Lightweight and sleek-looking laptops are not only good-looking laptops but are also easy-to-carry around. They offer great portability and usually come in 14-inch screens. There are many such laptops that deliver top performance. The high-specifications of such laptops make them one of the most preferred ones.The HP 14s cs3010TU 14-inch Laptop is a great-looking 14-inch laptop that comes with good specifications.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Nvidia is close to a deal to buy British chip designer Arm Holdings from Japan’s SoftBank Group for more than $40 billion in a deal which would create a giant in the chip industry, according to two people familiar with the matter. A cash and stock deal for Arm could be announced as early as next week, the sources said. Nvidia is known for its graphics chips that power video games, but it has developed other markets including artificial intelligence (AI), self-driving cars and data centers. REUTERS

Publication: The Times of India 

HP Envy 15 offers a 15.6-inch borderless 4K OLED display that delivers good viewing experience. The display is bright and the colours are vibrant and sharp. HP has tried to keep the minimalist approach to the laptop’s design and functionality. The laptop has an aluminium body with a silver coating that gives it a premium look. However, the laptop is heavy and its form factor makes it difficult to use when kept on the lap.

Publication: The Economic Times 

IT major HCL Technologies on Friday announced the launch of NEXT.ai, its Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab focused on upskilling engineers and architects using AI solutions across hardware and software. The NEXT.ai lab will focus on emerging technologies to develop industry-specific AI solutions for customers pursuing digital transformation.

Publication: Telangana Today 

Nvidia Corp is close to a deal to buy British chip designer Arm Holdings from SoftBank Group Corp <9984.T> for more than $40 billion (£31.26 billion) in a deal which would create a giant in the chip industry, according to two people familiar with the matter. A cash and stock deal for Arm could be announced as early as next week, the sources said. Nvidia is known for its graphics chips that power video games, but it has developed other markets including artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and data centers.

Publication: Business Standard 

The Dell XPS 15 recently got upgraded, along with its siblings in the XPS notebook series. As part of this upgrade, the premium laptop got a fresh new design, a 16:10 aspect-ratio screen, 10th-Gen Intel Core processors, a big touchpad, and an improved chassis with carbon fibre covering the palm rest area, among other things. These tweaks would likely make you think this iteration of the Dell XPS 15 is the perfect power notebook for everyday use that you had been waiting for.

Publication: Business Standard 

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a powerful machine that is packed in a compact package. It features a 14-inch Full HD IPS pantone validated panel offering 100% sRGB. It is powered by AMD Ryzen 4600HS processor coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 1TB SSD. It comes with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti 4GB graphics. It offers a battery life of up to 10 hours. It comes with an ergonomic hinge that raises the laptop, offering a comfortable typing position.

Publication: Business Insider India 

You can put more cores in a system, but it doesn’t mean you’re going to perform any better. The quality of the cores matters, and real-world performance matters so what we showed with 11th Gen over Ryzen (AMD processor) is productivity over 20% better, 28% better content creation, 2x better using the real application. I’d much rather have that performance than a synthetic benchmark. We showed on those same thin light systems, the ability to game and stream at higher frame rates… AMD systems just get crippled by that workload.

Publication: Indian Express 

This one wasn’t a surprise, and all-in-all was an expected result. The RX 5700 is an excellent value-for-money graphics card. At just over $300, it offers markedly better performance than the similarly priced RTX 2060, all the while eclipsing its much more expensive Super variant. You’re essentially getting a higher-tier card for the price of a mid-range product. Doesn’t get better than that.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Researchers from Amsterdam have shared details about a new Spectre-style speculative execution vulnerability in the latest AMD and Intel processors. Dubbed “Blindside”, it allows attackers to “hack blind” in the Spectre era. That is, given a simple buffer overflow in the kernel and no additional info leak vulnerability, BlindSide can mount BROP-style attacks in the speculative execution domain to repeatedly probe and derandomize the kernel address space, craft arbitrary memory read gadgets, and enable reliable exploitation.

Publication: Hardware Times 

In comparison, the RTX 3080 and 3090 feature 19Gbps of GDDR6X memory which is quite a bit higher than this. The latter seems unlikely and if true, it put NVIDIA’s Ampere based Quadro at a disadvantage compared to AMD competitors, most notably the Radeon Pro VII which leverages HBM2 memory for a total bandwidth of 1024GB/s. Of course, this could just be an underclocked engineering/verification sample, so we can’t be too sure just yet.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The HP Pavilion Gaming 15 is the 2019 model of HP’s gaming laptop, but they still continue to offer immense value. The Pavilion Gaming 15 from last year is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 processor coupled up with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 with 4GB VRAM. There’s also 8GB of RAM onboard, along with a 1TB hard disk so that you can have as many games as you’d like installed. Your games will still be limited to 1080p, 60fps, which is a bare minimum to make your mark on the world of eSports felt.

Publication: Digit

Its been a year since AMD launched their revolutionary Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs and since then the Red team has never looked back, they were already dominating in sales, after the 7nm debut, AMD started dominating the market share as well. Intel who enjoyed a lion’s share even in 2017, when the first Ryzen CPU was launched, was nowhere near AMD in April 2020 Mindfactory(a German retail outlet) CPU sales.

Publication: TechnoSports