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 

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 

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 

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 ...

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 

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 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 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

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

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 

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