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 

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 

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

(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 

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

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

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

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 

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 

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 

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

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