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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
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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
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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
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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
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