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AMD specific news

AMD Releases Graphics Card for PC Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

After reporting record Q3 revenue and announcing the $35 billion acquisition of rival company Xilinx, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, also known as Big Navi, for the next level of PC gaming.

Publication: The Economic Times 

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs Are Here, and They’re Apparently More Powerful Than Nvidia RTX 3000 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD, the US-based semiconductor company today unveiled three new graphics cards under the Radeon RX 6000 series namely, the AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the flagship AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. All the new AMD GPUs come nearly a month after the launch of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 GPU series and its flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT costs $500 lesser than the flagship RTX 3090 GPU. Additionally, AMD’s own benchmark results show that the new GPUs perform relatively better than Nvidia new GPUs; however this is not the final verdict as other users will test the graphic cards once they’re available to purchase.

Publication: Network 18; India Today; Techknow; FoneArena;

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, 6800, 6800 XT Price and Release Date Announced (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has unveiled three new graphics cards under the Radeon RX 6000 series: AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and its new flagship AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. The last of them is the fastest gaming graphics card AMD has ever developed, the American giant claimed in its announcement. The first two — RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT — will be available November 18 at $579 (about Rs. 43,000) and $649 (about Rs. 48,000) respectively, with the RX 6900 XT following December 8 for $999 (about Rs. 74,000). India prices have not been revealed and are expected closer to launch date, which should be in line with the global launch.

Publication: Gadgets 360

AMD launches Next-Generation PC Gaming with AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD launched the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, delivering powerhouse performance, incredibly life-like visuals, and must-have features that set a new standard for enthusiast-class PC gaming experiences. Representing the forefront of extreme engineering and design, the highly anticipated AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series includes the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards, as well as the new flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT – the fastest AMD gaming graphics card ever developed.

Publication: Gadget Bridge

AMD launches Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs to take on Nvidia’s RTX 3000 cards: everything to know (PROACTIVE)edit

MD Radeon RX 6000 series: Computer processor and graphic card developer AMD has announced Radeon RX 6000 series! The new cards improve the performance over the last generation of graphic cards by AMD by two times, and they have been built on the new 7nm RDNA 2 architecture. These graphic cards also have the necessary support for Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate API. The cards will be available from November.

Publication: Financial Express 

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT challenges NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 at $999 only (PROACTIVE)edit

Yesterday, AMD announced their revolutionary RDNA 2 based RX 6000 series GPUs that will go head to head with NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line RTX 30-series GPUs. It was unimaginable though to see coming this from AMD, who until now, was struggling to keep up with NVIDIA. Not only the RDNA 2 is delivery insane performance uplift over last-gen but also brings the much-anticipated DX12 based Ray tracing and in a proper way like NVIDIA did with their recent GPUs only. It’s good to see that AMD has countered all the three top-of-the-line product slacklines of NVIDIA.

Publication: TechnoSports

Will Intel’s CPUs (Rocket Lake) be The Best Again in 2021?edit

AMD has announced another series of Ryzen CPUs. Of course, we all know that by now. But to summarise it anyway: AMD seems to have improved by a fair amount once again, and this time it seems like Intel’s last stronghold — gaming, is in danger of coming right into AMD’s hands as well. There are many reasons for this happening, and there are many consequences or outcomes that Intel can make happen after this.

Publication: TechQuila

ASUS Announces ROG Strix and TUF Gaming AMD Radeon(TM) RX 6800 Series Graphics Cardsedit

ASUS today announced a new lineup of ROG Strix and TUF Gaming AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series graphics cards. The new AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series and the underlying RDNA™ 2 GPU gaming architecture herald a new era of Radeon™ graphics power. To get the most out of these exciting new GPUs, ASUS engineers have been hard at work developing ROG Strix and TUF Gaming graphics cards that deliver the high performance, low temperatures and quiet operation that enthusiasts expect.

Publication: IT News Online

AMD RX 6000 Release date: details inside (PROACTIVE)edit

Tech giants AMD have recently announced their RX 6000 series of GPUs, and they have managed to stun their fans and critics alike with loads of new features and reasonable price tags on the upcoming cards. The RX 6000 series will include three GPUs: RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and AMD’s flagship card RX 6900 XT, which is set to revolutionize modern-day gaming.

Publication: TalkSports

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT matches RTX 3080 performance at just $649 (PROACTIVE)edit

The Red team has made some bold announcements yesterday with its new RX 6000 series graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture. Their first announcement was the new Radeon RX 6800 XT which AMD had been teasing for quite some time now. While people including me, were quite skeptical about AMD’s graphics performance because they never really matched NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line GPUs and this time when NVIDIA almost doubled its GPU performance, we thought AMD could never match NVIDIA.

Publication: TechnoSports

NVIDIA’s RTX 3080/3090 30-50% Faster in Ray-Tracing Compared to AMD’s Big Navi GPUsedit

AMD had a ton of Big Navi benchmarks to show off at yesterday’s event, both at both 1440p and 4K, but there wasn’t a single figure indicating the ray-tracing performance of the RDNA 2 GPUs. Digging deep into the press release, it turns out that AMD did provide some initial figures, but they aren’t pretty. Measured by AMD engineering labs 8/17/2020 on an AMD RDNA 2 based graphics card, using the Procedural Geometry sample application from Microsoft’s DXR SDK, the AMD RDNA 2 based graphics card gets up to 13.8x speedup (471 FPS) using HW based raytracing vs using the Software DXR fallback layer (34 FPS) at the same clocks.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD’s Q3 Sales Grew by 44% but were Offset by a Drop of 7% in GPU Prices (ASP)edit

AMD has a remarkable Q3, with the total revenue growing by 56% YoY and 45% on a quarterly basis. However, at the same time, there were a few outliers that went unnoticed. Although the CG Group’s yearly revenue was up by 31%, the actual sales volume grew by 44%. However, the lower selling price (ASP) of the Radeon graphics cards meant that the final revenue was around 14% lower. The ASP of the Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) continued to fall for another consecutive quarter.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Working on Open-Source DLSS Competitor Called Super Resolution for Big Navi (PROACTIVE)edit

As already mentioned in yesterday’s Big Navi post, AMD is working on a competitor to NVIDIA’s DLSS 2.0 upsampling technology. While we still know very little about it, there are a few educated guesses we can make thanks to the Xbox Series X presentation at HotChips. For starters, unlike NVIDIA’s DLSS technology, AMD’s solution is going to be OpenSource like the rest of the FidelityFX suite. Secondly, it’s likely going to be based on DirectML which is already a well-established Super-Resolution technique and doesn’t require any additional hardware.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 Series Is Here to Take on Nvidia’s RTX 3000 Series (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has unveiled three new graphics cards under the Radeon RX 6000 series: AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and its new flagship AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. The last of them is the fastest gaming graphics card AMD has ever developed, the American giant claimed in its announcement. The first two — RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT — will be available November 18 at $579 (about Rs. 43,000) and $649 (about Rs. 48,000) respectively, with the RX 6900 XT following December 8 for $999 (about Rs. 74,000). India prices have not been revealed and are expected closer to launch date, which should be in line with the global launch.

Publication: TheNewzBox

ASUS announces new AMD Radeon 6000 series Graphics cards (PROACTIVE)edit

ASUS announces new AMD Radeon 6000 series Graphics cards. ASUS ROG Strix and TUF Gaming AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Graphics Cards announced. The new AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series and the underlying RDNA™ 2 GPU gaming architecture herald a new era of Radeon graphics power. KEY POINTS  – ROG Strix LC Radeon™ RX 6800 XT features integrated AIO liquid-cooling solution to deliver low temperatures in a wide range of chassis. ROG Strix Radeon™ RX 6800 is armed with a large heatsink and three Axial-tech fans for low temperatures and operating noise. TUF Gaming 6800-series graphics cards feature trickle-down tech from the venerable ROG Strix series

Publication: TechTicTok

AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 Series Is Here to Take on Nvidia’s RTX 3000 Series (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has unveiled three new graphics cards under the Radeon RX 6000 series: AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and its new flagship AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. The last of them is the fastest gaming graphics card AMD has ever developed, the American giant claimed in its announcement. The first two — RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT — will be available November 18 at $579 (about Rs. 43,000) and $649 (about Rs. 48,000) respectively, with the RX 6900 XT following December 8 for $999 (about Rs. 74,000). India prices have not been revealed and are expected closer to launch date, which should be in line with the global launch.

Publication: Gadget Page 

AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

After reporting record Q3 revenue and announcing the $35 billion acquisition of rival company Xilinx, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, also known as Big Navi, for the next level of PC gaming. Taking on graphics giant Nvidia, AMD said the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT is the ultimate 4K graphics card and the fastest ever AMD gaming graphics card. AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards are expected to be available beginning November 18 for $579 and $649, respectively.

Publication: DailyHunt

AMD Radeon RX 6800: your step into 4K gaming at just $579 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD announced three GPUs yesterday and all of them focusing on 4K gaming experience. Although people are more excited about the top end AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Radeon RX 6900 XT, but the entry-level 4K gaming performer also requires attention. As AMD has targeted directly against NVIDIA’s top-end GPUs – RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 GPUs. While both AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPUs lineup against RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 GPUs, the Radeon RX 6800 GPU competes against RTX 3070, however, at a higher price of $579, which is a bit strange.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

After reporting record Q3 revenue and announcing the $35 billion acquisition of rival company Xilinx, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, also known as Big Navi, for the next level of PC gaming. Taking on graphics giant Nvidia, AMD said the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT is the ultimate 4K graphics card and the fastest ever AMD gaming graphics card. AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards are expected to be available beginning November 18 for $579 and $649, respectively.

Publication: India TV 

AMD, Nvidia chip away at Intel’s semiconductor dominanceedit

A new set of American semiconductor leaders is rising, fueled by pandemic-driven demand for their chips that they are looking to parlay into blockbuster deals to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by Intel Corp. The U.S. chip industry has historically been a mix of niche players, midsize companies and Intel. But this year, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., long the underdog in the computer-processor market, and Nvidia Corp., a graphics-processing specialist, are mounting their biggest challenge yet to level the playing field.

Publication: Livemint

AMD 5500 XT And 5600 XT Review: Best 1080p Card For Budget Gamers (PROACTIVE)edit

5600 XT also trumps over its green opponent, the 1660 Super, by averaging around 10-15 FPS more in the aforementioned games. Due to a higher core count and a brand new heat sink on the 5600 XT, it stays cool while pushing around 100 FPS in almost every new game at 1080p. The price difference between both of these cards is around Rs. 3,000, with the 5600 XT being the costlier one. Suffice it to say that both, the 5500 XT OC and the 5600 XT are meant for 1080p gaming. Personally, I’d prefer the 5600 XT and pair it up with a 144 Hz monitor to experience the best possible HD gaming in 2020.

Publication: Fossbytes

AMD Unveils Next-Generation PC Gaming with AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series – Bringing Leadership 4K Resolution Performance to AAA Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD today unveiled the AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards, delivering powerhouse performance, incredibly life-like visuals, and must-have features that set a new standard for enthusiast-class PC gaming experiences. Representing the forefront of extreme engineering and design, the highly anticipated AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series includes the AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 and Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics cards, as well as the new flagship Radeon™ RX 6900 XT – the fastest AMD gaming graphics card ever developed.

Publication: IT News Online 

AMD Radeon RX 6000 “Big Navi” Revealed: What Do The New RDNA 2 GPUs Bring At Launch? (PROACTIVE)edit

28th October has finally rolled around, and AMD has finally pulled the veil off the Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs, running on the RDNA 2 architecture. It isn’t the first product revealed with that architecture, as the Xbox Series S/X and the PlayStation 5, both run the architecture for their own graphical processing components. But these still are the first add-in GPUs available to be put in your rig as soon as they hit stores, starting 18th November.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD Officially Reveals Radeon RX 6000 (RDNA 2) Graphics Cards – RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Launch Starting at $579 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has officially announced the Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, built on the new RDNA 2 architecture, with the Radeon RX 6700, RX 6800 and RX 6900 (Big Navi). The new graphics card lineup will launch starting at $579 on November 12. AMD started revealing small details of its RX 6000 lineup earlier this month with the Zen 3 CPU launch event, where Lisa Su showed the first benchmark numbers of Big Navi at 4K.

Publication: TechQuila 

AMD Introduces RDNA 2 – Radeon RX 6000 and “Big Navi” (PROACTIVE)edit

Despite the fact that AMD has been able to enjoy a success story on the processor front with the architecture Zen and the Ryzen series, the company has not had as good luck in terms of graphics cards. Despite innovations such as manufacturing technology of 7 nanometers and the semi-new architecture Radeon DNA (RDNA), the graphics cards in the Radeon RX 5000 series have not really been able to raw on Nvidia’s Geforce RTX series.

Publication: Aroged; Aroged (2)

 

RDNA2 Starts At The High-End, Coming November 18th (PROACTIVE)edit

Getting ready to shut out a serious month of bulletins for AMD – and to open the door to the following period of architectures throughout the corporate – AMD wrapped up its closing keynote presentation of the month by saying their Radeon RX 6000 collection of video playing cards. Hosted as soon as extra by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s hour-long keynote revealed the primary three components in AMD’s new RDNA2 structure video card household: the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT. The core of AMD’s new high-end video card lineup, AMD means to do battle with one of the best of one of the best out of arch-rival NVIDIA.

Publication: TechFunda; Celebio; Fidget ...

AMD Unveils the Radeon RX 6000 Series – the Ultimate Enthusiast-Class Graphics Cards (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD today unveiled the AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards, delivering powerhouse performance, incredibly life-like visuals, and must-have features that set a new standard for enthusiast-class PC gaming experiences. Representing the forefront of extreme engineering and design, the highly anticipated AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series includes the AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 and Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics cards, as well as the new flagship Radeon™ RX 6900 XT – the fastest AMD gaming graphics card ever developed.

Publication: TechGoggles

AMD Announces the Radeon RX 6800XT & 6900XT for $649 and $999, respectively (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD finally unveiled its RDNA 2 powered Radeon RX 6000 series, competing toe-to-toe against NVIDIA’s top-end RTX 30 series offerings. First up, we have the Radeon RX 6800 XT which comes with 72 CUs and 16GB of GDDR6 memory paired with a 256-bit and (wait for it) a whopping 128MB of Infinity Cache. Never expected to see 128 MB of cache in a GPU. Looks like RedGamingTech was right after all.

Publication: Hardware Times 

What is AMD Smart Memory Access on the Radeon RX 6000 (Big Navi) Graphics Cards? (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD just announced its Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, including the 6900 XT, 6800 XT, and the 6800. One of the core features of the new cards is AMD Smart Memory Access (SAM) which improves gaming performance by up to 11%. But how does Smart Memory Access work? When you’re using an all-AMD system with a Ryzen 5000 CPU and a Radeon RX 6000 graphics card, the CPU has direct access to the GPU’s memory sub-system via the PCIe 4.0 lanes.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Here are the best laptops across price ranges in India (PROACTIVE)edit

In this price range, the ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DT is a good choice as it offers a lot of features that you may find in other more expensive laptops. It is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H quad-core processor, and 16GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM, which is upgradeable up to 32GB. As for storage, there’s a 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD and an empty slot for a 2.5-inch SATA drive.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

San Francisco, Oct 29 (IANS) After reporting record Q3 revenue and announcing the $35 billion acquisition of rival company Xilinx, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, also known as Big Navi, for the next level of PC gaming.

Publication: IANSLive

AMD’s take on its new RX 6000 Series GPUs based on RDNA 2 architecture (PROACTIVE)edit

Finally, AMD’s event has given a broader look to its latest RDNA 2 based graphics cards or known as RX 6000 Series GPUs. These graphics cards delivering powerhouse performance, incredibly life-like visuals, and must-have features that set a new standard for enthusiast-class PC gaming experiences. Obviously, the main highlight of the show was the new RDNA 2 architecture which is a new foundation for next-generation consoles, PCs, laptops and mobile devices, designed to deliver the optimal combination of performance and power efficiency.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Q3 earnings crush its competitorsedit

AMD is raising quite a profit this year and has announced its launch of next-generation processors. It seems like intel’s competitor has no desire to slow down and will only keep racking even more profits. The latest news from the industry is that AMD has revealed its earnings for the third quarter of 2020, and the reveal has sent ripples across the semiconductor market. The third quarter of 2020 ended on September 30th, AMD earned $2.8 billion in revenue. It is whooping of the total annual increase by 55.6%, which beats every expectation from analysts, and this was expected from its bright Q2 earnings.

Publication: TechnoSports

When and how to watch AMD’s RDNA 2 event in India today? (PROACTIVE)edit

Finally, the wait is over, AMD today will be launching their new RDNA 2 based GPUs at their graphics card event. This event is huge for gamers because this will reflect AMD’s true generational leap in graphical performance, also the same RDNA 2 architecture is found on the next-gen consoles. The event will be held on October 28th, today, at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT / 5 PM BST or 9:30 PM IST. Today, all of the Indians can also get to see and experience the event where Dr. Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, will be actually launching the new RDNA 2 GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT Launched With RDAN2 Architecture (PROACTIVE)edit

As expected, AMD has officially announced a new series of GPUs based on the RDAN2 architecture. Under the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs, the company has launched the Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT. The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is the top-of-the-line graphics card from the company that goes head-to-head with the RTX 3090 GPU from NVIDIA. It offers 80CUs with a boost clock speed of 2250MHz. This is also one of the most expensive GPUs from the brand, and it comes with a retail price of $999, which is less than the price of the RTX 3090.

Publication: Gizbot

AMD to purchase Xilinx for $35 billion in large chip dealedit

AMD will now buy the peer Xilinx in a $35 billion all-stock deal, as per the report revealed. The blockbuster acquisition will even unite two leading developers of semiconductors and further ramp up the MAD bid to challenge Silicon Valley titan Intel, moreover, in the rapidly growing data center business. “Our acquisition of Xilinx marks the next leg in our journey to establish AMD as the industry’s high-performance computing leader and partner of choice for the largest and most important technology companies in the world,” AMD president and CEO Lisa Su said in a statement.

Publication: TechStory

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, RX 6800, and RX 6900 XT graphics cards launched, beats NVIDIA RTX 3000 in price and performance (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has done it again! Team Red just announced their brand new Big Navi RDNA2 GPUs, and it looks like NVIDIA is about to get its boat rocked. AMD announced the Radeon RX 6800 XT, RX 6800, and RX 6900, and it’s beating NVIDIA RTX 3000 in price and performance both. Starting off, we got a look at the AMD Big Navi GPU, with a whopping 26.8 billion transistors, from CEO Lisa Su. AMD then revealed the cards that will use this new RDNA2 beast. The virtual event lasted for nearly 25 minutes.

Publication: MySmartPrice

AMD Announces the Radeon RX 6900XT, 6800XT and 6800 RDNA2 Graphics cards starting USD 549 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has finally unveiled the Radeon RX 6000 family of RDNA2 graphics cards with three high-end graphics cards including the Radeon RX 6900XT, 6800XT and 6800 which are set to be available on shelves starting November 18, 2020. AMD states that with their new Infinity Cache, the RDNA2 cards can deliver 2.17x the bandwidth of a traditional 384 bit GDDR6 GPU while consuming 10% less power. Also, RDNA2 has reportedly achieved 54% improvement in performance per watt over the RDNA architecture. AMD is gunning for 4K gaming with the new RX 6000 graphics cards which brings these cards into the high-end segment.

Publication: Digit

AMD Big Navi live blog: is this the AMD vs Nvidia battle royale? (PROACTIVE)edit

We have been waiting for AMD Big Navi, or more specifically RDNA 2, for months now. AMD’s next-generation graphics card architecture has constantly been hinted to by Team Red as its answer to Nvidia at the high-end, supposedly providing true 4K gaming performance. And, because it’s the same architecture behind both the PS5 and Xbox Series X, there is an idea that game developers will have an easier time optimizing for AMD’s PC graphics cards, too.

Publication: Gadget Page

AMD reveals Radeon RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT, and 6800 with Rage power (PROACTIVE)edit

At last, AMD is ready to compete on the high end of gaming video cards. The company revealed the Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800 GPUs today. It claims these products have enough power to go head-to-head against Nvidia’s most powerful graphics cards, which is a market segment AMD has evaded for years. But that’s about to change. The RX 6800XT and RX 6800 both launch November 18. The RX 6900 XT, meanwhile, debuts December 8. AMD is positioning the 6800 against Nvidia’s $500 RTX 3700 and the 6800XT against the $700 RTX 3080.

Publication: TechnologyForYou

Desktop Processors with built-in graphics capabilitiesedit

The AMD Ryzen 3 3200G is an entry-level desktop processor from AMD that makes use of their Zen+ microarchitecture which is an improvement over the Zen architecture, in terms of IPC. The 3200G has 4 cores and does not feature multi-threading. Its graphics capabilities are powered by a Radeon Vega 8 IGP which is clocked at 1250 MHz. The processor itself has a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost clock of 4 GHz so there’s plenty of processing power, even for entry-level systems. Like all Ryzen desktop processors, the 3200G is compatible with motherboards that have AMD’s AM4 socket, along with a compatible chipset.

Publication: Digit

Best CPUs For Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

With 16 Cores / 32 Threads, the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the beefiest processor in this list. Usually, with high core counts, you see a reduction in base and boost frequencies and that in turn affects gaming performance so it’s a surprise that such a beefy processor even made it to this list. Nevertheless, the 3950X is great for gaming and given the high core-count you can even multitask and stream using the same PC with ease. That makes the 3950X an ever more appealing choice.

Publication: Digit

AMD buying Xilinx in all-stock deal valued at $35 billionedit

AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chipmakers. The deal announced Tuesday puts AMD in a place it wants to be; competing more fiercely with Intel. Xilinx stockholders will receive 1.7234 shares of AMD stock for each Xilinx share they hold, or approximately $143 per share of Xilinx stock. AMD stockholders will own about 74% of the combined company, with Xilinx stockholders owning approximately 26%.

Publication: The Times of IndiaMoneycontrol ; Indian Express ; Telangana Today ; Network 18

New AMD acquisition intensifies Intel rivalryedit

ADVANCED Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of mergers and buyouts in the industry. The deal announced Tues- day puts AMD in a place it wants to be — competing more fiercely with Intel at a time when a global pandemic is driving demand for tech ever higher. More Zoom meetings, more orders online, and more upgrades for companies trying to meet new demands of millions staying at home has led to a seemingly insatiable appetite for computer chips

Publication: Indian Express 

AMD agrees to buyXilinx for $3 5 billion in stockedit

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AM D) agreed to pay $3 5 billion in stock forXilinx, a deal aimed at reshaping one ofthe com- puter chip industry’s pioneers.

Publication: Financial Express 

AMD agrees to buy rival Xilinx in $35-bn deal to take on Inteledit

Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Tuesday said it has agreed buy Xilinx in a $35 billion all-stock deal that will intensify its battle with Intel Corp in the data center chip market.

Publication: Business Standard 

AMD Radeon RX 6000 series clock speeds appear in alleged leak scoresedit

Advanced Media Devices, or only AMD, is one of the largest producers of CPUs and GPUs. The company is the biggest rival of Intel and Nvidia, and it seems that AMD is slowly taking over the competition with its latest next-gen models. We already know that AMD will soon release it’s custom “Big Navi” graphics cards in the market. Now, however, we have more details regarding the clock speeds of the new entry from AMD. The leaker, Patrick Schur, has revealed the clock speed details about the AMD Radeon graphics card, reportedly the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, which powers ASUS ROG STRIX device and comes with a boost clock which is beyond 2.5 GHz.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD to buy Xilinx for $35 billion in data center pushedit

Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) on Tuesday said it has agreed buy Xilinx Inc in a $35 billion all-stock deal that will intensify its battle with Intel Corp in the data center chip market. The deal, which AMD expects to close at the end of 2021, would create a combined firm with 13,000 engineers and a completely outsourced manufacturing strategy that relies heavily on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC). The two U.S. firms have benefited from a more nimble approach to grab market share from Intel, which has struggled with internal manufacturing.

Publication: Livemint

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Beats the Intel Core i9-10900K by 10% in Single-Threaded Performance (CPU-Z)edit

The single-threaded performance of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors is looking to be the strongest aspect of the new lineup. A while back, we saw the Ryzen 5 5600X beating the Intel Core i9-10900K in the Passmark single-core test. Today, we have the CPU-Z single-threaded benchmark of the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD’s next chip aimed at enthusiast gamers and content creators.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Becomes the Fastest Consumer CPU, Beating the Core i9-10900K By 17% in Passmarkedit

AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X has been spotted on the PassMark CPU benchmark, scoring a record-breaking 3,693 points, beating the Intel Comet Lake-S flagship by almost 17%. Compared to its cheaper Vermeer sibling, we’re looking at a 5-7% advantage, primarily on account of the higher boost clock.  The multi-threaded benchmarks are less impressive as the core and thread counts are identical compared to the Zen 2 lineup.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Q3 2020 Earnings Report: Operating Income up by 160% Q/Q and 140% YoYedit

AMD has announced its Q3 earnings report, beating estimates and forging new highs. Most analysts were expecting an increase of 40-45% (YoY) in the overall earnings, with a growth of 33% sequentially. However, the actual figures were notably higher with a YoY revenue growth of 56% and a quarterly gain of 45%. Update: This is the highest quarterly revenue for AMD in the last 25-30 years.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD announces US$35 Xilinx buyout, eyes FPGA marketedit

AMD recently announced that it’ll be purchasing Xilinx, a rival chipmaker, and the market leader in the FPGA space. The US$35 billion deal comes at a substantial cost, with AMD shareholders owning roughly 3/4 of the newly joint company and Xilinx holding on to another quarter. Xilinx’s Victor Peng is also set to become AMD’s President as part of the deal. Why does AMD’s Xilinx acquisition matter and what are the potential impacts? As of now, Xilinx and Altera (which Intel recently acquired) are the two biggest players in the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) markets.

Publication: Hardware Times 

High-end desktop processors for extreme performanceedit

In terms of pure performance potential, the 3990X is nothing short of a beast. Being the world’s first 64 core processor, the Threadripper 3990X offers 128 threads to ensure entirely seamless rendering workflows for your projects. Besides all the multi-core power it brings to the table, its single core performance is also superlative thanks to its max boost capability of 4.3GHz. To handle large GPU and NVMe data throughput needs without breaking a sweat, it packs a total of 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes in its design. The combined cache size of 288MB aims to keep large datasets always accessible.

Publication: Digit

AMD acquires Xilinx for $35bn, posts record $2.8bn sales in Q3edit

In one of the largest tech deals, chip maker AMD on Tuesday acquired rival company Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. Xilinx is the top provider of adaptive computing solutions and the combined $135 billion entity will have nearly 13,000 engineers and expand AMD’s total addressable market to $110 billion. The combination will create the industry’s leading high performance computing company, significantly expanding the breadth of AMD’s product portfolio and customer set across diverse growth markets where Xilinx is an established leader, AMD said in a statement.

Publication: CRN India 

AMD to buy chipmaker Xilinx in $35 billion all-stock dealedit

Advanced Micro Devices agreed to buy Xilinx for $35 billion in stock, taking the chipmaker into more diverse and profitable markets and adding to its data center offerings. Xilinx investors will get 1.7234 AMD shares for each Xilinx stock they own. That values Xilinx at about $143 a share, 25% more than the closing price on Monday and 35% above the price before news of a possible deal was reported earlier in October. The deal is a coup for AMD chief executive Lisa Su, creating a company with a larger research and development budget and a broader array of products to take on Intel.

Publication: The Economic Times 

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT (Navi 21 XT) Leaked Benchmarks Show It’s Faster Than RTX 3080 at 4Kedit

With AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 (‘Big Navi’) reveal just a few short days away, more leaked benchmarks are showing up every day. However, a new benchmark leak might put the as of yet unannounced RX 6800 XT to be faster than NVIDIA’s RTX 3080! The new benchmarks have been leaked courtesy of Igor’s lab and Wccftech. First up is Igor’s Lab, who are reporting benchmark scores from Firestrike Extreme, 3D Mark Time Spy and Port Royal, all running at 4K. They report that they actually received scores in percentage, which was then converted to tangible scores by benchmarking the other cards in the chart.

Publication: TechQuila

PC Build for Next Generation of Games! (PROACTIVE)edit

For the GPU we’ve got options from Team Red and Team Green. AMD’s RX 5700XT has a great price to performance ratio which competes against the RTX 2070 Super. It’s got enough juice to easily play games at 1440p60fps on High Settings with a bit of headroom. Now if you want to wait for a bit, you can also get the upcoming Big Navi GPU from AMD which will be part of the RX 6000 Series that aims to take on the RTX 3080. And given the performance of the RX 5700XT, the Big Navi GPU is bound to easily do 1440p and maybe even 4K.

Publication: TechGoggles

 

How AMD’s Ryzen Changed the Market (PROACTIVE)edit

Ryzen came in when 4c/4t was “enough” for gaming and going above that was not advised. This was mostly due to the high prices of CPUs back then. AMD dropped the bombshell that was 1st Gen Ryzen and the market has since changed for the better. We finally had a CPU that offered more cores and more threads for a reasonable price. While 1st Gen Ryzen took the market by storm, it still had a few things that could have been improved like single-core performance.

Publication: Tech Goggles 

AMD’s Q3 Revenue Expected to Grow by a Third Sequentially, 42% YoYedit

AMD is going to report its Q3 earnings this Wednesday morning, with analysts expecting significant growth both in terms of the sequential and YoY revenue. After Intel declared its Q3 earnings earlier this week, bundled with a bunch of roadmap delays, analysts expect AMD’s progress to be in stark contrast to the former’s muted growth. The Q3 revenue is expected to grow by around a third compared to the last fiscal, reaching $2.56 billion, which is 33% higher sequentially and a YoY increase of more than 40%.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Dell G5 15 SE Review: You Really Are Better Off Spending Your Money On An HP Omen 15 Gaming Laptop (PROACTIVE)edit

Yes this has a fast 512GB SSD and it has a bunch of AMD functionality to improve performance, but the RAM section on the spec sheet is a turn off and that’s how it proves to be in the real world as well. The AMD SmartShift technology works in the background to manage the task allocation between the processor and the graphics to keep the performance stable while gaming. This, from what I understand, remains active and there is no way to turn this off. Not that you would want to either.

Publication: Network 18 

AMD’s upcoming EPYC Zen 3 based processor will power the LUMI supercomputeredit

AMD’s next-generation Zen 2 and Zen 3 based processors are all set to debut their desktop-grade and server-grade CPU market. However, reports have arrived stating that AMD is all set to debut its next-gen EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs in the Large Unified Modern Infrastructure supercomputer Kajaani, Finland. HP or Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the manufacturing of the LUMI supercomputer. The machine will be using the company’s HPE Cray EX architecture to deliver more than half the Exaflops of performance. The supercomputer is based in Finland and will be fully operational by late 2021.

Publication: TechnoSports

Able workhouse – Honor Magicbook 15edit

Honor has launched Honor Magicbook 15, its first notebook in India. The laptop is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U mobile processor and packs 8GB RAM. Aimed to cater to the demand of work-based laptops, it comes with features like USB Type-C charger, two-in-one power button and a pop-up web camera.

Publication: ET Panache 

AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X crushes the competition in the latest benchmark scoresedit

AMD has been pushing ahead in the semiconductor market to release its next-generation Zen 3 based processor. We have already seen AMD processors being announced to power the latest LUMI Supercomputer in Finland. With this announcement, AMD’s EPYC processors have already surpassed Intel in the data centre market as all major data centres and supercomputers are opting AMD. Now, however, we have another major update on our hands. AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 5 5600X has just posted its first benchmark score on PassMark. According to sources, the 5600X crushes its competition in a big way.

Publication: TechnoSports

HP launches Two new monitors for content developersedit

HP is looking to walk the path of innovations and adapting the technology of the future. We already know that the computer manufacturer is building a Supercomputer in Finland and it will be ready by 2021. The supercomputer called LUMI being built by HP will also feature AMD’s next-generation Zen 3 based EPYC CPUs. The company believes that creators need to adapt to hybrid environments and needs access to cutting edge technologies. It has announced its latest innovations in its HP Create Ecosystem, which are developed to increase creators’ productivity during the pandemic.

Publication: TechnoSports

Best processors for home desktop in Indiaedit

The AMD Ryzen 3 3200G is a highly popular option in this price segment because of the great value for money that it delivers. Based on the Ryzen 3 platform, this processor comes with 4 cores and 4 threads with a base clock speed of 3.6GHz. It comes with integrated graphics as well, so you don’t have to purchase a dedicated graphics card for your home desktop. This AMD processor is a great option for building the perfect budget home desktop for almost all your basic tasks.

Publication: Business Insider 

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X spotted running at 5GHz with massive Geekbench scoresedit

The Red team’s Ryzen 5000 series CPUs have already been launched and it consists of 4 new CPUs for every people who are looking for good budget and high-end CPUs. These CPUs promised better gaming performance over last generation as well over Intel’s current best CPUs. So, its obvious that before its actual availability the benchmarks have already started to surface across the internet. The latest set of Geekbench 5 scores from our prominent tipster @TUM_APISAK does suggest that AMD’s upcoming flagship CPU can finally hit that 5GHz barrier.

Publication: TechnoSports

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2020: Best deals on Desktop CPUs (PROACTIVE)edit

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT is a desktop processor for high-end systems and has 12 Cores / 24 Threads with a base clock of 3.8 GHz and a boost clock of 4.7 GHz. It supports DDR4 memory with a nominal clock speed of 3200 MHz. This processor usually sells for INR 48,900 and has seen a price drop of approximately INR 6,000. – Usual price – 48,846. Sale price – 42,990

Publication: Digit

AMD’s Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 benchmark scores surfaces online ahead of its releaseedit

The fourth quarter of 2020 has seen AMD being a lot more busy than usual. The world’s second-largest semiconductor manufacturer and Intel’s competitor has been gearing up majorly to announce its upcoming line of processors based on its next-generation Zen 3 architecture. Earlier, we saw the Ryzen 6000 series processors teased online and the series’ clock speeds. Now, we have on our hands yet another scoop regarding AMD. The company’s upcoming Ryzen 5000 series based on its Zen 3 architecture is teased online previously with alleged benchmark scores

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Radeon RX 6900XT Specs Confirmed: 80 CUs, 16GB VRAM w/ 256-Bit Busedit

Thanks to Videocardz, we now have a confirmation on the specifications of AMD’s much anticipated Big Navi graphics card. It will be called the Radeon RX 6900XT and will be an AMD exclusive for the time being.AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT- The Navi 2x flagship, the Radeon RX 6900XT will be based on the Navi 21XTX die with as many as 80 computers Units or 5,120 shaders. This is the first time that AMD has exceeded the 4,096 shader count, thanks to the better utilization of the RDNA architecture.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD’s Big Navi will Allow Max GPU Core Clocks of 2.8GHz (T&C)edit

Igor from Igor’s Lab has gotten his hands on one of the ROM files for the Navi 21XT (RX 5800XT) graphics card, giving us an idea about the boost clocks achievable on these GPUs. Using the MorePowerTool, he was able to determine that the maximum possible boost clock on Navi 21 will be a whopping 2.8GHz. However, you won’t be able to achieve these figures using normal methods. You’ll most certainly need liquid nitrogen for the GPU core and perhaps, even then the in-game clocks will settle for around 2.5-2.6GHz.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X could easily slam core i5-10600K with its Zen 3 architectureedit

AMD’s Ryzen series has been making quite rounds on the internet. Earlier, we discussed the alleged leak specifications of the EPYC Milan processors. AMD is even planning to release its all-new Ryzen 5000 series of processors. A few weeks ago, the Ryzen 9 5950X benchmark results went viral. It provided us with the mouth water specs of the Ryzen 9 chipset.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD’s EPYC Milan specifications leaked onlineedit

AMD is intel’s biggest rival in the CPU industry, and the company has been planning to release some powerful next-gen CPUs to compete with Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake and Alder Lake CPU’s. Recently we saw AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series being leaked online. Now, an alleged leaker by the name of YuuKi_AnS has posted online information regarding AMD’s next-gen EPYC Milan CPUs. The rumored CPUs will be based on AMD’s Zen 3 chipsets.

Publication: TechnoSports

Does AMD Need a DLSS Alternative for its Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Cards? (Yes it Does)edit

DLSS, standing for Deep Learning Super Sampling, is an AI technique used by the Tensor cores present in RTX cards. With this, the image is rendered at a lower than native resolution and then upscaled. The idea here is that by rendering the lower res image, you gain more performance while upscaling it to preserve all the details. The first version of DLSS wasn’t what anyone would call a big success. The results were a mixed bag – sure you’d get a boost in framerate, but it would be offset by a blurry image that wasn’t as sharp as the native resolution of your monitor.

Publication: TechQuila

 

AMD Big Navi Expected to have a TDP of Up to 350W+edit

These days we’ve been hearing a lot about AMD’s upcoming Big Navi graphics card based on the RDNA 2 architecture. From what we’ve heard, the Navi 21 XT will feature a boost clock of up to 2.4GHz with a TBP of just over 250W. However, as per Igor, this figure represents just the GPU power and excludes the power draw of the VRAM, VRM, and the rest of the PCB. If we add all the missing values, the total TDP of the graphics card comes up to.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and Ryzen 9 5850X/5900 Specs Leak Outedit

Once again, thanks to Pat Schur, we have a basic idea of the specifications of AMD’s yet unannounced Ryzen 7 5700X and the Ryzen 9 5850X/5900 CPUs. As expected, the former is an octa-core chip while the latter is a twelve-core part, both featuring a TDP of just 65W. The 5700X will be based on one eight-core CCX with 32MB of L3 cache and 4MB of L2 cache per core while the 5900/5850X will be a dual-CCX part with 64MB of L3 cache and 6MB of L2 cache per core.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Ryzen 5000 line-up to be based on Zen 2 and Zen 3 architecturesedit

Earlier, we saw AMD’s new Navi 21 GPU line-up leaked in a series of tweets, and the details were mouth-watering. Now, it seems another leaker has decided to grace us with juicy details of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen APU lin-up. The Twitter user, ExecutableFix has reported leaked some exclusive details regarding the upcoming Ryzen APU line-up which will include Zen 3 based Cezanne and Zen 2 based Lucienne APUs. The two new APUs will fall under the Ryzen 5000 series family. According to sources, the AMDs Ryzen 5000 “Cezanne Zen 3” line-up will include the Ryzen 7 5800U and Ryzen 5 5600U APUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

The leak of AMD Navi 21 GPU is one the biggest flex we have seen in 2020edit

AMD is the biggest competitor of Intel in the wafer manufacturing market. The silicon manufacturer at one time was not even worth buying from and has absolutely no market value. But today, the company is a leader in desktop-grade CPU manufacturing. It’s been a while since we last from any updates from AMD. The latest one being its revival of its famous Project Quantum. But today we have on our hands a new scoop. The veteran tech leaker Rogaine has in a series of tweets uncovered the clock speeds of AMD’s new Navi 21 “Big Navi” GPUs. these new GPUs will reportedly power the Radeon RX 6000 series of Graphics Cards.

Publication: TechnoSports

Enable Ray-Tracing (RTX) in Almost Every Game w/ AMD Radeon GPUs Using this Modedit

NVIDIA might have popularized ray-tracing (at least the term) among the masses, but even now only a small percentage of gamers have access to the technology. The reason is rather straight-forward: RTX GPUs are quite expensive and not everyone can afford them. More than half of the gamers worldwide still use a GTX 1060-level graphics cards, with a target resolution of 1080p.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Best Motherboards for AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900Xedit

AMD recently announced that it would support its next-gen Ryzen 4000 CPUs on existing 400 series boards, in addition to the newer B550 and X570 chipsets. While that’s good news for owners of the older motherboards, we’d strictly advise against buying a B450 or X470 board. There are certain caveats that will limit 400 series owners after they flash the beta BIOS meant for the newer processors. You can read more about that here. As such we’ll only include the 500 series boards, with the newer A520 motherboards for budget users.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Best Budget CPU under ₹9000 – Ryzen 3 3100 review (PROACTIVE)edit

Dedicated review of the Ryzen 3 310o

Publication: Desire Tech Tips 

Here are all the AMD desktop processors deals on Amazon Great Indian Festivaledit

If you are an AMD fan and have been waiting for a sale to get your desktop processor until now, then Amazon Great Indian Festival is the best time to make your purchase so that you build your gaming or professional PC. It’s no brainer who leads the desktop CPU market and so giving the sale on AMD CPUs and APUs makes more sense now.

Publication: TechnoSports

Dell G5 15 SE (5505) Reviewedit

The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) is an interesting gaming laptop that will no doubt be on the radar of any AMD fan. Dell’s pricing is not too bad either, considering that the Radeon GPU offers gaming performance somewhere in between what an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060 would deliver, and these are usually seen in laptops priced at around the Rs. 1 lakh mark. The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) also offers a comfortable keyboard, nice aesthetics, and a 120Hz refresh rate display going by the current variants being sold in India.

Publication: Gadgets 360

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors to come with free copy of Far Cry 6 starting 5 Novemberedit

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors will be available on 5 November and buyers of the high-end chips will now get a free copy of Far Cry 6 along with it. Anyone buying a Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X or Ryzen 7 5800X will get the free game, according to a report by Techradar. However, those purchasing the mid-range Ryzen 5 5600X will not get the freebie. The report adds that those who buy the Ryzen 5000 chips and those purchasing a machine which comes with one of those CPUs will be able to get a digital download of Far Cry 6 when the game is released on 18 February 2021.

Publication: DailyHunt

AMD EPYC™ Processors Offer 30 Percent Better Performance on Data Analytics Workloadsedit

AMD announced Azure Data Explorer, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution optimized for data exploration and near real-time analytics, will now offer customers access to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC™ processors. In a collaboration between AMD, Azure compute and Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Data Explorer service is now offering the AMD EPYC processor based Azure Dav4, Eav4, Easv4 and Lsv2 VMs for use. The family of AMD EPYC processor based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30 – 50 percent more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost.

Publication: CellIT

MSI promises to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processors on the existing 400-Series Motherboardsedit

AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture RyzenTM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors. For the upcoming processors, MSI has released the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.1.0.0 for all X570 and B550 series motherboards (Link) to perfectly utilize the PCI-E 4.0 performance.

Publication: Digit

ASUS Announces BIOS update for 500-Series motherboards to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processorsedit

ASUS today announced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, TUF Gaming X570 Pro (WiFi) and ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming WiFi — three gaming motherboards designed for gaming builds featuring the latest-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors. In addition to the latest X570 and B550 motherboards, all ASUS 500 series motherboards (X570, B550 and A520) are ready for AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors.

Publication: Digit

AMD’s RDNA 2 Powered Navi 21 XT GPU To Run at Insanely High Clock Speeds with 16GB GDDR6 VRAM, All At 255 TGPedit

During it’s Zen 3 presentation, AMD CEO Lisa Su showed us the world’s first RDNA 2 benchmarks, possibly showcasing the Navi 21 XT (‘Big Navi) card. Now, a new leak suggests that RDNA 2 is built to run at insanely high clock speeds, which kind of makes sense when you look at the same present in PS5/Xbox Series X. Patrick Schur has now shared some specs for the Navi 21 XT card, suggesting it will come with 16GB GDDR6 memory and run at 2.4 GHz, all under 255W TGP.

Publication: DailyHunt 

XFX Reportedly Selling Radeon GPUs Directly to Miners in Chinaedit

As per a report from MyDrivers, XFX has been selling Radeon graphics cards directly to miners in China, bypassing most retailers in the process. The parts being sold to crypto-miners include the older Polaris GPUs such as the RX 580 and 590 as well as the newer Navi-based RX 5600 XT and 5700 XT.  As a result of this, AMD’s graphics cards are out of stock at most stores, with retailers unsure about future inventory. Apparently, XFX received these chips from AMD and directly sold them to the miners, branding them as “mining cards”.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Get AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT and RTX 2070 Super combo at ₹ 60k only on Amazon Great Indian Festivaledit

Looking to make a powerful gaming PC build? Looking for some great deals on CPUs and GPUs? Then AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA RTX is the combo you should definitely go for. Amazon’s Great Indian Festival is coming soon and will start today midnight for Prime members, so in this sale, you can actually get a combo of Ryzen 5 3600XT and RTX 2070 Super for just ₹ 60k.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD to Report Fiscal Third Quarter 2020 Financial Resultsedit

AMD announced today that it will report third quarter 2020 financial results on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 after the close of market. Management will conduct a conference call to discuss these results at 5:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. PT. Interested parties are invited to listen to the webcast of the conference call via AMD’s Investor Relations website ir.amd.com. An archive of the webcast will be available for approximately one year after the conference call.

Publication: IT News Online 

Arriving November 5: AMD announces its latest ZEN 3 Ryzen CPU (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has been a leading manufacturer of desktop CPU processors competing against Intel. Recently, this month the tech giant has announced its latest desktop CPUs at AMD Gaming Event 2020- the ZEN 3 Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. AMD has achieved record-breaking internal benchmark results with their desktop CPUs in the past and this year, they have pushed even further with the ZEN 3 5000 series processors. The event was brief and to-the-point.

Publication: TechStory

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060: Which one is Faster? (PROACTIVE)edit

The conclusion is a no brainer. The Radeon RX 5600 XT wins by a decent margin. On top of that, it’s cheaper too. EVGA’s RTX 2060 KO Edition is only available in the US and is now going for $329. As for the vast majority of gamers, the RTX 2060 still costs nearly $350. AMD’s RX 5600 XT now starts at just $269 and all models come with 14Gbps memory and near-5700 level boost clocks. You just can’t go wrong here.

Publication: Hardware Times

Ryzen 5000 Processor Release Date, Price And Other Important Details (PROACTIVE)edit

For all the users of AMD who are using their modern hardware like 500/400 series chipsets, there is good news as their motherboards will support the newly announced Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processors. These processors make use of the Zen 3 architecture for incredible IPC gains along with a bunch of other improvements. Most of these upcoming boards are already ready to be delivered to the customers. Continue reading to know all about the specs and price of these next-gen CPUs.

Publication: Republic World

How AMD is using its Rise mobile processor to deal with a changed world (PROACTIVE)edit

Gadgets 360 – Interview Pick up. The most notable difference here is that our original calculation (up to 16 vs. 8 for mobile on desktop), as well as our L3 cache size (64 MB vs. 8 MB on desktop), has saved energy and space using exclusive design in notebook applications. . Staying with PCI 3.0 and realizing that the bandwidth of PCI 3.0 is still sufficient for notebook usage is another key decision to help save power. Finally, bringing LPDDR4X support to our notebook portfolio was another way to manage power at an SOC level and from a “complete system” perspective.

Publication: TechNewsTree

ASUS Drops Ryzen 5000 Support from X470 and B450 Motherboardsedit

ASUS won’t be bringing Ryzen 5000 support to its existing B450 and X470 motherboards, a company rep has said in response to a user inquiry, who then shared it on Reddit. ASUS has replied to press inquiries, stating that they will be bringing support for Zen 3 on X470 boards early next year. Earlier, AMD has promised to bring Ryzen 5000 (Zen 3) support to select B450 and X470 motherboards via beta BIOSes. However, as already reported, not all vendors will be doing the same. On Asus’ end, it looks like Zen 3 support won’t come to the existing boards, but might be brought to the revised models.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Launches AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors: The Fastest Gaming CPUs in the World (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD) introduced the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance.

Publication: CellIT

AMD files a patent for its new Project Quantumedit

Four years ago, AMD announced that it is moving forward with its ambitious project quantum. But no news came out of the company with tech enthusiasts feeling almost sure that they all but shelves the project. But sources claim that the exact opposite is true. AMD has recently filled a patent, and the news is extremely juicy.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Launches AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors: The Fastest Gaming CPUs in the Worldedit

AMD) introduced the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance.

Publication: CellIT

AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs Listed in Stores for the First Time: Starting at 319 Eurosedit

AMD’s 4th gen Ryzen 5000 CPUs have already started popping up in stores in Europe with a rather hefty starting price of 319 Euros and going all the way up to 799 Euros. These are likely retailers charging a premium for booking pre-orders before the official launch date of 5th November. Even then, prices aren’t bizarrely over the top. Comparing them to the existing Matisse 2 processors, you’re looking at a 50 buck premium. Still, we recommend waiting for the official release date of 5th November before placing orders for the new chips.

Publication: Hardware Times 

HP OMEN 15 Ryzen 7 (2020) review: Unbridled power, insane valueedit

The two reasons you will consider the OMEN 15 AMD edition are: (a) to harness the power of the Ryzen 7 4000 series chip, and, (b) playing the latest titles in good graphics. The OMEN 15 AMD delivers in these areas with flying colors. The powerful Ryzen 7 alone drives the performance of this laptop above its Intel-powered counterparts. Moreover, it’s built by HP, which means there are minimal to negligible reliability issues.

Publication: BGR India 

AMD Radeon Big Navi vs NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 in 4K Gaming Benchmarksedit

After the Ryzen 5000 announcement yesterday, AMD also showed us a sneak peek of its upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series, with the performance figures at 4K in a few titles. There’s one red flag here, specifically with respect to ray-tracing. Although we know that AMD will support ray-tracing with RDNA 2, no performance figures have been shown. Neither do we know how it will be implemented. Will the BVH traversal and ray/box-intersecting be offloaded to the dedicated units or will some of it be handled by the shaders as indicated by certain sources.

Publication: Hardware Times 

To thrive amid this crisis, companies must build on the trust of their employees: AMD Global CHRO (PROACTIVE)edit

Robert Gama is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at AMD. Gama works with the global human resources team to solve AMD’s most complex people, culture, talent, and leadership challenges. With more than 20 years of business and functional experience, Gama is a proven, results-oriented leader with demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through strategic HR practices.

Publication: People Matters 

How AMD is Using its Ryzen Mobile Processors to Deal With a Changing World (PROACTIVE)edit

A year or two ago it was nearly impossible to find laptops with anything other than Intel’s processors in the market, primarily because of a lack of viable options from sole competitor AMD, and also Intel’s brand recognition. However, AMD’s Ryzen mobile processors are now appearing in more and more laptops from every major brand. The Ryzen Mobile 4000 Series launched at the beginning of this year has been quite successful, but with some estimates pegging its current market share at just under 20 percent, there’s still a lot of room for growth.

Publication: TechCafe4u 

AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs with Zen 3 architecture officially unveiled (PROACTIVE)edit

Now for those of you who like to see numbers, AMD has compared its new lineup with its previous Zen 2 architecture-based CPUs as well as the Intel Core i9-10900K. The 12-core 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance and a 19% generational increase in instructions per cycle (IPC). It is also said to be 7% faster than the competition in 1080p gaming and an average of 26% faster in 1080p gaming generationally. The company hasn’t shared performance numbers for the Ryzen 9 5950X but claims it offers the highest single-thread and multi-core performance of any desktop gaming processor.

Publication: XDA Developers 

AMD Radeon Vega 56 and Vega 64 Dead? RX 5×0 Series To Last Till Q3edit

Ever since AMD launched Navi, its new GPU architecture at Computex, it was always expected for the production of older cards to decrease with time. Not just that, the fact that even more cards are expected to be launched in the Navi series in the future also puts a huge question mark on the availability of these previous-generation GPUs like the Radeon RX 5×0 series, RX Vega 56 and Vega 64.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors, to be available from 5th November (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has introduced the highly anticipated Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance. With extensive improvements throughout the core including a unified 8-core complex with direct access to 32MB L3 cache, the new AMD “Zen 3” core architecture delivers a 19% generational increase in instructions per cycle (IPC), the largest since the introduction of “Zen” processors in 2017.

Publication: VAR India

How AMD is Using its Ryzen Mobile Processors to Deal With a Changing World (PROACTIVE)edit

Gadgets 360: How has the ‘Zen 2′ architecture been scaled down and adapted for notebooks, and what do we need to know about the key differences between mobile and desktop Ryzen processors? Vinay Sinha: The most noticeable difference here is our selection of core count (up to 8 cores in mobile vs up to 16 in desktop) as well as our L3 cache size (8MB in mobile vs up to 64MB in desktop). Using a monolithic design in notebook applications saved power and space.

Publication: Gadgets Insiders 

AMD Has New Rizen 5000 Series Processors, But Do They Beat Intel’s 10th Gen CPUs On Clock Speeds? (PROACTIVE)edit

The four new CPUs announced by AMD are the top-of-the-line Ryzen Ryzen 9 5950X with 16 cores and a max speed of 4.9GHZ priced at $799 (roughly Rs. 58,450), the Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores, 32 threads, and a max boost speed of 4.8GHZ, priced at $549 (roughly Rs. 40,160), the Ryzen 7 5800X with eight cores, 16 threads, and a max boost speed of 4.7GHz, priced at $449 (roughly Rs. 32,850), and a $299 (roughly Rs. 21,900) Ryzen 5 5600X with six cores, 12 threads, and a max boost speed of 4.6GHz.

Publication: News18 

AMD may buy Xilinx for $30 bnedit

Advanced Micro Devices is in discussions to buy Xilinx in a takeover that could be valued at $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal could come together as early as next week, though things remain in flux, they said. A combination with Xilinx would give AMD Chief Executive Officer Lisa Sumore of the pieces needed to break Intel’s stranglehold on the profitable market for data- center computer components.

Publication: Business Standard 

AMD in talks to buy rival Xilinx in $30 billion dealedit

Advanced Micro Devices Inc is in advanced discussions to buy Xilinx Inc in a takeover that could be valued at $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal could come together as early as next week, though things remain in flux, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a private deal. A combination with Xilinx would give AMD chief executive officer Lisa Su more of the pieces needed to break Intel Corp’s stranglehold on the profitable market for data-center computer components.

Publication: The Times of India 

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 processors, claims they beat Intel Core CPUs on every count (PROACTIVE)edit

Chip maker AMD has announced its much-awaited Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops. The first chips to use the next-gen Zen 3 architecture from the company, the new 5000 series chips promise massive performance gains over their predecessors. Under the series, the company has launched multiple CPUs, one of which is the 5900X processor, which according to AMD is the “world’s best gaming CPU”.

Publication: India Today 

ASUS Launches Three New Gaming Motherboards With AMD Ryzen Zen 3 Processorsedit

The AMD X570 platform features extensive PCI Express® 4.0 connectivity ripe for the latest graphics cards and SSDs. The chipset’s copious bandwidth necessitates a robust cooling solution to deliver sustained performance, and that challenge is typically tackled by neatly pairing a heatsink with an embedded fan that spins up on demand. ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is the first ASUS X570 board to implement a completely passive cooling design, featuring a sizeable heatsink that extends from the chipset zone to the space between the PCIe slots. The additional surface area helps keep thermals under control even when the motherboard is loaded with a full complement of hardware, laying a compelling foundation for enthusiast PC builds.

Publication: Digital Terminal 

AMD launches its new Zen 3 powered Ryzen 5000 CPUs (PROACTIVE)edit

As if Intel has not had enough this year, AMD has announced the new Ryzen 5000 CPUs in a live event today, based on its latest Zen 3 architecture, which without any doubt will shift the trend of the market. Intel needs to seriously, seriously watch out now. The new Zen 3 architecture comes with a completely new core layout, an increase in IPC and a massive performance boost. The new generation of desktop processors from AMD is expected to give 2.4 times performance boost per watt over the older Zen 2 based processors and is supposed to be 2.8 times more efficient than the Intel Core i9-10900K, the company’s leading CPU.

Publication: TheTechMedia

Steam Survey says Intel losing grounds to AMD rapidly, can Zen 3 overturn the game for AMD totally?edit

As per the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey: September 2020 report, things doesn’t look good for Intel as it continues to lose market share to its sole rival AMD. Now, the Red team owns a chunk of market share as it now has 1/4th of it for the first time. AMD has pounced back in 2017 with its Ryzen processors and revolutionized the processor market as a whole with its ‘Zen’ architecture. Intel, who took things lightly, has now nowhere to go as even it has lost the gaming crown to AMD recently.

Publication: TechnoSports

 

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 desktop processors series based on Zen 3 architecture (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has unveiled its next-generation desktop processors. They have announced the Ryzen 5000 CPU series based on Zen 3 architecture. Four more models have been announced which starts at a price of $299 up to $799. At first, there is Ryzen 9 5950X that has 16 cores and 32 threads. The chip is capable of 3.4GHz base clock and 4.9GHz boost clock. AMD has said that the 5950X has the highest single and multi-threaded performance in any mainstream desktop CPU. The CPU has 64MB of L3 cache speed among two chiplets. It has around 105W TDP.

Publication: The Indian Wire 

Everything we know about AMD Ryzen 5000 – Zen 3 CPU (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has now officially unveiled its brand new range of processors. Revealed at the Ryzen 5000 live stream event, the new CPUs will be powered by the Zen 3 chips. According to AMD, the Zen 3 boasts a completely new architecture that will push benchmarks in terms of gaming performance. The company has also given the list of chips that fall under the Ryzen 5000 series; this includes – the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and Ryzen 9 5950X.

Publication: Headlines of Today 

AMD buying Xilinx: No chip shotedit

The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday that Advanced Micro Devices is in advanced talks to acquire Xilinx in a deal that could be valued at more than $30 billion. That is assuming Xilinx is able to land a decent premium to its unaffected market value of a little under $26 billion. The deal would pair two chip makers that typically work at very different ends of the market but have both been targeting data centers lately. Both also depend on the cutting-edge fabrication processes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, or TSMC, to actually produce their chips.

Publication: Livemint

AMD Ryzen 5000 Event Recap: Price, Benchmarks, FREE GAME, Release Date, Radeon 6000 Preview! (PROACTIVE)edit

Amd Ryzen 5000 Launch Event Recap!

YouTube: TechReflex

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors Launched, The Fastest Gaming CPUs in the World (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD introduced the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency2, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance.

Publication: PCQuest

AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs Launched: 16 Cores @ up to 4.9GHz, 72MB Cache and 26% Better Gaming Perf (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD finally unveiled its Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 CPUs today, promising an IPC boost of 19%, and with twice as much L3 cache available to each core. (Yes, that means only one CCX/CCD per chiplet) The efficiency is also a big step up, with up to 2.8x higher performance per watt compared to Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S lineup.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPUs Announced, Available November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Series desktop CPUs, based on the updated ‘Zen 3’ architecture. The new processors are said to offer up to a 26 percent increase in performance in gaming and a 19 percent improvement in instructions per cycle compared to the current Ryzen 3000XT series.

Publication: NDTV Gadgets360

AMD announces Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 series Desktop CPUs with 26 percent improved gaming performance (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors featuring their newest Zen 3 microarchitecture with CPUs offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache. AMD claims that they have the fastest gaming processors in the form of the Ryzen 5900X processor which offers up to 26 per cent generational increase in gaming performance over the Ryzen 3900XT in 11 popular video games.

Publication: Digit

AMD launches Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors with Zen 3 architecture, upto 16 cores and 32 threads (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has announced its Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors based on its latest Zen 3 architecture. The new lineup offers up to 16 core and 32 threads with up to 72MB cache memory in its top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X SKU.

Publication: The Times of India GadgetsNow

AMD Launches AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors: The Fastest Gaming CPUs in the World (PROACTIVE)edit

Today, AMD introduced the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance.

Publication: Gaming Central + (Facebook) TechGoggles

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 desktop processors announced, available from November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD on Thursday announced the new Ryzen 5000 lineup, the powerful desktop gaming processors powered by the new Zen 3 CPU architecture. The new Ryzen 5000 chips, which AMD touts as the “fastest gaming CPUs in the world”, will power desktops made for gaming and content creation.

Publication: The Indian Express

Zen 3 AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors Launched: Fastest Gaming CPUs In The World?(PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processor based on the Zen3 architecture. The flagship AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is a 16-core and 32-thread CPU with 72 MB of cache, whereas the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is an eight-core processor with 32MB L3 cache.

Publication: Gizbot

AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs Revealed – Up to 16 Cores, 19% IPC Improvement With 26% Gaming Performance Increase (PROACTIVE)edit

After a long wait, AMD has finally revealed details about its upcoming Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000) CPUs. During the event, AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed details about the new Ryzen 7 5800X, 5900X, and more.

Publication: TechQuila DailyHunt

AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs with Zen 3 architecture officially unveiled (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has officially unveiled its all-new Ryzen 5000 series of desktop processors. Based on the new Zen 3 architecture, AMD is claiming its new lineup has the “Fastest Gaming CPUs in the World.” The new series is headed by the Ryzen 9 5950X, offering up to 16-cores with 32-threads and 72MB of cache.

Publication: XDA

AMD Launches AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors: The Fastest Gaming CPUs in the World (PROACTIVE)edit

Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) introduced the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance.

Publication: TechPowerUp

AMD’s new AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors deliver 26% better gaming performance (PROACTIVE)edit

Wait Intel, your gaming dominance is finally coming to an end, AMD Ryzen 5000 is here.

The day you were waiting for is here, Ryzen 5000 series processors have officially been announced their new Zen 3 based AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup. These new processors provide up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache with their top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, a successor to last-gen Ryzen 9 3950X.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Launches AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors: The Fastest Gaming CPUs in the World (PROACTIVE)edit

Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) introduced the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 3” architecture. Offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors dominate in heavily threaded workloads and power efficiency, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor offers up to a 26% generational uplift in gaming performance.

Publication: TechKnow

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 series of desktop processors based on Zen 3 architecture (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has finally revealed its next generation of desktop processors. The company today announced the Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs, based on its latest Zen 3 architecture. Four new models were announced today, which start at $299 and go all the way up to $799.

Publication: GSM Arena ReviewMedia RedHeart IndianLekhak Times24news

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen Three desktop processors introduced, obtainable from November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveils the Ryzen 5000 desktop processors throughout a digital occasion on October 8.

Publication: PortalHunt AnswersAdda HamsaNews

AMD announces “Zen 3” Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs with 26 per cent improved gaming performance (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors featuring their newest Zen 3 microarchitecture with CPUs offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache. AMD claims that they have the fastest gaming processors in the form of the Ryzen 5900X processor which offers up to 26 per cent generational increase in gaming performance over the Ryzen 3900XT in 11 popular video games.

Publication: Newzz

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPUs Announced, Available November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Series desktop CPUs, primarily based on the up to date ‘Zen 3’ structure. The new processors are mentioned to supply as much as a 26 % enhance in efficiency in gaming and a 19 % enchancment in directions per cycle in comparison with the present Ryzen 3000XT sequence. The firm is touting higher single-core in addition to multi-core efficiency. The Ryzen 5000 Series desktop CPUs are drop-in appropriate with current-generation 500-series motherboards following a BIOS replace.

Publication: Pehal News TTN News

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPU Announced, Available November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

Based on the updated ‘Zen 3’ architecture, AMD has removed the desktop CPU of its next generation Rizen 5000 Series. The new processors are said to offer a 26 percent increase in performance in gaming and a 19 percent improvement in instructions per cycle compared to the current Rison 3000XT series.

Publication: HCopy TechBhaskar

AMD broadcasts “Zen 3” Ryzen 5000 sequence desktop CPUs with 26 per cent improved gaming efficiency (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD introduced the Ryzen 5000 sequence desktop processors that includes their latest Zen 3 microarchitecture with CPUs providing as much as 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache.

Publication: News Express

AMD Ryzen 5000: AMD launches Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors with Zen 3 architecture, up to 16 cores and 32 threads (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has announced its Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors based on its latest Zen 3 architecture. The new lineup offers up to 16 core and 32 threads with up to 72MB cache memory in its top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X SKU.

Publication: NewsYaari

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 desktop processors introduced, obtainable from November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD on Thursday announced the new Ryzen 5000 lineup, the powerful desktop gaming processors powered by the new Zen 3 CPU architecture. The new Ryzen 5000 chips, which AMD touts as the “fastest gaming CPUs in the world”, will power desktops made for gaming and content creation.

Publication: SociallyKeeda

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen Three desktop processors introduced, to be had from November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD on Thursday introduced the brand new Ryzen 5000 lineup, the tough desktop gaming processors powered by means of the brand new Zen Three CPU structure. The brand new Ryzen 5000 chips, which AMD touts because the “quickest gaming CPUs on the planet”, will energy desktops made for gaming and content material introduction.

Publication: SouvaggerBondhu

Zen 3 AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors Launched: Fastest Gaming CPUs In The World? (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processor based on the Zen3 architecture. The flagship AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is a 16-core and 32-thread CPU with 72 MB of cache, whereas the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is an eight-core processor with 32MB L3 cache.

Publication: TodayTopNews

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPUs Announced, Available November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Series desktop CPUs, based mostly on the up to date ‘Zen 3’ structure. The new processors are mentioned to supply as much as a 26 % enhance in efficiency in gaming and a 19 % enchancment in directions per cycle in comparison with the present Ryzen 3000XT collection.

Publication: IGN.com NewsTube NewsChant TechCafe4U

AMD unveils Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 collection desktop processors, arriving on November 5 | TeqBot (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has simply launched its newest lineup of the desktop processors within the Ryzen 5000 collection primarily based on the brand new Zen 3 structure. The new AMD Ryzen 5000 collection desktop processors are primarily based on the 7nm course of. The firm has launched a complete of three mainstream processors – the hexa-core AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, the octa-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, and the beastly 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X. Plus, AMD has additionally launched a 16-core enthusiast-class processor referred to as the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, which has a lift frequency of 4.9GHz and is claimed to supply the very best single-thread efficiency on the market out there.

Publication: TeqBot

 

AMD’s new Zen 3 Ryzen desktop CPUs arrive November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

At today’s AMD Gaming Event 2020, Team Red announced its next big thing in desktop CPUs—the Zen 3 powered Ryzen 5xxx series. The event was brief—only a half hour from start to finish—with AMD announcing record-breaking internal benchmark results.

Publication: Acqro

AMD RYZEN 5000 ZEN 3 DESKTOP PROCESSORS ANNOUNCED, AVAILABLE FROM NOVEMBER 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD के सीईओ डॉ। लिसा सु 8 अक्टूबर को एक आभासी घटना के दौरान Ryzen 5000 डेस्कटॉप प्रोसेसर का प्रदर्शन करेगी।

एएमडी ने गुरुवार को नई ज़ेन 3 सीपीयू वास्तुकला पर आधारित शक्तिशाली डेस्कटॉप गेमिंग प्रोसेसर नई रेज़ेन 5000 श्रृंखला की घोषणा की। AMD द्वारा घोषित नए Ryzen 5000 चिप, “दुनिया का सबसे तेज गेमिंग CPUs”, गेमिंग और सामग्री निर्माण के लिए डेस्कटॉप की शक्ति देगा।

Publication: HindiNews4U

AMD Ryzen 5000 Sequence Desktop CPUs Introduced, Accessible November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Sequence desktop CPUs, primarily based on the up to date ‘Zen 3’ structure. The brand new processors are stated to supply as much as a 26 % improve in efficiency in gaming and a 19 % enchancment in directions per cycle in comparison with the present Ryzen 3000XT sequence. The corporate is touting higher single-core in addition to multi-core efficiency. The Ryzen 5000 Sequence desktop CPUs are drop-in suitable with current-generation 500-series motherboards following a BIOS replace.

Publication: DostiYaari News

AMD announces Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs with 26 per cent improved gaming performance (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors featuring their newest Zen 3 microarchitecture with CPUs offering up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache. AMD claims that they have the fastest gaming processors in the form of the Ryzen 5900X processor which offers up to 26 per cent generational increase in gaming performance over the Ryzen 3900XT in 11 popular video games.

Publication: ViralCrew

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPUs Announced, Available November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Sequence desktop CPUs, based mostly on the up to date ‘Zen 3’ structure. The brand new processors are mentioned to supply as much as a 26 % enhance in efficiency in gaming and a 19 % enchancment in directions per cycle in comparison with the present Ryzen 3000XT collection. The corporate is touting higher single-core in addition to multi-core efficiency. The Ryzen 5000 Sequence desktop CPUs are drop-in suitable with current-generation 500-series motherboards following a BIOS replace.

Publication: Hot and Viral News

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPUs Announced, Available November 5 (PROACTIVE)edit

अपडेटेड ‘ज़ेन 3’ आर्किटेक्चर के आधार पर एएमडी ने अपनी अगली पीढ़ी के राइज़ेन 5000 सीरीज़ के डेस्कटॉप सीपीयू से पर्दा उठा दिया है। कहा जाता है कि नए प्रोसेसर गेमिंग में प्रदर्शन में 26 प्रतिशत की वृद्धि और वर्तमान राइजन 3000XT श्रृंखला की तुलना में प्रति चक्र निर्देशों में 19 प्रतिशत सुधार की पेशकश करते हैं। कंपनी बेहतर सिंगल-कोर के साथ-साथ मल्टी-कोर प्रदर्शन का दोहन कर रही है। Ryzen 5000 सीरीज डेस्कटॉप सीपीयू ड्रॉप-इन कर रहे हैं एक BIOS अद्यतन के बाद वर्तमान-पीढ़ी 500-श्रृंखला मदरबोर्ड के साथ संगत।

Publication: TodaysNewsLive

Making working from home, work for you (PROACTIVE)edit

According to Gartner, we reached one billion global knowledge workers in 2019. This massive growth in knowledge work is leading to another core shift – the rise in remote work. As knowledge workers embrace new technologies, the ability and desire to work remotely is growing.

Publication: ETCIO

People, Planet and Purpose are pillars of AMD’s CSR approach : Susan Moore, Corporate Vice President (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD recently celebrated 25 years of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives in areas such as STEM education, responsible sourcing of materials, improvements in product energy efficiency, protection of workers in our supply chain and new approaches to community volunteerism. Susan Moore, Corporate Vice President, Government Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, AMD talks about AMD’s CSR journey, actions and covid-19 efforts.

Publication: IndiaCSR

AMD is your one-stop-shop for your Gaming and Workstation Needs (PROACTIVE)edit

Say Hello to the All AMD PC by Gigabyte. A beauty that will run everything that you throw it at it, that too without breaking the bank.

Publication: TechGoggles

Penguin Computing Expands Contributions to AMD COVID-19 HPC Fundedit

Penguin Computing, a subsidiary of SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGH) and leader in high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and enterprise data center solutions, today announced the expansion of its collaboration with technology partners AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and DataBank, to deliver HPC capabilities to accelerate medical research and contribute to a greater understanding of the novel coronavirus.

Publication: IT News Online

To thrive amid this crisis, companies must build on the trust of their employees: AMD Global CHRO (PROACTIVE)edit

Robert Gama is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at AMD. Gama works with the global human resources team to solve AMD’s most complex people, culture, talent, and leadership challenges. With more than 20 years of business and functional experience, Gama is a proven, results oriented leader with demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through strategic HR practices.

Publication: People Matters

Eastern OEMs Favor AMD CPUs Over Intel For Gaming Laptopsedit

As per a report from Commercial Times, Eastern OEMs most notably Taiwanese vendors are prioritizing AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile processors for gaming notebooks over Intel’s Comet Lake-H lineup. Laptop-makers like ASUS and Acer have already shown this by releasing multiple variants of the Renoir laptops.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel vs AMD Ryzen: Best CPUs for Gaming in 2020 [October Update] (PROACTIVE)edit

The Ryzen 5 3600 is an incredibly attractive mid-range CPU regardless of your workloads. It’s on par with the Core i5-10400 in most games and as fast as the 10600K in everything else. However, at present, Amazon is selling the 3600X for just $215 which is a very decent price for 5-10% more performance and additional overclocking headroom.

Publication: Hardware Times

No, AMD Infinity Cache Isn’t for RDNA 2 GPUs: It’s for SoC Architecturesedit

Recently, there’s been a chatter on the web regarding AMD’s Navi 2x GPUs which will be based on the RDNA 2 microarchitecture. Some of these speculations report that the Navi 2x flagship will leverage a massive 128MB of “Infinity Cache”. Till now I had my doubts, but today an AMD patent (sorry it’s a trademark, not a patent) has surfaced that describes what Infinity Cache really is.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Infinity Cache Trademark spotted: will it feature on Big Navi?edit

The Red team has been storming the CPU world with its fast Zen-based CPUs and struggling to compete NVIDIA’s high-end GPUs and its incredible host of technologies. Though AMD still remains the only company to deliver superior CPU and GPU performance for over a decade now.

Publication: TechnoSports

Leaked AMD Zen 3 CPU Specifications and Benchmarks Outperform Intel’s Core i9-10900Kedit

Zen 3 is supposed to be announced this month, and many sources have provided the press with news on what that release may give us in the coming weeks. The SKU’s leaked, courtesy of Videocardz yet again, are the Ryzen 5000 “Vermeer” series CPUs. We have indeed skipped Ryzen 4000 for desktop, it seems, presumably to bring all CPUs, mobile and desktop, together in the future in nomenclature. It is a confusing scheme, but we shall go through what we have from the leaks.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 9 5950X May Launch Later Than Initially Expectededit

In just 4 days, AMD will be revealing details about its upcoming Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000) CPUs. However, it looks like the budget-focused Ryzen 5 5600X and the flagship Ryzen 9 5950X may not launch alongside the rest of the lineup in October.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD PC by Gigabyte (PROACTIVE)edit

We tested the all AMD PC by Gigabyte, and color me impressed.

Specs: Ryzen 3700x, Radeon 5700xt, PCIE Gen 4 Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master, 1TB NVME Aorus GEN 4 SSD, Aorus RGB 8GBx2.

Publication: Gaming Central

Both Ryzen 5800X and 5900X CPUs will be coming on October 20, while Ryzen 5600X and 5950X could land in Decemberedit

We already know AMD is launching their new Ryzen 5000 series CPU next week based on their new Zen 3 architecture and we have already spotted their upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 9 5900X CPUs. As per the newly leaked info coming from a few trusted sources via Videocardz, the availability of these CPUs have been a major concern.

Publication: TechnoSports

Is The AMD Ryzen 7 4800U The Most Powerful 15W CPU?edit

With the Zen2 architecture, AMD has launched some of the most powerful CPUs and APUs in the market, especially for notebooks. Over the last few months, there have been many laptops that got launched based on the latest AMD platforms that offer better performance when compared to the competition.

Publication: Gizbot

AMD finally could end Intel’s gaming supremacy with Ryzen 5000 CPUsedit

The Red team will finally launch its Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 CPUs on October 8th and it is one of the most anticipated lineups of processors. Now, already the Ryzen 3000 processors have been revolutionary for AMD, still dominating Intel in terms of market share after a year of launch, AMD is ready to take on Intel’s strong point.

Publication: TechnoSports

Latest Ryzen 5000 Processors Coming In A Monthedit

The latest Ryzen 5000 desktop processors may be shipping within a month. The announcement of new Advanced Micro Devices, according to official information, is scheduled for October 8.

Publication: The Times Hub

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Deploys AMD EPYC™ Processors with Over 2 Petaflops of Computing Power Dedicated to Scientific Researchedit

Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) , announced the deployment of AMD EPYC™ 7702 processors for use in a new, high performance computing system. The EPYC processor-based supercomputer will deliver the 2.36 petaflops of computing power OIST plans to use for scientific research at the University.

Publication: IT News Online

AMD Zen 3 based Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores and 24 threads spottededit

Having spotted the upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X on the Gaming benchmarks recently, it was kind of expected that more new CPUs would be actually be spotted in the coming days. So, finally, the new 12-core AMD CPU has been spotted by @9550pro, who also found its brother CPU. The CPU-Z screenshot seen is of an unreleased AMD processor with the 100-000000061-08 number. Also there’s the mention of 12 cores and 24 threads which is indeed the next-gen AMD Ryzen 9 5900X based on Zen 3 architecture.

Publication: Techno Sports

Leaked AMD Zen 3 CPU Specifications and Benchmarks Outperform Intel’s Core i9-10900Kedit

Zen 3 is supposed to be announced this month, and many sources have provided the press with news on what that release may give us in the coming weeks. The SKU’s leaked, courtesy of Videocardz yet again, are the Ryzen 5000 ‘Vermeer’ series CPUs. We have indeed skipped Ryzen 4000 for desktop, it seems, presumably to bring all CPUs, mobile and desktop, together in the future in nomenclature. It is a confusing scheme, but we shall go through what we have from the leaks.

Publication: DailyHunt

AMD brand mentions

What CEOs are seeing and saying about covid, the election and the economyedit

This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders are saying on their quarterly earnings calls about issues ranging from Covid-19 to the U.S. presidential election. “Our core business is doing very well. I think if you look at some of the components of that, the PC market environment is strong. If you look at all the work from home, school from home trends, I think that has certainly helped this year.” (Oct. 27)

Publication: Livemint

Gaming monitors to elevate your gaming experienceedit

To enable an optimum viewing experience, the Lenovo G-25 10 gaming monitor comes with a wide colour gamut. As the name suggests, it has Full HD resolution, which allows the user to see even the smallest of objects clearly. The monitor further comes with a 110 mm stand to adjust the screen. The gameplay is not fun with choppy or broken frames; hence this monitor is equipped with AMD Freesync Technology to deal with those jagged edges. Additionally, it has an edgeless monitor which contributes to a wide and attractive screen.

Publication: Digit

Intel mulls setting up semiconductor test and assembly facility in Indiaedit

Intel Corp. may be exploring the possibility of setting up test and assembly facility of silicon wafers in India although no definite plan seems to have been made. Silicon wafer is a material used for producing semiconductors, which can be found in all types of electronic devices. So far, the India units of semiconductor companies such as Intel and AMD have been focusing only on design and engineering. The manufacturing of chips, known as fabrication, is done mostly out of its factories or fabs in US, China, and Taiwan.

Publication: Livemint

Top 5 Laptops under Rs 40,000 for day-to-day usageedit

Priced at Rs 32,189 on Amazon, Lenovo IdeaPad S145 has a 15.6 FHD display and is powered by AMD Ryzen 3 3200U. It comes with Pre-Loaded Windows 10 Home with Lifetime Validity. It is paired with 8GB RAM DDR4 (4GB+4GB) which is Upgradable up to 12GB and has 256GB SSD storage. It has integrated AMD Radeon Graphics and is currently selling as a combo in which even a Lenovo backpack is included along with the laptop.

Publication: The Mobile Indian 

NVIDIA Prepping RTX 3070 Ti w/ 7,424 Cores|10GB GDDR6X VRAM to Tackle Radeon RX 6800XT/XLedit

We’re just two days away from AMD’s reveal of its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, most notably the Navi 21 lineup, otherwise known as Big Navi. We’ve already seen a lot of data, including boost clocks, 3DMark benchmarks, and rumored gaming performance, but have yet to see any concrete numbers. However, NVIDIA isn’t taking any chances. As per a reputed Twitter source, kopitekimi, Jensen and Co. are working on another GA102 based GPU (the same die that powers the RTX 3080 and 3090) which will also feature 10GB of GDDR6X memory and a TBP of 320W.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Avita Liber V R7 Laptop with Ryzen 7 3700U Processor, 8GB RAM Launched on Amazonedit

The Avita Liber V R7 packs a 14-inch Full HD panel with a narrow-bezel design that offers a screen-to-body ratio of 78.2%. It is also said to offer a 178-degree field of view. For graphics, the laptop offers AMD’s own Radeon RX Vega 10. In terms of storage, the laptop offers a 512GB SSD. In terms of connectivity, the Liber V R7 offers one USB, 3.0, USB 2.0, US 3.0 Type-C and a MicroSD port each. Other features include two 1W speakers, dual-microphones, and Bluetooth 4.2. Avita also claims that the laptop offers an 8-hour long battery life.

Publication: Digit

Acer Products To Focus On Adapting To The New Norm — Jerry Kaoedit

Just after the presentation, I had an opportunity to interact with Acer Co-Chief Operating Officer and President, IT Products Business Jerry Kao, and James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, IT Products Business. So, here is a summary of our interaction regarding the Acer products. When I asked about AMD CPU based gaming laptops from Acer, James Lin said that the company works closely with AMD and the company also confirmed if the user demands a gaming laptop with an AMD CPU, the company will definitely launch a laptop with an AMD CPU.

Publication: Gizbot

5 best laptops with long-lasting battery life that you can buy in India (PROACTIVE)edit

The ASUS ZenBook 14 is an excellent choice for travelling professionals who need a laptop that can last all day long. This laptop comes with a 67Whr 4-cell Lithium polymer battery that can deliver up to 22 hours of battery life from a single charge. It runs Windows 10 Home and weighs 1.26 kg. It is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor, which is coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD. The laptop features a 14-inch LED-backlit IPS full-HD display with slim bezels and 100 percent sRGB coverage.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Lenovo unveils new Yoga line-up powered by Intel’s 11th Gen processorsedit

The upcoming Lenovo Yoga 14s will have two variants. One will be powered by an Intel Tiger Lake and the other by an AMD Ryzen 4000 processor. The first variant comes with the Intel’s Core i5-1135G7 along with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. The second variant sports the same 16GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage configuration as its counterpart, but AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800H processor powers the machine. Both laptops feature a 2.8K resolution 14-inch display with a refresh rate of 90Hz.

Publication: TechnoSports

Amazon and Flipkart Sales are live: Check out the best deals on laptops (PROACTIVE)edit

Best Overall Laptop | Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 | Amazon | Rs 1,51,252 | The Asus Zephyrus G14 offers a perfect balance between work and play, delivering excellent battery life and powerful performance in a thin and light chassis of only 1.6 kg. The G14 arrives with an AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS CPU, Nvidia RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 14-inch 120Hz IPS Full HD panel. The notebook also comes with MS Office 2019 pre-installed.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Most Powerful Womenedit

Su’s long-term plan to help AMD better compete against Intel and Nvidia with new, high-performance processors is hitting its stride. Its Epyc and Ryzen chips are grabbing market share, and the stock price is up 88% year to date. Su is pushing the industry to increase the number of women in the field and has set up learning labs at AMD for students from underrepresented groups to pursue STEM education.

Publication: Fortune (global page)

Best gaming laptop deals on Amazon and flipkartedit

If you’re looking to pick up an AMD Ryzen based gaming laptop, the MSI Bravo 15 is definitely one you should consider very strongly. You get an all-AMD system, powered by the Ryzen 5 4600H processor mated with the AMD Radeon RX5500M GPU. The all-AMD component setup allows the MSI Bravo to leverage AMD’s SmartShift technology which squeezes out every last bit of gaming performance out of the system. The full HD display has a refresh rate of 144Hz and there’s also 16GB RAM and an adequately fast 512GB SSD. The MSI Bravo 15 is legitimately a great gaming laptop deal, one you should not miss.

Publication: Digit

Sony announces PS5 Indian priceedit

Sony, after a considerable delay, has announced the Indian pricing for the PlayStation 5. The PlayStation 5 (with optical drive) will sell for Rs 49,990 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (without Optical Drive) will sell for Rs 39,990. There’s no update on the release date for the PlayStation 5 and Sony confirms that it will be updating soon regarding the same. Some of the leaks around the internet are suggesting a November 19th release.

Publication: The Mobile India 

Dham, Paulraj call for urgent action on semicon and electronics techedit

Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.

Publication: The Times of India 

Dell Expects NVIDIA RTX 3080 to be back in Stock in Two Monthsedit

NVIDIA’s Ampere launch has been plagued by various issues, with limited supply and boost clock instability being the core problems. As per the company CEO, Jensen Huang, supply won’t be back to normal till the end of the year. In a recent reply to a consumer, a Dell representative shared the same sentiment. Replying to a customer from North America, the rep conceded that all the orders at present are backorders, and it’ll take another 45-60 days (about two months) for inventory to stabilize.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel’s Mobile CPU Market Share Expected to Drop Below 70% in 1H 2021edit

With AMD’s return to the mobile market, Intel has been struggling to keep its share of the pie. As per the latest reports from multiple sources, AMD presently holds around 20-25% of the mobile CPU market in Q3 2020, with Intel holding onto the rest of the 75%.  However, as per the latest report from Digitimes, analysts expect, that figure to drop below 70% in the first half of 2021. Intel’s latest Tiger Lake-U lineup has gotten a mixed response. The primary concern with Tiger Lake is that at the 15W TDP, it performs more or less on par with AMD’s existing Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” processors.

Publication: Hardware Times

Light up the festive season with ‘Sale Dhamaka’ on MSI’s laptop rangeedit

(Paid initiative) – With the onset of the festive season, MSI is all set to make Diwali even more exciting with great offers and huge discounts up to 35 percent on its product range. With discount upto 20 percent on Flipkart.com and Amazon.in, these series are powered by the latest 7nm Technology, up to AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800H Mobile Processors with Radeon™ RX 5500M Graphics. It helps the gamers experience the best and Encore with High Performance!

Publication: Business Standard 

Best Laptops for students on a budgetedit

This Asus Vivobook variant is compact and lightweight, which should make it ideal for students to carry it around with ease. It has a 23.1-mm thin body that weighs just 1.6 kilograms. It runs on an AMD Quad Core Ryzen 5-3500U processor and is backed by an 8GB RAM and a fast 256GB SSD. Students can expect to get robust performances under most use cases. It has a 14-inch FHD display with 60Hz refresh rate, which will mean a decent gaming or video watching experience. Finally, it has a full-size Chiclet keyboard with 1.4mm key travel, which is considered good for typing.

Publication: Digit

Best Budget Laptops For Studentsedit

Powered by either Intel’s 8th Gen Core series or AMD’s Ryzen processor, the IdeaPad S340 combines the strengths of the IdeaPad 330 and IdeaPad 330S, making it a great choice of laptop for education. It’s the cheapest Lenovo laptop to sport a physical shutter for the webcam, meaning its also a well suited laptop for children. It’s a good laptop for engineering students and working professionals alike.

Publication: Digit

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PC System Requirements Revealededit

Common specifications across the board include 64-bit Windows 10, a GPU with support for DirectX 12, and 50GB free storage space (SSD recommended). Without further ado, here are the PC system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, via Ubisoft — Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PC minimum system requirements – CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1Ghz / Intel i5-4460 3.2Ghz. GPU: AMD R9 380 4GB / Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB. RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel mode)

Publication: Gadgets 360 

Best Laptops for students on a budgetedit

A laptop with above-average sound output in the budget-friendly category is a rarity, but this model from HP provides just that, through its inbuilt, dual, Bang & Olufsen powered speakers at the front. Furthermore, the laptop has a 14-inch HD display that uses Anti-Glare coating to reduce eye strain and let you use it comfortably for long hours. This Chromebook runs on an AMD Dual-Core A4-9120 processor and has all the basic software required by a student. You can expect a reliable performance across most user-case scenarios when used for school or college purposes.

Publication: Digit 

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale offers: Best deals on gaming laptopsedit

Starting from gaming laptops, ASUS TUF gaming A15 laptop will get a price-cut of Rs. 35,000 and will be available at Rs. 62,990. This ASUS laptop comes bundled with AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor at 3.0 GHz along with GeForce GTX 1650 discrete GPU. While it can produce high frame rates for popular games, it can also load massive collection with SSD + HDD dual storage design.

Publication: Indian Express 

Best Budget Gaming Laptops with 120Hz screen (PROACTIVE)edit

Here is a gaming laptop from Asus that is light in weight, which is a feature that is not so common in this segment. It weighs just 1.6kg, which should make it an easily portable device. The laptop has a 14-inch FHD display that supports refresh rates up to 120Hz, enabling you to enjoy games with high-octane action sequences in a stutter-free manner. The dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4GB VRAM Graphics should further improve the quality of the visual output.

Publication: Digit

Synopsys’ Digital Design Technology Symposium to Showcase Latest Innovations for AI, Automotive, HPC and 5G Chip Designedit

Presenting companies include: Advanced Micro Devices, Cerebras Systems, Juniper Networks, Nvidia, NXP Semiconductors, Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Foundry and STMicroelectronics.

Publication: IT News Online

The Esports Club Joins Hands with AMD and Lenovo to make the TEC Challenger Series Largest Valorant Event In Indiaedit

The Esports Club, a Bangalore based esports platform today announced its partnership with Lenovo in the ongoing Valorant tournament, ‘LG Ultragear TEC Challenger Series’ Powered by AMD which started on 15th August 2020. The new partnership comes after 2 successful editions of the TEC Challenger Series that saw over 400 teams competing for INR 1.5 Lakhs each month!

Publication: EE Times IndianWeb2

How to build your own high-end gaming rig under Rs. 60,000edit

The CPU is often referred to as the brain of the PC. It controls several tasks a computer can accomplish at once and determines how quickly it can complete the same. Intel Core i5 9400f processor that features 6 cores and 6 threads has a great capability for gaming and multitasking. Priced at INR 14000 it makes a great choice for a mid-range gaming CPU. However, if you’re looking for a more economical version, the Ryzen 5 3500 is a good choice at INR 10,500.

Publication: India TV News

Simply NUC® Introduces a New Product Line of AMD Ryzen™ Mini PCsedit

Simply NUC, Inc, a leading mini computer integration company, today is announcing a new product line of mini PCs which will be based on the ASUS PN50, an ultracompact computer featuring 4000 Series AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics. Aspen is in production and Simply NUC is now taking orders.

Publication: PR Newswire

10+ Best Laptops For College Students | 2020edit

This is a proper gaming laptop for those students who are interested in gaming. The laptop comes with heavy design and a proper cooling system, so it is heavy and weighs 2.3Kg. The laptop features a 15.6-inch 144Hz display. It packs AMD Ryzen 5 4600H Processor with 8GB RAM. RAM is also upgradeable up to 32GB. It has 256GB SSD storage and 1TB HDD storage. The laptop also has a Dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4GB graphics memory. It comes with Pre-loaded Windows 10 Home and promises up to 6 hours of battery.

Publication: TechloMedia

HP OMEN 15 R7 GAMING LAPTOP REVIEW (AMD RYZEN 7 4800H, GTX 1650TI, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 1080P 60HZ)edit

The Omen 15 that we received from HP has the following specs: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti (4GB) RAM: 8GB DDR4, expandable Storage: 512GB NVMe Display: 1080p, IPS, 60Hz HP OMEN GAMING PERFORMANCE We’ve already reviewed one of the Intel variants of the HP Omen and now, were pretty stoked to be checking out the Ryzen variant as well.

Publication: Digit

Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420 complete review: A powerful convertible for everyday useedit

Although it’s been a lot of time since I owned this new AMD powered laptop, I have used it daily for my work and play. So, this helps me give you an honest view towards this new ASUS laptop that already retails in India.

Publication: TechnoSports

Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Is Getting A Massive Discount During Flipkart’s Big Billion Days Saleedit

First off, it is a digital-only console that has a storage of 512GB SSD. It is powered by AMD’s RDNA2 GPU with a performance of 4 teraflops. The console is capable of running games at 1440p resolution and up to 120 Frames Per Second.

Publication: MensXP

10 Products for Pro Gamers: Elevate your gaming experience to an apexedit

In addition to this, the offered product is purchased for its AMD Radeon Free-Sync Technology. This gaming monitor is available with one VGA, 2 HDMI ports, and VGA & HDMI cables.

Publication: The Times of India

Asus ROG Zephyrus M15 (2020) Review: A portable gaming laptop that makes no compromise on poweredit

The new upgrade to the 10th Gen Intel processor offers a marginal increment in performance over its 9th Gen predecessor. In Cinebench R15, the Intel processor on the Zephyrus M15 managed 1,410 points in the multi-core test. For comparison, the Zephyrus G14 with the AMD Ryzen 4800H managed a 1,846 multi-core score, which does suggest an incremental increase in performance.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Huawei MateBook 14 2020 AMD reviewedit

Huawei MateBook 14 2020 AMD comes with a 14-inch 2160x1440px IPS LCD touchscreen. With a 3:2 aspect ratio and has an 8GB or 16GB of DDR4 2666MHz RAM and a 256GB or 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD. This laptop can be configured with a 6-core 12-thread AMD Ryzen 5 4600H or an 8-core 16-thread Ryzen 7 4800H processors.

Publication: Tech4Live

ASUS VIVOBOOK ULTRA 15 AMD RYZEN 7 4700U 15.6-INCH FHD THIN AND LIGHT LAPTOP (8GB RAM/1TB HDD + 256GB NVME SSD/WINDOWS 10/INTEGRATED GRAPHICS/COBALT BLUE/1.80 KG), – M513IA-EJ312Tedit

ASUS VivoBook Ultra 15 AMD Ryzen 7 4700U 15.6-inch FHD Thin and Light Laptop (8GB RAM/1TB HDD + 256GB NVMe SSD/Windows 10/Integrated Graphics/Cobalt Blue/1.80 kg), M513IA-EJ312T laptop has a 15.6 Inch display for your daily needs. This laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4700U processor, coupled with 8 GB of RAM and has 5400 rpm storage at this price point. It runs on operating system. As far as the graphics card is concerned this notebook has a Integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 graphics card to manage the graphical functions. To keep it alive, it has a 3 cell Li-Ion battery and weighs 1.8 Kg.

Publication: GadgetsNow

HP 15-DB0186AU LAPTOP (AMD DUAL CORE RYZEN 3/4 GB/1 TB/WINDOWS 10) – 5KV06PAedit

HP 15-db0186au (5KV06PA) Laptop (AMD Dual Core Ryzen 3/4 GB/1 TB/Windows 10) laptop has a 15.6 Inches (39.62 cm) display for your daily needs. This laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 3 Dual Core -2200U processor, coupled with 4 GB of RAM and has 1 TB HDD storage at this price point.

Publication: GadgetsNow

Asus ROG Zephyrus M15 (2020) Review: A portable gaming laptop that makes no compromise on poweredit

The new upgrade to the 10th Gen Intel processor offers a marginal increment in performance over its 9th Gen predecessor. In Cinebench R15, the Intel processor on the Zephyrus M15 managed 1,410 points in the multi-core test. For comparison, the Zephyrus G14 with the AMD Ryzen 4800H managed a 1,846 multi-core score, which does suggest an incremental increase in performance.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Acer Aspire 5 review: Intel Ice Lake comes to the budget Aspire lineedit

Last year, we saw versions of the Aspire 5 in various dual- and quad-core configurations of Intel’s Core Whiskey Lake CPUs and AMD Ryzen 3000 series chips. Now, in the second half of 2020, the Aspire 5 is moving to 10th-generation Intel processors and AMD Ryzen Series 4000 CPUs, with configurations ranging from quad-core (Intel) all the way to octo-core (AMD). Sticker prices for the Aspire 5 line remain decidedly wallet-friendly, ranging from $400 from a dual-core Intel Core i3-1005G1 model to $850 for a quad-core i7-10510U system with discrete Nvidia GeForce MX250 graphics.

Publication: MyNews24x7

HP 15-DB1080AU LAPTOP (AMD DUAL CORE A4/4 GB/1 TB/WINDOWS 10) – 3M172PAedit

HP 15-db1080au (3M172PA) Laptop (AMD Dual Core A4/4 GB/1 TB/Windows 10) laptop has a 15.6 Inches (39.62 cm) display for your daily needs. This laptop is powered by AMD Dual Core A4-9125 processor, coupled with 4 GB of RAM and has 1 TB HDD storage at this price point. It runs on Windows 10 Home Basic operating system. As far as the graphics card is concerned this notebook has a AMD Radeon R3 graphics card to manage the graphical functions. To keep it alive, it has a 3 Cell Li-Ion battery and weighs 1.8 Kg.

Publication: GadgetsNow

The gap is closing: Velocity Gaming now have competitors for the Indian Valorant throneedit

So far, Indian Valorant tournaments, from the TEC AMD Valorant Cup to the very recent Skyesports Championship 2.0, have all been very one-sided affairs.

Publication: SportsKeeda

Best Budget PC built Under Rs 25,000 in India (Sept 2020)edit

Gone are the days when assembling a PC was regarded as rocket science or something inferior in quality to the pre-assembled machines that we see from manufacturers like Dell, HP etc. Infact the DIY market is on a boon for long now and the PC industry is flourishing day by day enriching the catalogues of all manufacturers with parts that suit even to the modest of needs on the strictest of budgets possible.

Publication: Shubz.in

LENOVO IDEAPAD SLIM 3edit

Lenovo LENOVO IDEAPAD SLIM 3 is a stylish and powerful and is powered by AMD Athlon Silver 3050U processor clocked at a speed of 2.3 GHz and sports a 15.6 inchOn the memory front, the laptop is equipped with a hard drive of 1 TB and a 4 GB DDR4 RAM,thereby making it possible to store ample amount of data.All the above features ensure that you breeze through all your tasks throughout the day.

Publication: Digit

ASUS ZENBOOK 14 LAPTOP (AMD QUAD CORE RYZEN 5/8 GB/512 GB SSD/WINDOWS 10) – UM431DA-AM581TSedit

Asus Zenbook 14 UM431DA-AM581TS Laptop (AMD Quad Core Ryzen 5/8 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 10) laptop has a 14 Inches (35.56 cm) display for your daily needs. This laptop is powered by AMD Quad Core Ryzen 5 3500U processor, coupled with 8 GB of RAM and has 512 GB SSD storage at this price point.

Publication: GadgetsNow

HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-0203in Review (PROACTIVE)edit

Gaming laptops are all the rage right now, but many people might still prefer the lower cost and greater flexibility of a desktop PC. After several years of neglect, with barely any branded options in the market, gaming desktops are making a comeback. Nearly every major brand now has a gaming line with powerful hardware and of course a bit of design flair thrown in.

Publication: NDTV Gadgets360

HyperX Impact DDR4 SODIMM launched with support for Intel XMP and AMD Ryzen Technologiesedit

HyperX® Impact DDR4 SODIMM fully equips any machine with lag-free system performance. The RAM module supports Intel XMP and also AMD Ryzen with a capacity of up to 64GB. The HyperX DDR4 automatically overclocks to the highest frequency up to 3200MHz to fully support Intel and AMD processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus ZenBook 14 UM425 review: Good combination of portability and poweredit

You shouldn’t have any doubts in the performance arena as you are getting the latest and most efficient AMD Ryzen 7 4700U processor. Though, we did witness freezing issues twice when the device was heavy lifting.

Publication: BGR

ASUS TUF Gaming A15 prices drop drastically on Amazon India, becomes the best-selleredit

Asus launched the TUF Gaming A15 laptop for quite some time now and its prices had been very high, however, recently the prices have dropped drastically. The Ryzen 5 4600H powered variant has dropped from Rs.75k to Rs.64k while the Ryzen 7 4800H variant’s starting price has dropped from Rs.85k to Rs.75k. This price is almost equal to the asked Rs.60,990 starting price and can drop in the upcoming sales as well.

Publication: TechnoSports

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPUs spottededit

NVIDIA, this time will be launching its mid-range GPUs based on its latest Ampere architecture sooner than expected. Mostly this is because of the new Xbox and PlayStations along with the much anticipated AMD’s RDNA 2 based GPUs launching at the end of October.

Publication: TechnoSports

The future is hereedit

Sony and Microsoft are launching new gaming consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X respectively, in India later this year. Graphics technology pioneers Nvidia and AMD are both bringing their latest PC gaming technologies to the market, giving gamers a glimpse into the future of gaming graphics.

Publication: India Today

Best Gaming Laptops Under Rs 80,000, Feat. Dell, Asus, HP and More (PROACTIVE)edit

HP Envy X360 Ryzen 5: This one’s a compact device with a 13.3-inch display and AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Quad-Core processor that gives 2.1 GHz base processor speed and goes up to 3.7 GHz burst frequency. The laptop is equipped with an 8GB DDR4 RAM with AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics. See it here.

Publication: News18 News18 Telugu

Build Your Own PC: Common Mistakes While Building a PC (Sponsored)edit

Welcome to the seventh and last article in the “Build Your Own PC” series, powered by AMD. We’ve gone through each step of the PC building process, from selecting components, to securing the best deal, to finally putting them all together and installing an operating system. However, we all make mistakes along the way and this article is all about addressing the most common mistakes first-time PC builders might commit. We’re going to kick things off with the thermal paste application.

Publication: Digit

Build Your Own PC: How to Install Windows 10 and Set up Your PC (Sponsored)edit

Welcome to the fifth article in the “Build Your Own PC” series, powered by AMD Ryzen and Radeon. In this article, we’re going to be installing Windows 10 and all the drivers for your PC. We’ll look at the typical installation scenario that you’re going to face after building your PC for the first time and we’ll take you through all the steps needed to set up your machine properly.

Publication: Digit

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 reviewedit

The Flex 5 is an affordable convertible laptop that comes with a touchscreen and an active pen and transforms from a laptop into a tablet at the drop of a hat. Or more accurately, at a twist of the screen. This particular model comes powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, offers 512GB SSD storage, and 8 gigs of RAM. Here’s why I think it’s worth a closer look.

Publication: 91 Mobiles

Lenovo France now selling the IdeaPad S540-13 with Ryzen 7 4800H at the same price as that of 4800Uedit

Lenovo France previously launched the 16:10 display laptop powered by AMD’s APUs up to the new Ryzen 7 4800U, costing up to € 1,299. At the price, the slim and light laptop offers incredible value and made it good performer overall for daily usage.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 2 is the company’s Intel Evo and Dolby Vision certified notebookedit

The release of Intel’s new 11th Generation CPUs has prompted Lenovo to upgrade many of its previous models with the latest silicon tech. the company has also decided to launch many new notebooks, not only with Intel’s Tiger Lake but also with AMD’s Ryzen 4000U processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 and E15 Gen 2 finally comes with Tiger Lake and an updated displayedit

The latest Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 was released with AMD Ryzen 4000 which was a massive power booster for the notebooks. The new ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 and E15 Gen 2 comes with the latest Intel Tiger Lake CPU. The company has decided to move from AMD to Intel with this upgrade.

Publication: TechnoSports

RTX 3060 Ti May Be Coming After RTX 3070 Launch, Spoiling AMD’s RX 6000 Launch Partyedit

NVIDIA’s latest Ampere architecture that is behind the new RTX 3000 series GPUs may spawn a fourth model as soon as October, with a potential RTX 3060 Ti. After prior leaks that we have come across as well, sources close to multiple major tech news outlets have leaked newer info, and there is an expectation for the RTX 3060 Ti to be announced by the time the 3070 is released, which is slated to be on 15th October. We also have comparative specifications to see how it would stack up against the other announced RTX 3000 GPU’s as well.

Publication: TechQuila DailyHunt

Gaming PC Build for Rs 50K Featuring WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD #Sponsored (Proactive)edit

If you’re in the market to upgrade your gaming PC for around 50K, we’ve got a pretty decent build for you. We’re looking at something which will get you around 40-60 FPS in most video games. Components used: Processor – AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Graphics Card – MSI GTX 1650

Publication: Digit

Honor MagicBook 15 review: A basic notebook good only for basic choresedit

The MagicBook 15 is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor, mated with a Radeon Vega 8 graphics card. The notebook has 8GB DDR4 dual-channel RAM and 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD storage. It boots Windows 10 home and comes with some Huawei add-ons. The MagicBook 15 has three ports on the left: a multipurpose USB-C port, a USB 3.0 port, and an HDMI port. And on the right there are two: a full-size USB 2.0 port and 3.5 mm audio out port.

Publication: Business Standard

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Acer Launches 5 New Laptops in Swift and Aspire Lineup — All Featuring Intel’s 11th Gen SoCsedit

Acer has been at the forefront when it comes to value-for-money laptops for home & office with its up-to date hardware and evolutionary design. With Intel rolling out its 11th Generation Core processors, Acer went all out to become the first in India to introduce laptops with the latest Intel hardware. Acer has introduced the new updated 11th Generation Core processors into 5 new laptops — Swift 5, Swift 3X, Swift 3 (13.5″ & 14″) and Aspire 5.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD launches Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs to take on Nvidia’s RTX 3000 cards: everything to know (PROACTIVE)edit

MD Radeon RX 6000 series: Computer processor and graphic card developer AMD has announced Radeon RX 6000 series! The new cards improve the performance over the last generation of graphic cards by AMD by two times, and they have been built on the new 7nm RDNA 2 architecture. These graphic cards also have the necessary support for Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate API. The cards will be available from November.

Publication: Financial Express 

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT challenges NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 at $999 only (PROACTIVE)edit

Yesterday, AMD announced their revolutionary RDNA 2 based RX 6000 series GPUs that will go head to head with NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line RTX 30-series GPUs. It was unimaginable though to see coming this from AMD, who until now, was struggling to keep up with NVIDIA. Not only the RDNA 2 is delivery insane performance uplift over last-gen but also brings the much-anticipated DX12 based Ray tracing and in a proper way like NVIDIA did with their recent GPUs only. It’s good to see that AMD has countered all the three top-of-the-line product slacklines of NVIDIA.

Publication: TechnoSports

Will Intel’s CPUs (Rocket Lake) be The Best Again in 2021?edit

AMD has announced another series of Ryzen CPUs. Of course, we all know that by now. But to summarise it anyway: AMD seems to have improved by a fair amount once again, and this time it seems like Intel’s last stronghold — gaming, is in danger of coming right into AMD’s hands as well. There are many reasons for this happening, and there are many consequences or outcomes that Intel can make happen after this.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT matches RTX 3080 performance at just $649 (PROACTIVE)edit

The Red team has made some bold announcements yesterday with its new RX 6000 series graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture. Their first announcement was the new Radeon RX 6800 XT which AMD had been teasing for quite some time now. While people including me, were quite skeptical about AMD’s graphics performance because they never really matched NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line GPUs and this time when NVIDIA almost doubled its GPU performance, we thought AMD could never match NVIDIA.

Publication: TechnoSports

NVIDIA’s RTX 3080/3090 30-50% Faster in Ray-Tracing Compared to AMD’s Big Navi GPUsedit

AMD had a ton of Big Navi benchmarks to show off at yesterday’s event, both at both 1440p and 4K, but there wasn’t a single figure indicating the ray-tracing performance of the RDNA 2 GPUs. Digging deep into the press release, it turns out that AMD did provide some initial figures, but they aren’t pretty. Measured by AMD engineering labs 8/17/2020 on an AMD RDNA 2 based graphics card, using the Procedural Geometry sample application from Microsoft’s DXR SDK, the AMD RDNA 2 based graphics card gets up to 13.8x speedup (471 FPS) using HW based raytracing vs using the Software DXR fallback layer (34 FPS) at the same clocks.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

After reporting record Q3 revenue and announcing the $35 billion acquisition of rival company Xilinx, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, also known as Big Navi, for the next level of PC gaming. Taking on graphics giant Nvidia, AMD said the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT is the ultimate 4K graphics card and the fastest ever AMD gaming graphics card. AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards are expected to be available beginning November 18 for $579 and $649, respectively.

Publication: DailyHunt

AMD, Nvidia chip away at Intel’s semiconductor dominanceedit

A new set of American semiconductor leaders is rising, fueled by pandemic-driven demand for their chips that they are looking to parlay into blockbuster deals to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by Intel Corp. The U.S. chip industry has historically been a mix of niche players, midsize companies and Intel. But this year, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., long the underdog in the computer-processor market, and Nvidia Corp., a graphics-processing specialist, are mounting their biggest challenge yet to level the playing field.

Publication: Livemint

AMD 5500 XT And 5600 XT Review: Best 1080p Card For Budget Gamers (PROACTIVE)edit

5600 XT also trumps over its green opponent, the 1660 Super, by averaging around 10-15 FPS more in the aforementioned games. Due to a higher core count and a brand new heat sink on the 5600 XT, it stays cool while pushing around 100 FPS in almost every new game at 1080p. The price difference between both of these cards is around Rs. 3,000, with the 5600 XT being the costlier one. Suffice it to say that both, the 5500 XT OC and the 5600 XT are meant for 1080p gaming. Personally, I’d prefer the 5600 XT and pair it up with a 144 Hz monitor to experience the best possible HD gaming in 2020.

Publication: Fossbytes

AMD Announces the Radeon RX 6800XT & 6900XT for $649 and $999, respectively (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD finally unveiled its RDNA 2 powered Radeon RX 6000 series, competing toe-to-toe against NVIDIA’s top-end RTX 30 series offerings. First up, we have the Radeon RX 6800 XT which comes with 72 CUs and 16GB of GDDR6 memory paired with a 256-bit and (wait for it) a whopping 128MB of Infinity Cache. Never expected to see 128 MB of cache in a GPU. Looks like RedGamingTech was right after all.

Publication: Hardware Times 

LG Gram 17-inch review: Playing games with your mindedit

As someone who used to travel a lot, I have struggled with heavy office laptops that become a pain in the neck over a period of time. As the heavy backpack, weighed down by the laptop and its adapter, started taking a toll a few years back, I moved almost completely to an iPad for my travels. However, not everyone has the luxury to survive on an iPad, not when your office work needs you to use some old-world software. This is where the LG Gram could be a game-changer. LG Gram specs: 17-inch IPS LCD WQXGA (2560 x 1600) | Intel Core i7-1065G7 1.30GHz (Turbo up to 3.90GHz), L3 Cache 8MB | 8GB RAM + 512GB ROM | Intel ...

AMD Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT Launched With RDAN2 Architecture (PROACTIVE)edit

As expected, AMD has officially announced a new series of GPUs based on the RDAN2 architecture. Under the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs, the company has launched the Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT. The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is the top-of-the-line graphics card from the company that goes head-to-head with the RTX 3090 GPU from NVIDIA. It offers 80CUs with a boost clock speed of 2250MHz. This is also one of the most expensive GPUs from the brand, and it comes with a retail price of $999, which is less than the price of the RTX 3090.

Publication: Gizbot

Gaming monitors to elevate your gaming experienceedit

To enable an optimum viewing experience, the Lenovo G-25 10 gaming monitor comes with a wide colour gamut. As the name suggests, it has Full HD resolution, which allows the user to see even the smallest of objects clearly. The monitor further comes with a 110 mm stand to adjust the screen. The gameplay is not fun with choppy or broken frames; hence this monitor is equipped with AMD Freesync Technology to deal with those jagged edges. Additionally, it has an edgeless monitor which contributes to a wide and attractive screen.

Publication: Digit

Intel mulls setting up semiconductor test and assembly facility in Indiaedit

Intel Corp. may be exploring the possibility of setting up test and assembly facility of silicon wafers in India although no definite plan seems to have been made. Silicon wafer is a material used for producing semiconductors, which can be found in all types of electronic devices. So far, the India units of semiconductor companies such as Intel and AMD have been focusing only on design and engineering. The manufacturing of chips, known as fabrication, is done mostly out of its factories or fabs in US, China, and Taiwan.

Publication: Livemint

Desktop Processors with built-in graphics capabilitiesedit

The AMD Ryzen 3 3200G is an entry-level desktop processor from AMD that makes use of their Zen+ microarchitecture which is an improvement over the Zen architecture, in terms of IPC. The 3200G has 4 cores and does not feature multi-threading. Its graphics capabilities are powered by a Radeon Vega 8 IGP which is clocked at 1250 MHz. The processor itself has a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost clock of 4 GHz so there’s plenty of processing power, even for entry-level systems. Like all Ryzen desktop processors, the 3200G is compatible with motherboards that have AMD’s AM4 socket, along with a compatible chipset.

Publication: Digit

Best CPUs For Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

With 16 Cores / 32 Threads, the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the beefiest processor in this list. Usually, with high core counts, you see a reduction in base and boost frequencies and that in turn affects gaming performance so it’s a surprise that such a beefy processor even made it to this list. Nevertheless, the 3950X is great for gaming and given the high core-count you can even multitask and stream using the same PC with ease. That makes the 3950X an ever more appealing choice.

Publication: Digit

NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Specs Leaked; Double the CUDA Cores of 2060 Super For $399edit

The specs for NVIDIA’s unannounced GeForce RTX 3060 Ti have leaked out, and if it’s true it could point to a substantial upgrade over the RTX 2060/2060 Super. You can take a look at the GPU-Z leak here, which shows that the 3060 Ti will ship with more than double the CUDA core count of the RTX 2060 Super. Everything else though does seem to be the same, with a similar power draw and same memory configuration.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Beats the Intel Core i9-10900K by 10% in Single-Threaded Performance (CPU-Z)edit

The single-threaded performance of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors is looking to be the strongest aspect of the new lineup. A while back, we saw the Ryzen 5 5600X beating the Intel Core i9-10900K in the Passmark single-core test. Today, we have the CPU-Z single-threaded benchmark of the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD’s next chip aimed at enthusiast gamers and content creators.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Becomes the Fastest Consumer CPU, Beating the Core i9-10900K By 17% in Passmarkedit

AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X has been spotted on the PassMark CPU benchmark, scoring a record-breaking 3,693 points, beating the Intel Comet Lake-S flagship by almost 17%. Compared to its cheaper Vermeer sibling, we’re looking at a 5-7% advantage, primarily on account of the higher boost clock.  The multi-threaded benchmarks are less impressive as the core and thread counts are identical compared to the Zen 2 lineup.

Publication: Hardware Times 

High-end desktop processors for extreme performanceedit

In terms of pure performance potential, the 3990X is nothing short of a beast. Being the world’s first 64 core processor, the Threadripper 3990X offers 128 threads to ensure entirely seamless rendering workflows for your projects. Besides all the multi-core power it brings to the table, its single core performance is also superlative thanks to its max boost capability of 4.3GHz. To handle large GPU and NVMe data throughput needs without breaking a sweat, it packs a total of 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes in its design. The combined cache size of 288MB aims to keep large datasets always accessible.

Publication: Digit

AMD acquires Xilinx for $35bn, posts record $2.8bn sales in Q3edit

In one of the largest tech deals, chip maker AMD on Tuesday acquired rival company Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. Xilinx is the top provider of adaptive computing solutions and the combined $135 billion entity will have nearly 13,000 engineers and expand AMD’s total addressable market to $110 billion. The combination will create the industry’s leading high performance computing company, significantly expanding the breadth of AMD’s product portfolio and customer set across diverse growth markets where Xilinx is an established leader, AMD said in a statement.

Publication: CRN India 

AMD to buy chipmaker Xilinx in $35 billion all-stock dealedit

Advanced Micro Devices agreed to buy Xilinx for $35 billion in stock, taking the chipmaker into more diverse and profitable markets and adding to its data center offerings. Xilinx investors will get 1.7234 AMD shares for each Xilinx stock they own. That values Xilinx at about $143 a share, 25% more than the closing price on Monday and 35% above the price before news of a possible deal was reported earlier in October. The deal is a coup for AMD chief executive Lisa Su, creating a company with a larger research and development budget and a broader array of products to take on Intel.

Publication: The Economic Times 

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT (Navi 21 XT) Leaked Benchmarks Show It’s Faster Than RTX 3080 at 4Kedit

With AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 (‘Big Navi’) reveal just a few short days away, more leaked benchmarks are showing up every day. However, a new benchmark leak might put the as of yet unannounced RX 6800 XT to be faster than NVIDIA’s RTX 3080! The new benchmarks have been leaked courtesy of Igor’s lab and Wccftech. First up is Igor’s Lab, who are reporting benchmark scores from Firestrike Extreme, 3D Mark Time Spy and Port Royal, all running at 4K. They report that they actually received scores in percentage, which was then converted to tangible scores by benchmarking the other cards in the chart.

Publication: TechQuila

Microsoft, IBM, NVIDIA & Other Tech Companies Collaborate To Launch Adversarial ML Threat Matrixedit

With a massive advent of machine learning in critical areas like healthcare, BFSI, defence, etc., it is making a significant impact on human lives. Although there is a growing interest of businesses to include machine learning, there always has been a great concern of security of their ML systems. To resolve such an issue 12 tech companies including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Bosch, IBM etc. have partnered with an American not-for-profit organisation — MITRE — to create an Adversarial ML Threat Matrix.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine 

Dell Latitude 9510 2-in-1 Laptop Review: A Premium Business Laptop For Those Always On The Goedit

The Dell Latitude is a business-grade laptop and is not really meant for content creators or gaming enthusiasts. Hence, there’s no dedicated GPU here which is definitely a bit of a bummer. The base model of the laptop comes with an Intel Core i5-10310U processor but we had the top-end model which is powered by the Intel Core i7-10810U processor. Obviously, the processor is vPro capable. Accompanying the processor is 16GB of 2133 MHz LPDDR3 RAM and an M.2 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD. It’s safe to say that the laptop is plenty powerful for most business-related applications and it’s going to take a lot to bog it down.

Publication: Mashable

Intel’s margins tumble as customers shift to cheaper chips, shares slide 10%edit

Intel Corp on Thursday reported that margins tumbled in the latest quarter as consumers bought cheaper laptops and pandemic-stricken businesses and governments clamped down on data center spending, news that sent its shares down 10%. Intel, the dominant provider of processor chips for PCs and data centers, has struggled with manufacturing delays. In July, it said its next generation of chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Interns’ pay in tech MNCs sees big jumpedit

Interns in tech companies receive attractive stipends, a real-world job experience, and they get a foot in the door to full-time employment. Glassdoor, a website that sources data from employees anonymously, shows the average monthly intern salary at Cisco India is Rs 49,324. An Amazon software development engineering intern receives Rs 49,008, while Microsoft, Adobe and Google pay Rs 47,798, Rs 47,719 and Rs 46,963, respectively.(nvida,IBM,oracle)

Publication: The Times of India 

The New Dell G7 15 Makes its Debut in Indiaedit

Powered by the latest 10th Gen Intel Core CPUs with up to i9 and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX graphic card, the gameplay experience is enhanced with a precision glass trackpad. The discrete “Game Shift” macro key in G7 instantly activates the pro- cessors and cooling system into a hyper-perfor- mance mode for heavy action scenes.

Publication: CellIT

ASUS announces entry into Commercial PC market in Indiaedit

ASUS Expert Series of Commercial PCs are designed to up the professional standard of enterprise and businesses. Fast-growing businesses encounter challenging IT needs, and these demands evolve rapidly. That is why all ASUS Expert Series commercial products are designed with quality, reliability, and flexibility to meet these challenges with the ultimate objective of increasing productivity returns for businesses’ IT investments. ASUS Expert Series provide unmatched technology, performance, durability, and design for Business and Professional use. Hence the ASUS ExpertSeries is powered by Intel® Core™processors.

Publication: CellIT

NVIDIA Prepping RTX 3070 Ti w/ 7,424 Cores|10GB GDDR6X VRAM to Tackle Radeon RX 6800XT/XLedit

We’re just two days away from AMD’s reveal of its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, most notably the Navi 21 lineup, otherwise known as Big Navi. We’ve already seen a lot of data, including boost clocks, 3DMark benchmarks, and rumored gaming performance, but have yet to see any concrete numbers. However, NVIDIA isn’t taking any chances. As per a reputed Twitter source, kopitekimi, Jensen and Co. are working on another GA102 based GPU (the same die that powers the RTX 3080 and 3090) which will also feature 10GB of GDDR6X memory and a TBP of 320W.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Lenovo Legion 7i review: Good choice for gamers and creatorsedit

The pandemic has changed our habits and lifestyle drastically. We are become glued to our gadgets, especially phones and laptops, more than ever. The line between professional and personal lives have thinned, so much so that there is a big overlap. And I think these gadgets have become more helpful, specifically because besides working, people are binge-watching and gaming on them. As such, gaming laptops are all the rage right now. Leading PC makers are getting more serious about them, even if it involves selling these laptops for affordable prices that were never mainstream earlier.

Publication: India Today 

Intel dodges Wall Street critics on tough earnings calledit

Intel Corp.’s biggest critics on Wall Street didn’t get a chance to question executives on its recent earnings conference call, a sign of mounting pressure on the chipmaker and its leadership. Intel stock plunged as much as 12% Friday following a report that detailed a drop in profitable data center chip demand and falling overall profitability. That follows a 16% share slump after its second-quarter results three months ago. The world’s largest chipmaker is at the center of a debate about its future, one that its detractors are winning.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Asus ROG Strix G15 review: The best-looking gaming laptop for its price, and moreedit

Asus added two new laptops in its ROG Strix series with 10th gen Intel Core chipsets. The ROG Strix G15 and G17 come with up to 10th Intel Core i7, and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060. For its price, the Asus ROG Strix G15 performs as expected. The lighting strip does add that extra flair to the laptop but without being tacky. The ROG Strix G15 sits in a category of gaming laptops between a budget and a premium one. Given all these factors, the ROG Strix G15 is definitely one of the best options you can get in this category.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Dell XPS 13 Intel Core i7 Reviewedit

The Dell XPS 13 is a masterclass in building a thin and light laptop that doesn’t compromise on the quality of the materials. The use of exotic materials isn’t for show, but instead, to actually lend to both good looks and a sturdy build quality. You don’t buy the Dell XPS 13 becuse you’re looking for a performance beast. You buy the Dell XPS 13 when you know you want the thinnest, best looking laptop in the category that also outperforms the competition.

Publication: Digit

Avita Essential Laptop with Intel Celeron N4000 Processor Debuts in India, Priced at Rs. 17,990edit

The Avita Essential laptop sports a 14-inch full-HD (1,080×1,920 pixels) IPS display with 16:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, it is powered by the Intel Celeron N4000 processor and the graphics are handled by Intel UHD Graphics 600. It runs Windows 10 Home in S mode out-of-the-box which is a more “streamlined” version of Windows 10. With the Avita Essential laptop, users will get 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 128GB of SSD SATA M.2 storage.

Publication: Network 18 

Acer Products To Focus On Adapting To The New Norm — Jerry Kaoedit

Just after the presentation, I had an opportunity to interact with Acer Co-Chief Operating Officer and President, IT Products Business Jerry Kao, and James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, IT Products Business. So, here is a summary of our interaction regarding the Acer products. When I asked about AMD CPU based gaming laptops from Acer, James Lin said that the company works closely with AMD and the company also confirmed if the user demands a gaming laptop with an AMD CPU, the company will definitely launch a laptop with an AMD CPU.

Publication: Gizbot

5 best laptops with long-lasting battery life that you can buy in India (PROACTIVE)edit

The ASUS ZenBook 14 is an excellent choice for travelling professionals who need a laptop that can last all day long. This laptop comes with a 67Whr 4-cell Lithium polymer battery that can deliver up to 22 hours of battery life from a single charge. It runs Windows 10 Home and weighs 1.26 kg. It is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor, which is coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD. The laptop features a 14-inch LED-backlit IPS full-HD display with slim bezels and 100 percent sRGB coverage.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Affordable gaming gets aggressive with the powerful GF Series by MSI: 5 Features to watch out foredit

In the last few years, the gaming industry has evolved at a break-neck speed. In fact, a report* by Investopedia suggests that there are over two billion gamers across the world, which is about 26% of the world’s population! Thus, it’s no surprise that companies across the world are investing their bucks on developing gaming laptops that can make virtual worlds more lifelike for gamers. By integrating the latest technology, gaming laptops now come with a slew of features like gesture control, voice and face recognition, high frame rates, VR and AR, and flawless graphics.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Nvidia’s ARM acquisition faces a challenge from Chinese authoritiesedit

NVIDIA has been making rounds in the semiconductor market with its latest acquisition of ARM. This acquisition would most likely stir up the tech world at its core. Arm’s limitless potential and uses in the smartphone market and low-power processing segment give Nvidia an unfair advantage over other mobile processor manufacturers. ARMs importance is growing in both the data center and supercomputing markets. Thus the Nvidia deal comes with significant consequences for the tech industry. Many believe that China’s authorities might not let the deal follow-through, which will cause several implications to the manufacturer of the graphics.

Publication: TechnoSports

NVIDIA Once Again Smashes Performance Records On MLPerf Benchmarkingedit

NVIDIA has announced that its AI computing platform has once again smashed performance records in the latest round of MLPerf. This, in turn, extended the company’s lead on the industry’s only independent benchmark measuring AI performance of hardware, software and services. NVIDIA won every test across all six application areas for datacentre and edge computing systems in the second version of MLPerf Inference.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7: Five Reasons Why You Should Buy This Lenovo Laptopedit

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i has been updated for 2020 with the latest Intel 10th Gen processors. After using the laptop for two weeks, it comes across as a great work-from-home companion for a lightweight Windows ultrabook. The Yoga Slim 7i starts at Rs 78,490 for the base variant with an Intel Core i5 processor paired to 512GB RAM and NVIDIA MX350 GPU. We list five reasons as to why we think you should get the Lenovo laptop as soon as possible. For our full review, head over to BGR India for the written review.

Publication: BGR India 

Best processors for home desktop in Indiaedit

The AMD Ryzen 3 3200G is a highly popular option in this price segment because of the great value for money that it delivers. Based on the Ryzen 3 platform, this processor comes with 4 cores and 4 threads with a base clock speed of 3.6GHz. It comes with integrated graphics as well, so you don’t have to purchase a dedicated graphics card for your home desktop. This AMD processor is a great option for building the perfect budget home desktop for almost all your basic tasks.

Publication: Business Insider 

Porsche Design Acer Book RS luxury laptop powered by 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor unveilededit

The Taiwan-based electronics major Ace at its next@acer event announced its collaboration with the German carmaker Porsche Design by introducing a new laptop in the market. Porsche Design Acer Book RS is the company luxury laptop that will come with high-end technologies with minimalist design elements. The high-end notebook has an all-metal chassis powered by 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU.

Publication: Gadgets Bridge 

Acer announces its new consumer notebooks under Swift, Spin and Aspire seriesedit

Acer has expanded its consumer Notebook lineup with the launch of new Swift, Spin and Aspire series laptops globally at its Next@Acer event. The entire lineup now comes with Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors with Intel Xe graphics and thin and lightweight design. Acer Swift 3X: Price, features and more The price of Acer Swift 3X (SF314-510G) starts at $899.99 and will be available in North America from December onwards. The new Swift 3X is a thin and light laptop that weighs just 1.37kg and are signed for creative professionals.

Publication: The Times of India 

Intel’s Margins Tumble As Customers Shift To Cheaper Chips, Shares Slide 10%edit

Intel Corp on Thursday reported that margins tumbled in the latest quarter as consumers bought cheaper laptops and pandemic-stricken businesses and governments clamped down on data center spending, news that sent its shares down 10%. Intel, the dominant provider of processor chips for PCs and data centers, has struggled with manufacturing delays. In July, it said its next generation of chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule. Chip sales are booming, but customers want lower-priced chips rather than Intel’s pricier high-performance offerings, dragging down overall gross margins.

Publication: BW Businessworld 

Lenovo unveils new Yoga line-up powered by Intel’s 11th Gen processorsedit

The upcoming Lenovo Yoga 14s will have two variants. One will be powered by an Intel Tiger Lake and the other by an AMD Ryzen 4000 processor. The first variant comes with the Intel’s Core i5-1135G7 along with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. The second variant sports the same 16GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage configuration as its counterpart, but AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800H processor powers the machine. Both laptops feature a 2.8K resolution 14-inch display with a refresh rate of 90Hz.

Publication: TechnoSports

3DMark Benchmarks of RTX 3070 vs RTX 2080 Ti: Turing Slightly Fasteredit

The 3DMark scores of NVIDIA’s RTX 3070 have also leaked out after the Ashes Escalation benchmark surfaced earlier today. In these tests, the RTX 2080 Ti leads the RTX 3070 by a slight margin on account of higher overall bandwidth and effective compute performance. The lead is especially prominent in TimeSpy where the RTX 2080 Ti scores 14,582 points while the RTX 3070 is limited to 13,945. The deltas are quite small in FireStrike Ultra and Extreme, but Port Royal once again favors the Ti over the 3070.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel welcomes First satellite made out of artificial intelligenceedit

Though artificial intelligence (AI) plays a vital role in modern life, from stimulating our understanding of the cosmos to surfacing entertaining videos on your device, artificial intelligence hasn’t found its way into orbit yet. However, that is until September 2, when an experimental satellite about a cereal box’s size named PhiSat-1. It is now soaring at more than 27,500 Km/h in sun-synchronous orbit around 530 km overhead. PhiSat-1 consists of a new hyperspectral-thermal camera and on-board artificial intelligence processing because of an Intel Movidius Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU).

Publication: Analytics Insights 

To Revive its Business, Intel Plans to Sell its Nand Memory-chip for $9 Billionedit

Intel has decided to sell its Nand memory-chip subsidiary to South Korea’s SK Hynix for a deal of $9 billion. Lately, the Intel memory –chip has slipped. Thus, the semiconductor giant is trying to restructure its business and prioritize its main business and it intends that exiting from the memory industry would aid in business recovery. In spite of large investments in flash memory, Intel has not been able to grow as a big player in the semiconductors that have been used in storage devices inside computer hard drives and consumer electronics.

Publication: Silicon India 

AI 8: ML will create more jobs; reskilling of workforce essentialedit

Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings mixed emotions and opinions when referenced in the context of jobs. But a look at the history of technology shows that technology created more jobs than it killed. In this context, a survey was recently conducted to assess the size and scope of the impact of AI on businesses, including shifts in the quantum and nature of employment and human capital development. This study by Intel India and ISB will help drive future research to meaningfully inform policymakers and the industry about the impact of AI and machine learning (ML).

Publication: Financial Express 

Acer launches new Chromebooks, laptops, speaker and monitors: Details hereedit

At its global event, Acer today unveiled a bunch of new laptops along with Chromebooks, new monitors and even a smart speaker for the market. The list includes products like Acer Swift 3X laptop, Predator-branded monitors, Acer Halo smart speaker, special edition Porche Design laptop, Chromebook Spin 513 and ConceptD 7 laptops and desktops. Acer Swift 3X has nearly the same look as the Swift 3 but with different specifications. It has Intel’s Iris Xe Max, company’s new GPU and comes in Intel Core 11th-gen SoC, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. It also costs $1,199 for the particular model. There is a $899.99 model as well. There’s a 58.7Whr battery powering it.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan ...

Nvidia chips again smash AI performance recordsedit

Graphic chip maker Nvidia has once again smashed performance records for its AI computing platform in the latest benchmark test rounds of MLPerf, extending its lead on AI performance of hardware, software, and services. The company won every test across all six application areas for datacentre and edge computing systems in the second version of MLPerf Inference. The benchmark called MLPerf is from the MLPerf organization, an industry consortium that administers the tests.

Publication: Express Computers 

Dell XPS 15 Review: The Best Windows Alternative To MacBook Gets Even Betteredit

The variant of the laptop we used for review was armed to the teeth with an Intel Core i7-10750H processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and an Nvidia GTX 1650Ti GPU. You can choose between a few RAM and storage options to see which one suits your budget the best. Day-to-day tasks were no big deal for this beast and it handled everything we threw at it like a champ. Windows laptops have gotten better now thanks to the software advancements too, so no complaints there either. We ran benchmarks on this laptop to see the kind of numbers we could get. Well, the XSP 15 didn’t disappoint.

Publication: MensXp

Intel’s deal with SK Hynix shows limited space left for chip makersedit

Intel Corp.’s $9 billion deal to sell most of its memory-chip business to a South Korean company accelerates the industry consolidation around a ubiquitous technology component.

Publication: Livemint

Intel sees opportunity in US-China tensions’ impact on supply chainsedit

Intel Corp. could see new business opportunities from a bifurcation of tech supply chains amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China, the chip maker’s Chief Executive Bob Swan said. The U.S. and several other countries have limited or blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. from providing equipment for their 5G infrastructure over concerns about security and potential espionage—claims Huawei denies. Those constraints leave gaps that others—including Intel—could fill by providing the chips that power the superfast networks.

Publication: Livemint

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2020: Best deals on Desktop CPUs (PROACTIVE)edit

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT is a desktop processor for high-end systems and has 12 Cores / 24 Threads with a base clock of 3.8 GHz and a boost clock of 4.7 GHz. It supports DDR4 memory with a nominal clock speed of 3200 MHz. This processor usually sells for INR 48,900 and has seen a price drop of approximately INR 6,000. – Usual price – 48,846. Sale price – 42,990

Publication: Digit

12 Games Getting RTX and/or DLSS Soon: NVIDIA Revealsedit

NVIDIA just announced the availibilily of RTX and/or DLSS in twelve upcoming games this year. Of the twelve, three were previously confirmed to support it already (Dates indicate the time of availability of RTX features): Watch Dogs: Legion (October 29th): Ray-traced reflections and DLSS. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (November 13th): Ray-traced shadows and DLSS

Publication: Hardware Times 

NVIDIA Reportedly Cancels RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GBedit

According to a report from Videocardz, NVIDIA has scrapped the 20GB and 16GB variants of the RTX 3080 and 3070, respectively. It’s unclear why this decision was taken and it’s definitely not 100% confirmed but VC claims that the info comes from multiple sources, so it there’s a high chance it’s legit. Earlier, rumors were going around that NVIDIA was prepping 16GB and 20GB models of the RTX 3070 and 3080, respectively to target AMD’s upcoming Navi 21 based 6000 series graphics cards.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel to sell storage unit to SK Hynix for $9 billionedit

Intel agreed to sell its Nand memory unit to South Korea’s SK Hynix for about $9 billion, part of a broader effort by the US chipmaker to concentrate on its main business.

Publication: Business Standard

Amazon and Flipkart Sales are live: Check out the best deals on laptops (PROACTIVE)edit

Best Overall Laptop | Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 | Amazon | Rs 1,51,252 | The Asus Zephyrus G14 offers a perfect balance between work and play, delivering excellent battery life and powerful performance in a thin and light chassis of only 1.6 kg. The G14 arrives with an AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS CPU, Nvidia RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 14-inch 120Hz IPS Full HD panel. The notebook also comes with MS Office 2019 pre-installed.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Dell XPS 13 with Intel Tiger Lake falls behind AMD Ryzen 4000 seriesedit

A few weeks ago, we saw dell unveiling it’s upgraded XPS 13. The new XPS 13 would come with Intel’s latest Tiger Lake processor. We are yet to see how exactly the new machine fares up against its other competitors. But according to sources, the review website Phoronix has had its run with the upgraded device from Dell. Phoronix mostly reviews devices in a Linux environment to vary from Windows 10 powered device. According to sources, Phoronix has reviewed the notebook powered by the Core i7-1165G7 edition.

Publication: TechnoSports

Dell G5 15 5500 Review: Ideally Crafted For Budding Gamersedit

The Dell G5 15 5500 is based on the Intel Core i5-10300H quad-core CPU with a base clock speed of 2.5GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.5GHz. The chipset is based on 14nm architecture and offers 8MB of L3 cache and 45W TDP. On Geekbench 5, the Dell G5 15 5500 posted 1125 points on single-core and 4180 points on multi-core CPU performance. The single-core performance of this laptop is similar to some of the laptops that are based on the Intel Core i7-10750H. However, it takes a hit when it comes to multi-core performance.

Publication: Gizbot

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i (2020) review: Great for work-from-home computingedit

For those seeking a slim and lightweight laptop, the Lenovo Yoga series has been one of the best recommendations sitting with a price tag of less than Rs 1 lakh. The Slim series, in particular, has impressed consumers with its stylish yet portable design, paired with reliable performance. For this year, Lenovo has updated the Yoga Slim 7 series with the 10th Gen Intel Core processors with slightly revised prices.

Publication: BGR India 

Avita Liber V14 Laptop With 10-Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM Launched: Price, Availability & Moreedit

The Avita Liber V14 laptop by Avita has been launched on Flipkart amid the ongoing Big Billion Days sale. Similar to its previous models, the new Avita Liber notebook features a sleek body and comes with a 14-inch display that has slim bezels on all sides of the panel. The laptop comes in a single Navy Blue finish and weighs just 1.25 kg. There’s also a 1-megapixel web camera for video calling.

Publication: Network18

Intel to sell NAND business to SKorean rival for $9 billionedit

Intel has agreed to a USD 9 billion deal to sell most of its memory business to South Koreas SK Hynix as it moves toward more diverse technologies while shedding a major Chinese factory at a time of deepening trade friction between Washington and Beijing. Intel said it will keep its Optane business of more advanced memory products, which analysts say are mostly produced in the United States.

Publication: CNBC TV 18

Intel is smart to sell memory business, abandoning a market dominated by Samsungedit

Intel Corp. has stumbled lately. To right itself, the semiconductor giant needs to get back to basics and prioritize its main business. An exit from the memory industry will help that effort. The company agreed to sell its Nand memory-chip subsidiary to South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. for about $9 billion, the Asian chipmaker said in a statement late Monday New York time. Despite large investments in flash memory, Intel has never been able to become a big player in these types of semiconductors, which are used in storage devices inside computer hard drives and consumer electronics.

Publication: The Print 

NVIDIA RTX 3070 Supply Expected to be as Bad as the RTX 3080 at Launchedit

It looks like the supply for NVIDIA’s RTX 30 series cards won’t be improving anytime soon. The RTX 3070 which is slated to launch on the 28th of October will likely see limited availability this year. As per the Danish retailer, Pro shop, it still has only 106 units of the 3070 in its warehouse, the same as the figure reported 12 days earlier.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Enable Ray-Tracing (RTX) in Almost Every Game w/ AMD Radeon GPUs Using this Modedit

NVIDIA might have popularized ray-tracing (at least the term) among the masses, but even now only a small percentage of gamers have access to the technology. The reason is rather straight-forward: RTX GPUs are quite expensive and not everyone can afford them. More than half of the gamers worldwide still use a GTX 1060-level graphics cards, with a target resolution of 1080p. Crytek’s Noir Benchmark: Crytek’s Noir benchmark featuring RT ray-tracing is now publicly available.

Publication: Hardware Times 

NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti Spotted in SilverStone Support Listedit

SilverStone’s latest PSU GPU support list includes a bunch of unannounced NVIDIA graphics cards, including the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3080 Ti. It’s unclear whether this is a typo or simply a guess on SS’s part, but we’ll just have to wait and see The RTX 3080 Ti won’t be launching anytime soon, and when it does it won’t be based on the same GA102 die as the RTX 3080 and 3090. We’re likely going to see a larger die, with the full-fledged chip representing a new Titan and a cut-down variant forming the RTX 3080 Ti.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale: Special Discount Offers On Laptopsedit

HP 15 Ryzen 3 Dual Core 3200U laptop is priced starting from Rs. 31,990 and features a 15.6-inch HD display with a backlit brightview panel. This laptop can be bought at a discount of 6%. Acer One 14 Pentium Dual Core is stylish and portable laptop that is available at 42% discount on Flipkart. This laptop feature a 14-inch HD LED TFT display, Windows 10 OS, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard drive disk.

Publication: Gizbot

This festive season, go for these electronic essentials on Flipkart for comfort, entertainment, and productivityedit

1. Acer Aspire 7 Core i5 9th Gen: The perfect device for gamers, this laptop Acer is equipped with the latest 9th Gen Intel Core CPU and NVIDIA graphics that boost your performance at both play and work. It has a 1 TB Solid State Drive (SSD) and 32 GB RAM, which lets you carry out tasks without falling short of storage or processing power.

Publication: Hindustan Times – HT Tech 

Four laptops weighing under 1.6 Kilogramsedit

One of the things you end up sacrificing while buying lightweight laptops is a good battery backup, and that’s what this Mi laptop solves. It is said to deliver 10 hours of battery backup on a single charge under optimal use. This makes it a great machine to work on the go. Moreover, it weighs just 1.35kg, making it even more convenient for frequent travellers. Under the hood, it has an 8GB RAM and a fast 512GB SSD, along with the flagship 10th Gen i7 processor. With such solid specs on paper, the laptop should be able to churn out good performance under most use-case scenarios.

Publication: Digit

AVITA LIBER V14 with 10th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 14-inch display launched: price in India, specsedit

AVITA LIBER V14 laptop has been launched in India as a Flipkart-exclusive laptop. The laptop comes with metal chassis for durability, anti-glare technology, and an optimal top-up 1MP web camera. AVITA Liber V14 specs include a 14-inch FHD display with 1,920 x 1,080 pixels resolution, 10th gen Intel Core processor coupled with Intel integrated UHD graphic, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD storage. The AVITA LIBER V14 is claimed to last up to 10 hours on a single charge and there is an extra-large precision touchpad that supports up to four-finger smart gestures.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Best gaming laptop deals on Amazon and flipkartedit

If you’re looking to pick up an AMD Ryzen based gaming laptop, the MSI Bravo 15 is definitely one you should consider very strongly. You get an all-AMD system, powered by the Ryzen 5 4600H processor mated with the AMD Radeon RX5500M GPU. The all-AMD component setup allows the MSI Bravo to leverage AMD’s SmartShift technology which squeezes out every last bit of gaming performance out of the system. The full HD display has a refresh rate of 144Hz and there’s also 16GB RAM and an adequately fast 512GB SSD. The MSI Bravo 15 is legitimately a great gaming laptop deal, one you should not miss.

Publication: Digit

Enable Ray-Tracing (RTX) in Almost Every Game w/ AMD Radeon GPUs Using this Modedit

NVIDIA might have popularized ray-tracing (at least the term) among the masses, but even now only a small percentage of gamers have access to the technology. The reason is rather straight-forward: RTX GPUs are quite expensive and not everyone can afford them. More than half of the gamers worldwide still use a GTX 1060-level graphics cards, with a target resolution of 1080p.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Lenovo Legion 5i laptop with over Rs 52,000 discount in Amazon sale is best deal for gamersedit

If you are a gamer and have been eyeing a laptop to play the high-end games, your wait might end today. Under the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale, there is a horde of deals on gaming laptops. These laptops come from brands such as Lenovo Legion, Asus TUF, and HP Omen. But we are not going to talk about all of them. We are picking one gaming laptop on which you will save the most.

Publication: India Today 

Want a productive work laptop? Get the new Dell Inspiron 5408 with 10th Gen Intel Ice Lake CPUsedit

Processor:10th Generation Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.6 GHz,4 cores). Memory & Storage: 8GB RAM Single. Channel DDR4 3200 MHz | 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive. Display:14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare Narrow. Border 300nits 72% NTSC WVA Display. Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics with the shared graphics memory or NVIDIA GeForce MX330 Graphics with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM

Publication: TechnoSports

Amazon sale Day 2: 5 gaming laptops with up to 40% off in Deal of the Dayedit

Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop with 15.6-inc Full HD+ screen is selling at a discounted price of Rs 65,990. The laptop offers 8GB RAM with 1TB HDD and 256GB SSD storage capacity.  It is Day 2 of the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale. If you are looking to buy a gaming laptop this festive season, then e-commerce platform Amazon has some deals for you. Laptops from brands like HP, Asus and others are available at up to 40% discount.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Dham, Paulraj call for urgent action on semicon and electronics techedit

Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.

Publication: The Times of India 

Embracing AI vital for future of work in India: Inteledit

Chip giant Intel on Thursday said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essential to the future of work in the post-pandemic world, with over 90 per cent respondents in a survey considering AI to be essential or highly relevant to their businesses in India. More than 40 per cent of small and micro revenue firms are using AI for decision support while in medium sized firms, nearly 50 per cent rely entirely on human decision-making as they still do not use AI, revealed the report by Intel India based on two surveys in the country.

Publication: Express Computers 

Dell Expects NVIDIA RTX 3080 to be back in Stock in Two Monthsedit

NVIDIA’s Ampere launch has been plagued by various issues, with limited supply and boost clock instability being the core problems. As per the company CEO, Jensen Huang, supply won’t be back to normal till the end of the year. In a recent reply to a consumer, a Dell representative shared the same sentiment. Replying to a customer from North America, the rep conceded that all the orders at present are backorders, and it’ll take another 45-60 days (about two months) for inventory to stabilize.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel’s Mobile CPU Market Share Expected to Drop Below 70% in 1H 2021edit

With AMD’s return to the mobile market, Intel has been struggling to keep its share of the pie. As per the latest reports from multiple sources, AMD presently holds around 20-25% of the mobile CPU market in Q3 2020, with Intel holding onto the rest of the 75%.  However, as per the latest report from Digitimes, analysts expect, that figure to drop below 70% in the first half of 2021. Intel’s latest Tiger Lake-U lineup has gotten a mixed response. The primary concern with Tiger Lake is that at the 15W TDP, it performs more or less on par with AMD’s existing Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” processors.

Publication: Hardware Times

Light up the festive season with ‘Sale Dhamaka’ on MSI’s laptop rangeedit

(Paid initiative) – With the onset of the festive season, MSI is all set to make Diwali even more exciting with great offers and huge discounts up to 35 percent on its product range. With discount upto 20 percent on Flipkart.com and Amazon.in, these series are powered by the latest 7nm Technology, up to AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800H Mobile Processors with Radeon™ RX 5500M Graphics. It helps the gamers experience the best and Encore with High Performance!

Publication: Business Standard 

Get AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT and RTX 2070 Super combo at ₹ 60k only on Amazon Great Indian Festivaledit

Looking to make a powerful gaming PC build? Looking for some great deals on CPUs and GPUs? Then AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA RTX is the combo you should definitely go for. Amazon’s Great Indian Festival is coming soon and will start today midnight for Prime members, so in this sale, you can actually get a combo of Ryzen 5 3600XT and RTX 2070 Super for just ₹ 60k.

Publication: TechnoSports

Best Laptops for students on a budgetedit

This Asus Vivobook variant is compact and lightweight, which should make it ideal for students to carry it around with ease. It has a 23.1-mm thin body that weighs just 1.6 kilograms. It runs on an AMD Quad Core Ryzen 5-3500U processor and is backed by an 8GB RAM and a fast 256GB SSD. Students can expect to get robust performances under most use cases. It has a 14-inch FHD display with 60Hz refresh rate, which will mean a decent gaming or video watching experience. Finally, it has a full-size Chiclet keyboard with 1.4mm key travel, which is considered good for typing.

Publication: Digit

Best Budget Laptops For Studentsedit

Powered by either Intel’s 8th Gen Core series or AMD’s Ryzen processor, the IdeaPad S340 combines the strengths of the IdeaPad 330 and IdeaPad 330S, making it a great choice of laptop for education. It’s the cheapest Lenovo laptop to sport a physical shutter for the webcam, meaning its also a well suited laptop for children. It’s a good laptop for engineering students and working professionals alike.

Publication: Digit

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PC System Requirements Revealededit

Common specifications across the board include 64-bit Windows 10, a GPU with support for DirectX 12, and 50GB free storage space (SSD recommended). Without further ado, here are the PC system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, via Ubisoft — Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PC minimum system requirements – CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1Ghz / Intel i5-4460 3.2Ghz. GPU: AMD R9 380 4GB / Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB. RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel mode)

Publication: Gadgets 360 

Best Laptops for students on a budgetedit

A laptop with above-average sound output in the budget-friendly category is a rarity, but this model from HP provides just that, through its inbuilt, dual, Bang & Olufsen powered speakers at the front. Furthermore, the laptop has a 14-inch HD display that uses Anti-Glare coating to reduce eye strain and let you use it comfortably for long hours. This Chromebook runs on an AMD Dual-Core A4-9120 processor and has all the basic software required by a student. You can expect a reliable performance across most user-case scenarios when used for school or college purposes.

Publication: Digit 

Asus ExpertBook P2 Review: Versatility for the workaholicedit

The ExpertBook P2 series is powered by the Intel Core i7 10510U processor. Couple that with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 512GB SSD drive and you have yourself a pretty snappy performer. Two customizable DIMM slots let you take the RAM up to a maximum of 32GB and the SSD storage to up to 1TB. For graphical processing, the laptop features the Nvidia GeForce MX110 graphic card.

Publication: BGR India 

Intel to officially launch its 14nm based Rocket Lake CPUs in Q1 of 2021edit

We have seen many rumours regarding Intel’s upcoming Rocket lake CPU, and it seems that the rumours are actually proving to be effective as last week the silicon manufacturer officially announced its Rocket Lake line-up. The new Rocket Lake family is said to debut in the first quarter of 2021 along with the support for PCIe Gen 4.0. this will be Intel’s long time entry in the desktop-grade CPUs after its Skylake.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel, ISB study looks at how AI will impact 106 occupationsedit

Deepa Mani, professor of information systems at ISB and who led the study, said to determine SML, they examined each occupation for its need for physical presence, human interaction, and the need to explain decisions during job execution. The team also surveyed 301 firms in India that have adopted AI/ML in their workflows. Over 90% of the respondents said AI is essential or highly relevant to their business. Nivruti Rai, country head of Intel India, said multiple studies have noted that GDPs of economies would go up significantly with the application of AI.

Publication: The Times of India 

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060: Which one is Faster? (PROACTIVE)edit

The conclusion is a no brainer. The Radeon RX 5600 XT wins by a decent margin. On top of that, it’s cheaper too. EVGA’s RTX 2060 KO Edition is only available in the US and is now going for $329. As for the vast majority of gamers, the RTX 2060 still costs nearly $350. AMD’s RX 5600 XT now starts at just $269 and all models come with 14Gbps memory and near-5700 level boost clocks. You just can’t go wrong here.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel DG2 Mobile GPU Lineup Specs Leak Out: Up to 512 EUs or 4,096 Coresedit

The DG2 lineup starts with 96EUs (identical to DG1) with 4GB of GDDR6 memory via a rather paltry 64-bit bus. This part has a TDP of 28W with a cTDP of up to 35W (expected). Above this, we’ve got a 128 EU variant with a TDP of 35W and an identical memory sub-system. At the top, you’ve got three more GPUs featuring 512, 385 and 256 EUs, respectively. The latter comes with a TDP of 60W (cTDP: 80W), 4 or 8GB of memory paired across a 128-bit bus.

Publication: Hardware Times 

NVIDIA DLSS Comes to Marvel’s Avengers and Wolfenstein: Youngbloodedit

The latest patch for Marvel Avengers and Wolfenstein: Youngblood also enables DLSS Ultra Performance mode for 8K gaming with the GeForce RTX 3090. The new update also includes additional optimizations that leverage the improved asynchronous compute capabilities of the GeForce RTX 30 Series. We’ve seen DLSS 2.0 show some fantastic results in boosting game performance, with reconstructed image quality being extremely close to native resolution.

Publication: TechQuila

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale offers: Best deals on gaming laptopsedit

Starting from gaming laptops, ASUS TUF gaming A15 laptop will get a price-cut of Rs. 35,000 and will be available at Rs. 62,990. This ASUS laptop comes bundled with AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor at 3.0 GHz along with GeForce GTX 1650 discrete GPU. While it can produce high frame rates for popular games, it can also load massive collection with SSD + HDD dual storage design.

Publication: Indian Express 

Microsoft Surface Pro X 2020 Is Now Available for Purchase Starting at Rs. 1,49,999edit

Less than two weeks after its launch, the Surface Pro X 2020 powered by Microsoft’s SQ2 processor has been made available for purchase in India. Microsoft had launched the Surface Pro X alongside the Surface Laptop Go earlier this month. The Surface Pro X 2020 has been priced at Rs. 1,49,999 for the 256GB variant, while the 512GB Microsoft Surface Pro X 2020 costs Rs. 1,78,999. The tablet comes in black and platinum finishes and offers 4G connectivity.

Publication: News18

Best Laptops Under 30000 In Indiaedit

If you are buying a laptop today and have a total budget of approximately Rs 30000, it would be unfair to expect the machine to do it all. however, if your needs are basic, day-to-day tasks like taking notes, researching for studies or looking up recipes while also getting in an episode or two of your show in, then a laptop under Rs 30,000 just might do the job for you. Wondering which are the best laptops under 30000? Well, we are here to help and this is our list of the best laptops at the Rs. 30,000 price point.

Publication: Digit

Dell Technologies introduces NVIDIA GPUs in the PowerEdge server portfolioedit

To meet the soaring industry demand for GPUs, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA have further built on to their relationship to bring smarter GPU acceleration platforms, as a part of Dell EMC PowerEdge server family. The broad selection of NVIDIA GPUs in the Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio will deliver unmatched acceleration to data-driven applications, resulting in generation of better insights and greater innovation.

Publication: CRN India

Intel, CBSE claim to set Guinness world records by delivering virtual AI lessons to 13,000 in 24 hoursedit

Intel and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) claim to have achieved a new Guinness World Records title for the most users to take an online artificial intelligence (AI) lesson in 24 hours. The record was set after delivering a virtual lesson focused on ‘demystifying the impact of AI and key considerations around it’ to 13,000 students from class 8 and above between October 13 and 14. The training was part of the ongoing AI For Youth Virtual Symposium organised by Intel and CBSE.

Publication: Indian Express 

Intel Gen12 Xe GPU Spotted with 1,536 Cores and 9.4GB VRAMedit

Just a few days after the 128CU Intel Xe GPU was spotted on SiSoft, another listing has surfaced, this time a much more powerful part. The part in question appears to a dual-GPU solution, with as many as 192 Execution Units or 1,536 shaders and 9.4GB memory. It’s unlikely that we’re looking at an MCM design with just 192 EUs, so this is likely a compute accelerator. It has an operating clock of 1.25GHz, with 2MB of L2 cache and a TDP of just 50W (could be an error). SiSift classifies this as a Tiger Lake-U part, but as of now, we don’t know of any TGU-U SKU with this many GPU cores.

Publication: Hardware Times 

ASUS ZenBook Flip S UX371 Overviewedit

The new ZenBook is powered by the Core i7-1165G7 processor, the second-fastest in the Intel Tiger Lake-U lineup. It has a base clock speed of 1.2GHz and a maximum boost of 4.7GHz. It packs 12MB of L3 cache to feed the fast four cores on the chip. Having such a high performing processor is almost like winning a jackpot at a reputed platform like JackpotCity online casino! The ZenBook Flip S UX371 comes with 16GB of LPDDR4X-4266 RAM. Unfortunately, the RAM here is directly soldered to the motherboard; so it can’t be removed or upgraded. As for the storage, it comes with an M.2 2280 PCI Express 3.0 NVMe SSD (ranging from 256GB to 1TB).

Publication: Hardware Times 

Zotac RTX 3080 Trinity Review: This Should Be Your GPU For Next-Gen PC Gamingedit

The Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity is priced at Rs. 69,990, the same as the Founders Edition at launch and offers the same super-fast 4K gaming performance on recent games like Control and Death Stranding. The main difference between the Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity and Founder’s Edition at least from the outside is the triple-fan cooling system on the former GPU.

Publication: MensXp

Killing It by Killing Bezels: MSI ups the Gaming Notebook Gameedit

Another thin and yet powerful customer is the GF65 notebook. It too features very slim bezels (4.9 mm again) around a 15.6-inch display with a 144 Hz refresh rate designed to deliver the best graphics you will get to see on any mobile display. Powering it is an Intel i7-9750H (9th generation processor) with DDR4-2666 memory and upping the gaming ante is the presence of the new RTX and GTX 16 series of GeForce graphics processors. Ensuring it keeps its be cool is the presence of up to 6 heat pipes on the GF65 and the Cooler Boost 5, while Dragon Center 2.0 lets you customise and monitor your notebook’s performance as per your needs.

Publication: India Today  

The 100 most sustainably managed companies in the worldedit

Hardware makers like Sony are the most common type of businesses found in the WSJ sustainability ranking, claiming 18 positions in the top 100 list. Hardware companies tend to focus on business areas that our sustainability-management measures weigh heavily, such as supply chain, materials sourcing and efficiency, and product design and life cycle. The next most heavily represented group, chemical makers, with 10 spots, includes Arkema SA and Solvay SA. Semiconductor makers such as Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. took seven spots.

Publication: Livemint

Intel AI Centre at Work on Tools to Cut Road Mishapsedit

Intel India has set up an applied AI research centre jointly with the Telangana state government, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). The research centre would focus on image recognition classification and healthcare data processing, Rai said. Intel and IIIT-Hyderabad collaborated to build the world’s first open dataset of driving conditions in India and launched it globally in 2018.

Publication: The Economic Times 

NVIDIA Vouches To Accelerate AI-Led Medical Innovations. But How?edit

In the recent Nvidia GCT event, where the company announced some exciting developments to boost various industries, the pharmaceutical domain is not left behind. As Jensen Huang, the co-founder and CEO, noted in his keynote speech, understanding disease is one of the biggest challenges. Despite years of research and billions of dollars spent on drug discovery, 90% of the efforts fail. The COVID-19 situation has further thrown a curveball at the pharma industry.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine 

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 Review: The future evolvededit

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 features the top-of-the-line hardware as mentioned above. In addition, Asus has also opted to use Liquid metal to reinforce the thermal solution on the laptop. We first saw this solution on the Zephyrus S15, and S17 laptops. Even though our model did not feature the absolute best including Intel Core i9 and the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super; it did not really matter. This is because both the thermal design as well as the included hardware was sufficient to offer great performance.

Publication: BGR India

 

Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7i Carbon is a lightweight notebook powered by 11th Gen Intel Core processorsedit

Lenovo is bringing its Yoga Slim 7i Carbon to India, a notebook that weighs at just 996 grams. The ultralightweight notebook uses Lenovo’s second-generation proprietary fibre material technology that reduces material weight by up to 40 per cent while still maintaining durability. It is powered by either an Intel 11th Gen Core i5 or i7 with Intel’s new Iris Xe integrated graphics, the Yoga Slim 7i Carbon with up to 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM and a 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD.

Publication: Indian Express 

Intel partners with Telangana govt to launch applied AI research centreedit

Intel India has collaborated with the Government of Telangana, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to launch INAI, an applied artificial intelligence research centre in Hyderabad. INAI is an initiative that applies AI to population-scale problems in the Indian context, with a focus on identifying and solving challenges in the healthcare and smart mobility segments through strong ecosystem collaboration.

Publication: Business Standard 

Intel India to focus on AI for fixing human centric issuesedit

Intel India is focussing on human-centric artificial intelligence (AI) for solving problems in the healthcare and smart mobility segments, Nivruti Rai, country head, Intel India, said at the ongoing all.ai 2020 virtual summit. India will need to leverage its talent, technology and intellectual property (IP), data sets, and work on building bias-free policies to build the AI capabilities needed to solve the unique problems of the country, Rai said.

Publication: Livemint

AMD Radeon Big Navi vs NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 in 4K Gaming Benchmarksedit

After the Ryzen 5000 announcement yesterday, AMD also showed us a sneak peek of its upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series, with the performance figures at 4K in a few titles. There’s one red flag here, specifically with respect to ray-tracing. Although we know that AMD will support ray-tracing with RDNA 2, no performance figures have been shown. Neither do we know how it will be implemented. Will the BVH traversal and ray/box-intersecting be offloaded to the dedicated units or will some of it be handled by the shaders as indicated by certain sources.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Demand for NVIDIA GPUs will Become Flat by Mid-2021: Analystsedit

NVIDIA’s had a strong year and will continue with its momentum till at least mid-2021. The company’s stock price has soared by an impressive 134% since the beginning of the year and will likely grow further in the coming months. At the same time though, there are some analysts who are wary of Team Green’s position. As per the representative of New Street Research, the peak demand for NVIDIA’s latest GPUs and Data Center products will pass in the next six months, followed by a drop in the company’s stock value to approximately $400.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel expands 5G networking solutions in a $25 billion marketedit

Eying a bigger pie of the growing 5G networking market, chip giant Intel has announced an expanded lineup of hardware, software and solutions for network infrastructure. As the telecommunications industry transitions to 5G, the next wave of network transformation represents a $25 billion silicon opportunity by 2023. “When you consider the collective impact of the proliferation of fully virtualized cloud architectures combined with the commercialization of 5G, the rise of AI and the growth of the edge, it truly has a multiplier effect that makes each more impactful than it would be on its own,” said Dan Rodriguez, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Network Platforms Group.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

How AMD Is Using Its Ryzen Mobile Processors To Cope With A Changing World (PROACTIVE)edit

Vinay Sinha: The most noticeable difference here is our selection of core count (up to 8 cores in mobile vs. up to 16 in desktop) as well as our L3 cache size (8 MB in mobile vs. up to 64 MB in desktop computer). Using a monolithic design in laptop applications has saved energy and space. Sticking with PCIe 3.0 and understanding that PCIe 3.0’s bandwidth is still sufficient for laptop use cases is another key decision that saves power. Finally, integrating LPDDR4X support into our laptop portfolio was another way to manage power at the SoC level and from a “whole system” perspective.

Publication: The Bharat Express 

AMD Has New Rizen 5000 Series Processors, But Do They Beat Intel’s 10th Gen CPUs On Clock Speeds? (PROACTIVE)edit

The four new CPUs announced by AMD are the top-of-the-line Ryzen Ryzen 9 5950X with 16 cores and a max speed of 4.9GHZ priced at $799 (roughly Rs. 58,450), the Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores, 32 threads, and a max boost speed of 4.8GHZ, priced at $549 (roughly Rs. 40,160), the Ryzen 7 5800X with eight cores, 16 threads, and a max boost speed of 4.7GHz, priced at $449 (roughly Rs. 32,850), and a $299 (roughly Rs. 21,900) Ryzen 5 5600X with six cores, 12 threads, and a max boost speed of 4.6GHz.

Publication: News18 

A Question of Balanceedit

The MSI Prestige 14 A10RAS is a premium Windows 10 laptop and is in the territory of Macbooks in terms of pricing. It is targeted at content creators. The design will not attract gamers anyway. However, it is hard to differentiate the requirements of both these groups.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Best Budget Gaming Laptops with 120Hz screen (PROACTIVE)edit

Here is a gaming laptop from Asus that is light in weight, which is a feature that is not so common in this segment. It weighs just 1.6kg, which should make it an easily portable device. The laptop has a 14-inch FHD display that supports refresh rates up to 120Hz, enabling you to enjoy games with high-octane action sequences in a stutter-free manner. The dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4GB VRAM Graphics should further improve the quality of the visual output.

Publication: Digit

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 processors, claims they beat Intel Core CPUs on every count (PROACTIVE)edit

Chip maker AMD has announced its much-awaited Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops. The first chips to use the next-gen Zen 3 architecture from the company, the new 5000 series chips promise massive performance gains over their predecessors. Under the series, the company has launched multiple CPUs, one of which is the 5900X processor, which according to AMD is the “world’s best gaming CPU”.

Publication: India Today 

Intel’s Arizona Fab 42 site ready and operationaledit

Last week Intel announced that its much anticipated Fab 42 has successfully started operating. The facility started manufacturing processors using the silicon giant’s latest 10nm process technology. Fab 42 is intel’s third facility to use the company’s latest node to manufacture its new wafers. The successful operations of the new Fab will significantly increase intel’s manufacturing rate to deliver its latest products in the market.

Publication: TechnoSports

Qualcomm to reportedly partner with Asus for making its own gaming smartphoneedit

Qualcomm recently sent out invites for its upcoming event that is to take place this December. The brand is set to unveil its newest Snapdragon series processors at the event, the highlight of which will be the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 875, based on 5nm architecture. Now, as per a new report by DigiTimes, via GSMarena, Qualcomm is also likely to announce its first-ever dedicated gaming smartphone around the same time.

Publication: BGR

Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs confirmed, will launch in Q1 2021edit

Intel has confirmed its 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop-class CPUs. The powerful processors will be launched sometime in the first quarter of 2021 and will come with features such as PCIe 4.0 on board.

Publication: India Today

Arm exec says ‘firewalls’ will protect customer info after Nvidia dealedit

If Nvidia Corp NVDA.O buys Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group Corp 9984.T, Arm will keep “firewalls” in place to ensure the data center chip company does not access confidential information from Arm’s customers or get early access to Arm’s products, a top Arm executive told Reuters on Tuesday.

Publication: Reuters

Asus ROG Zephyrus M15 (2020) Review: A portable gaming laptop that makes no compromise on poweredit

The new upgrade to the 10th Gen Intel processor offers a marginal increment in performance over its 9th Gen predecessor. In Cinebench R15, the Intel processor on the Zephyrus M15 managed 1,410 points in the multi-core test. For comparison, the Zephyrus G14 with the AMD Ryzen 4800H managed a 1,846 multi-core score, which does suggest an incremental increase in performance.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Jensen Huang admits the fact that Ampere GPU shortages can prevail till 2021edit

The graphics giant’s RTX 30-series has been well received by the fans in terms of improvements and performance. However, one thing is to be noted is that people have shown maximum outrage against NVIDIA due to its shortage in stocks for both the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

NVIDIA Announces India’s Fastest HPC-AI Supercomputer PARAM Siddhi – AIedit

NVIDIA has announced that the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will commission India’s largest HPC-AI supercomputer — ‘PARAM Siddhi – AI.’

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

Nvidia lays out plan to create new kind of data center chipedit

Nvidia lays out plan to create new kind of data center chip Nvidia chips have long been used to improve video game graphics, but in recent years they have helped to speed up artificial intelligence tasks such as image recognition.

Publication: GadgetsNow

Intel vs AMD Ryzen: Best CPUs for Gaming in 2020 [October Update] (PROACTIVE)edit

The Ryzen 5 3600 is an incredibly attractive mid-range CPU regardless of your workloads. It’s on par with the Core i5-10400 in most games and as fast as the 10600K in everything else. However, at present, Amazon is selling the 3600X for just $215 which is a very decent price for 5-10% more performance and additional overclocking headroom.

Publication: Hardware Times

Nvidia Maxine aims to fix common problems with video conferencesedit

Nvidia has introduced a new platform that can significantly enhance the videoconferencing experience for users. Called Nvidia Maxine, the platform gives developers access to a cloud-native solution that is powered by Artificial Intelligence. The solution allows developers to enable AI effects to add face alignment, gaze correction, improved resolution, and even noise cancelling during a video call.

Publication: HT Tech

Nvidia Offers U.K. Covid Supercomputer While Waiting on Arm Dealedit

NVIDIA Corp. will attempt to build the U.K.’s most powerful computer to help the fight against Covid-19 while it seeks government approval to buy Britain’s biggest tech company, Arm. The $50 million supercomputer will offer artificial intelligence for health care research, the U.S. semiconductor giant said Monday. Nvidia will also contribute computer scientists and additional processing power to help GlaxoSmithKline Plc speed up drug discovery as the world chases a coronavirus vaccine.

Publication: BloombergQuint

Games To Test The Might Of The NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPUedit

During the launch of the NVIDIA RTX 30 series GPU, the company promised to deliver twice the performance over the previous generation Turing architecture with competitive pricing. In our review of the RTX 3080, we said, “The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 easily beats the RTX 2080 across all games and synthetic benchmarks by about 30-70 per cent. In some titles, it even goes ham and achieves 2x the performance”.

Publication: Digit

Top 10 Announcements From NVIDIA GTC 2020 Eventedit

Today, NVIDIA kicks off its flagship event, NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020 with a number of significant announcements and updates. This year the conference will be held virtually, and like every year, it started with a keynote speech of Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA from his kitchen.

Publication: Analytics Insight India

Google, upGrad, Intel, Microsoft, and other tech companies looking to hire senior software engineersedit

The COVID-19 pandemic may have had a cascading effect across sectors, but software engineers’ demand in tech companies has only increased. Thousands of businesses are dependent heavily on a high-end tech solution to operate remotely. Tech giants, including Google, Intel, and Microsoft, have slowly resumed their hiring processes to keep up with the demand.

Publication: Business Insider India

Intel wins second phase of contract to help Pentagon develop chipsedit

Intel Corp has said it has won a second-phase contract in a project aimed at helping the US military make more advanced semiconductors within the United States.

Publication: GadgetsNow

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPUs spottededit

NVIDIA, this time will be launching its mid-range GPUs based on its latest Ampere architecture sooner than expected. Mostly this is because of the new Xbox and PlayStations along with the much anticipated AMD’s RDNA 2 based GPUs launching at the end of October.

Publication: TechnoSports

The future is hereedit

Sony and Microsoft are launching new gaming consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X respectively, in India later this year. Graphics technology pioneers Nvidia and AMD are both bringing their latest PC gaming technologies to the market, giving gamers a glimpse into the future of gaming graphics.

Publication: India Today

Intel expands 5G networking solutions in $25bn marketedit

Eyeing a bigger pie of the growing 5G networking market, chip giant Intel has announced an expanded line- up of hardware, software and solutions for network infra- structure. As the telecommunications industry transitions to 5G, the next wave of network transformation represents a $25 billion silicon opportunity by 2023.

Publication: The Pioneer

Dell Announces New XPS 13 Series of Laptops With Intel’s Tiger Lake Processoredit

Dell has announced an update to its XPS 13 laptops, the standard XPS 13 and the XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop. Both the new laptops will be made available in the US and Canada starting October 1, the company announced.

Publication: News18

Breaking the boundaries of performance for thin & light laptops with the latest 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors (Sponsored)edit

The new 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family surpasses everything in its class — with major advances in every area that matters to you. 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors bring together industry-leading CPU performance, immersive graphics, amazing AI acceleration, and best-in-class wired and wireless connectivity1 to help you focus, create, and engage at new levels.

Publication: HT Brand Studio

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 2 is the company’s Intel Evo and Dolby Vision certified notebookedit

The release of Intel’s new 11th Generation CPUs has prompted Lenovo to upgrade many of its previous models with the latest silicon tech. the company has also decided to launch many new notebooks, not only with Intel’s Tiger Lake but also with AMD’s Ryzen 4000U processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 and E15 Gen 2 finally comes with Tiger Lake and an updated displayedit

The latest Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 was released with AMD Ryzen 4000 which was a massive power booster for the notebooks. The new ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 and E15 Gen 2 comes with the latest Intel Tiger Lake CPU. The company has decided to move from AMD to Intel with this upgrade.

Publication: TechnoSports

RTX 3060 Ti May Be Coming After RTX 3070 Launch, Spoiling AMD’s RX 6000 Launch Partyedit

NVIDIA’s latest Ampere architecture that is behind the new RTX 3000 series GPUs may spawn a fourth model as soon as October, with a potential RTX 3060 Ti. After prior leaks that we have come across as well, sources close to multiple major tech news outlets have leaked newer info, and there is an expectation for the RTX 3060 Ti to be announced by the time the 3070 is released, which is slated to be on 15th October. We also have comparative specifications to see how it would stack up against the other announced RTX 3000 GPU’s as well.

Publication: TechQuila DailyHunt

VMware, Nvidia partner to bring AI, Hybrid Cloud to enterprisesedit

Enterprise software major VMware and graphics giant Nvidia have to make VMware’s software for managing data centres work seamlessly with Nvidia’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips. The collaboration is to deliver both an end-to-end enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data centre, cloud and edge that uses Nvidia DPUs (data processing units) to support existing and next-generation applications.

Publication: Telangana Today

Intel announces partnership with LightBits Labs for better storage projectsedit

Intel Corporation and Lightbits Labs announced they would collaborate on developing new “disaggregated storage solutions” for data centers. This announcement came on Tuesday, where the companies expressed their objective to solve the challenges of today’s data center operators who are craving improved total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) due to stranded disk capacity and performance amid the pandemic.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Beyond the spec sheet: Don’t miss these things when buying a gaming laptopedit

Intel is a trusted name when it comes to computer processors and their 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors make for an enticing prospect for buyers. Not only does it pack some top-notch tech, but it has been designed to work with a variety of applications including the latest games such as Crystal Dynamics’ new superhero title, Marvel’s Avengers.

Publication: Digit

IIT Jodhpur Receives NVIDIA DGX A100 AI System in Indiaedit

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IITJ) today announced the installation of two NVIDIA DGX A100 systems at the Central Computing Facility for students from all departments, including the School of AI and Data Science, making IITJ  the first Academic recipient of this industry-leading AI platform in India. The DGX A100 infrastructure will be an integral resource for every department and curriculum at IIT Jodhpur since AI and analytics are essential curricular components across programs of IIT Jodhpur.

Publication: Businesswire India

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Dell Technologies shares three server trends for enterprisesedit

Businesses across sectors have been impacted gravely in the current times. While some found it slightly easy to transition to remote working, for others, this overnight digitization journey was a difficult decision due to factors like financial resources, IT readiness etc. However, as organizations across the board have been trying to stay competitive in a dynamic market, they realized that IT is an essential backbone that will make them successful in their digital transformation journey.

Publication: CRN India 

Acer Launches 5 New Laptops in Swift and Aspire Lineup — All Featuring Intel’s 11th Gen SoCsedit

Acer has been at the forefront when it comes to value-for-money laptops for home & office with its up-to date hardware and evolutionary design. With Intel rolling out its 11th Generation Core processors, Acer went all out to become the first in India to introduce laptops with the latest Intel hardware. Acer has introduced the new updated 11th Generation Core processors into 5 new laptops — Swift 5, Swift 3X, Swift 3 (13.5″ & 14″) and Aspire 5.

Publication: TechQuila

ASUS Announces ROG Strix and TUF Gaming AMD Radeon(TM) RX 6800 Series Graphics Cardsedit

ASUS today announced a new lineup of ROG Strix and TUF Gaming AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series graphics cards. The new AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series and the underlying RDNA™ 2 GPU gaming architecture herald a new era of Radeon™ graphics power. To get the most out of these exciting new GPUs, ASUS engineers have been hard at work developing ROG Strix and TUF Gaming graphics cards that deliver the high performance, low temperatures and quiet operation that enthusiasts expect.

Publication: IT News Online

Here are the best laptops across price ranges in India (PROACTIVE)edit

In this price range, the ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DT is a good choice as it offers a lot of features that you may find in other more expensive laptops. It is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H quad-core processor, and 16GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM, which is upgradeable up to 32GB. As for storage, there’s a 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD and an empty slot for a 2.5-inch SATA drive.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Acer launches five new laptops with 11th Gen Intel Core processors, price starts Rs 54,999edit

Acer has launched five new laptops — the Aspire 5, Swift 3 (two variants), Swift 3X, Swift 5 and Aspire 5 –in India with 11th Gen Intel Core processors. The Acer Aspire 5 comes at a starting price of Rs 54,999. The Acer Swift 3 laptop price starts from Rs 67,999 while the Acer Swift 3X starts at Rs 79,999. The Acer Swift 5 comes at a starting price of Rs 79,999.

Publication: The Times of India 

Dell Technologies enhances Dell EMC PowerMax for high-end storage for Indian Businessesedit

As the data era revolutionizes the way businesses work and operate, IT transformation is critical to gaining a competitive edge. Technological innovations like artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and cloud are the driving forces behind rapid data growth, disrupting traditional business models, further adding to the overall IT complexity. To address these paradigm shifts, businesses have realized the need for new generation of enterprise storage that provides unparalleled performance without compromise.

Publication: CRN India 

Top 5 Laptops under Rs 40,000 for day-to-day usageedit

Priced at Rs 32,189 on Amazon, Lenovo IdeaPad S145 has a 15.6 FHD display and is powered by AMD Ryzen 3 3200U. It comes with Pre-Loaded Windows 10 Home with Lifetime Validity. It is paired with 8GB RAM DDR4 (4GB+4GB) which is Upgradable up to 12GB and has 256GB SSD storage. It has integrated AMD Radeon Graphics and is currently selling as a combo in which even a Lenovo backpack is included along with the laptop.

Publication: The Mobile Indian 

Apple to use TSMC’s enhanced 5nm technology for the A15 chipsetedit

Reports have it that Apple is working on developing a new generation of A15 series processors and will be using TSMC’s enhanced 5nm version (N5P) process for it. Reports also state that production is going to begin by the third quarter of 2021. As per the GizChina report, TSMC’s EUV lithography technology is in mass production and the process covers the 7+ nanometers, 6 nanometers and 5 nanometers. Industry sources said that TSMC 7+ nanometers use upto four EUV mask layers.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

PC Build for Next Generation of Games! (PROACTIVE)edit

For the GPU we’ve got options from Team Red and Team Green. AMD’s RX 5700XT has a great price to performance ratio which competes against the RTX 2070 Super. It’s got enough juice to easily play games at 1440p60fps on High Settings with a bit of headroom. Now if you want to wait for a bit, you can also get the upcoming Big Navi GPU from AMD which will be part of the RX 6000 Series that aims to take on the RTX 3080. And given the performance of the RX 5700XT, the Big Navi GPU is bound to easily do 1440p and maybe even 4K.

Publication: TechGoggles

 

COVID-19 spurring digital adoption’edit

“Ten months ago, few of us had ever heard of coronavirus. Now, just about every aspect of our lives has been upended. There is a heartbreaking story of lives lost, shuttered businesses, and rising unemployment. In that moment, the global economy has pivoted and the stories of passion and resilience have been inspiring,” said Mr. Dell, founder of the eponymous IT company. “Technology has never been more central than it is right now.”

Publication: The Hindu 

Dell Latitude 9510 2-in-1 Laptop Review: A Premium Business Laptop For Those Always On The Goedit

The Dell Latitude is a business-grade laptop and is not really meant for content creators or gaming enthusiasts. Hence, there’s no dedicated GPU here which is definitely a bit of a bummer. The base model of the laptop comes with an Intel Core i5-10310U processor but we had the top-end model which is powered by the Intel Core i7-10810U processor. Obviously, the processor is vPro capable. Accompanying the processor is 16GB of 2133 MHz LPDDR3 RAM and an M.2 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD. It’s safe to say that the laptop is plenty powerful for most business-related applications and it’s going to take a lot to bog it down.

Publication: Mashable

[Studio 91] Sudhir Goel from Acer India on how laptop brands are tackling the ‘new normal’edit

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Studio 91. This is a new series of conversations with brands, covering everything from details on new products to how they’re dealing with the changing competitive landscape, tackling the so-called ‘new normal’, shifting strategy to reach out to consumers and more. As the first in the series, we have a chat with Mr Sudhir Goel, Chief Business Officer, Acer India on how things have changed in the recent few months for the consumer laptop segment in India. Goel makes some very interesting points, especially on how user behaviour has changed in recent months. The full conversation is embedded below, followed by a few key highlights from the discussion.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

The New Dell G7 15 Makes its Debut in Indiaedit

Powered by the latest 10th Gen Intel Core CPUs with up to i9 and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX graphic card, the gameplay experience is enhanced with a precision glass trackpad. The discrete “Game Shift” macro key in G7 instantly activates the pro- cessors and cooling system into a hyper-perfor- mance mode for heavy action scenes.

Publication: CellIT

ASUS announces entry into Commercial PC market in Indiaedit

ASUS Expert Series of Commercial PCs are designed to up the professional standard of enterprise and businesses. Fast-growing businesses encounter challenging IT needs, and these demands evolve rapidly. That is why all ASUS Expert Series commercial products are designed with quality, reliability, and flexibility to meet these challenges with the ultimate objective of increasing productivity returns for businesses’ IT investments. ASUS Expert Series provide unmatched technology, performance, durability, and design for Business and Professional use. Hence the ASUS ExpertSeries is powered by Intel® Core™processors.

Publication: CellIT

Lenovo Legion 7i review: Good choice for gamers and creatorsedit

The pandemic has changed our habits and lifestyle drastically. We are become glued to our gadgets, especially phones and laptops, more than ever. The line between professional and personal lives have thinned, so much so that there is a big overlap. And I think these gadgets have become more helpful, specifically because besides working, people are binge-watching and gaming on them. As such, gaming laptops are all the rage right now. Leading PC makers are getting more serious about them, even if it involves selling these laptops for affordable prices that were never mainstream earlier.

Publication: India Today 

Asus ROG Strix G15 review: The best-looking gaming laptop for its price, and moreedit

Asus added two new laptops in its ROG Strix series with 10th gen Intel Core chipsets. The ROG Strix G15 and G17 come with up to 10th Intel Core i7, and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060. For its price, the Asus ROG Strix G15 performs as expected. The lighting strip does add that extra flair to the laptop but without being tacky. The ROG Strix G15 sits in a category of gaming laptops between a budget and a premium one. Given all these factors, the ROG Strix G15 is definitely one of the best options you can get in this category.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Dell XPS 13 Intel Core i7 Reviewedit

The Dell XPS 13 is a masterclass in building a thin and light laptop that doesn’t compromise on the quality of the materials. The use of exotic materials isn’t for show, but instead, to actually lend to both good looks and a sturdy build quality. You don’t buy the Dell XPS 13 becuse you’re looking for a performance beast. You buy the Dell XPS 13 when you know you want the thinnest, best looking laptop in the category that also outperforms the competition.

Publication: Digit

Avita Essential Laptop with Intel Celeron N4000 Processor Debuts in India, Priced at Rs. 17,990edit

The Avita Essential laptop sports a 14-inch full-HD (1,080×1,920 pixels) IPS display with 16:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, it is powered by the Intel Celeron N4000 processor and the graphics are handled by Intel UHD Graphics 600. It runs Windows 10 Home in S mode out-of-the-box which is a more “streamlined” version of Windows 10. With the Avita Essential laptop, users will get 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 128GB of SSD SATA M.2 storage.

Publication: Network 18 

Avita Liber V R7 Laptop with Ryzen 7 3700U Processor, 8GB RAM Launched on Amazonedit

The Avita Liber V R7 packs a 14-inch Full HD panel with a narrow-bezel design that offers a screen-to-body ratio of 78.2%. It is also said to offer a 178-degree field of view. For graphics, the laptop offers AMD’s own Radeon RX Vega 10. In terms of storage, the laptop offers a 512GB SSD. In terms of connectivity, the Liber V R7 offers one USB, 3.0, USB 2.0, US 3.0 Type-C and a MicroSD port each. Other features include two 1W speakers, dual-microphones, and Bluetooth 4.2. Avita also claims that the laptop offers an 8-hour long battery life.

Publication: Digit

Dell G5 15 SE Review: You Really Are Better Off Spending Your Money On An HP Omen 15 Gaming Laptop (PROACTIVE)edit

Yes this has a fast 512GB SSD and it has a bunch of AMD functionality to improve performance, but the RAM section on the spec sheet is a turn off and that’s how it proves to be in the real world as well. The AMD SmartShift technology works in the background to manage the task allocation between the processor and the graphics to keep the performance stable while gaming. This, from what I understand, remains active and there is no way to turn this off. Not that you would want to either.

Publication: Network 18 

AMD’s upcoming EPYC Zen 3 based processor will power the LUMI supercomputeredit

AMD’s next-generation Zen 2 and Zen 3 based processors are all set to debut their desktop-grade and server-grade CPU market. However, reports have arrived stating that AMD is all set to debut its next-gen EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs in the Large Unified Modern Infrastructure supercomputer Kajaani, Finland. HP or Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the manufacturing of the LUMI supercomputer. The machine will be using the company’s HPE Cray EX architecture to deliver more than half the Exaflops of performance. The supercomputer is based in Finland and will be fully operational by late 2021.

Publication: TechnoSports

Able workhouse – Honor Magicbook 15edit

Honor has launched Honor Magicbook 15, its first notebook in India. The laptop is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U mobile processor and packs 8GB RAM. Aimed to cater to the demand of work-based laptops, it comes with features like USB Type-C charger, two-in-one power button and a pop-up web camera.

Publication: ET Panache 

HP launches Two new monitors for content developersedit

HP is looking to walk the path of innovations and adapting the technology of the future. We already know that the computer manufacturer is building a Supercomputer in Finland and it will be ready by 2021. The supercomputer called LUMI being built by HP will also feature AMD’s next-generation Zen 3 based EPYC CPUs. The company believes that creators need to adapt to hybrid environments and needs access to cutting edge technologies. It has announced its latest innovations in its HP Create Ecosystem, which are developed to increase creators’ productivity during the pandemic.

Publication: TechnoSports

Acer Products To Focus On Adapting To The New Norm — Jerry Kaoedit

Just after the presentation, I had an opportunity to interact with Acer Co-Chief Operating Officer and President, IT Products Business Jerry Kao, and James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, IT Products Business. So, here is a summary of our interaction regarding the Acer products. When I asked about AMD CPU based gaming laptops from Acer, James Lin said that the company works closely with AMD and the company also confirmed if the user demands a gaming laptop with an AMD CPU, the company will definitely launch a laptop with an AMD CPU.

Publication: Gizbot

5 best laptops with long-lasting battery life that you can buy in India (PROACTIVE)edit

The ASUS ZenBook 14 is an excellent choice for travelling professionals who need a laptop that can last all day long. This laptop comes with a 67Whr 4-cell Lithium polymer battery that can deliver up to 22 hours of battery life from a single charge. It runs Windows 10 Home and weighs 1.26 kg. It is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor, which is coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD. The laptop features a 14-inch LED-backlit IPS full-HD display with slim bezels and 100 percent sRGB coverage.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Acer launches world’s 1st Snapdragon 7c powered Chromebookedit

Acer has launched its first Chromebooks powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c compute platform – the Acer Chromebook Spin 513 and Acer Chromebook Enterprise Spin 513. The 513 will be available in North America in February 2021 starting at $399.99; the Enterprise Spin 513 is coming in March 2021 starting at $699.99. “With optional 4G LTE and barely larger than a sheet of paper, this ultra-portable and stylish 2-in-1 Chromebook allows users to flow seamlessly between work, home, and passion projects,” the company said in a statement.

Publication: ET Telecom 

Affordable gaming gets aggressive with the powerful GF Series by MSI: 5 Features to watch out foredit

In the last few years, the gaming industry has evolved at a break-neck speed. In fact, a report* by Investopedia suggests that there are over two billion gamers across the world, which is about 26% of the world’s population! Thus, it’s no surprise that companies across the world are investing their bucks on developing gaming laptops that can make virtual worlds more lifelike for gamers. By integrating the latest technology, gaming laptops now come with a slew of features like gesture control, voice and face recognition, high frame rates, VR and AR, and flawless graphics.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7: Five Reasons Why You Should Buy This Lenovo Laptopedit

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i has been updated for 2020 with the latest Intel 10th Gen processors. After using the laptop for two weeks, it comes across as a great work-from-home companion for a lightweight Windows ultrabook. The Yoga Slim 7i starts at Rs 78,490 for the base variant with an Intel Core i5 processor paired to 512GB RAM and NVIDIA MX350 GPU. We list five reasons as to why we think you should get the Lenovo laptop as soon as possible. For our full review, head over to BGR India for the written review.

Publication: BGR India 

Porsche Design Acer Book RS luxury laptop powered by 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor unveilededit

The Taiwan-based electronics major Ace at its next@acer event announced its collaboration with the German carmaker Porsche Design by introducing a new laptop in the market. Porsche Design Acer Book RS is the company luxury laptop that will come with high-end technologies with minimalist design elements. The high-end notebook has an all-metal chassis powered by 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU.

Publication: Gadgets Bridge 

Acer announces its new consumer notebooks under Swift, Spin and Aspire seriesedit

Acer has expanded its consumer Notebook lineup with the launch of new Swift, Spin and Aspire series laptops globally at its Next@Acer event. The entire lineup now comes with Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors with Intel Xe graphics and thin and lightweight design. Acer Swift 3X: Price, features and more The price of Acer Swift 3X (SF314-510G) starts at $899.99 and will be available in North America from December onwards. The new Swift 3X is a thin and light laptop that weighs just 1.37kg and are signed for creative professionals.

Publication: The Times of India 

Lenovo unveils new Yoga line-up powered by Intel’s 11th Gen processorsedit

The upcoming Lenovo Yoga 14s will have two variants. One will be powered by an Intel Tiger Lake and the other by an AMD Ryzen 4000 processor. The first variant comes with the Intel’s Core i5-1135G7 along with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. The second variant sports the same 16GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage configuration as its counterpart, but AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800H processor powers the machine. Both laptops feature a 2.8K resolution 14-inch display with a refresh rate of 90Hz.

Publication: TechnoSports

Dell Technologies Project APEX Accelerates As-A-Service Strategyedit

Dell Technologies expands its as-a-Service capabilities with Project APEX to simplify how customers and partners access Dell technology on-demand—across storage, servers, networking, hyper-converged infrastructure, PCs and broader solutions. Project APEX will unify the company’s as-a-Service and cloud strategies, technology offerings, and go-to-market efforts. Businesses will have a consistent as-a-Service experience wherever they run workloads including on-premises, edge locations and public clouds.

Publication: BWCIO

US Govt Anti-Trust Case Against Google Mirrors Microsoft Battleedit

The specifics of the Justice Department action, legal experts said, strongly echo the last major antitrust case against a big technology company, Microsoft. That suit, filed in 1998, claimed Microsoft was using its gatekeeper power as the owner of a dominant personal computer operating system, Windows, to block the potential threat from internet browsing software. The Justice Department accused Microsoft of using restrictive contracts with PC makers and others to inhibit the distribution of the software of Netscape Communications, the commercial pioneer in the browser market.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Acer launches new Chromebooks, laptops, speaker and monitors: Details hereedit

At its global event, Acer today unveiled a bunch of new laptops along with Chromebooks, new monitors and even a smart speaker for the market. The list includes products like Acer Swift 3X laptop, Predator-branded monitors, Acer Halo smart speaker, special edition Porche Design laptop, Chromebook Spin 513 and ConceptD 7 laptops and desktops. Acer Swift 3X has nearly the same look as the Swift 3 but with different specifications. It has Intel’s Iris Xe Max, company’s new GPU and comes in Intel Core 11th-gen SoC, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. It also costs $1,199 for the particular model. There is a $899.99 model as well. There’s a 58.7Whr battery powering it.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan ...

Dell XPS 15 Review: The Best Windows Alternative To MacBook Gets Even Betteredit

The variant of the laptop we used for review was armed to the teeth with an Intel Core i7-10750H processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and an Nvidia GTX 1650Ti GPU. You can choose between a few RAM and storage options to see which one suits your budget the best. Day-to-day tasks were no big deal for this beast and it handled everything we threw at it like a champ. Windows laptops have gotten better now thanks to the software advancements too, so no complaints there either. We ran benchmarks on this laptop to see the kind of numbers we could get. Well, the XSP 15 didn’t disappoint.

Publication: MensXp

US hits Google with biggest antitrust lawsuit in 2 decadesedit

THE US JUSTICE department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google onTuesdayforallegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals, and called for action.

Publication: The Financial Express 

Amazon and Flipkart Sales are live: Check out the best deals on laptops (PROACTIVE)edit

Best Overall Laptop | Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 | Amazon | Rs 1,51,252 | The Asus Zephyrus G14 offers a perfect balance between work and play, delivering excellent battery life and powerful performance in a thin and light chassis of only 1.6 kg. The G14 arrives with an AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS CPU, Nvidia RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 14-inch 120Hz IPS Full HD panel. The notebook also comes with MS Office 2019 pre-installed.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Dell XPS 13 with Intel Tiger Lake falls behind AMD Ryzen 4000 seriesedit

A few weeks ago, we saw dell unveiling it’s upgraded XPS 13. The new XPS 13 would come with Intel’s latest Tiger Lake processor. We are yet to see how exactly the new machine fares up against its other competitors. But according to sources, the review website Phoronix has had its run with the upgraded device from Dell. Phoronix mostly reviews devices in a Linux environment to vary from Windows 10 powered device. According to sources, Phoronix has reviewed the notebook powered by the Core i7-1165G7 edition.

Publication: TechnoSports

Dell G5 15 5500 Review: Ideally Crafted For Budding Gamersedit

The Dell G5 15 5500 is based on the Intel Core i5-10300H quad-core CPU with a base clock speed of 2.5GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.5GHz. The chipset is based on 14nm architecture and offers 8MB of L3 cache and 45W TDP. On Geekbench 5, the Dell G5 15 5500 posted 1125 points on single-core and 4180 points on multi-core CPU performance. The single-core performance of this laptop is similar to some of the laptops that are based on the Intel Core i7-10750H. However, it takes a hit when it comes to multi-core performance.

Publication: Gizbot

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i (2020) review: Great for work-from-home computingedit

For those seeking a slim and lightweight laptop, the Lenovo Yoga series has been one of the best recommendations sitting with a price tag of less than Rs 1 lakh. The Slim series, in particular, has impressed consumers with its stylish yet portable design, paired with reliable performance. For this year, Lenovo has updated the Yoga Slim 7 series with the 10th Gen Intel Core processors with slightly revised prices.

Publication: BGR India 

Avita Liber V14 Laptop With 10-Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM Launched: Price, Availability & Moreedit

The Avita Liber V14 laptop by Avita has been launched on Flipkart amid the ongoing Big Billion Days sale. Similar to its previous models, the new Avita Liber notebook features a sleek body and comes with a 14-inch display that has slim bezels on all sides of the panel. The laptop comes in a single Navy Blue finish and weighs just 1.25 kg. There’s also a 1-megapixel web camera for video calling.

Publication: Network18

There is massive headroom for growth in India, says Arnold Su of Asus Indiaedit

Ever since the covid-19 outbreak, PC brands have seen a huge uptick in demand for laptops for remote working, learning and gaming. The lower PC penetration in India means there is still a lot of room for everyone — be it more established brands such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Asus or new entrants like Xiaomi and Huawei’s sub brand Honor. In a Q&A with Mint, Arnold Su, business head, consumer & gaming PC, system business group, Asus India, elaborates on the importance of India market, why offline retail is still the focus area and key expectations from India.

Publication: Livemint

Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale: Special Discount Offers On Laptopsedit

HP 15 Ryzen 3 Dual Core 3200U laptop is priced starting from Rs. 31,990 and features a 15.6-inch HD display with a backlit brightview panel. This laptop can be bought at a discount of 6%. Acer One 14 Pentium Dual Core is stylish and portable laptop that is available at 42% discount on Flipkart. This laptop feature a 14-inch HD LED TFT display, Windows 10 OS, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard drive disk.

Publication: Gizbot

This festive season, go for these electronic essentials on Flipkart for comfort, entertainment, and productivityedit

1. Acer Aspire 7 Core i5 9th Gen: The perfect device for gamers, this laptop Acer is equipped with the latest 9th Gen Intel Core CPU and NVIDIA graphics that boost your performance at both play and work. It has a 1 TB Solid State Drive (SSD) and 32 GB RAM, which lets you carry out tasks without falling short of storage or processing power.

Publication: Hindustan Times – HT Tech 

Four laptops weighing under 1.6 Kilogramsedit

One of the things you end up sacrificing while buying lightweight laptops is a good battery backup, and that’s what this Mi laptop solves. It is said to deliver 10 hours of battery backup on a single charge under optimal use. This makes it a great machine to work on the go. Moreover, it weighs just 1.35kg, making it even more convenient for frequent travellers. Under the hood, it has an 8GB RAM and a fast 512GB SSD, along with the flagship 10th Gen i7 processor. With such solid specs on paper, the laptop should be able to churn out good performance under most use-case scenarios.

Publication: Digit

AVITA LIBER V14 with 10th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 14-inch display launched: price in India, specsedit

AVITA LIBER V14 laptop has been launched in India as a Flipkart-exclusive laptop. The laptop comes with metal chassis for durability, anti-glare technology, and an optimal top-up 1MP web camera. AVITA Liber V14 specs include a 14-inch FHD display with 1,920 x 1,080 pixels resolution, 10th gen Intel Core processor coupled with Intel integrated UHD graphic, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD storage. The AVITA LIBER V14 is claimed to last up to 10 hours on a single charge and there is an extra-large precision touchpad that supports up to four-finger smart gestures.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Best gaming laptop deals on Amazon and flipkartedit

If you’re looking to pick up an AMD Ryzen based gaming laptop, the MSI Bravo 15 is definitely one you should consider very strongly. You get an all-AMD system, powered by the Ryzen 5 4600H processor mated with the AMD Radeon RX5500M GPU. The all-AMD component setup allows the MSI Bravo to leverage AMD’s SmartShift technology which squeezes out every last bit of gaming performance out of the system. The full HD display has a refresh rate of 144Hz and there’s also 16GB RAM and an adequately fast 512GB SSD. The MSI Bravo 15 is legitimately a great gaming laptop deal, one you should not miss.

Publication: Digit

Best Motherboards for AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900Xedit

AMD recently announced that it would support its next-gen Ryzen 4000 CPUs on existing 400 series boards, in addition to the newer B550 and X570 chipsets. While that’s good news for owners of the older motherboards, we’d strictly advise against buying a B450 or X470 board. There are certain caveats that will limit 400 series owners after they flash the beta BIOS meant for the newer processors. You can read more about that here. As such we’ll only include the 500 series boards, with the newer A520 motherboards for budget users.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Dell G5 15 SE (5505) Reviewedit

The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) is an interesting gaming laptop that will no doubt be on the radar of any AMD fan. Dell’s pricing is not too bad either, considering that the Radeon GPU offers gaming performance somewhere in between what an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060 would deliver, and these are usually seen in laptops priced at around the Rs. 1 lakh mark. The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) also offers a comfortable keyboard, nice aesthetics, and a 120Hz refresh rate display going by the current variants being sold in India.

Publication: Gadgets 360

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors to come with free copy of Far Cry 6 starting 5 Novemberedit

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors will be available on 5 November and buyers of the high-end chips will now get a free copy of Far Cry 6 along with it. Anyone buying a Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X or Ryzen 7 5800X will get the free game, according to a report by Techradar. However, those purchasing the mid-range Ryzen 5 5600X will not get the freebie. The report adds that those who buy the Ryzen 5000 chips and those purchasing a machine which comes with one of those CPUs will be able to get a digital download of Far Cry 6 when the game is released on 18 February 2021.

Publication: DailyHunt

AMD EPYC™ Processors Offer 30 Percent Better Performance on Data Analytics Workloadsedit

AMD announced Azure Data Explorer, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution optimized for data exploration and near real-time analytics, will now offer customers access to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC™ processors. In a collaboration between AMD, Azure compute and Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Data Explorer service is now offering the AMD EPYC processor based Azure Dav4, Eav4, Easv4 and Lsv2 VMs for use. The family of AMD EPYC processor based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30 – 50 percent more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost.

Publication: CellIT

MSI promises to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processors on the existing 400-Series Motherboardsedit

AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture RyzenTM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors. For the upcoming processors, MSI has released the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.1.0.0 for all X570 and B550 series motherboards (Link) to perfectly utilize the PCI-E 4.0 performance.

Publication: Digit

ASUS Announces BIOS update for 500-Series motherboards to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processorsedit

ASUS today announced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, TUF Gaming X570 Pro (WiFi) and ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming WiFi — three gaming motherboards designed for gaming builds featuring the latest-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors. In addition to the latest X570 and B550 motherboards, all ASUS 500 series motherboards (X570, B550 and A520) are ready for AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors.

Publication: Digit

Lenovo Legion 5i laptop with over Rs 52,000 discount in Amazon sale is best deal for gamersedit

If you are a gamer and have been eyeing a laptop to play the high-end games, your wait might end today. Under the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale, there is a horde of deals on gaming laptops. These laptops come from brands such as Lenovo Legion, Asus TUF, and HP Omen. But we are not going to talk about all of them. We are picking one gaming laptop on which you will save the most.

Publication: India Today 

Want a productive work laptop? Get the new Dell Inspiron 5408 with 10th Gen Intel Ice Lake CPUsedit

Processor:10th Generation Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.6 GHz,4 cores). Memory & Storage: 8GB RAM Single. Channel DDR4 3200 MHz | 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive. Display:14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare Narrow. Border 300nits 72% NTSC WVA Display. Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics with the shared graphics memory or NVIDIA GeForce MX330 Graphics with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM

Publication: TechnoSports

Apple’s ARM-powered Macs to arrive in Novemberedit

Apple back at WWDC 20202 had launched its own ARM processors. At the time, the CEO Tim Cook had confirmed that Apple would be transitioning from Intel to ARM processors in the coming years with the first batch of ARM-powered Macs arriving later this year. Now, a new report suggests that the company could launch its next batch of Mac computers as early as next month. As per a report by tipster Jon Prosser, the iPhone maker will host an ARM Mac event next month wherein it would launch its ARM-powered Mac computers. The tipster further said that the company will be hosting the event on November 17.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

First MacBook Running Apple Silicon May Launch by Nov 17, AirPods Studio Coming Next Yearedit

Apple will reportedly unveil its first ARM-based Mac device on November 17. The development was shared by notable tipster Jon Prosser on Twitter, days after Apple launched its iPhone 12 smartphone line-up. Prosser added that the company might also unveil its first over-the-ear headphones in March 2021. Notably, a new MacBook Pro model with Apple Silicon and AirPods Studio headphones were rumoured to launch alongside the iPhone 12 line-up earlier this week. Apple is yet to confirm its November 17 event, therefore, it is advised taking the information with a pinch of salt.

Publication: Network18 

Amazon sale Day 2: 5 gaming laptops with up to 40% off in Deal of the Dayedit

Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop with 15.6-inc Full HD+ screen is selling at a discounted price of Rs 65,990. The laptop offers 8GB RAM with 1TB HDD and 256GB SSD storage capacity.  It is Day 2 of the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale. If you are looking to buy a gaming laptop this festive season, then e-commerce platform Amazon has some deals for you. Laptops from brands like HP, Asus and others are available at up to 40% discount.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Sony announces PS5 Indian priceedit

Sony, after a considerable delay, has announced the Indian pricing for the PlayStation 5. The PlayStation 5 (with optical drive) will sell for Rs 49,990 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (without Optical Drive) will sell for Rs 39,990. There’s no update on the release date for the PlayStation 5 and Sony confirms that it will be updating soon regarding the same. Some of the leaks around the internet are suggesting a November 19th release.

Publication: The Mobile India 

Lounge Heroes: The girl who keeps the school on the cloud runningedit

Ashwini’s story was chosen by tech company Lenovo as one of 10 narratives of young women from across the world who have used technology to transform their lives. A short film featuring her is part of the company’s New Realities project, which uses 360-degree Virtual Reality camera techniques to tell the stories of ordinary-but-remarkable young women like Ashwini.

Publication: Mint

Light up the festive season with ‘Sale Dhamaka’ on MSI’s laptop rangeedit

(Paid initiative) – With the onset of the festive season, MSI is all set to make Diwali even more exciting with great offers and huge discounts up to 35 percent on its product range. With discount upto 20 percent on Flipkart.com and Amazon.in, these series are powered by the latest 7nm Technology, up to AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800H Mobile Processors with Radeon™ RX 5500M Graphics. It helps the gamers experience the best and Encore with High Performance!

Publication: Business Standard 

Best Laptops for students on a budgetedit

This Asus Vivobook variant is compact and lightweight, which should make it ideal for students to carry it around with ease. It has a 23.1-mm thin body that weighs just 1.6 kilograms. It runs on an AMD Quad Core Ryzen 5-3500U processor and is backed by an 8GB RAM and a fast 256GB SSD. Students can expect to get robust performances under most use cases. It has a 14-inch FHD display with 60Hz refresh rate, which will mean a decent gaming or video watching experience. Finally, it has a full-size Chiclet keyboard with 1.4mm key travel, which is considered good for typing.

Publication: Digit

Best Budget Laptops For Studentsedit

Powered by either Intel’s 8th Gen Core series or AMD’s Ryzen processor, the IdeaPad S340 combines the strengths of the IdeaPad 330 and IdeaPad 330S, making it a great choice of laptop for education. It’s the cheapest Lenovo laptop to sport a physical shutter for the webcam, meaning its also a well suited laptop for children. It’s a good laptop for engineering students and working professionals alike.

Publication: Digit

Asus ExpertBook P2 Review: Versatility for the workaholicedit

The ExpertBook P2 series is powered by the Intel Core i7 10510U processor. Couple that with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 512GB SSD drive and you have yourself a pretty snappy performer. Two customizable DIMM slots let you take the RAM up to a maximum of 32GB and the SSD storage to up to 1TB. For graphical processing, the laptop features the Nvidia GeForce MX110 graphic card.

Publication: BGR India 

How Big Tech reset will Impact Indiaedit

F or much of their existence, the big four US tech giants—Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google— have been viewed as scrappy startups. Consumers loved their products, regulators largely looked away, and competitors either got acquired or fell by the wayside. That run of good fortune has been under threat for a while, but 2020 may well mark the beginning of the end. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump called for a break up of the Big Tech firms after both Facebook and Twitter took the “editorial” call to downplay leaked, unverified allegations about rival presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Publication: Mint

Businesses need tech that is flexible & adaptableedit

Nutanix Clusters on AWS and our offerings on Azure make us a very compelling cloud player, positioned at the centre of a customer’s cloud and digital transformation journey. With our recent innovations, Nutanix HCI has evolved from being ‘Hyper Converged Infrastructure’ to ‘Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure’. Our alliances offer customers true freedom of choice to achieve the best balance between cost, revenue, performance and risk management. For example, our global partnership with HPE has provided customers the choice and flexibility to leverage their own cloud journey in a pay-as-you-use environment.

Publication: Financial Express 

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale offers: Best deals on gaming laptopsedit

Starting from gaming laptops, ASUS TUF gaming A15 laptop will get a price-cut of Rs. 35,000 and will be available at Rs. 62,990. This ASUS laptop comes bundled with AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor at 3.0 GHz along with GeForce GTX 1650 discrete GPU. While it can produce high frame rates for popular games, it can also load massive collection with SSD + HDD dual storage design.

Publication: Indian Express 

Apple still lags behind Lenovo, HP and Dell in overall PC salesedit

Speaking of PC manufacturers, Apple has to be spoken first as the Cupertino giant is the largest tech company globally, with GDP surpassing those of many countries. According to sources, this year, Apple saw a growth of 7 percent in its Mac shipments in the Third Quarter of 2020. Despite the pandemic, Apple saw a growth of 3.6% in its shipments.

Publication: TechnoSports

Microsoft Surface Pro X 2020 Is Now Available for Purchase Starting at Rs. 1,49,999edit

Less than two weeks after its launch, the Surface Pro X 2020 powered by Microsoft’s SQ2 processor has been made available for purchase in India. Microsoft had launched the Surface Pro X alongside the Surface Laptop Go earlier this month. The Surface Pro X 2020 has been priced at Rs. 1,49,999 for the 256GB variant, while the 512GB Microsoft Surface Pro X 2020 costs Rs. 1,78,999. The tablet comes in black and platinum finishes and offers 4G connectivity.

Publication: News18

Best Laptops Under 30000 In Indiaedit

If you are buying a laptop today and have a total budget of approximately Rs 30000, it would be unfair to expect the machine to do it all. however, if your needs are basic, day-to-day tasks like taking notes, researching for studies or looking up recipes while also getting in an episode or two of your show in, then a laptop under Rs 30,000 just might do the job for you. Wondering which are the best laptops under 30000? Well, we are here to help and this is our list of the best laptops at the Rs. 30,000 price point.

Publication: Digit

Dell Technologies introduces NVIDIA GPUs in the PowerEdge server portfolioedit

To meet the soaring industry demand for GPUs, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA have further built on to their relationship to bring smarter GPU acceleration platforms, as a part of Dell EMC PowerEdge server family. The broad selection of NVIDIA GPUs in the Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio will deliver unmatched acceleration to data-driven applications, resulting in generation of better insights and greater innovation.

Publication: CRN India

HP Launches Patient-First Print Technologies to Help Healthcare Workers Stay Safe and Spend More Time Caring for Patientsedit

oday, HP Inc. officially launched new print solutions for the healthcare industry. Based on deep customer insights and co-developed with healthcare providers, associations and partners, HP Healthcare Print Solutions address the most pressing issues facing the healthcare industry today including patient wellness and safety, care coordination, mobility, privacy and security. “As our healthcare systems continue to battle the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and brace for a second wave colliding with the flu this fall, the issues of patient safety and clinician burnout have intensified,” said Daniel Colling, RN, Global Head Healthcare Industry Solutions & Practice, HP Inc.

Publication: IT News Online 

ASUS Drops Ryzen 5000 Support from X470 and B450 Motherboardsedit

ASUS won’t be bringing Ryzen 5000 support to its existing B450 and X470 motherboards, a company rep has said in response to a user inquiry, who then shared it on Reddit. ASUS has replied to press inquiries, stating that they will be bringing support for Zen 3 on X470 boards early next year. Earlier, AMD has promised to bring Ryzen 5000 (Zen 3) support to select B450 and X470 motherboards via beta BIOSes. However, as already reported, not all vendors will be doing the same. On Asus’ end, it looks like Zen 3 support won’t come to the existing boards, but might be brought to the revised models.

Publication: Hardware Times 

ASUS ZenBook Flip S UX371 Overviewedit

The new ZenBook is powered by the Core i7-1165G7 processor, the second-fastest in the Intel Tiger Lake-U lineup. It has a base clock speed of 1.2GHz and a maximum boost of 4.7GHz. It packs 12MB of L3 cache to feed the fast four cores on the chip. Having such a high performing processor is almost like winning a jackpot at a reputed platform like JackpotCity online casino! The ZenBook Flip S UX371 comes with 16GB of LPDDR4X-4266 RAM. Unfortunately, the RAM here is directly soldered to the motherboard; so it can’t be removed or upgraded. As for the storage, it comes with an M.2 2280 PCI Express 3.0 NVMe SSD (ranging from 256GB to 1TB).

Publication: Hardware Times 

Killing It by Killing Bezels: MSI ups the Gaming Notebook Gameedit

Another thin and yet powerful customer is the GF65 notebook. It too features very slim bezels (4.9 mm again) around a 15.6-inch display with a 144 Hz refresh rate designed to deliver the best graphics you will get to see on any mobile display. Powering it is an Intel i7-9750H (9th generation processor) with DDR4-2666 memory and upping the gaming ante is the presence of the new RTX and GTX 16 series of GeForce graphics processors. Ensuring it keeps its be cool is the presence of up to 6 heat pipes on the GF65 and the Cooler Boost 5, while Dragon Center 2.0 lets you customise and monitor your notebook’s performance as per your needs.

Publication: India Today  

Dell focussing on ‘future-ready commercial PCs’edit

With more people taking to a remote working environment due to pandemic, enterprise users have started to look for PCs that are more reliable than consumer-grade products. And companies like Dell Technologies are set to make an impact in the enterprise PC segment, says Vivekanand Manjeri, Brand Director, Client Solutions Group, Dell Technologies.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine 

Notebook and PC sales have finally picked up their tracksedit

But the leader board rank 1 Lenovo has shipped the most units in the third quarter. With a whopping sales of 19.3 million devices, the company saw an increase of an 11 percent increase from last year. It followed closely by HP with 18.6 million sales and a 12 percent year-over-year uptick. The PC manufacturer Dell shipped 11.9 million units in the third quarter but suffered a decrease of 0.5% from the year prior. The Cupertino giant, on the other hand, has shipped 6.3 million units with an increase of 13.2%.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 Review: The future evolvededit

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 features the top-of-the-line hardware as mentioned above. In addition, Asus has also opted to use Liquid metal to reinforce the thermal solution on the laptop. We first saw this solution on the Zephyrus S15, and S17 laptops. Even though our model did not feature the absolute best including Intel Core i9 and the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super; it did not really matter. This is because both the thermal design as well as the included hardware was sufficient to offer great performance.

Publication: BGR India

 

Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7i Carbon is a lightweight notebook powered by 11th Gen Intel Core processorsedit

Lenovo is bringing its Yoga Slim 7i Carbon to India, a notebook that weighs at just 996 grams. The ultralightweight notebook uses Lenovo’s second-generation proprietary fibre material technology that reduces material weight by up to 40 per cent while still maintaining durability. It is powered by either an Intel 11th Gen Core i5 or i7 with Intel’s new Iris Xe integrated graphics, the Yoga Slim 7i Carbon with up to 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM and a 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD.

Publication: Indian Express 

HP OMEN 15 Ryzen 7 (2020) review: Unbridled power, insane valueedit

The two reasons you will consider the OMEN 15 AMD edition are: (a) to harness the power of the Ryzen 7 4000 series chip, and, (b) playing the latest titles in good graphics. The OMEN 15 AMD delivers in these areas with flying colors. The powerful Ryzen 7 alone drives the performance of this laptop above its Intel-powered counterparts. Moreover, it’s built by HP, which means there are minimal to negligible reliability issues.

Publication: BGR India 

AMD Radeon Vega 56 and Vega 64 Dead? RX 5×0 Series To Last Till Q3edit

Ever since AMD launched Navi, its new GPU architecture at Computex, it was always expected for the production of older cards to decrease with time. Not just that, the fact that even more cards are expected to be launched in the Navi series in the future also puts a huge question mark on the availability of these previous-generation GPUs like the Radeon RX 5×0 series, RX Vega 56 and Vega 64.

Publication: TechQuila

More People Are Buying Laptops And Lenovo, Apple And HP See Strong Growth In Shipmentsedit

The latest estimates come days ahead of Apple’s official fiscal Q4 (Q3 2020) performance report that is slated to release on October 29. The latest estimates from the data firm also indicate that the global PC market grew by 12.7 percent, shipping a total of 7.92 crore units in the last quarter. Canalys claims that this is the highest growth the market has seen in the past 10 years. The growth in shipments is largely attributed to significant demands in PC units as more people are working from home owing to COVID-19 restrictions placed in several countries.

Publication: News18

 

A Question of Balanceedit

The MSI Prestige 14 A10RAS is a premium Windows 10 laptop and is in the territory of Macbooks in terms of pricing. It is targeted at content creators. The design will not attract gamers anyway. However, it is hard to differentiate the requirements of both these groups.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Best Budget Gaming Laptops with 120Hz screen (PROACTIVE)edit

Here is a gaming laptop from Asus that is light in weight, which is a feature that is not so common in this segment. It weighs just 1.6kg, which should make it an easily portable device. The laptop has a 14-inch FHD display that supports refresh rates up to 120Hz, enabling you to enjoy games with high-octane action sequences in a stutter-free manner. The dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4GB VRAM Graphics should further improve the quality of the visual output.

Publication: Digit

ASUS Launches Three New Gaming Motherboards With AMD Ryzen Zen 3 Processorsedit

The AMD X570 platform features extensive PCI Express® 4.0 connectivity ripe for the latest graphics cards and SSDs. The chipset’s copious bandwidth necessitates a robust cooling solution to deliver sustained performance, and that challenge is typically tackled by neatly pairing a heatsink with an embedded fan that spins up on demand. ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is the first ASUS X570 board to implement a completely passive cooling design, featuring a sizeable heatsink that extends from the chipset zone to the space between the PCIe slots. The additional surface area helps keep thermals under control even when the motherboard is loaded with a full complement of hardware, laying a compelling foundation for enthusiast PC builds.

Publication: Digital Terminal 

HP OMEN 15 R7 GAMING LAPTOP REVIEW (AMD RYZEN 7 4800H, GTX 1650TI, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 1080P 60HZ)edit

The Omen 15 that we received from HP has the following specs: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti (4GB) RAM: 8GB DDR4, expandable Storage: 512GB NVMe Display: 1080p, IPS, 60Hz HP OMEN GAMING PERFORMANCE We’ve already reviewed one of the Intel variants of the HP Omen and now, were pretty stoked to be checking out the Ryzen variant as well.

Publication: Digit

Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420 complete review: A powerful convertible for everyday useedit

Although it’s been a lot of time since I owned this new AMD powered laptop, I have used it daily for my work and play. So, this helps me give you an honest view towards this new ASUS laptop that already retails in India.

Publication: TechnoSports

Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Is Getting A Massive Discount During Flipkart’s Big Billion Days Saleedit

First off, it is a digital-only console that has a storage of 512GB SSD. It is powered by AMD’s RDNA2 GPU with a performance of 4 teraflops. The console is capable of running games at 1440p resolution and up to 120 Frames Per Second.

Publication: MensXP

Asus ROG Zephyrus M15 (2020) Review: A portable gaming laptop that makes no compromise on poweredit

The new upgrade to the 10th Gen Intel processor offers a marginal increment in performance over its 9th Gen predecessor. In Cinebench R15, the Intel processor on the Zephyrus M15 managed 1,410 points in the multi-core test. For comparison, the Zephyrus G14 with the AMD Ryzen 4800H managed a 1,846 multi-core score, which does suggest an incremental increase in performance.

Publication: Moneycontrol

ASUS VIVOBOOK ULTRA 15 AMD RYZEN 7 4700U 15.6-INCH FHD THIN AND LIGHT LAPTOP (8GB RAM/1TB HDD + 256GB NVME SSD/WINDOWS 10/INTEGRATED GRAPHICS/COBALT BLUE/1.80 KG), – M513IA-EJ312Tedit

ASUS VivoBook Ultra 15 AMD Ryzen 7 4700U 15.6-inch FHD Thin and Light Laptop (8GB RAM/1TB HDD + 256GB NVMe SSD/Windows 10/Integrated Graphics/Cobalt Blue/1.80 kg), M513IA-EJ312T laptop has a 15.6 Inch display for your daily needs. This laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4700U processor, coupled with 8 GB of RAM and has 5400 rpm storage at this price point. It runs on operating system. As far as the graphics card is concerned this notebook has a Integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 graphics card to manage the graphical functions. To keep it alive, it has a 3 cell Li-Ion battery and weighs 1.8 Kg.

Publication: GadgetsNow

HP 15-DB0186AU LAPTOP (AMD DUAL CORE RYZEN 3/4 GB/1 TB/WINDOWS 10) – 5KV06PAedit

HP 15-db0186au (5KV06PA) Laptop (AMD Dual Core Ryzen 3/4 GB/1 TB/Windows 10) laptop has a 15.6 Inches (39.62 cm) display for your daily needs. This laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 3 Dual Core -2200U processor, coupled with 4 GB of RAM and has 1 TB HDD storage at this price point.

Publication: GadgetsNow

Asus ROG Zephyrus M15 (2020) Review: A portable gaming laptop that makes no compromise on poweredit

The new upgrade to the 10th Gen Intel processor offers a marginal increment in performance over its 9th Gen predecessor. In Cinebench R15, the Intel processor on the Zephyrus M15 managed 1,410 points in the multi-core test. For comparison, the Zephyrus G14 with the AMD Ryzen 4800H managed a 1,846 multi-core score, which does suggest an incremental increase in performance.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Dell Small Business Month Specials – Time for Entrepreneurs to Make a Smart Move (Sponsored)edit

The coronavirus-induced pandemic has made 2020 anything but a normal year. With businesses shut during the national lockdown, many small businesses have been left wondering about their future. As we slowly return and adjust to the ‘new normal’, these businesses are looking for any relief they can avail to get back on their feet. Thankfully, when it comes to technology, Dell is here to take care of small businesses through its annual Small Business Month.

Publication: News18

Covid-19 Ads: How messaging is evolving in the new normaledit

Electronics brand Lenovo along with the agency network SuperHeroes rolled out a new campaign that talks about tech that allows people to perform optimally. The global campaign is aimed at establishing ‘Yoga’ the preferred choice in the premium consumer laptop category.

Publication: FE BrandWagon

AMD PC by Gigabyte (PROACTIVE)edit

We tested the all AMD PC by Gigabyte, and color me impressed.

Specs: Ryzen 3700x, Radeon 5700xt, PCIE Gen 4 Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master, 1TB NVME Aorus GEN 4 SSD, Aorus RGB 8GBx2.

Publication: Gaming Central

HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-0203in Review (PROACTIVE)edit

Gaming laptops are all the rage right now, but many people might still prefer the lower cost and greater flexibility of a desktop PC. After several years of neglect, with barely any branded options in the market, gaming desktops are making a comeback. Nearly every major brand now has a gaming line with powerful hardware and of course a bit of design flair thrown in.

Publication: NDTV Gadgets360

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 review: This dual-screen laptop will surprise youedit

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 is unlike any laptop you’ve seen before but there’s a very high possibility that you might not realize this on first look. Even if you’ve heard about its marquee features and seen them in action on YouTube, chances are, its plain and simple exterior might make you question everything you thought you knew about this laptop, before seeing it in person for the first time. It is like one of those classic Jack-in-the-Box toys where you don’t know what to expect till you open it up and bam – you’re like, wait, what?

Publication: Financial Express

Dell Announces New XPS 13 Series of Laptops With Intel’s Tiger Lake Processoredit

Dell has announced an update to its XPS 13 laptops, the standard XPS 13 and the XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop. Both the new laptops will be made available in the US and Canada starting October 1, the company announced.

Publication: News18

Best Gaming Laptops Under Rs 80,000, Feat. Dell, Asus, HP and More (PROACTIVE)edit

HP Envy X360 Ryzen 5: This one’s a compact device with a 13.3-inch display and AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Quad-Core processor that gives 2.1 GHz base processor speed and goes up to 3.7 GHz burst frequency. The laptop is equipped with an 8GB DDR4 RAM with AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics. See it here.

Publication: News18 News18 Telugu

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 reviewedit

The Flex 5 is an affordable convertible laptop that comes with a touchscreen and an active pen and transforms from a laptop into a tablet at the drop of a hat. Or more accurately, at a twist of the screen. This particular model comes powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, offers 512GB SSD storage, and 8 gigs of RAM. Here’s why I think it’s worth a closer look.

Publication: 91 Mobiles

Lenovo France now selling the IdeaPad S540-13 with Ryzen 7 4800H at the same price as that of 4800Uedit

Lenovo France previously launched the 16:10 display laptop powered by AMD’s APUs up to the new Ryzen 7 4800U, costing up to € 1,299. At the price, the slim and light laptop offers incredible value and made it good performer overall for daily usage.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 2 is the company’s Intel Evo and Dolby Vision certified notebookedit

The release of Intel’s new 11th Generation CPUs has prompted Lenovo to upgrade many of its previous models with the latest silicon tech. the company has also decided to launch many new notebooks, not only with Intel’s Tiger Lake but also with AMD’s Ryzen 4000U processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 and E15 Gen 2 finally comes with Tiger Lake and an updated displayedit

The latest Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 was released with AMD Ryzen 4000 which was a massive power booster for the notebooks. The new ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 and E15 Gen 2 comes with the latest Intel Tiger Lake CPU. The company has decided to move from AMD to Intel with this upgrade.

Publication: TechnoSports

Dell, Lenovo, MSI and Asus heads discuss gaming laptopsedit

Laptops and gaming do not mix. A laptop doesn’t ooze ‘oomph’ of gaming consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation or the Microsoft Xbox. Laptops don’t offer the ease of use smartphones pride themselves on, and they certainly can’t offer the powerful cooling or high-end graphics processing of desktop computers. But, that was yesterday.

Publication: Afaqs

India will position as tech garage of the world in next few years: Amitabh Kantedit

At the Dell Technologies ‘Connected Executive: The Boardroom Unplugged,’ a virtual conference held recently, Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog and Alok Ohrie, President and MD, Dell Technologies India, engaged in a conversation to discuss how organizations can leverage technological advancements to fulfil their responsibilities towards all stakeholders, more effectively, especially in the post-COVID era.

Publication: Livemint

Honor MagicBook 15 review: A basic notebook good only for basic choresedit

The MagicBook 15 is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor, mated with a Radeon Vega 8 graphics card. The notebook has 8GB DDR4 dual-channel RAM and 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD storage. It boots Windows 10 home and comes with some Huawei add-ons. The MagicBook 15 has three ports on the left: a multipurpose USB-C port, a USB 3.0 port, and an HDMI port. And on the right there are two: a full-size USB 2.0 port and 3.5 mm audio out port.

Publication: Business Standard

Industry news

India among top 10 gaming countries: Studyedit

India ranks among the top 10 gaming countries in the world with 71% of the urban population playing casual or professional games on smartphones, consoles and other devices, a recent study showed. “When it comes to category of gamers, India is among the top 10 countries comprising of light to regular smartphone gamers- with 82% of its gaming population playing games on their smartphones up to 10 hours a week, and only 16% identified as heavy and intense gamers (playing more than 10 hours a week),” according to a white paper released by UK-based market research firm YouGov.

Publication: ET Tech – The Economic Times 

What CEOs are seeing and saying about covid, the election and the economyedit

This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders are saying on their quarterly earnings calls about issues ranging from Covid-19 to the U.S. presidential election. “Our core business is doing very well. I think if you look at some of the components of that, the PC market environment is strong. If you look at all the work from home, school from home trends, I think that has certainly helped this year.” (Oct. 27)

Publication: Livemint

Digitalisation to drive $6.8 trillion IT spending from 2020 to 2023: IDCedit

The global economy remains on its way to its “digital destiny” driving $6.8 trillion of IT spending from 2020 to 2023, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The impacts from the Covid-19 pandemic are ubiquitous and affect the many external forces that are driving change, the research firm said in its worldwide information technology (IT) industry predictions for 2021 and beyond. Yet despite the disruptions caused by the global pandemic in 2020, the global economy remains on its way to its “digital destiny” as most products and services are based on a digital delivery model or require digital augmentation to remain competitive, an IDC press release said.

Publication: ETCIO – The Economic Times 

Dell Technologies enhances Dell EMC PowerMax for high-end storage for Indian Businessesedit

As the data era revolutionizes the way businesses work and operate, IT transformation is critical to gaining a competitive edge. Technological innovations like artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and cloud are the driving forces behind rapid data growth, disrupting traditional business models, further adding to the overall IT complexity. To address these paradigm shifts, businesses have realized the need for new generation of enterprise storage that provides unparalleled performance without compromise.

Publication: CRN India 

India Uniquely Positioned to Become AI Lab of the Worldedit

At the same time, we require the skillful application of AI by promoting young entrepreneurs and AI engineers, building out computational capabilities and AI-enabling policy environments. Covid-19 has induced a need for a mammoth investment in healthcare and biotechnology. Ramping up investments in disruptive and emerging areas such as genome sequencing and CRISPR will create an ecosystem for the evolution of personalized healthcare.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Microsoft says it doesn’t need to sell the Xbox Series X for it to be successfuledit

Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox has made one point very clear – Microsoft does not necessarily need to sell the Xbox Series X for it to be successful. Speaking to GameReactor, Spencer said that Microsoft os more focused on attracting new customers to the Xbox ecosystem and that could be via PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or Android. Spencer said that their “high-level” goal inside of the team and how they measure themselves is according to how many people are playing on Xbox.

Publication: HT Tech  – Hindustan Times 

Growth of data center market in India amid Covid19-led lockdownedit

Indian data center market is witnessing robust growth in the era of virtualization and cloud computing. The data center market in India is expected to grow at 12% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2019-2024 according to the Synergy Research Group. The increased use of data consumption and internet bandwidth in the country is primarily driven by expanding the reach of social media and increased use of smart devices. With more and more Indian companies expected to embark on their digital transformation journeys, McKinsey has identified India as the second fastest-growing digital economy and projected that IT and communications sector will double in size by 2025 to contribute $ 355-435 billion to the GDP.

Publication: The Times of India 

Adani, Hiranandani to invest INR10,000 CR in UP datacentresedit

The Adani and Hiranandani groups are among the top companies looking to invest INR 10,000 crore to set up data centres in Uttar Pradesh (UP), besides data security firm RackBank. Data centre are housing computing infrastructure viz. servers, routers, switches, and firewalls, apart from supporting paraphernalia like backup equipment, fire suppression facilities and air conditioning.

Publication: Business Standard 

COVID-19 spurring digital adoption’edit

“Ten months ago, few of us had ever heard of coronavirus. Now, just about every aspect of our lives has been upended. There is a heartbreaking story of lives lost, shuttered businesses, and rising unemployment. In that moment, the global economy has pivoted and the stories of passion and resilience have been inspiring,” said Mr. Dell, founder of the eponymous IT company. “Technology has never been more central than it is right now.”

Publication: The Hindu 

Microsoft, IBM, NVIDIA & Other Tech Companies Collaborate To Launch Adversarial ML Threat Matrixedit

With a massive advent of machine learning in critical areas like healthcare, BFSI, defence, etc., it is making a significant impact on human lives. Although there is a growing interest of businesses to include machine learning, there always has been a great concern of security of their ML systems. To resolve such an issue 12 tech companies including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Bosch, IBM etc. have partnered with an American not-for-profit organisation — MITRE — to create an Adversarial ML Threat Matrix.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine 

Interns’ pay in tech MNCs sees big jumpedit

Interns in tech companies receive attractive stipends, a real-world job experience, and they get a foot in the door to full-time employment. Glassdoor, a website that sources data from employees anonymously, shows the average monthly intern salary at Cisco India is Rs 49,324. An Amazon software development engineering intern receives Rs 49,008, while Microsoft, Adobe and Google pay Rs 47,798, Rs 47,719 and Rs 46,963, respectively.(nvida,IBM,oracle)

Publication: The Times of India 

Future of tech: gaming to become next dominant technology platformedit

Gaming is set to emerge as the next dominant technology platform much the way search engines, mobile phones and social networks redefined industries in previous decades. Some games are transforming into digital hubs that offer people an array of services once only possible in real life, according to Michael Wolf, co-founder and chief executive of consulting firm Activate Inc. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated gaming’s popularity, with overall time spent gaming rising by 29% during the outbreak, according to Activate.

Publication: Livemint

Nvidia’s ARM acquisition faces a challenge from Chinese authoritiesedit

NVIDIA has been making rounds in the semiconductor market with its latest acquisition of ARM. This acquisition would most likely stir up the tech world at its core. Arm’s limitless potential and uses in the smartphone market and low-power processing segment give Nvidia an unfair advantage over other mobile processor manufacturers. ARMs importance is growing in both the data center and supercomputing markets. Thus the Nvidia deal comes with significant consequences for the tech industry. Many believe that China’s authorities might not let the deal follow-through, which will cause several implications to the manufacturer of the graphics.

Publication: TechnoSports

AI 8: ML will create more jobs; reskilling of workforce essentialedit

Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings mixed emotions and opinions when referenced in the context of jobs. But a look at the history of technology shows that technology created more jobs than it killed. In this context, a survey was recently conducted to assess the size and scope of the impact of AI on businesses, including shifts in the quantum and nature of employment and human capital development. This study by Intel India and ISB will help drive future research to meaningfully inform policymakers and the industry about the impact of AI and machine learning (ML).

Publication: Financial Express 

US Govt Anti-Trust Case Against Google Mirrors Microsoft Battleedit

The specifics of the Justice Department action, legal experts said, strongly echo the last major antitrust case against a big technology company, Microsoft. That suit, filed in 1998, claimed Microsoft was using its gatekeeper power as the owner of a dominant personal computer operating system, Windows, to block the potential threat from internet browsing software. The Justice Department accused Microsoft of using restrictive contracts with PC makers and others to inhibit the distribution of the software of Netscape Communications, the commercial pioneer in the browser market.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Intel sees opportunity in US-China tensions’ impact on supply chainsedit

Intel Corp. could see new business opportunities from a bifurcation of tech supply chains amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China, the chip maker’s Chief Executive Bob Swan said. The U.S. and several other countries have limited or blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. from providing equipment for their 5G infrastructure over concerns about security and potential espionage—claims Huawei denies. Those constraints leave gaps that others—including Intel—could fill by providing the chips that power the superfast networks.

Publication: Livemint

India’s biggest employers have designed a new model of workedit

Singhani says that pre-Covid, the entire discussion was “how to optimize delivery across client sites, how do we move people nearshore, how do we leverage offshore centers.” Together with that, there was the IBM “garage,” where they would co-locate people – both IBM’s and the client’s – and bring tools and technologies to visualize new solutions, build them, and co-operate to scale them and ignite cultural changes where necessary. Post-Covid, with travel impossible and most working from homes, this model was not viable. So it developed the dynamic delivery model, the foundation of which is a cloud-based collaborative, delivery platform. This made tools and technologies easily accessible to all.

Publication: The Times of India 

Build a tech to enable Indians on the move to voteedit

At the Times Techies Webinar last week, IBM India’s lead architect for data & AI, Soma Shekar, and GitHub India’s country head, Maneesh Sharma, provided a primer to aspiring participants. Shekar said in any coding system, you need to first resolve the identity issue. “If I’m voting remotely, I need to be identified as to who I am, securely,” he said. Shekar said scalability proofpoints will be one of the major considerations due to the sheer volume to be dealt with. “Keeping data protection and governance as part of the framework, every action on the system should have traceability.”

Publication: The Times of India 

Qualcomm, Reliance Jio jointly test 5G solutions for Indiaedit

US-based Qualcomm Technologies and Jio Platforms on Tuesday that announced they are working together to develop indigenous 5G solutions and network infrastructure for India.

Publication: Business Standard 

US hits Google with biggest antitrust lawsuit in 2 decadesedit

THE US JUSTICE department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google onTuesdayforallegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals, and called for action.

Publication: The Financial Express 

Enable Ray-Tracing (RTX) in Almost Every Game w/ AMD Radeon GPUs Using this Modedit

NVIDIA might have popularized ray-tracing (at least the term) among the masses, but even now only a small percentage of gamers have access to the technology. The reason is rather straight-forward: RTX GPUs are quite expensive and not everyone can afford them. More than half of the gamers worldwide still use a GTX 1060-level graphics cards, with a target resolution of 1080p. Crytek’s Noir Benchmark: Crytek’s Noir benchmark featuring RT ray-tracing is now publicly available.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Amazon Web Services, NITI Aayog launch Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Centreedit

The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) said on Monday that it had established a Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help address societal challenges through digital innovation. This is the first AWS CIC in India, the 12th around the world, and the first AWS CIC in India, the 12th around the world, and the first AWS CIC that will address societal challenges at a national level. “We are seeing public sector organizations around the world use cloud technology to innovate in a fast and agile manner, address problems at scale, and transform public services for citizens,” said Max Peterson, Vice President, International Sales, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Publication:

Most Powerful Womenedit

Su’s long-term plan to help AMD better compete against Intel and Nvidia with new, high-performance processors is hitting its stride. Its Epyc and Ryzen chips are grabbing market share, and the stock price is up 88% year to date. Su is pushing the industry to increase the number of women in the field and has set up learning labs at AMD for students from underrepresented groups to pursue STEM education.

Publication: Fortune (global page)

TECH-A-BYTEedit

Microsoft has announced that it will be launching 30 fully optimised games for Xbox Series X and Series S, on day one. Gamers will be able to play games like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Gears Tactics, and Tetris Effect: Connected, on their next-gen consoles on November 10. Out of the 30 new games, 20 will be available via Smart Delivery that are upgraded automatically.(Snapchat)

Publication: The Hindu  (Tech-A-Byte segment)

Tapping the boom in edge computingedit

India is yet to auction spectrum for the launching of 5G services. But, the action today is in Edge Computing, which involves getting resources for applications close to end users, typically within or at the boundary of operator networks. This has resulted in companies distributing cloud computing across locations and resources. With data taking centre stage, commercialisation of the telco Edge has started.

Publication: Business Today 

How to become the indefatigable gameredit

The elements required to become the indefatigable gamer are minimal. All you have to do is choose the right game. There are a few complex terms to digest, but that is what I am here to help you with anyway. First, you choose a game that is not a roguelike. A typical roguelike game moves you from dungeon to dungeon. And it is a horrifying ‘What’s behind the door’ game, where every time you open the same door, there lies another challenge. Roguelikes also have permadeath.

Publication: The New Indian Express 

TSMC’s 5nm process nodes to pick up pace in 2021edit

With the evolution of tech, silicon process nodes have become smaller and smaller – increasing both performance and efficiency. The 7nm process nodes have made our devices a lot more powerful than before and the new 5nm is the upcoming evolution in the silicon industry. Already the Apple A14 Bionic has become the first commercially available SoC to be based out of 5nm process. With days, we will see more of these new 5nm processors and the primary supplier for these nodes remains TSMC.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lounge Heroes: The girl who keeps the school on the cloud runningedit

Ashwini’s story was chosen by tech company Lenovo as one of 10 narratives of young women from across the world who have used technology to transform their lives. A short film featuring her is part of the company’s New Realities project, which uses 360-degree Virtual Reality camera techniques to tell the stories of ordinary-but-remarkable young women like Ashwini.

Publication: Mint

Dham, Paulraj call for urgent action on semicon and electronics techedit

Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.

Publication: The Times of India 

Games now a social platform; glorious decade ahead for gaming in India: Nazaraedit

In 2020, a few sectors stand out as clear winners – and one of them is gaming. The nationwide lockdown and remote living led to a surge in online gaming. By some estimates, India’s gaming market is expected to grow from $2 billion in 2019, to over $8 billion by 2024. India is now among the top five mobile gaming markets in the world with 365 million online gamers in 2019 which is estimated to increase to 440 million in 2 years.

Publication: CNBC TV 18 

The relentless threat of artificial intelligence taking our jobs awayedit

I recently came across a quote by the father of Information Theory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Claude Shannon: “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” Shannon did not seem to like human beings much, but this view set off another thought process in my mind. As a technology writer and digital transformation practitioner, the second-most asked question of me is: “Will artificial intelligence (AI) take our jobs, and what should I do to protect mine or my child’s”?

Publication: Mint

Intel, ISB study looks at how AI will impact 106 occupationsedit

Deepa Mani, professor of information systems at ISB and who led the study, said to determine SML, they examined each occupation for its need for physical presence, human interaction, and the need to explain decisions during job execution. The team also surveyed 301 firms in India that have adopted AI/ML in their workflows. Over 90% of the respondents said AI is essential or highly relevant to their business. Nivruti Rai, country head of Intel India, said multiple studies have noted that GDPs of economies would go up significantly with the application of AI.

Publication: The Times of India 

The new art of waredit

The best in the world has fallen prey to cyber-attacks. To name but a few, technology giants Hewlett Packard and IBM were among a dozen Cloud service providers whose domain was systematically unravelled by a nation state-backed hackers over a period of several years, which saw the former lose vast amounts of high-tech, biotech and pharma research, along with IP and financial security details. Further, plinths of personalized information on a slew of private businesses headquartered in the United States and the European Union was also pilfered.

Publication: Millenuim Post 

How Big Tech reset will Impact Indiaedit

F or much of their existence, the big four US tech giants—Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google— have been viewed as scrappy startups. Consumers loved their products, regulators largely looked away, and competitors either got acquired or fell by the wayside. That run of good fortune has been under threat for a while, but 2020 may well mark the beginning of the end. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump called for a break up of the Big Tech firms after both Facebook and Twitter took the “editorial” call to downplay leaked, unverified allegations about rival presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Publication: Mint

Businesses need tech that is flexible & adaptableedit

Nutanix Clusters on AWS and our offerings on Azure make us a very compelling cloud player, positioned at the centre of a customer’s cloud and digital transformation journey. With our recent innovations, Nutanix HCI has evolved from being ‘Hyper Converged Infrastructure’ to ‘Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure’. Our alliances offer customers true freedom of choice to achieve the best balance between cost, revenue, performance and risk management. For example, our global partnership with HPE has provided customers the choice and flexibility to leverage their own cloud journey in a pay-as-you-use environment.

Publication: Financial Express 

HP Launches Patient-First Print Technologies to Help Healthcare Workers Stay Safe and Spend More Time Caring for Patientsedit

oday, HP Inc. officially launched new print solutions for the healthcare industry. Based on deep customer insights and co-developed with healthcare providers, associations and partners, HP Healthcare Print Solutions address the most pressing issues facing the healthcare industry today including patient wellness and safety, care coordination, mobility, privacy and security. “As our healthcare systems continue to battle the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and brace for a second wave colliding with the flu this fall, the issues of patient safety and clinician burnout have intensified,” said Daniel Colling, RN, Global Head Healthcare Industry Solutions & Practice, HP Inc.

Publication: IT News Online 

Intel Gen12 Xe GPU Spotted with 1,536 Cores and 9.4GB VRAMedit

Just a few days after the 128CU Intel Xe GPU was spotted on SiSoft, another listing has surfaced, this time a much more powerful part. The part in question appears to a dual-GPU solution, with as many as 192 Execution Units or 1,536 shaders and 9.4GB memory. It’s unlikely that we’re looking at an MCM design with just 192 EUs, so this is likely a compute accelerator. It has an operating clock of 1.25GHz, with 2MB of L2 cache and a TDP of just 50W (could be an error). SiSift classifies this as a Tiger Lake-U part, but as of now, we don’t know of any TGU-U SKU with this many GPU cores.

Publication: Hardware Times 

SMIC Announces N+1 Process: Claims it “Almost the Same” as TSMC’s 7nm Nodeedit

However, having a closer look at the fundamentals, it’s clear that although N+1 is quite efficient, in terms of performance and density, it’s not quite up there. Compared to SMIC’s own 14nm process, N+1 reduces power consumption by a whopping 57% and logic die area by up to 63%. However, the increase in performance is just around 20%. In comparison, TSMC’s 7nm node, adds up to 35% more performance on going from its 14nm node, with a 55% power efficiency boost and a density 3.3x higher.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The 100 most sustainably managed companies in the worldedit

Hardware makers like Sony are the most common type of businesses found in the WSJ sustainability ranking, claiming 18 positions in the top 100 list. Hardware companies tend to focus on business areas that our sustainability-management measures weigh heavily, such as supply chain, materials sourcing and efficiency, and product design and life cycle. The next most heavily represented group, chemical makers, with 10 spots, includes Arkema SA and Solvay SA. Semiconductor makers such as Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. took seven spots.

Publication: Livemint

AMD files a patent for its new Project Quantumedit

Four years ago, AMD announced that it is moving forward with its ambitious project quantum. But no news came out of the company with tech enthusiasts feeling almost sure that they all but shelves the project. But sources claim that the exact opposite is true. AMD has recently filled a patent, and the news is extremely juicy.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel AI Centre at Work on Tools to Cut Road Mishapsedit

Intel India has set up an applied AI research centre jointly with the Telangana state government, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). The research centre would focus on image recognition classification and healthcare data processing, Rai said. Intel and IIIT-Hyderabad collaborated to build the world’s first open dataset of driving conditions in India and launched it globally in 2018.

Publication: The Economic Times 

Notebook and PC sales have finally picked up their tracksedit

But the leader board rank 1 Lenovo has shipped the most units in the third quarter. With a whopping sales of 19.3 million devices, the company saw an increase of an 11 percent increase from last year. It followed closely by HP with 18.6 million sales and a 12 percent year-over-year uptick. The PC manufacturer Dell shipped 11.9 million units in the third quarter but suffered a decrease of 0.5% from the year prior. The Cupertino giant, on the other hand, has shipped 6.3 million units with an increase of 13.2%.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel partners with Telangana govt to launch applied AI research centreedit

Intel India has collaborated with the Government of Telangana, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to launch INAI, an applied artificial intelligence research centre in Hyderabad. INAI is an initiative that applies AI to population-scale problems in the Indian context, with a focus on identifying and solving challenges in the healthcare and smart mobility segments through strong ecosystem collaboration.

Publication: Business Standard 

Intel India to focus on AI for fixing human centric issuesedit

Intel India is focussing on human-centric artificial intelligence (AI) for solving problems in the healthcare and smart mobility segments, Nivruti Rai, country head, Intel India, said at the ongoing all.ai 2020 virtual summit. India will need to leverage its talent, technology and intellectual property (IP), data sets, and work on building bias-free policies to build the AI capabilities needed to solve the unique problems of the country, Rai said.

Publication: Livemint

To thrive amid this crisis, companies must build on the trust of their employees: AMD Global CHRO (PROACTIVE)edit

Robert Gama is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at AMD. Gama works with the global human resources team to solve AMD’s most complex people, culture, talent, and leadership challenges. With more than 20 years of business and functional experience, Gama is a proven, results-oriented leader with demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through strategic HR practices.

Publication: People Matters 

Intel expands 5G networking solutions in a $25 billion marketedit

Eying a bigger pie of the growing 5G networking market, chip giant Intel has announced an expanded lineup of hardware, software and solutions for network infrastructure. As the telecommunications industry transitions to 5G, the next wave of network transformation represents a $25 billion silicon opportunity by 2023. “When you consider the collective impact of the proliferation of fully virtualized cloud architectures combined with the commercialization of 5G, the rise of AI and the growth of the edge, it truly has a multiplier effect that makes each more impactful than it would be on its own,” said Dan Rodriguez, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Network Platforms Group.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

More People Are Buying Laptops And Lenovo, Apple And HP See Strong Growth In Shipmentsedit

The latest estimates come days ahead of Apple’s official fiscal Q4 (Q3 2020) performance report that is slated to release on October 29. The latest estimates from the data firm also indicate that the global PC market grew by 12.7 percent, shipping a total of 7.92 crore units in the last quarter. Canalys claims that this is the highest growth the market has seen in the past 10 years. The growth in shipments is largely attributed to significant demands in PC units as more people are working from home owing to COVID-19 restrictions placed in several countries.

Publication: News18

 

Microsoft to let staff work from home permanently: Reportedit

Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, Verge reported on Friday, becoming the latest employer to expand work-from-home provisions. “We’ll offer as much flexibility as possible…,” Microsoft’s chief people officer Kathleen Hogan said in a note to staff obtained by the tech news outlet. The firm doesn’t expect to reopen US offices until at least January. AFP

Publication: The Times of India 

Steam Survey says Intel losing grounds to AMD rapidly, can Zen 3 overturn the game for AMD totally?edit

As per the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey: September 2020 report, things doesn’t look good for Intel as it continues to lose market share to its sole rival AMD. Now, the Red team owns a chunk of market share as it now has 1/4th of it for the first time. AMD has pounced back in 2017 with its Ryzen processors and revolutionized the processor market as a whole with its ‘Zen’ architecture. Intel, who took things lightly, has now nowhere to go as even it has lost the gaming crown to AMD recently.

Publication: TechnoSports

 

AMD buying Xilinx: No chip shotedit

The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday that Advanced Micro Devices is in advanced talks to acquire Xilinx in a deal that could be valued at more than $30 billion. That is assuming Xilinx is able to land a decent premium to its unaffected market value of a little under $26 billion. The deal would pair two chip makers that typically work at very different ends of the market but have both been targeting data centers lately. Both also depend on the cutting-edge fabrication processes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, or TSMC, to actually produce their chips.

Publication: Livemint

Employees in India face increased burnout at work during covid: Microsoft reportedit

Employees in India are facing increased burnout due to lack of separation between work and personal life as well as concerns of contracting COVID-19, a report said on Wednesday.

Publication: Livemint

India server market revenue declines 22.3% in Q2: IDCedit

The overall server market in India witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) decline of 22.3 per cent in terms of vendor revenue to reach $272 million in the April-June period versus $350.2 million in the same period last year, the International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a report on Thursday.

Publication: Telangana Today

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