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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
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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
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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
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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
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