX 3080 has been shared by APISAK on Twitter, giving us an approximate measure of the compute capabilities of the new GPUs compared to the existing Turing parts. Keep in mind that these are the CUDA and OpenCL benchmarks that represent the GPGPU (general-purpose computing) performance of these GPUs. That means compute operations rather than the graphics rendering, tasks usually that are usually performed by the CPU but offloaded to the GPU for acceleration and faster batch execution.

Publication: Hardware Times

4 best laptops are the right choice for work from home (PROACTIVE)edit

The Acer Swift 3 features a 14-inch full-HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display and comes with an AMD Ryzen 4000 Series processor, which is offered with up to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD storage. The notebook also has stereo speakers and comes with Windows 10 Home.

Publication: Digit Hindi 

The best budget laptops with Intel Core i3 processor under Rs 40,000edit

It will be stating the obvious but the need for laptops has increased due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic where a majority of people are working from home, taking lessons from home and artists are creating content from home. You won’t get ultra-thin bezels, huge battery, or powerful processors in this range. These laptops are good for basic work, video calling, streaming content from OTT platforms, and very casual gaming. The list goes on and people are often confused about which laptop to buy when their budget is below Rs 40,000.

Publication: Indian Express 

A digital Opportunityedit

Its valuation is lower than other listed mid-tier IT services companies such as Mindtree (26.6 times) and Coforge (erstwhile NIIT Technologies) (28.2 times). The IPO seems to be priced on par with larger Indian IT services companies such as Infosys (23 times), but Infosys is not a pure-play digital services company. (Amazon, Intel, McAfee)

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine 

Lenovo Legion 7i review: Got you covered famedit

Lenovo has stayed long enough in the gaming hardware industry to learn that trade-offs aren’t an option when you are aiming to give the best product out there. And for that, it has the ‘Legion’ sub-brand, which until a couple of years ago was a ‘gaming lifestyle’ laptop for casual gamers. But now, the Legion lineup is known for its beastly power, aiming to leave a rather deep mark in the premium segment where Dell’s Alienware and Asus’ ROG laptops are already fighting hard with some really powerful sets of specs.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2020) review: Just take my money, and goedit

Key specs: Intel Core i5/Intel Core i7, Intel Iris Plus Graphics, 16GB (3,733MHz LPDDR4X memory) RAM, 512GB SSD (on our review unit), 13.3-inch (2,560 x 1,600) Retina display with 500 nits brightness and wide color P3 gamut, 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo speakers, 720p FaceTime HD webcam.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Intel goes minimalist and modern in brand revampedit

Don’t be encumbered by history. Go off and do something wonderful,” Intel co-founder Robert Noyce’s had once quoted. The same thought, decades later, has once again inspired the America-based technology company to embark on a major brand transition, the third since 1968. This time, the iconic ‘bong’ tone, composed by Walter Werzowa with just five notes inspired by the “Intel Inside” tagline of the brand has also been redone.

Publication: Indian Television 

The best budget laptops with Intel Core i3 processor under Rs 40,000edit

It will be stating the obvious but the need for laptops has increased due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic where a majority of people are working from home, taking lessons from home and artists are creating content from home. You won’t get ultra-thin bezels, huge battery, or powerful processors in this range. These laptops are good for basic work, video calling, streaming content from OTT platforms, and very casual gaming. The list goes on and people are often confused about which laptop to buy when their budget is below Rs 40,000.

Publication: Indian Express 

Acer launches Swift 5, Swift 3 laptops with Intel 11th Gen Core i5, i7 Tiger Lake CPUsedit

Shortly after Intel announced its 11-Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, Acer has announced new Swift series laptops that will come powered by these new chips. The company has announced three new devices, Acer Swift 5 (SF514-55) and Swift 3 (SF313-53 and SF314-59). The three models have been refreshed with Intel’s 11th-generation Core CPUs — as opposed to bringing 10th-generation Intel Core CPUs.

Publication: India Today 

AMD Radeon’s Fight For The Future of GPUs In 2020edit

If we take a look back at recent AMD Radeon releases and their product lineup currently on sale, there is a lack of straight competition between the two players in the high-end consumer space. NVIDIA’s top consumer GPU, the RTX 2080 Ti has no equal branded with a Radeon badge, or any badge, for that matter. The last GPU that AMD released that was priced and targeted to compete against NVIDIA’s -80 Ti GPUs was the Radeon Vega 64, and even that GPU was handily beaten by the 1080 Ti in several tests, especially gaming.

Publication: TechQuila

Intel’s Tiger Lake iGPU is heavily dependent on LPDDR4x 4266MHz RAMedit

Not to everyone’s surprise, Intel did announce its much-awaited Tiger Lake mobile CPUs with their revolutionary Xe graphics, which did get a lot of appreciation worldwide and more often than not doubts in our minds, is Intel bluffing with its iGPU or is it real. In comparison with AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800U, the new Core i7-1165G7 was touted to deliver around 20-30% better performance in games.

Publication: TechnoSports

Partner in news

4 best laptops are the right choice for work from home (PROACTIVE)edit

The Acer Swift 3 features a 14-inch full-HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display and comes with an AMD Ryzen 4000 Series processor, which is offered with up to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD storage. The notebook also has stereo speakers and comes with Windows 10 Home.

Publication: Digit Hindi 

The best budget laptops with Intel Core i3 processor under Rs 40,000edit

It will be stating the obvious but the need for laptops has increased due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic where a majority of people are working from home, taking lessons from home and artists are creating content from home. You won’t get ultra-thin bezels, huge battery, or powerful processors in this range. These laptops are good for basic work, video calling, streaming content from OTT platforms, and very casual gaming. The list goes on and people are often confused about which laptop to buy when their budget is below Rs 40,000.

Publication: Indian Express 

Dell Technologies Hybrid workplace is the new normal: Aongus Hegarty, President-International Marketsedit

India is among Dell Technologies’ top five countries globally, from a business and investment perspective,” says Aongus Hegarty, the company’s president for international markets. According to him, while most companies across sectors have been significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, sectors such as healthcare, technology and education have seen significant growth and investments. “Companies need to work with the current situation and plan, navigating it in the short term as well as investing in new business models through technology for the future.”

Publication: Financial Express 

MSI, the world—leading motherboard manufacturer, proudly announces AMD A520 series motherboardsedit

Ever since AMD launched Ryzen Desktop msi“ Processors with AM4 platform, MSI has occupied the market with its AM4 motherboards. A520 is the successor of A320, which does not support PCle 4.0 and upgrades all PCIe 2.0 lanes to PCIe 3.0. With the support of?nm 3rd Gen Ryzen and Ryzen 4000 G—series processors, A520 is the best choice for Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 3 PRO processors.

Publication: IT Voice  

Lenovo’s SmarterEd Platform Uses Smarter Technology To Bridge The Student-Teacher Gapedit

Lenovo, the global technology leader, in collaboration with eVidyaloka, a not-for-profit organization, had launched SmarterEd in April this year. A free online platform designed to help bridge the teacher-student gap in India, SmarterEd was able to successfully on-board and match learners with volunteer teachers. According to government estimates, India faces a shortage of one million teachers, with a decreasing student-to-teacher ratio.

Publication: The Times of India 

Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2020) review: Just take my money, and goedit

Key specs: Intel Core i5/Intel Core i7, Intel Iris Plus Graphics, 16GB (3,733MHz LPDDR4X memory) RAM, 512GB SSD (on our review unit), 13.3-inch (2,560 x 1,600) Retina display with 500 nits brightness and wide color P3 gamut, 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo speakers, 720p FaceTime HD webcam.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

The best budget laptops with Intel Core i3 processor under Rs 40,000edit

It will be stating the obvious but the need for laptops has increased due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic where a majority of people are working from home, taking lessons from home and artists are creating content from home. You won’t get ultra-thin bezels, huge battery, or powerful processors in this range. These laptops are good for basic work, video calling, streaming content from OTT platforms, and very casual gaming. The list goes on and people are often confused about which laptop to buy when their budget is below Rs 40,000.

Publication: Indian Express 

Acer launches Swift 5, Swift 3 laptops with Intel 11th Gen Core i5, i7 Tiger Lake CPUsedit

Shortly after Intel announced its 11-Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, Acer has announced new Swift series laptops that will come powered by these new chips. The company has announced three new devices, Acer Swift 5 (SF514-55) and Swift 3 (SF313-53 and SF314-59). The three models have been refreshed with Intel’s 11th-generation Core CPUs — as opposed to bringing 10th-generation Intel Core CPUs.

Publication: India Today 

PC’s have become more important, we are not done innovating: Intel India MDedit

The company’s 11th generation of Core notebook processors, as well as the evolution of Project Athena, could be crucial for Intel’s future in the long run. The company, which helped increase the penetration of PCs in the mid-1990s, has faced a lot of headwinds in recent years like the rise of ARM-based devices, AMD taking on Intel and the delay in next-generation 7nm chips. On top of that, Apple recently said it plans to move away from Intel’s processors in favour of its own chips.

Publication: Indian Express 

Two new Ryzen 5 4500U powered laptops get price cuts on Amazon Indiaedit

A handful of AMD Ryzen 4000U powered laptops are in India and its due to their high demand that their prices have been fluctuating so much. AMD has admitted the fact that they are facing availability issues due to the unprecedented sales, so a lot of new laptops haven’t even made its way to India, and the ones there are either getting out of stock or getting extraordinary price hikes.

Publication: TechnoSports

Honor Introduces Notebook And Smartwatches At IFA 2020edit

Honor has introduced a new notebook and two smartwatches at the IFA 2020. The company has launched the MagicBook Pro, along with the GS Pro smartwatch, and the Honor Watch ES. The Honor MagicBook Pro notebook comes with a 16.1-inch FullView display, pre-installed Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor Radeon Graphics and 6 cores, and 12 threads.

Publication: Gizbot

Industry news

Work from home, e-learning spur tablet demandedit

Work from home (WFH) and learning from home (LFH) have resulted in a strong demand for tablets during the April-June quarter in 2020, with consumers preferring tablets with a display of 10 inches and more. As per CyberMedia Research (CMR), a strong consumer demand and good supply side dynamics by both vendors and channel ecosystem fuelled the domestic tablet market with shipments increasing by 23% quarter-on-quarter (Q-o-Q).

Publication: Financial Express 

Dell Technologies Hybrid workplace is the new normal: Aongus Hegarty, President-International Marketsedit

India is among Dell Technologies’ top five countries globally, from a business and investment perspective,” says Aongus Hegarty, the company’s president for international markets. According to him, while most companies across sectors have been significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, sectors such as healthcare, technology and education have seen significant growth and investments. “Companies need to work with the current situation and plan, navigating it in the short term as well as investing in new business models through technology for the future.”

Publication: Financial Express 

A digital Opportunityedit

Its valuation is lower than other listed mid-tier IT services companies such as Mindtree (26.6 times) and Coforge (erstwhile NIIT Technologies) (28.2 times). The IPO seems to be priced on par with larger Indian IT services companies such as Infosys (23 times), but Infosys is not a pure-play digital services company. (Amazon, Intel, McAfee)

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine 

LOUNGE HEROES | On a mission to endure data remains secureedit

B y the time he was 16, Ehraz Ahmed says, he was on 50 halls of fame—of companies like Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft and Apple. “If you find a security flaw in a company like Facebook, then they acknowledge your efforts by putting your name on their hall of fame. That is a term they use,” says the 24-year- old, a tech entrepreneur and ethical hacker who now runs three startups. “These companies all had security teams of their own, so to catch these flaws you have to be better than them.”

Publication: Mint

Lenovo Legion 7i review: Got you covered famedit

Lenovo has stayed long enough in the gaming hardware industry to learn that trade-offs aren’t an option when you are aiming to give the best product out there. And for that, it has the ‘Legion’ sub-brand, which until a couple of years ago was a ‘gaming lifestyle’ laptop for casual gamers. But now, the Legion lineup is known for its beastly power, aiming to leave a rather deep mark in the premium segment where Dell’s Alienware and Asus’ ROG laptops are already fighting hard with some really powerful sets of specs.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

AMD EPYC™ Processors are ideal for HCI – from Edge to Coreedit

In order to understand Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), a brief history of the evolution of the legacy data center to the modern-day data center is needed. Legacy data centers are typically composed of a multi-tier architecture made up of a storage tier, a networking tier, and a compute tier. Each of these components would typically be managed by a different administrator using purpose-built hardware creating a natural barrier, or silo, because of the functionality and expertise required to manage them.

Publication: CellIT

Four stages in an SME’s digital transformation journeyedit

The new normal has brought about a need for digital transformation (DX) in Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and has made it one of the top investment priorities for them. Digitalization – a mere good-to-have process for Indian SMEs – has now become the most critical requirement. The introduction of smart phones, and smart devices has created a tectonic shift in the way content is consumed today. The rise of Generation Z along with the advancement in technologies and global connectivity has caused SMEs to adapt and invest in these technologies to enhance their reach, revenue, resilience, and have a competitive advantage.

Publication: CRN India 

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