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AMD specific news
HP OMEN 15 REVIEW! 4800H, 1650Ti! (PROACTIVE)edit
Review of the AMD Powered HP Omen 15 – 4800H Processors
Publication: Dhananjay Bhosale (YouTube)
AMD Big Navi Graphics Cards to Return to MSRP within 8 Weeksedit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 series supply issues have been even worse than NVIDIA’s Ampere launch. Most retailers have received only double-digit AIB units with very few on the way. Unsurprisingly, this has jacked up the prices of the few parts still available on the market quite significantly.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT has a Total Overclocking Potential of 3GHzedit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 series have massive overclocking potential, reaching clocks of 2.6GHz in our own tests, and nearly 2.8GHz for some AIB partner cards. Looking at the MorePowerTool from Igor’s community, it can be seen that the 2.8GHz is the hard limit for the RX 6800 XT, explaining the results obtained by most reviewers.
Publication: Hardware Times
Finally Lenovo is launching the Legion 5 with AMD Ryzen 4000H Processors in Indiaedit
Although it has been a year since the original announcement of AMD Ryzen 4000H processors, Lenovo wants to impress its fans with its Legion 5 RYZEN.
Publication: TechnoSports
Now you can use AMD Smart Memory Access feature on 400 series Motherboards as welledit
Now you can use AMD Smart Memory Access feature on 400 series Motherboards as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Card to cost RS 64,990 excluding GST in Indiaedit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card price has been revealed in India after the company announced the Radeon RX 6000-series back in October. AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000-series based on the new RDNA2 microarchitecture include the RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics cards. The SEP (suggested e-tailer pricing) of the RX 6800 XT has finally been revealed for India.
Publication: Digit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Cardedit
AMD has done it. The new ‘RDNA 2’-based Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are very competitive in performance and aren’t power-hungry for the performance that they deliver. We only have the pricing for the RX 6800 which does work out well for the Indian market given that the GPUs do have the performance to back it up. And now that the price for the RX 6800 XT has been unveiled, we don’t see any reason for Indian consumers to opt for the card.
Publication: Digit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Graphics Card Now Accessible (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 is now accessible through online and offline retail conduits in India. AMD proclaimed that the Radeon RX 6000 series late the previous month. It includes the 3 latest graphics cards. While the company has not disclosed the pricing details for Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT, the recommended SEP of Radeon RX 6800 has been publicized by AMD.
Publication: IT Voice India
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU Price in India Revealed, Will Cost Rs. 64,990 Plus GST (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card will cost Rs. 64,990 (SEP) in India before GST, the company shared through a post on Instagram. AMD unveiled three new graphics cards in its Radeon RX 6000 series including the AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT last month. The Instagram post also reveals that partner cards should be arriving in the coming days. As of now, the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is not available on the official AMD India store or other e-retailers.
Publication: Gadgets 360
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Card to cost RS 64,990 Excluding GST in India (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card price has been revealed in India after the company announced the Radeon RX 6000-series back in October. AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000-series based on the new RDNA2 microarchitecture include the RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics cards. The SEP (suggested e-tailer pricing) of the RX 6800 XT has finally been revealed for India.
Publication: Digit
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U Cezanne APU with 8 Zen 3 cores post significant improvements on Geekbenchedit
The upcoming Ryzen 5000U APUs are real and are expected to debut at the upcoming CES 2021 with Dr. Lisa Su. Before that, we have seen a range of leaks about these APUs as they are more interesting and powerful than before. Already the Lucienne Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 5700U have been spotted running on various laptops; they are nothing but Zen 2 refresh. However, the exciting part is the Ryzen 7 5800U, a Cezanne APU with Zen 3 cores, hence even more powerful.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel takes a shot at rival AMDedit
We all know the famous rivalry between Intel and AMD. It is a proven fact that Intel is slowly losing its crown as the silicon giant in the tech industry. But that doesn’t mean it will lie down and take the blow. Instead, Intel has directly called out its rival in its latest presentation, claiming that AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs suffer major performance penalties when running on battery.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs RX 5700: Which is Faster? (PROACTIVE)edit
When AMD launched the Radeon RX 5600 XT in Jan, one of the questions gamers had was whether the new GPU was going to replace the RX 5700. Both GPUs are based on the Navi 10 die with an identical core count of 2,304 stream processors. Moreover, post-launch, most OEMs updated the VRAM speed to 14Gbps leaving the bus width as the primary difference between the two. The 5700 has a wider 256-bit bus and an 8GB buffer while the 5600 XT is limited to 6GB across a 192-bit bus similar to the RTX 2060.
Publication: Hardware Times
Best laptop for multitasking in India (PROACTIVE)edit
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a powerful machine that is packed in a compact package. It features a 14-inch Full HD IPS pantone validated panel offering 100% sRGB. It is powered by an AMD Ryzen 4600HS processor coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 1TB SSD. It comes with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti 4GB graphics. It offers a battery life of up to 10 hours. It comes with an ergonomic hinge that raises the laptop, offering a comfortable typing position.
Publication: Business Insider
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Card Review (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has done it. The new ‘RDNA 2’-based Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are very competitive in performance and aren’t power-hungry for the performance that they deliver. We only have the pricing for the RX 6800 which does work out well for the Indian market given that the GPUs do have the performance to back it up. And now that the price for the RX 6800 XT has been unveiled, we don’t see any reason for Indian consumers to opt for the card. Performance wise, these cards do well in most benchmarks that we ran. At INR 54,279, the Radeon RX 6800 enjoys a very healthy and consumer-centric positioning in India while the Radeon RX 6800 XT,
Publication: Digit
Home/Office PC Upgrade for ₹40K Featuring WD Blue SN550 500GB SSD #SPONSOREDedit
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Improving the productivity of your home / office PC doesn’t cost a lot. Here’s a build for around 40K that’ll speed up software commonly used for day-to-day tasks such as Excel, Word, etc. and also video editing software. Components used: Processor – AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Graphics Card – MSI GTX 1650 Ventus XS OC Edition Motherboard – MSI A320M-A PRO MAX RAM.
Publication: Digit
AMD Enables Smart Memory Access (SAM) on B450 and X470 Motherboards (PROACTIVE)edit
With the launch of the beta BIOS by ASUS and ASRock, Zen 3 support has been brought to the older B450 and X470 boards well ahead of the slated date. However, it appears that the said update (AGESA v2 1.1.0.0) also brings a little surprise along with it: Smart Memory Access (SAM) is now also available on the 400 series boards, only with a Ryzen 5000 CPU and RX 6000 GPU though.
Publication: Hardware Times
MINISFORUM launches new Mini-PC called EliteMini UM700 with AMD’s Ryzen 7 3750Hedit
Demand for high-performing portable devices has increased tremendously during the pandemic. With most of the business-driven to move online, PCs that can be covered under the budget and still offer high performance are the target of every buyer. Following the demand, the tech manufacturer MINISFORUM has unveiled yet another mini-PC. The device is called the new EliteMini UM700 and is already available to order for US$539 directly from the manufacturer. The machine comes with 8 GB of SO-DIMM RAM and 128 GB of M.2 2280 storage. The price is significantly more for the 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage; it rises to US$669.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD’s Precision Boost Overdrive 2.0 For Ryzen 5000 Will Finally Bring Undervolting Features (PROACTIVE)edit
Powering the new undervolting options is a new adaptive curve Optimizer, which as the name suggests will tweak the frequency-voltage curve. Undervolting, as the name suggests, is a method in which a user can tell the CPU to draw less voltage at any given frequency, which results in decreased heat output. The new curve optimizer feature will be welcome news to all Ryzen CPU owners, especially Zen 3, as AMD’s processors tend to run quite warm.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel Claims AMD Systems Cede Performance For Better Battery Lifeedit
Intel hasn’t had things this year. From AMD’s impressive showing in benchmark scores, to Apple’s new Silicon M1 chips dominating benchmarks. The launch of its 11th-gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops has seemingly been pushed to the sidelines as a consequence and the silicon juggernaut is looking for ways to get back into the spotlight.
Publication: Mashable India
Chipmaker AMD Nears Buy Point After Getting Bullish Analyst Reportedit
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has vibrant prospects in its core companies and from its pending acquisition of Xilinx (XLNX), a Wall Street analyst mentioned Monday. Meanwhile, AMD inventory is approaching a purchase level. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mitch Steves on Monday reiterated his outperform ranking on AMD inventory and raised his worth goal to 100 from 92. In morning buying and selling on the stock market today, AMD inventory rose 2.9%, close to 87.10.
Publication: Pehal News
Tie-ups AMD’s Game Plan for India Market (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is focusing on partnerships with equipment manufacturers, retailers and channel partners to build the market for its gaming systems in India, according to a senior executive. The US-based semiconductor maker is pursuing partnerships with laptop manufacturers such as Dell, HP, ASUS and Lenovo, who have made big bets on the gaming segment for their premium and mass market notebooks.
Publication: The Economic Times
Ryzen 9 5900x & RTX 3070 Gameplay Benchmarks… The New Fastest Gaming CPU? (PROACTIVE)edit
King of Gaming CPUs 2020 | The World’s Fastest Gaming CPU 2020 | Ryzen 9 5900x & Ryzen 9 5950x India | Ryzen 9 5900x Review & Gameplay Benchmarks India 2020
Publication: Vimal Chintapatla (YouTube)
Ray Tracing Support Isn’t Enough For Radeon RX 6000 To Compete With NVIDIA – Why FidelityFX Super Resolution Is Importantedit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 cards which have hardware ray tracing support are now out in the market, but that isn’t enough to compete with NVIDIA. The new graphics cards, built on the new RDNA 2 architecture, are meant to compete with NVIDIA’s enthusiast cards – the RTX 3070 and 3080.
Publication: TechQuila
IBM and AMD to cooperate on cybersecurityedit
IBM and AMD are two stalwarts of the modern computer industry, even though IBM is now struggling to regain some relevance as its glory years of leading the computer industry are far behind now. Nevertheless, IBM remains a pioneer in the space, while AMD is one of the largest chip makers in the world, and rivals Intel in terms of popularity among consumers and businesses for their computing requirements. Thus, it is important that companies which lead the space in this manner make it a point to work towards the issues of the day, and one of the biggest issues facing the industry at this moment is the question of cybersecurity.
Publication: TechStory
AMD to grow gaming market share through partnerships with OEMS and retailers (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is focusing on partnerships with equipment manufacturers, retailers and channel partners to build the market for its gaming systems in India, according to a senior executive. The US-based semiconductor maker is pursuing partnerships with laptop manufacturers such as Dell, HP, ASUS and Lenovo, who have made big bets on the gaming segment for their premium and mass market notebooks.
Publication: ET Tech – The Economic Times
Ryzen 5800X Review! AMAZING but JUST 1 downside! & that’s a big one! (PROACTIVE)edit
Publication: Dhananjay Bhosale
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with 6 cores & 12 threads seems to be confirmededit
The Red team is always looking for its next-gen processors and trying to improve it over time, also; we as users expect a lot from AMD’s upcoming CPUs or APUs. Undoubtedly, AMD Ryzen 4000U processors were a hit, and as CES 2021 approaches, we look forward to AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 5000 series APUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Alleged Specs Highlight 12 GB VRAM, Lower Power Usage Than RX 5700 Series With Navi 22 GPUedit
It hasn’t been a week since AMD released its Radeon RX 6800 XT, and we’re already starting to get solid information on the more budget-focused RX 6700 series. Patrick Schur has now posted what looks to be the specs of the Radeon RX 6700 and 6700 XT, which use the Navi 22 GPU.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Radeon RX 6800 could be best suited for power-efficient systems (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s RDNA2-based GPU’s will be launched in the Quarter one of 2021, but it is not stopping some developers to check the performance of these cards. The developers at ComputerBase has put together the most exhaustive performance report of the RX 6800/XT cards. According to them, the new AMD cards, especially the RX 6800 model, has performed extremely well and have given out some surprising results. The RX 6800 XT has shown a decrease in power requirements, and high power demand was not significant. The voltage could be lowered from 1.15 V to 1.025, and it won’t cause any instability to the system and performance.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT shatters all records at 3DMark (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has finally launched its Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, and it seems that the card has already scored a significant win in the 3DMark benchmark. According to sources, the renowned overclocker, Lucky_Noob, aka Alva Jonathan, has achieved a world record with Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card on-air and even beating several RTX 3090 Liquid Nitrogen cooled graphics cards.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060: Which one is Faster? (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT was launched to slot the gap between the RX 5500XT and the RX 5700. It goes head to head against NVIDIA’s RTX 2060 while costing $60 less. 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
AMD RX 6800 XT GPU breaks world record while overclocked to 2.65GHz – and without any fancy cooling (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT has only just been released, but it has already taken one world record in a benchmark – albeit with a caveat – and proved that those rumors about Big Navi having great overclocking potential are true. Videocardz spotted ‘Lucky_n00b’ (Indonesian overclocker Alva Jonathan) pushing the RX 6800 XT with a boost overclock to 2.65GHz on air – in other words, just using the graphics card’s stock fans, with no fancy cooling, which is seriously impressive in itself.
Publication: Gadgets Page
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Graphics Card Now Accessible (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 is now accessible through online and offline retail conduits in India. AMD proclaimed that the Radeon RX 6000 series late the previous month. It includes the 3 latest graphics cards. While the company has not disclosed the pricing details for Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT, the recommended SEP of Radeon RX 6800 has been publicized by AMD. AMD Radeon RX 6800 costs INR 45,999 (SEP) in India, exclusive of GST. The SEP rates are set by the manufacturing firm but are subjected to inflation based on distribution/retail margins and scarcity.
Publication: IT Voice
AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs seem to have worse stocks than NVIDIAedit
The new AMD GPUs have created a lot of hype in the gaming community as because of its handsome specs against NVIDIA’s RTX 30-series GPUs. However, NVIDIA’s stock was pathetic and people got sick of waiting for the GPUs and a lot of people were inclined to opt for AMD instead. But, the situation after day 1 availability of these new AMD GPUs things seems far more concerning and bad than even NVIDIA. As the renowned YouTuber JayzTwoCents in his video talked about the availability of these two new RX 6800 GPUs and it doesn’t look good.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is being sold at ridiculous prices on Amazon Indiaedit
Okay, so the hype about the new Ryzen 5000 series processors have taken over the fans throughout the globe. However, in 2020, one thing remains constant is the tremendous demand for new PC components and that has raised new issues like out of stock or price hikes. I won’t be surprised with this situation as it was the case a year back with the advent of Ryzen 3000 as well. However, the thing that really shocked me is the ridiculous pricing of the Ryzen 5 5600X on Amazon India today, I expected almost 10-20% price hike at launch for these new processors.
Publication: TechnoSports
Cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing only available for Nvidia and not for AMD as of nowedit
CD Project Red will soon release the much anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 game. But some exciting update has popped up on the internet showing ray tracing footage of the game. The developers also revealed the final PC system requirements of the massively anticipated first-person open-world roleplaying game.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD is working on a cross-platform DLSS super-sampling feature for both PC and consolesedit
The Red team has launched its kind NVIDIA RTX GPU killer, the new Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs based on RDNA 2 architecture. Obviously, the main hype for almost two years now is ray tracing, and AMD has finally implemented it on their new GPUs. As for now, it doesn’t have a huge library of games optimized for AMD’s ray tracing feature; however, AMD does have an advantage in the form of consoles. Not to mention AMD is in the heart of every new Xbox Series and PS5 consoles in the market, which means it has a chance to increase its game library for ray tracing over time.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Card (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has done it. The new ‘RDNA 2’-based Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are very competitive, priced much lower and aren’t power-hungry for the performance that they deliver. We only have the pricing for the RX 6800 which does work out well for the Indian market given that the GPUs do have the performance to back it up. What remains to be seen is how the RX 6800 XT will be priced. We’ll know about that in a weeks time and hopefully, it’s competitively priced compared to the RTX 3080 or equivalent.
Publication: Digit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Graphics Card Now Available in India, AIB Models to Go on Sale From November 25 (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 is now available via online and offline retail channels in India. AMD announced the Radeon RX 6000 series late last month. It comprises three new graphics cards – AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the top-end AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. While AMD hasn’t revealed the pricing details for Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT, the suggested e-tailer pricing (SEP) of Radeon RX 6800 has been announced by the company.
Publication: Gadgets 360
AMD CEO Lisa Su gets chip industry’s highest honoredit
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su has received the chip industry’s highest honor as the 2020 recipient of the Robert N. Noyce Award. The Semiconductor Industry Association, the chip industry lobbying group, gave her the award in an online ceremony today. Normally, the event takes place in San Jose, California, and has about 1,000 attendees.
Publication: Technology4You
AMD Radeon RX 6800 India Pricing Revealed; Similar To RTX 3070edit
AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards based on RDNA 2 architecture are now available for purchase across the globe. The company has now revealed the Indian price of these new GPUs that competes against the RTX 3000 series of GPUs. The reference card (from AMD) of the RX 6800 will be available in India with a starting price of Rs. 45,999 (tax not included). Similarly, the AIB models (from board partners) of the RX 6800 and the RX 6800XT will go on sale in the country from November 25th.
Publication: Gizbot
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Is Now Available for Purchase in India, SEP Set at Rs 45,999 (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card, unveiled last month by the American chipmaker is now available for purchase in India. The Radeon RX 6800 is a part of the Radeon RX 6000 series, which includes the AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. While the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT prices are yet to be announced, the suggested e-tailer price (SEP) of the AMD Radeon RX 6800 has been announced at Rs 45,999 in India (exclusive of GST).
Publication: Network 18
PowerColor Shows off the Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Deviledit
After much teasing, PowerColor today showed off its Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil graphics card, featuring an aesthetic design with plenty of (red) LED lighting and a bulky triple-fan heatsink. Colorful is opting for a 14 phase VRM for its flagship, a step down from the reference PCB which comes with a 15 phase design for the graphics core and 2 phases for the memory.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD launches world’s fastest GPU for scientific research (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD on Tuesday launched Instinct MI100 accelerator – touted as the worlds fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU for scientific research. Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the AMD chip enables a new class of accelerated systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) when paired with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Publication: Times Now News
What can you expect from AMD’s 3rd Gen EPYC Milan ‘Zen 3’ CPUs?edit
AMD’s mammoth of a processor, the 3rd Gen EPYC Milan CPUs, will be launched soon. And it seems that several users over the internet had doubts whether the manufacturer will deliver on its promise of launching the processor on time. But AMD has assured that the processors will be launched in Q1 2021, without any delays. The processors will succeed in the current EPYC Rome lineup. It comes with a new Zen 3 core architecture based on the 7nm process node.
Publication: TechnoSports
Google’s new Chromebook with AMD processor spotted onlineedit
The pandemic induced lockdown has forced many professions to move online and has increased their dependency on technology. The most noticeable impact was seen in education, and it resulted in both teachers and students adopting notebooks and Chromebooks for online teaching. With the increase in demand for Chromebooks, most prominent players in the market are rushing to increase their profits.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD will be integrating Microsoft Pluton Security Processor to Future Ryzen Products (PROACTIVE)edit
These days due to the pandemic we are living the work-from-home era with the help of modern computing. We have done a quick transition to this process and like everything has its own upside and downside, so does this work-from-home era. Microsoft Windows is the most used OS undoubtedly and with enough security features already, hackers easily find a way out and we are seeing increased number security attacks in the past couple months.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon Rx 6800 GPU Review : Surprising! (PROACTIVE)edit
The new AMD RDNA2 GPUs take on Nvidia’s GPU dominance. The design and the build quality is unlike any other entry level card. The all metal design is great and the RED LED logo is backlit and looks great. Fighting really well with the 3070 and in most cases even defeating the 3080. An impressive result from AMD performance.
Publication: iGyaan – YouTube
AMD Radeon 6800XT – Nvidia RTX 3080 Killer??? (PROACTIVE)edit
In the budget and mid-range, AMD has great products. But with the high end products, NVIDIA has always dominated. Not anymore, with the latest Radeon RX 6000 series, AMD is taking the fight directly to NVIDIA’s 3000 series. Raytracing is finally back to the latest generation of cards. With these new GPUs, AMD introduced infinity Cache as well.
Publication: C4ETech – YouTube
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Graphics Cards Now Available, starts at ₹ 45,999 (PROACTIVE)edit
Finally, the day has come when you can finally buy an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs across the globe and in India as well. This is the most exciting part because, after long, long years, AMD can match or even beat top-of-the-line NVIDIA GPUs and implement the much-awaited Ray tracing to its GPUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
MacBooks with Apple M1 chip now available, they bring a future extremely exciting and a little frighteningedit
If it wasn’t for AMD Zen 3 processors, announced just a few weeks ago and yet to reach market in any meaningful way, you could have said that November 17, 2020, was a bloodbath for Intel and AMD processors. On Tuesday Apple’s new MacBooks and the Mac mini became available. Outwardly, there is nothing strikingly new about the late 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13-inch and Mac mini. But inside them a revolution is going on.
Publication: India Today
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Review – Big Navi Bites Back, With Impressive Gains in RDNA 2 (PROACTIVE)edit
We’ve been testing and playing with the 6800 XT for almost a week now, and I should note a few things before diving deeper into the review. For one, we didn’t have an RTX 3080 to compare the 6800 XT with, hence the benchmark charts today won’t show any comparisons with that. We did source some benchmark data from certain other outlets for the 3080 so we could get a better look at comparative performance.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X brings out the best in both Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT (PROACTIVE)edit
Recently the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT were paired together with the same type of CPU to run for various simulations of Vulkan Geekbench tests. The CPU that was used for testing was the beast that comes with 16 cores and 32 threads. That’s right; we are talking about the processor none other than the AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel’s Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU is said to be 30% faster than AMD’s 2nd gen EPYC line-upedit
Intel will soon release its Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU’s and the processors will come with an updated core architecture. The processor will reportedly deliver 18% more IPC than its predecessors. The manufacturer claims that its CPU will be a better performer than AMD’s 2nd generation EPYC Rome CPU’s. The Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs is on track to be launched in the mid of 2021, and intel assures the same for its CPU. The Xeon CPU is based on a 10nm process node and comes with a brand new microarchitecture and a new platform.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU Review: Best Mainstream Processor By All Means (PROACTIVE)edit
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is one of the few silicon-designing brands that make both mainstream CPUs and GPUs. The company recently launched the Ryzen 5000 series processors based on the Zen 3 architecture to compete against the high-performance desktop CPUs from Intel. Similarly, the brand also launched the Radeon 6000 series of GPUs based on RDNA 2 architecture to compete against the NVIDIA RTX 3000 series of graphics cards.
Publication: Gizbot
Microsoft Pluton chip announced, brings Xbox-level security to upcoming Windows PCedit
Microsoft has announced a new chip called Pluton that will enhance the security on its future Windows PC. Microsoft Pluton is a security chip that will be built into the CPUs on the next-generation computers and laptops running Windows. It will also replace the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that currently provides security to the entire Windows ecosystem and the hardware using cryptographic keys.
Publication: India Today
Microsoft unveils highly-secure Pluton chip for Windows PCsedit
Microsoft has unveiled a new security chip called Pluton that has been designed to protect the future Windows PCs. The Pluton security processor will provide next-generation hardware security protection to Windows PCs through future chips from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, the tech giant said in a statement late on Tuesday.
Publication: Telangana Today
AMD will be integrating Microsoft Pluton Security Processor to Future Ryzen Products (PROACTIVE)edit
These days due to the pandemic we are living the work-from-home era with the help of modern computing. We have done a quick transition to this process and like everything has its own upside and downside, so does this work-from-home era. Microsoft Windows is the most used OS undoubtedly and with enough security features already, hackers easily find a way out and we are seeing increased number security attacks in the past couple months.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X brings out the best in both Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XTedit
Recently the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT were paired together with the same type of CPU to run for various simulations of Vulkan Geekbench tests. The CPU that was used for testing was the beast that comes with 16 cores and 32 threads. That’s right; we are talking about the processor none other than the AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics card review (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has done it. The new ‘RDNA 2’-based Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are very competitive, priced much lower and aren’t power-hungry for the performance that they deliver. We only have the pricing for the RX 6800 which does work out well for the Indian market given that the GPUs do have the performance to back it up.
Publication: Digit
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Review: Chipping at the Heels of the RTX 3080 (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s RDNA 2 based Radeon Big Navi graphics cards are finally set to hit retail today, with the RX 6800 and 6800 XT reference models expected to be available across all major markets in limited quantities. In this post, we have a look at the Radeon RX 6800 and see how it holds up compared to the competition. We’ll be checking the core raster performance, ray-tracing grit, and an analysis of the much-advertised Smart Access Memory (SAM) which for the time being is exclusive to the Ryzen 5000 CPU-Radeon RDNA 2 GPU combos.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RDNA 2 “Big Navi” Architectural Deep Dive: A Focus on Efficiency (PROACTIVE)edit
When AMD announced its Radeon RX 6800 series and 6900 XT GPUs, otherwise known as Big Navi last month, the architectural details were quite sparse. There were two features that were the primary focus: The huge 128MB of L3 cache, dubbed as the Infinity Cache by AMD, and the relatively high core clocks, resulting in a much higher performance per watt ratio compared to RDNA 1.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD to be the 1st Chipmaker to Implement 3D Packaging in its CPUsedit
The chiplet design has been one of the primary factors behind AMD’s recent success in the CPU market. Arch-rival Intel still uses monolithic processors which limits it to 28-core parts in the server space and just 10-core designs in the consumer segment. Now AMD is looking at further expanding that gap with the help of advanced packaging technologies being developed by foundry partner, TSMC.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD launches world’s fastest GPU for scientific research (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD on Tuesday launched Instinct MI100 accelerator – touted as the worlds fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU for scientific research. Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the AMD chip enables a new class of accelerated systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) when paired with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. “Engineered to power AMD GPUs for the exascale era and at the heart of the MI100 accelerator, the AMD CDNA architecture offers exceptional performance and power efficiency,” the company said in a statement.
Publication: Bhaskar Live
AMD launches MI100 GPU accelerator for high performance computing (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD launched what it claims is the fastest GPU accelerator for high-performance computing with the ability to top 10 teraflops. The AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator is supported by platforms by Dell Technologies, Gigabyte, HPE, and Supermicro and is combined with AMD’s EPYC CPUs and the ROCm 4.0 open software platform. AMD Instinct MI100 is built on the chip maker’s CDNA architecture.
Publication: Technology4You
AMD RX 6800 graphics card could be an overclocker’s dream (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 graphics card goes on sale tomorrow (along with the 6800 XT variant), and it has been spotted with a huge overclock applied, causing much excitement (particularly considering we’ve had several previous such mammoth overclock sightings, which this underlines).
Publication: Gadget Page
These are the best AMD Ryzen laptops: Surface Laptop 3, ROG Zephyrus G14 and More (PROACTIVE)edit
HP has been on the top of our lists when it comes to 2-in-1 convertible notebooks. The company offers the Envy x360 with the AMD Ryzen 4000 series processor and a choice of either a 13-inch or a 15-inch model that offers the same set of specs apart from their size. Apart from the options of a Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, or Ryzen 7 4000 series processors to choose from, the convertible notebook is backed up by 8GB of RAM (upgradeable on the 15-inch variant), fast SSD storage, and a vibrant touch display along with support for a touch pen.
Publication: XDA – Developers
AMD launches world’s fastest GPU for scientific research (PROACTIVE)edit
Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the AMD chip enables a new class of accelerated systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) when paired with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. “Engineered to power AMD GPUs for the exascale era and at the heart of the MI100 accelerator, the AMD CDNA architecture offers exceptional performance and power efficiency,” the company said in a statement.
Publication: DT Next
AMD EPYC Processors and AMD Instinct MI100 Accelerator Launched (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has launched the new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator with ROCm 4.0 open ecosystem support and showcased a growing list of AMD EPYC CPU and AMD Instinct accelerator based deployments, and highlighted its collaboration with Microsoft Azure for HPC in the cloud. AMD also remains on track to begin volume shipments of the 3rd Gen EPYC processors with “Zen 3” core to select HPC and cloud customers this quarter in advance of the expected public launch in Q1 2021, aligned with OEM availability.
Publication: PC Quest
What AMD CPU to get this Festive Season (PROACTIVE)edit
If you’re someone who is in the content creation game, be it video editing or live-streaming, the 5800X and the 3800X should be your go to. Both these CPUs are outstanding and will allow you to create content without an issue. With 8 cores and 12 threads, video editing will be a breeze. And for the streamers out there, those extra cores and threads will allow you to focus on your game and stream rather than worrying about frame drops.
Publication: TechGoggles
AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs show promising results in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmarkedit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT has been launched, and we are seeing some pretty good results regarding the performance of the new card. Recently the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 have appeared on the Ashes of the Singularity (AotS) benchmark, and the results are way too crazy.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD announces new Instinct MI100 accelerator (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has finally announced the next-generation CDNA GPU-based Instinct MI100 accelerator. The company calls it the fastest HPC GPU in the world. It will be utilizing the CDNA architecture, which is different than the RDNA. The new architecture is specifically designed for the HPC segment.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD EPYC Milan CPUs to be coming in Q1 2021edit
Having announced the new Ryzen 5000 series processors based on Zen 3 architecture, AMD showcased a substantial improvement in performance with some tweaks made to its already brilliant Zen 2 architecture. Still using the 7nm node by TSMC, AMD will be bringing its new server CPUs next year itself and they did indeed confirm that while launching its M100 HPC accelerator.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD to Launch Ray-Tracing Trailer w/ RT Reflections and Shadows on 19th Novedit
On the eve of the Big Navi launch, AMD has announced a new ray-traced technology demo, titled “Hanger 21” featuring cutting-edge visuals and the latest ray-tracing effects. You can see the teaser above. Hanger 21 is expected to demo the capabilities of AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture as well the GPUs’ ray-tracing grit, featuring both ray-traced shadows as well as reflections. It’ll be interesting to see how the Radeon RX 6000 GPUs perform compared to their NVIDIA Ampere rivals in this benchmark.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel Claims 30% More Perf with Ice Lake-SP (32C) Over AMD Epyc Rome (64C)…in Select AVX512 Benchmarksedit
Intel today detailed some very interesting “benchmarks” of its upcoming 10nm Ice Lake-SP, despite the fact that it has repeatedly asked reviewers to not base their verdict based on “benchmarks”. Regardless, as per Intel’s internal tests, a 32-core Intel Ice Lake CPU manages to beat its Epyc Rome rival which features twice as many cores.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Shares have grown by 1,000% Over the Last Four Years; Intel Largely Stagnantedit
As 2020 comes to an end, it’s hard not to have a look at the last decade and realize how much the landscape of the semiconductor industry has really changed. Apple has moved onto making its own silicon, RISC-based designs are gaining (mild) popularity and most importantly, the x86 market has seen a major change in design leadership.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD launches world’s fastest GPU for scientific research (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD on Tuesday launched Instinct MI100 accelerator – touted as the worlds fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU for scientific research. Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the AMD chip enables a new class of accelerated systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) when paired with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Publication: India TV
Dell G5 15 SE 5505 gaming laptop review: Does the trick for gamers (PROACTIVE)edit
The Dell G5 5505 is a competent machine for gamers. It has a sturdy build, excellent heat dissipation and loud audio capabilities. With the highest possible graphics settings in graphically demanding games, there might be some moments of lag during gameplay but with the settings slightly toned down, the games run smoothly. For first time buyers who want a budget gaming machine from the house of Dell only, this product could do the trick for them.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Intel i3-10100 vs AMD Ryzen 3 3300X: Gaming Performance & Benchmarks (PROACTIVE)edit
In terms of gaming performance, the deltas between the Core i3-10100 and the Ryzen 3 3300X are hardly noticeable. In multi-threaded content creation workloads, that’s where the latter really sets itself apart. However, as already mentioned, AMD’s extended platform support and overclocking ability for even the lower-end B series motherboards are what really seal this win for the 3300X.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel vs AMD Ryzen: Best CPUs for Gaming in 2020 [November Update] (PROACTIVE)edit
With the launch of the Ryzen 5000 CPUs, AMD has successfully vanquished Intel in the PC gaming segment. Even the $300 Ryzen 5 5600X manages to beat the Comet Lake-S flagship (Core i9-10900K) which costs twice as much. Therefore, as you can expect, our recommendations for the best gaming CPU will primarily include AMD parts this time around. Although stocks are still scarce, they are expected to improve in the coming week, so don’t worry too much about the availability.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Zen 3 Based Epyc Milan CPUs up to 30% Faster than Rome: Beating Intel in ST Workloadsedit
The first benchmarks of AMD’s Epyc Milan server CPUs based on the Zen 3 core architecture have surfaced, showing single-threaded gains of around 20-30%. This is in line with the ST performance uplifts that we saw with the Ryzen 5000 consumer CPUs. However unlike the latter, server workloads aren’t latency sensitive (gaming), and AMD was already almost on par with the fastest Xeons across the board.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Big Navi Unboxing and Photos: Triple Fan Heatsink, Dual 8-pin, and I/O (PROACTIVE)edit
The unboxing and photo/video-shoot embargo for AMD’s Radeon Big Navi GPUs, otherwise known as the RX 6800 and 6900 series has officially lifted, allowing us to share the first images of the GPUs. We aren’t allowed to share any teardown pictures or benchmarks or performance numbers just yet, only the physical hardware and the packaging.
Publication: Hardware Times
The Graphics Card We Were Waiting For : Radeon 6800 First Look ! (PROACTIVE)edit
We check out the AMD Radeon RX 6800 in this video looking at the the GPU and looking at the design features and specs.
Publication: iGyaan (YouTube)
NVIDIA Announces Alternative to AMD Smart Access Memory, Claim Competitive Performance Gainsedit
In a statement to technology YouTube channel GamersNexus, NVIDIA has stated its intentions of releasing a competitor, or a substitute to AMD’s newly-announced Smart Access Memory (SAM) Technology. AMD’s SAM Technology was announced with their Radeon RX 6000 Series of graphics cards, which in turn were launched just after AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs.
Publication: DailyHunt
IBM and AMD Announce Joint Development Agreement to Advance Confidential Computing for the Cloud and Accelerate Artificial Intelligenceedit
“The commitment of AMD to technological innovation aligns with our mission to develop and accelerate the adoption of the hybrid cloud to help connect, secure and power our digital world,” said Dario Gil, Director of IBM Research. “IBM is focused on giving our clients choice, agility and security in our hybrid cloud offerings through advanced research, development and scaling of new technologies.”
Publication: CellIT
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X crushes Geekbench database totallyedit
November turns out to be the most surprising month honestly, AMD Ryzen 5000 series have launched, new Apple M1 chips are here, AMD’s RX 6000 series GPU are also coming. Well, if you are not over with this, then the good thing is Apple is going to use the new AMD Ryzen 9 5900X on an iMacPro? Well, it’s not the first time this kind of incident happened, because the previously a Ryzen 9 5950X was spotted running on an iMac but was flagged to be inaccurate.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Unveils AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Processors (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has launched a new product in its high-performance Embedded processor family, the AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2000 Series processor. Built on the innovative 7nm process technology, ‘Zen 2’ cores and high-performance AMD Radeon™ graphics, the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series provides a new class of performance with 7nm technology, incredible power efficiency and continues to deliver enterprise-class security features for embedded customers.
Publication: Channel Drive
AMD Ryzen 5000 — especially the 5600X — is blowing my mind (PROACTIVE)edit
I knew AMD was going to deliver excellent performance with its next-generation Zen 3 CPU architecture, but I wasn’t ready for this. The new Ryzen chips are fast and powerful, both for content creation and productivity. This isn’t a surprise. The Zen 2 Ryzens are also great for those tasks. But gaming is where the Ryzen 5000-series products see the biggest gains — and it turns AMDs processors into the obvious and best choice on desktop.
Publication: Technology4You
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
ASRock implements AMD Ryzen embedded V2000 for the first time everedit
ASRock becomes the first company to announce its implementation for the new AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 processor with the Zen 2 cores. Currently, the fanless mini PCs that are powered by 10W 6-core and 8-core models come under the offering. The new fanless PCs are coming under the iBOX lineup and equipped with the heatsink fins on the side panels and on top of the barebone chassis.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Unboxing – Big Navi Arrives In Fashion (PROACTIVE)edit
The welcome message is a nice touch, and it shows that AMD is taking the premium segment seriously. After all, the RDNA 2 architecture powering these new RX 6000 graphics cards is also present in both the PS5 and Xbox series consoles. While there’s not much to tell regarding a GPU unboxing, the card itself seems to be pretty well made. It doesn’t have the ‘dent’ that the 5700 and 5700 XT had, which I actually like. Instead, AMD went the other route in making the curves sit on the top side, which attracts much less attention while still looking great with that big ‘RADEON’ logo.
Publication: TechQuila
IBM, AMD sign joint development agreementedit
Tech giants IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings of both the companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive “confidential computing” in hybrid cloud environments, a statement said.
Publication: Gadgets Now; The Statesman ; CRN; Enterprise Talk
IBM And AMD Announce Joint Development Agreement To Advance Confidential Computing For The Cloud And Accelerate Artificial Intelligenceedit
IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings of both companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards and open system architectures to drive Confidential Computing in hybrid cloud environments and support a broad range of accelerators across high-performance computing (HPC) and enterprise critical capabilities such as virtualization and encryption.
Publication: BW Businessworld; TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors make new sales recordedit
The Red team made its revolutionary Ryzen 5000 series processors based on Zen 3 architecture available on November 5 and since then it seems the company is not stopping yet. The sales of these CPUs seems to be amazing as per the retailers from various countries. As pointed out by Techradar, as soon as these processors went live, they were all sold out, while some retailers out there have ended up breaking sales records as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel Rocket Lake-S Based i9 Fails to Beat the Ryzen 9 5900X in ST or MT Performanceedit
Intel’s upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S processors will feature the Sunny Cove core architecture which the company is calling Cypress core for some reason. It will be the first architectural upgrade since 2016’s Skylake: That’s nearly 5 years since a new core was introduced in the desktop space. AMD launched Zen, Zen 2, and Zen 3 in the same interval while Intel kept adding pluses to its 14nm node. Regardless, Rocket Lake’s single-threaded performance is looking pretty solid.
Publication: Hardware Times
Overclocked Radeon RX 6800 XT @ 2.55GHz Reportedly Locks Horns with the RTX 3090edit
AMD’s Radeon RTX 6800 XT apparently manages to reach boost clocks of 2.55GHz on board partner models when overclocked. That is 300MHz higher than the stock boost clock of 2.25GHz. Before we continue, please take this report with a grain of salt as GPU-Z doesn’t take into account whether the overclock is stable. Regardless, this is an impressive achievement as AMD has already promised rather lofty overclocking capabilities from its Big Navi graphics cards due to the use of the Infinity Cache which significantly cuts down latency.
Publication: Hardware Times
IBM & AMD To Advance Confidential Computing For Cloud & Accelerate AIedit
IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and artificial intelligence offerings of both companies. This joint development agreement has been planned to expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures in order to drive confidential computing in hybrid cloud environments. It would also support a broad range of accelerators across high-performance computing, and enterprise-critical capabilities such as virtualisation and encryption.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
AMD Launches Four New Ryzen V2000 Embedded SoCs for Mini PCs and IoT Devices (PROACTIVE)edit
American Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has launched its new 7nm Ryzen V2000 embedded SoCs that feature the company’s Zen 2 cores introduced with the Ryzen 3000 desktop series. The new processors are targeted at Thin Client, Mini PCs and Edge systems – possibly gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch, and come with up to eight Zen 2 cores and up to AMD’s Radeon Vega 7 graphics compute units. AMD has announced four new models in the V2000 range of processors, which are split in two TDP groups.
Publication: Network 18
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U “Lucienne” APU spotted running on HP Pavilion Laptop 15edit
Well, if you thought AMD had had enough with its Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops, then you have probably mistaken. The upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 5700U “Lucienne” APU has again been spotted, not on an Acer Aspire 5 A515 but an HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx laptop. A new Geekbench listing of this laptop shows that the upcoming Ryzen 7 5700U will be an 8 core, 16 thread APU with 1.8GHz base and 4.3GHz boost clock speeds, which was previously confirmed with the leak of the Acer laptop as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
IBM, AMD ink joint development pact for security, Artificial Intelligence offeringsedit
Tech giants IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings of both the companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive ‘confidential computing’ in hybrid cloud environments, a statement said.
Publication: The New Indian Express
IBM, AMD ink joint development pact for security, AI offeringsedit
Tech giants IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings of both the companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive ‘confidential computing’ in hybrid cloud environments, a statement said.
Publication: ET Tech – The Economic Times
AMD groups up with IBM to tackle Intel and Nvidia in final battle royaleedit
AMD and IBM have introduced a multiyear joint improvement collaboration to boost and prolong the safety and AI choices of each firms. To exhibit how the approaching collectively of the 2 will influence computing, the duo additionally introduced the event of a prototype thatll run an OpenShift occasion thats encrypted and secured on the {hardware} degree utilizing AMDs SEV (Safe Encrypted Virtualization) extension.
Publication: Gadgets360 TechNews
AMD unveils high-performance Ryzen embedded processor (PROACTIVE)edit
American chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday launched a high-performance AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series processor. According to the company, built on the innovative 7nm process technology, ‘Zen 2′ cores and high-performance AMD Radeon graphics, the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series provides a new class of performance.
Publication: Telangana Today
AMD Responds to Ryzen 5000 Limited Supply at Launchedit
The supply situation for AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs may have been relatively better than NVIDIA’s Ampere cards, but it’s far from sufficient. Many regions, most notably Asia-Pacific and global retailers such as Newegg got little to no supply on day 1. As already reported yesterday, the Ryzen 9 5900X is the most in-demand Zen 3 part. Whether that’s due to limited supply or excessive demand is hard to say for sure, but it’s likely a combination of both.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 series processor launched: All you need to know (PROACTIVE)edit
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has just announced the launch of its new high-performance AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series processor. With this, the company aims to give tough competition to its rival Intel. As claimed by the company, the new chipset is based on the innovative 7nm process technology and features Zen 2′ cores and high-performance AMD Radeon graphics. With all this in place, the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series promises to offer a new class of performance.
Publication: India TV
AMD Ryzen 5000 smashes processor sales recordsedit
According to Scan, a UK retailer, “Demand was extremely high and the launch stock we had sold through extremely quickly making it the fastest-selling CPU launch we have ever seen,” and that this was “echoed across all of the launch retailers.” Having kept an eye on numerous retailers ourselves, it’s certainly true that almost all stores sold out extremely quickly, so we certainly believe this. We’d not seen a CPU launch like that for a while.
Publication: Gadget Page
Amazon Great Indian Festival: Top Lat Minute Gamer Deals (PROACTIVE)edit
Amazon’s Great Indian Festival is still going strong and as always, you have a bunch of deals to look forward to. This time around, we will be looking at a few deals that should interest gamers. This list will include PC components, controllers, accessories, games and even a TV. So let’s get started. The Ryzen 7 3800XT is aimed at high-end systems and packs eight cores with 16 threads. It has a base clock speed of 3.9GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.7GHz. It supports DDR4 memory with a nominal clock speed of 3200 MHz.
Publication: DigitAMD unveils AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 series processors with improved performance and security (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has expanded its Embedded processor family by adding a new product to the lineup. Dubbed as AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 series, the processor is based on the company’s 7nm process technology, Zen 2 cores and comes with AMD Radeon graphics. The processor, according to the company’s claim, is designed to offer better efficiency and enterprise-level security for embedded customers.
Publication: The Times of India
Best CPUs for Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is one of the best mainstream processors on the market right now. It’s multi-threaded performance and the inclusion of PCIe 4.0 makes it one of the best picks, if you don’t consider stepping up to the HEDT market. The processor is packed with 12 cores and 24 threads and is priced similarly to the Intel Core i9-9900K, which has only 8 cores and 16 threads. It can handle gaming, video and 3D work with ease and is slowly beginning to match up Intel in single-threaded performance as well.
Publication: Digit
AMD brings new AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Processors (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series processors deliver double the cores, up to 2x the performance-per-watt and an estimated 15% IPC uplift over the previous generation. AMD has finally launched its next-generation Ryzen Embedded processors for professional usage based on their revolutionary 7nm based Zen 2 architecture. The company targets enterprise customers who want the best in class performance at lower TDPs.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Looks to be Most Popular Ryzen 5000 CPU (For Now)edit
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs have finally taken the gaming crown from Intel, beating Team Blue across all workloads from gaming to content creation. Even the cheapest Zen 3 part, the Ryzen 5 5600X performs mostly on par (or faster) with the Intel 10th Gen flagship, the Core i9-10900K. However, it’s not the 5600X which is the most sought-after Ryzen 5000 part among gamers and enthusiasts at the moment.
Publication: Hardware Times
4th Gen AMD Epyc Genoa Server Processors Expected to Feature up to 96 Coresedit
Although we’re yet to see the launch of AMD’s 3rd Gen Epyc Milan server CPUs (based on Zen 3), details regarding the 4th Gen Genoa lineup have already started leaking out. As per a well-reputed leaker, ExecutableFix, the Genoa CPUs will feature 96 cores, along with support for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 memory.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen V2000 Embedded Processors Launched: Up to 2x More Performance Per Watt (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has launched the next-gen lineup of its Embedded processors in the form of the V2000 chips. Based on the 7nm Zen 2 core architecture and an enhanced form of Vega graphics on the same node, AMD is promising up to 2x more performance per watt, compared to the existing Zen+ based embedded parts. This increase comes in two forms: a ~15% increase in the IPC (+20 ST performance) and twice as many cores. The equation is pretty simple.
Publication: Hardware Times
Sapphire unveils the next-generation AMD RX 6800 graphics cards (PROACTIVE)edit
We know that AMD’s next-gen Zen 3 based graphics cards will soon be custom adopted by the OEM’s. As such, we can quickly expect to hear a lot about them in the coming days. Recently, Sapphire officially announced its next-generation Nitro+ and PULSE Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards. It includes three Nitro+ and two PULSE series cards, which has both Radeon RX 6800 XT & RX 6800 variants.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 Processors Allegedly Work With 300 Series Motherboardsedit
When AMD initially announced that their next-generation Ryzen processors would only support 500 series motherboards they faced significant backlash and were forced to include 400 series motherboard support. The reason AMD cited at the time was the limitations in some flash chips not containing enough space to store the information for all processors, several motherboard manufacturers encountered this issue with Ryzen 3000 bios updates where they needed to reduce graphical elements in their BIOS.
Publication: TechPowerUp
AMD Radeon RX 6800 may be 50% faster than GeForce RTX 3090 for cryptominingedit
If the rumors are true, then the new AMD Radeon RX 6800 (not the RX 6800XT) is 50% better at mining for cryptocurrency than the current crypto champ, the Nvidia RTX 3090. When factoring in the associated costs of cryptocurrency mining, as explained by Videocards, the RTX 3090 can generate about $3.37/£2.63/AU$4.72 of cryptocurrency a day, or about $103/£80/AU$144 a month. The RX 6800, meanwhile, can potentially mine about $5.00/£3.90/AU$7.00 a day, or roughly $152/£118/AU$213 a month.
Publication: Gadget Page
AMD has a subtle dig at Intel, suggesting Alder Lake CPUs don’t make senseedit
AMD has come out and stated that it doesn’t make any sense to be taking a leaf out of ARM’s guide through the use of one thing just like huge.LITTLE tech for Ryzen desktop CPUs, not less than not within the close to future – which is a not so refined manner of casting doubt on Intel’s processor plans. Primarily as a result of as you might bear in mind, Intel attends to undertake an enormous.LITTLE form of method – the place ‘huge’ (normal) processor cores is paired with low-power extra environment-friendly ‘little’ cores.
Publication: Tech Bhaskar
AMD Ryzen 5000 Precision Boost Overdrive & Auto-OC: 4.85GHz on the 5600X (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD introduced Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and Auto-overclocking with its 3rd Gen Ryzen processors to allow users to get a small performance boost without manually tweaking any of the more confusing BIOS settings. Although Auto-Overclocking (AutoOC) did improve performance by a small amount, PBO wasn’t really effective.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA RTX 1060 Still the Most Popular GPU Among Steam Gamers: GTX 1650 @ #4, Courtesy of Gaming Notebooksedit
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 is still the most popular graphics card among Steam gamers, even four years after its launch in Q2 2016. The GTX 1050 Ti is the second-most popular GPU, while the 1050 is the third. The highest-ranked Turing part (#4) is the GTX 1650 which is new as the most popular NVIDIA GPU from every generation is usually the x60/x70. The CPU market was relatively quiet in October, with gamers patiently for the Ryzen 5000 lineup from AMD. Considering how well these new parts perform in gaming workloads, we should see even greater gains on AMD’s sides in the coming months.
Publication: Hardware Times
ASRock A320 Gets Ryzen 5000 & Renoir Support via Unofficial BIOS; Renoir tooedit
ASRock’s A320 motherboard has received support for the newly launched Ryzen 5000 CPUs as well as the Renoir APUs, courtesy of an unofficial BIOS posted to the Chiphell forums. Furthermore, both the lineups support an Infinity Clock and memory of up to 2,000MHz+ on the A320 board in a 1:1 ratio, maximization the memory bandwidth and reducing the latency. The poster tested the top-end Ryzen 9 5950X using the same BIOS on his ASRock A320 and everything worked properly. The same was reported for the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750 which ran at a memory speed of 4333MT/s.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs Gaming Perf Improves by 5-10% on Switching to 4 Memory DIMMs vs 2edit
Gamersnexus has made some interesting observations with respect to the Ryzen 5000 memory configuration. Generally, when talking about performance, we consider the memory speed and timings, plus whether you’re using single-channel or dual-channel memory. However, in this case, Steve tested the Ryzen 5 5600X using four memory DIMMs vs two and got some interesting results. The gaming performance saw an increase of 5-10% across various titles, with Shadow of the Tomb Raider seeing the highest benefit at 8.7%.
Publication: Hardware Times
No, AMD Big Navi Won’t be 1.5x Faster than NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 in Miningedit
Many rumors have been floating around lately claiming that AMD’s Big Navi graphics cards will be as much as 1.5x faster than the NVIDIA Ampere flagship, the RTX 3090 in crypto-mining. Before you start panicking, we have some good news for you. No, the Radeon RX 6800XT and the 6900XT won’t be 1.5x faster than the RTX 3090, or maybe even the RTX 3080 in terms of the mining hash-rate. As a certain Twitter user points it out, the mining performance is largely based on the GPU’s raw memory bandwidth.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X overclocked to an insane 6.362 GHz (PROACTIVE)edit
The much anticipated Ryzen 5000 series from AMD is launched. And we now have an exclusive look at the next-generation processor from Advanced Micro Devices. According to sources, the Ryzen 5000 series has exceeded 6 GHz on Liquid Nitrogen (LN2). The Ryzen 9 5950X, on the other hand, offers a peak single-core boost clock of 4.9 GHz. But sources claim that the 16 core processor to have a boost clock of 6.362 GHz.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 series pricing for India announced (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD 5000 series desktop processors were announced earlier last month, and finally, the processors have arrived in India. They had been made available for purchase on 5th November, yet the availability of these products was unknown for the Indian market as it depended on the demand and supply.
Publication: SportsKeeda
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Desktop CPUs Priced Starting at Rs. 22,990 in India (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD unveiled its newest Ryzen 5000 collection of desktop processors based mostly on the Zen 3 micro-architecture earlier final month. The firm introduced 4 SKUs and had confirmed the $299 beginning price for these new desktop CPUs within the US. While the processors have now gone on sale within the US, AMD has solely simply introduced the India pricing particulars for the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 collection desktop CPUs.
Publication: Enter 21st
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors Now Available for Origin PC Desktopsedit
ORIGIN PC announced today the availability of the new AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series processors on its award-winning line of gaming and professional workstation desktops for gamers, content creators, streamers, enthusiasts, artists, and professionals around the world. The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series processors set the bar for gamers and professionals with a powerful new architecture. Customers can now order an ORIGIN PC desktop featuring the AMD Ryzen 5000 Series processors at ORIGINPC.com.
Publication: Gizmotech
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Price Revealed In India: Check Features & Specifications (PROACTIVE)edit
It works for computer processors and technologies. Recently in the last month, AMD announced the launching of its AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktop.
Publication: DekhNews
AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs go on sale in India, price starts at Rs 22,990 (PROACTIVE)edit
Last month, AMD announced its much-awaited Ryzen 5000 series processors, for desktops. Announced as the first chips to use next-gen Zen 3 architecture from the company, the 5000 series processors promise massive performance gains over their predecessors.
Publication: India Today
AMD Ryzen 5000 series – India prices, availability, where to buy and more (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD launched the latest Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs for desktop with the new Zen 3 architecture last month based on the 7nm architecture. And now the company has announced the India pricing for the same.
Publication: TechRadar
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT appears on Time Spy Extreme benchmarkedit
Advanced Micro Devices is the brand that is the biggest competitor of both Intel and Nvidia. Recently the company is trekking ahead in 4K gaming to establish its dominance in the gaming market. Earlier, the company promised that its upcoming RX 6800 XT would give Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 a run for its money.
Publication: TechnoSports
Which Country Does AMD Belong To? Learn About Its Origin And Latest Releasesedit
After weeks of anticipation, the AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors have finally arrived in India. It promises faster performance and a whole bunch of new features over the previous generation models. The Ryzen 5000 series also marks the very first AMD chipsets that use the next-gen Zen 3 architecture. AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) describes that latest series as the best processor for gamers and artists alike.
Publication: Republic World
Difference Between AMD And Intel: Which Processor Should You Buy?edit
Intel and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) are two of the most recognized CPU manufacturers in the world. Both companies have been dominating the markets with their wide range of product offerings and technology advancements. However, there have been numerous debates over the years around AMD vs Intel and which brand has an edge over the other in terms of their speed and power. So, let us give you a quick breakdown of the key difference between AMD and Intel.
Publication: Republic World
AMD’s EPYC Milan 7713 appears on SiSoftware benchmarksedit
Advanced Micro Devices is expected to start shipping its next-gen EPYC Milan before the end of this year. The CPU will be fully available by 2021. However, the un-availability is in no way stopping the next-gen EPYC Milan lineup from showing up in online benchmark databases. We already know that the EPYC 7713 is a behemoth with a 64-core chip; hence, the performance will be impressive.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors launched (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD had launched its Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops. This series is the company’s first chipset based on next-gen Zen 3 architecture for better performance. The series will include a total of four desktop processors Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X. The new chipsets have been built for demanding games and provide any multithread tasks like 3D and video rendering and software compiling.
Publication: GadgetBridge
AMD Ryzen 5000 series details revealed by AMD officialedit
Yesterday saw the first hands-on experience of AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 CPU by many buyers. The details regarding the desktop-grade CPU performance have been public, and various ways to optimize them for a better user experience.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 BIOS firmware to be out pretty soonedit
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 desktop CPU’s are already making a buzz in the market. With performance equal to those of intel’s high-performance chips, the 5000 series looks to give Intel a run for its money.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT to Reportedly have Supply Issues at Launchedit
Turns out that AMD’s graphics card supply won’t be all that different from NVIDIA’s. As per an ASUS company rep, the inventory for the Radeon RX 6800 XT will be quite limited, with the RX 6800 seeing relatively better supply. He expects the cards to run out of stock minutes after launch, similar to what we saw with the NVIDIA RTX 3080/3090.
Publication: Hardware Times
Complete AMD Ryzen Motherboard Guide For Zen 2 and Zen 3 [2020] (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD introduced Ryzen with the 300-series chipsets, with the B350 and X370 chipsets being the overclockable platforms for the CPUs (which were, and are, all unlocked and overclockable). The A320 was the entry-level platform, succeeded with A520 only three years later, with an identical support range to B550. The X470 and B450 motherboards came with Zen+ and also supported the Zen 2 architecture released in 2019, where we also saw X570, with no support for older CPU’s, but only for Zen 2 and future Ryzen CPUs.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Vs 3800XT Vs 3700X – Zen 3 Is The Best 8-Core CPU, But Are The Gains Worth It? (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s Zen 3 CPUs are finally out and with it comes some impressive IPC improvements and higher clock speeds (finally!). However, the new Ryzen 5000 CPU lineup also has gotten a price bump (except the 5600X). Today, we’re comparing the Ryzen 7 5800X vs 3800XT vs 3700X. You can read our full review on the Ryzen 7 5800X here, but this article will take a more comparative stance on the 8-core CPUs.
Special Ryzen Package from AMD… King of Gaming CPUs arrived (PROACTIVE)edit
UNBOXING video of the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X. Based on the latest Zen 3 architecture. Monster CPU – 5950X
Publication: Vimal Chintapatla
Ryzen 5 5600x Review: Unmatched Value for Gaming! (vs. 3600, Intel 9900K, Benchmarks) (PROACTIVE)edit
Most popular CPU in the mid-range segment and is an amazing value for gamers and content creators. The improvements on Zen 3 makes AMDs new CPUs achieve 19% higher instructions per clock.
Publication: TechReflex
AMD Ryzen 5800x Review : The CPU takeover ! : Ryzen 5000 Benchmarks Gaming and More ! (PROACTIVE)edit
Intel has missed the gun, and this will most definitely take over the CPU market, especially on the gaming side. The announcements are working really well for AMD as they are already on the 7nm processors while Intel is struggling with their timelines and deliveries.
Publication: iGyaan
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review: Rising Above (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s dominance in the current PC market and their resurgence has been nothing short of impressive in the past couple of years. And they may continue their dominance thanks to the 5th Generation of Ryzen CPUs. We got our hands on the Ryzen 5 5600X and we gotta say, it’s powerful. Generation after generation, AMD has improved on their CPUs and this is no different.
Publication: TechGoggles
AMD RYZEN 9 5950X Desktop Processor Review (PROACTIVE)edit
This is voodoo magic at work. AMD has managed to improve performance in the last few domains where it was lagging behind Intel in the gaming and content creation space. Essentially, we’re looking at much better gaming performance and equally notable improvements in content creation applications as well.
Publication: Digit
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Review – Zen 3 Delivers Well On Its Promise With Generational Improvement, and High Boost Clocks (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has made some bold claims with Zen 3, its latest CPU lineup which is built on the same process as Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) CPUs, except the fact that it now fills in some key missing pieces that some enthusiasts have complained about over the years. Today, we’re reviewing the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD’s latest 8-core consumer CPU which offers some key improvements over its already tried-and-tested Zen 2 counterpart.
Publication: TechQuila
New AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors post the highest single-core scores on Geekbench 5 database(PROACTIVE)edit
From today, November 5, the new Ryzen 5000 series processors are on shelves and ready to be used in your gaming rigs. However, if you are really confused of which CPU to buy, don’t worry all of them are honestly master at their price points.
Publcation: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Desktop Processor (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is part of the Zen3 “Vermeer” line up of the 4th Gen AMD Ryzen processors which feature faster clock speeds thanks to improvements in the silicon used by AMD for these processors. The base core configuration of these new processors are the similar as the 3rd Gen Ryzen processors but they feature much better clock speeds. Zen 3 has a lot of improvements with IPC and AMD processors are now great for single threaded applications such.
Publication: Digit
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X “Vermeer” test (PROACTIVE)edit
It has been over three years since AMD made its return to the processor market with the Zen architecture and the Ryzen processor family, which corrected the many mistakes the company made with the Bulldozer flop and the FX series. With each next generation of Ryzen processors, AMD has managed to screw up performance a few notches, to finally reach a level with the Zen 2 and Ryzen 3000 that can actually compete with rival Intel in earnest.
Publication: Aroged
AMD announces India pricing of Ryzen 5000 Series desktop processors (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD recently launched Ryzen 5000 series of desktop CPUs based on Zen 3 7nm architecture. The company has now launched these processors in India and has confirmed India pricing. Ryzen 5000 Series includes Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processors. The fastest processor is Ryzen 9 5950X with 16 cores and 32 threads. It is also the fastest gaming processor available in the market.
Publication Techlomedia
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X totally dominates Intel in Cinebench R20 (PROACTIVE)edit
The best budget processor from AMD just got better, and rightfully as we pointed out before, the new Ryzen 5 5600X could be the best gaming processor at budget ever! But how? Benchmarks are saying so; before this, we posted a real-life gaming performance, and in that, the 6-core AMD CPU made some pretty healthy numbers. Now we have some interesting stuff from @TUM_APISAK wherein we some Cinebench R20 numbers published by some Polish site. These benchmarks show the real capability of this new budget AMD CPU both in terms of single-core as well as multi-core performance.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x Release Time And Other Details You Need To Know (PROACTIVE)edit
Each player who attempts to assemble a gaming PC comprehends the need for processors. These processors help the game run easily and productively. Players attempt to manufacture their PCs as per the framework prerequisites of the games are always on the lookout. PC processors are much quicker and more handling power than consoles, that is the reason a game looks significantly more detailed on a PC.
Publication: Republic World
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs Launched in India: Price, Specifications (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD recently launched the Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs in the US, based on the new Zen 3 architecture. These chips now sit at the top of the market, beating Intel in every measurable area, most importantly single-threaded performance. The AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs have now launched in India. The US prices were announced at the US release of Ryzen 5000. AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU India pricing and availability details are also out now.
Publication: My SmartPrice
AMD Ryzen Motherboard Guide For Zen 2 and Zen 3 [2020] (PROACTIVE)edit
With Zen 3 architecture finally available on AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, we finally have enough complications in the Ryzen motherboard lineup that anyone new to PC building will have a hard time navigating through multiple different chipsets from the many motherboard manufacturers in the market for AMD CPUs. This guide will seek to clear up most of these distinctions and will help you find the exact motherboard for your particular Ryzen CPU. But before that, here is a summary of what CPU generations are supported by what motherboard chipsets.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Cinebench Score Surfaces: On Par with 18 Core Intel i9-10980XE HEDT Flagship (PROACTIVE)edit
The Cinebench scores of the Ryzen 9 5900X have surfaced, showing how powerful AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 5000 processors really are. The 12-core part scores an insane 8,736 and 643 points in the multi-core and single-core tests, respectively. That’s roughly the same as Intel’s HEDT flagship, the Core i9-10980XE which packs 18 cores and 36 threads. The single-threaded performance is higher than any other CPU in the database, surpassing the highest-performing chip (10900K with 524 points) by 20%.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review: The New Budget Gaming King @ $299 (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD just launched its new Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 CPUs, promising the best gaming performance at affordable price points. Featuring an IPC boost of 19%, higher boost clocks, and wider core complexes with each core having access to twice as much L3 cache, we’re looking at generational gains ranging from 20-35%, especially in gaming workloads.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen 5000 “Zen 3” Architectural Deep Dive (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD announced its Ryzen 5000 processors at the end of last month, promising massive improvements in gaming and single-threaded performance. With the Zen 3 core, the company claims an IPC boost of 19% over Zen 2 which is even higher than the 15% figure that the latter boasts over Zen. These gains are the result of a reworked chiplet topography, a wider execution backend, increased load-store bandwidth, and something AMD calls “no-bubble” branch prediction.
Publication: Hardware Times
How to get your motherboard BIOS ready for new AMD Ryzen 5000 processors? (PROACTIVE)edit
Today marks the availability date of the new Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors and this means you can upgrade to AMD’s best CPUs to get superior gaming as well as productivity-based performance. Well, to use these CPUs you need to have a compatible motherboard as well and even if you have the latest 500 series motherboard you have to get your BIOS ready.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Zen 3 CPU India Pricing Announced: Here Are The Details (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD recently launched the Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs based on the Zen 3 7nm architecture. The brand has unveiled four new CPUs in the series, where the Ryzen 5950X is the flagship model with 16 cores and 32 threads with up to 4.9GHz. At the time of launch, the company did not reveal the Indian price of these processors. Just a few days before the availability, the company has now revealed the retail price of these CPUs in India.
Publication: Gizbot
AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors arrives in India at a starting price of Rs 22,990 (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors which were launched last month globally have now aarrived in India. Based on the 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. The new AMD processors in India include AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen9 5900X, Ryzen7 5800X and Ryzen5 5600X desktop processors. The company claims these to be the fastest gaming CPUs delivering up to a 26 percent generational uplift in gaming performance.
Publication: The Times of India
AMD is gaining ground on Intel’s CPU dominanceedit
Intel nonetheless instructions a agency lead by way of total CPU market share however efforts from AMD with its Ryzen household have actually narrowed the hole lately. And with solely a few days to go till the launch of Ryzen 5000 collection CPUs, AMD is poised to realize further floor throughout the vacation quarter and past.
Publication: TechFunda
NVIDIA Prepping the RTX 3080 Ti w/ 10,496 FP32 Cores, 20GB GD6X VRAM: Radeon RX 6800XT Competitor?edit
AMD’s Big Navi launch kind of caught NVIDIA with their pants down. The Radeon RX 6900 XT manages to beat the RTX 3090 (thanks to SAM) and all the while being $500 cheaper. The RX 6800 XT, meanwhile crushes the RTX 3080, again costing $50 less and featuring more memory. On top of this, the Big Navi parts also have a lower TBP and smaller form factor. As if that weren’t enough, tests show that the RDNA 2 parts perform the same as Ampere in ray-traced titles. Although NVIDIA still has an advantage with DLSS 2.0, that will likely change as well.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD’s raytracing to be available for many gaming titles soonedit
AMD has been gearing big time to take on Nvidia in the 4K gaming market. Until now, Nvidia always had the edge over HD gaming due to its DLSS solution uplifting its raytracing technology. But with AMD’s raytracing finally moving forward and performing exceptionally well, it seems that the company is inching closers to overtaking Nvidia in a big way. Recent reports going around the gaming community states that AMD plans to implement its new raytracing feature to gaming titles based on Microsoft’s XDR or Vulkan Raytracing APIs.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD’s Instinct MI100 to be launched on November 16thedit
AMD is releasing its next-generation CPUs and GPUs to tackle its biggest competitor Nvidia in the global market. The company is now gearing to unveil its next-generation CDNA GPU-based Instinct MI100 accelerator on November 16th. This information, however, comes from leaked documents according to sources. The AMD’s Instinct MI100 accelerator was earlier confirmed by the company’s CTO, Mark Papermaster, almost five months ago. Back then, it was stated that AMD would be introducing the cDNA based Instinct GPU by the second half of 2020.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU (PROACTIVE)edit
After much anticipation from fans, AMD has finally announced the Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards. The tech giants further unveiled the Radeon RX 6900 XT, their most advanced GPU to date. At the moment, AMD is in the midst of a hot streak. A few weeks ago, the tech company announced the new Ryzen series of processors, which AMD claims to be superior to Nvidia’s processors. And now, their latest launch, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, is set to compete with Nvidia’s flagship card, the RTX 3090.
Publication: Headlines of Today
AMD RX 6000 Release date, Specifications, Price and Performance (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD RX 6000-series has been unveiled with three new cards, each offering more gaming performance than we’ve ever seen from a Radeon GPU. These are serious, enthusiast-class graphics cards, people. And, according to AMD’s own benchmarks, with sometimes faster performance than Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The first two cards will be with us on November 18, 2020, and the real big Big Navi card, the RX 6900 XT, coming on December 8.
Publication: Tech Universe
What Is AMD Smart Access Memory And How Does This New Technology Work? (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD had recently announced its industry-standard revolutionary Radeon RX 6000 GPUs which are based on the latest RDNA 2 architecture. The latest graphic cards can go head to head against NVIDIA’s GPU performance and performs equally, if not better, to the competitor’s graphics unit. But besides this, while introducing the latest Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, AMD also introduced the Smart Access Memory that is the latest technology built by the company which is not just a plan down the road for the company in theory but also implement it in their new high-end Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors. So, what is AMD smart access memory technology?
Publication: Republic World
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X spotted running with RTX 3080 on Userbenchmarkedit
Just before the new AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors‘ actual availability, we are seeing a lot of benchmarks and numbers floating across the internet. Both the upcoming Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 5 5600X have been spotted on Userbenchmark, and now finally, we see the 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X in action. Like all other benchmarks, this one too is courtesy of @TUM_APISAK who has spotted this upcoming Zen 3 based CPU coupled with an RTX 3080.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Destroys the Intel Core i7-10700 in Leaked Cinebench Benchmarkedit
As per a leaked Cinebench R15 benchmark, the hex-core Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than Intel’s Core i7-10700 both in terms of single-threaded as well as multi-threaded performance. The 5600X also manages to beat the 3600XT and the 3700X in terms of single-threaded performance, while just lagging behind the former by an inch. The Cinebench R20 benchmark of the Ryzen 5 5600X has also surfaced over at the LTT forums.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 6000 series Graphic Processors launched: hopes to surpass Nvidia GPUs (PROACTIVE)edit
At the AMD launch event, the graphics processor company introduced three new GPUs under the AMD Radeon RX 6000 branding. The announcement included AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT which is the company’s most powerful and fastest gaming graphics card till now. According to reports, all of these new 6000 series GPUs are based on MAD’s RDNA 2 architecture specifically built for gaming and most likely as speculations suggest, the same architecture will be featured on the next generation of AMD Graphic Processors.
Publication: TechStory
AMD is gaining healthy x86 CPU Market Share says Mercury Research Q3 2020 report (PROACTIVE)edit
Suffering from bankruptcy a few years back, AMD was nowhere near Intel and we had only one ruler in every department, eventually, the high-performance market became stagnant. There was no significant improvement year-over-year nor there was an increase in efficiency. This helped ARM and a lot of other companies to establish themselves for mobile computing. However, that department became even stronger; the x86 CPU market never did really see a massive increase in performance. Until 2017, when AMD announced the first Zen architecture, it made a lot of noise.
Publication: TechnoSports
We are helping data center customers enable hybrid, multicloud approaches for their IT environment (PROACTIVE)edit
Companies will have to invest in advanced security technologies that will also allow their customers to encrypt their data in the cloud while its being processed, and unlock their high-performance computing needs. AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors have been providing the right balance of compute, memory, I/O, and security to address changing enterprise needs in virtualized environments. In an interaction with Manoj Jha, Editor, Smart State India with Mr. Vinay Sinha, Managing Director, Sales, AMD India about the datacenter innovations and AMDs public cloud services.
Publication: Smart State India
AMD 6800 XT Release Date And Pre-order Details: What Is New With The Graphic Cards? (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is back with another premium graphic card lineup which is based under the Radeon RX 6000 series. The latest graphic cards are called AMD Radeon RX 6800 and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT respectively. Read below to know details about the AMD 6800 XT release date and AMD 6800 pre-order online details. The first two premium graphics cards which are the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT will be making their way to the market on November 18, 2020.
Publication: Daily Hunt
AMD’s supersampling feature to compete with Intel and NVIDIAedit
AMD is not much behind Intel in the GPU and CPU game respectively. And now the company has innovated with the new Supersampling feature to provide better performance. The one thing that NVIDIA and AMD still fall a little short of is high-performance with Ray tracing turned on but that might soon change for AMD. So, we might even see the company beat Intel and NVIDIA in terms of performance.
Publication: TechStory
AMD 6800 XT Release Date And Pre-order Details: What Is New With The Graphic Cards? (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is back with another premium graphic card lineup which is based under the Radeon RX 6000 series. The latest graphic cards are called AMD Radeon RX 6800 and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT respectively. Read below to know details about the AMD 6800 XT release date and AMD 6800 pre-order online details. The first two premium graphics cards which are the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT will be making their way to the market on November 18, 2020.
Publication: Republic World
Intel Iris Xe MAX Discrete GPU For Laptops Launched: Competition To NVIDIA And AMD?edit
Intel, after a long gap, has officially launched a dedicated graphics card — the Iris Xe MAX discrete GPU. Though the name might make it look intimidating, it is just an entry-level discrete GPU, aimed towards offering better computer performance rather than gaming. The Intel Iris Xe MAX GPU is designed and developed to go with the 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors, which comes with built-in Iris Xe-LP GPU, where LP stands for low-power. The Iris Xe MAX is likely to go head-to-head against the NVIDIA MX250/MX350 GPUs, instead of mainstream graphics cards.
Publication: Gizbot
AMD mocks NVIDIA for its bulky GPUs, power requirements, and 12-pin power connectorsedit
The Red team recently dropped its Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs a few days ago and this has already made gaming fans excited because it is the first time AMD has matched or even beat NVIDIA in high-performance graphics. Also, the new Ryzen 5000 processors have already laid a coffin to Intel’s gaming supremacy as even the lowest of the stack Ryzen 5 5600X beats the flagship Core i9-10900K in single-core benchmarks. This has made team Red fans even more excited, on top of this, AMD promises some further tweaks like Smart Access Memory if you use Ryzen + Radeon combo.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5600X could be the best gaming CPU at the budget ever!edit
As the launch nears of the new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, benchmarks are heavily surfacing across the web. The latest Userbenchmark scores of the new budget Ryzen 5 5600X suggests AMD is going to be the king of gaming this time. Already a variety of leaks of the new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs have shown their single-core performance to be much better than that of Intel. The interesting part lies is that the best-selling CPU is getting a huge upgrade in terms of gaming and its even better than Intel that costs higher than the new Ryzen 5 5600X.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD’s new ray-tracing technology works better than expected (PROACTIVE)edit
We already know that AMD is developing its very own ray-tracing feature to compete against Nvidia in 4K gaming. Several leaks have already placed the RX 6800 GPU above the Nvidia RTX 3070 in terms of performance. However, now a new leak has claimed to reveal the version of AMD’s new ray-tracing feature. The leak was provided by @PJ_LAB_UH, which states that AMD’s Big Navi RX 6800 card performs remarkably well in terms of ray-tracing workloads. It is because it lacks the DLSS upscaling technology. According to sources, the Radeon RX 6800 managed to get 80 fps while running Shadow of Tomb Raider at 1440p resolution with ray-tracing enabled.
Publication: TechnoSports
You Should Probably Upgrade To An SSD On Your Gaming PC; Not For Improved Performanceedit
No matter if you have the Ryzen 5000 CPU or the NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU, a bad storage device can impact the overall gaming performance of your rig. It could be a brand new gaming PC with the latest GPU and CPU, or a PC from a couple of years, you should do this to get a better gaming experience.
Publication: Gizbot
RX 6000 Price And Specifications: Know All About Upcoming AMD RX 6000 Graphic Cards (PROACTIVE)edit
After AMD claimed that their Ryzen 5950X is the fastest processor in the world in every way possible, the company now decided to reveal another new and much better model which they claim to be the world’s fastest graphics card. The card is named Radeon RX 6900 XT and is built using the new RDNA 2 architecture. This was also known as Navi 21 and is faster than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090.
Publication: Republic World
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processor is the World’s first x86 Datacenter Processor (PROACTIVE)edit
Vinay Sinha, Managing Director, India Sales at AMD: The IT landscape is in a constant state of evolution and is at the forefront of digital transformation. In the current times, IT leaders are reimagining their on-premise data centers to simplify and scale their IT infrastructure for better outcomes. This is driven by the current and the future way of business functioning and the need to gain insights and analyze vast amounts of data quickly and maximize returns on the data center investment.
Publication: Enterprise IT World
AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit
Based mostly on graphics big Nvidia, AMD said that the flagship Radon RX 6900 XT is the final word 4K graphics card and the quickest AMD gaming graphics card. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics playing cards are anticipated to be accessible beginning November 18 for $ 579 and $ 649 respectively. The corporate stated in a press release on Wednesday that the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is anticipated to be accessible from December eight for $ 999.
Publication: Jobsvacancy
AMD Unveils Next-Generation PC Gaming with AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD 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: Enterprise IT World
AMD’s Smart Access Cache might not deliver massive performance gains, but Big Navi’s raw raster performance could compensate (PROACTIVE)edit
Benchmarks compiled by tipster @_rogame indicate that, while AMD’s Smart Access Cache technology might not be a major factor in Big Navi RX 6000 performance. According to the compiled benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT was just 1.8 percent faster on average at 4K with both Smart Access Cache and Rage Mode auto overclocking enabled. The Radeon RX 6800 XT saw a more pronounced improvement, with 3.9 percent better performance with Smart Access Cache enabled.
Publication: Notebook Check
New AMD Ryzen 7 5800X & Ryzen 5 5600X CPUs dominates Intel in single-core benchmarksedit
The Red team’s latest Ryzen 5000 series processors are based on the revolutionary Zen 3 architecture that promises a great performance uplift up to 26% on the gaming front. This is due to the incredible feat achieved due to the great single-core performance. These new processors have a new design and a new cache implementation that has helped these chiplets to gain a maximum fast cache memory.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 series doesn’t seem to stop in crushing inteledit
We already know that AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series is the town’s buzz and has the community going wild because it reportedly clocks higher than Intel’s Core- i9 processors. According to SiSoftware, the 6-core Zen 3 CPU is 15% to 40% faster than Zen 2 Ryzen 5 3600X, while the 8-core 5800X is 25 to 40% faster than its 3700X. The Ryzen 5 5600X was even able to overtake 8-core Intel i9-9900K processors, which is a massive win since the 9900K is the leader in gaming CPUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit
The RX 5500 XT is the clear winner here. It maintains notably higher frame rates than the GTX 1650 Super across all ten games tested, all the while costing less. The gap swells to a significant 20-30% in the Navi favored titles in-line with AMD’s official figures.
Publication: Hardware Times
Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS for B450 Boards Supporting Ryzen 5000 CPUsedit
In an official press release, Gigabyte has announced the release of the BIOS updates supporting the Ryzen 5000 CPUs on the 500 series motherboards. However, as per a source on Twitter, the latest F60b BIOS also adds support for the Zen 3 chips on all B450 boards. This isn’t preliminary support we’re talking about here, rather full-fledged compatibility. We haven’t been able to confirm this for obvious reasons, but will update this post as soon as we have a confirmation.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Ray-Tracing Perf Faster than the RTX 3070 (W/O DLSS)edit
The first ray-tracing benchmark of AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 (Navi 21 XL) GPU has surfaced, showing rather impressive performance in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Despite the game being a GeForce partner title and featuring an RTX optimized implementation of DXR, the RX 6800 manages to beat the rival Ampere card, the RTX 3070. Without DLSS, that is.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD can allow partner-made Radeon RX 6900 XTedit
Prior to AMD’s presentation of the graphics cards in the Radeon RX 6000 series, rumors circulated that the top card RX 6900 XT, the largest of the large “Big Navi” cards, would be sold exclusively by AMD themselves. During the unveiling, AMD did not disclose any details in the matter, but only mentioned the price and launch date. New reports indicate that AMD is in talks with partner manufacturers to let them build their own variants on the top card.
Publication: ArogedAMD Ryzen 5000 creates buzz with benchmark scores (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is all over the news with powerful processors and its sudden rise in quarter three earnings. But now it seems that the companies upcoming processors the AMD Ryzen 5000 based on the Zen 3 architecture process is garnering everyone’s attention. The Ryzen 9 5950X is a 16C/32T CPU with a base clock of 3.9 GHz and a boost clock of up to 4.9 GHz. The single-thread performance of the 5950X in PassMark benchmark shows the CPU scoring about 3,693 points in the test, and the Ryzen 5 5600X’s score was 3,455.
Publication: TechnoSports
What is AMD Smart Access Memory Technology? (PROACTIVE)edit
Recently, AMD announced its new revolutionary Radeon RX 6000 GPUs based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. These top-of-the-line graphics cards sum up against NVIDIA’s flagship GPUs and performs head-to-head as per AMD’s slides in the presentation. However, in the total launch event, one new feature that surely has excited you are the new AMD Smart Access Memory that is completely new concept that only AMD could have thought of and implemented.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Enters Major Leagues, Big Tech’s Big Gains And More In This Week’s Top Newsedit
In the last week’s top news, we briefed about the AMD-Xilinx rumor mill. And, it turned out to be true. AMD bagged their rival Xilinx for a hefty $35 billion deal. This marks another tectonic shift within the semiconductor industry followed by NVIDIA’s deal with ARM last month. AMD’s goal of chipping off market share from Intel is no more a secret now. Read more about why AMD bought Xilinx and what is at stake for Intel in this week’s top news brought to you by Analytics India Magazine.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
AMD Buys Rival Xilinx For $35 B, Troubles Mount For Inteledit
On Tuesday, AMD announced that it would be acquiring Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. Advanced Micro Devices(AMD) specializes in making chips for personal computers, especially gaming PCs. Whereas, Xilinx’s highly-flexible programmable silicon, enabled by a suite of advanced software and tools is designed to drive rapid innovation across a variety of industries and technologies. With this purchase, AMD looks to diversify its market share and customer reach, which would definitely send warning signals to its competitors like Intel.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
AMD is looking to fight Nvidia in 4K gaming technology (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is busy taking on its rival companies like Intel and Nvidia. It seems that the company is doing so while offering high performance and innovations to its customers. According to sources, the company is currently testing a new supersampling feature designed to increase performance during ray tracing. Sources claim that this feature is an alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS feature and will be open and cross-platform. So we can assume that it may come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, both of which are powered by AMD technology.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD brand mentions
MI Notebook 14 E-learning Editionedit
On the hand, it is about 55% slower than a gaming machine that packs an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X processor or a Core i5-9600K (9th Gen) chip. Also, its graphics-processing abilities lag by 85% when compared with notebook GPUs like the Radeon RX Vega or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070. What you do get, however, is a very clear HD camera—and a built-in mic—that works well for Skype and Zoom calls. Its audio output is crisp and balanced through the headphone port, and sound through its stereo speakers is loud and clear enough for movie watching, albeit devoid of any bass output.
Publication: The Times of India
An Expert Explains: Why the Apple M1 chip could be the start of something bigedit
CISC was adopted and developed by Intel and that formed the basis of their X86 architecture, also used by AMD. In 1984, based on IBM’s work, Stanford introduced a new more efficient architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). In 1985, ARM (Acorn RISC Machine, later changed to Advanced Risc Machine), a very significant RISC-based architecture of the future was introduced by UK-based Acorn Computers Ltd.
Publication: Indian Express
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4, Surface Pro 8 features, specs leaked online: Know detailsedit
The Surface Laptop 4 is also rumoured to include AMD processor options, which will likely be a custom Microsoft chip based on AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series. The upcoming products are expected to be officially announced early next year. Their availability, however, could be slightly delayed beyond the first quarter.
Publication: India TV News
NVIDIA Mobile GPUs Coming Early 2021 With AMD Mobile CPU Supportedit
NVIDIA and AMD have been busy lately with so many high-end GPU launches, but it’s only about to get more heated with the new NVIDIA mobile lineup. Wccftech has now reported exclusively that team green has fast-tracked the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 mobility GPUs to make it to market in early 2021. The report also showcases NVIDIA’s roadmap for 2021, with support for AMD’s mobile Ryzen processors also included.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs To Arrive by March – New Cores, Backwards Compatible with Z490edit
Intel’s 11th Generation Desktop CPUs are anticipated by everyone from Intel users to just general hardware enthusiasts as well, not just because AMD seems to have taken over the market pretty dominantly by now, and some competition would be really great right now, but also because it has been confirmed that it will be finally replacing the Skylake microarchitecture that had been around way back since 2015.
Publication: Daily Hunt
Best VR-Ready Laptops Capable Of Handling Virtual Reality Headsets (PROACTIVE)edit
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Gaming Laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS Processor along with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti graphic cards. The Asus ROG lineup offers one of the best gaming laptops with solid gaming hardware at a reasonable budget. The device features a 14-inch full HD screen with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and refresh rate up to 120Hertz.
Publication: The Times of India
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE Review: One GPU To Rule Them Alledit
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE is a special GPU that delivers unparalleled gaming performance at a relatively cheaper price, especially when compared to the price of the RTX 3090. On top of that, the graphics card also offers 10GB video memory, that too the GDDR6X, which has higher bandwidth when compared to the GPU like AMD Radeon RX 6800 or the RX 6800XT. For this review purpose, we used the AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU with the RTX 3080 FE GPU, and here are a few graphs to understand the performance of the GPU.
Publication: Gizbot
NVIDIA Mobile GPUs Coming Early 2021 With AMD Mobile CPU Supportedit
NVIDIA and AMD have been busy lately with so many high-end GPU launches, but it’s only about to get more heated with the new NVIDIA mobile lineup. Wccftech has now reported exclusively that team green has fast-tracked the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 mobility GPUs to make it to market in early 2021. The report also showcases NVIDIA’s roadmap for 2021, with support for AMD’s mobile Ryzen processors also included.
Publication: TechQuila
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Mobile GPUs Coming in 1H 2020: AMD APU Support Includededit
The higher-end RTX 3080 and 3070 mobile will be released at CES 2021 in January, with the RTX 2070 and 2080 Super being discontinued, simultaneously. The budget GTX 16 series will continue to be produced for the remainder of the year due to higher sales and popularity among the mainstream users. Interestingly, the newer GPUs will be exclusive to ASUS and MSI notebooks in the beginning, while HP, Dell, and Lenovo are expected to adopt them by Q2 2021.
Publication: Hardware Times
Best Budget Laptops for Studentsedit
Successor to the 2018 Lenovo IdeaPad 330, the Lenovo IdeaPad S145 recently entered the market with a slightly slimmer and lighter look. The Lenovo IdeaPad S145 range sports Intel’s 8th Gen Core series CPUs with both SSD and HDD options. The screen size is either 14 inches or 15.6 inches, making it a great choice for university students.
Publication: Digit
Big Tech Shares in Demand with Indian Investorsedit
Investing from India in US stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Alphabet and Tesla has gone mainstream. Retail investors have been rushing to take advantage of surging FAANG stocks, thanks to domestic brokerages that have launched global trading platforms. Demand has been on the rise in the past six months. Over 100,000 new accounts have been opened on global trading platforms so far in 2020, while turnover is up 10-fold from December last year, according to market participants.(AMD)
Publication: The Times of India
Dell Inspiron 15 (3505) review: A budget laptop that meets the need for remote learningedit
When a professor friend asked me to suggest a laptop under Rs 35,000 for a student, I had no clear answer. This was around the time the nationwide lockdown 2.0 was announced. After months of searching, my (nearly) impossible hunt for a budget laptop seems to have ended with the Dell Inspiron 15 (3505), a 15-inch laptop with AMD Ryzen 3 3250U CPU. At Rs 32,990, the Dell Inspiron 15 makes sense for people who want a laptop for web browsing, checking emails, online classes, and basic routine tasks.
Publication: Indian Express
What Is Ray Tracing In PS5? List Of PS5 Games That Support Ray Tracingedit
Sony has officially released the PlayStation 5 in several parts of the world including North America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. It is clearly one of the most powerful gaming consoles that comes with an 8-core 3.5 GHz AMD Zen 2 processor, along with a 10.3 teraflop AMD RDNA 2 graphics, among other impressive specifications. While the next-generation console comes with plenty of upgrades over its predecessor, one of the highlighting features is its ray-tracing rendering support.
Publication: Republic World
Microsoft, chip makers team up to improve PC securityedit
Microsoft said it has developed a security technology that chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices plan to incorporate into personal computer processors to boost their ability to ward off hackers and cyber-attacks. Intel and AMD said chips with the new technology, which Microsoft is calling Pluton, will be ready within the next few years. Qualcomm expressed support for the approach, but declined to say whether it would incorporate this specific design in its chips.
Publication: Financial Express
Covid Spike Fails to Spook India Inc; Ops with Limited Workforce Continue (PROACTIVE)edit
About 20 leading companies such as Maruti Suzuki, Deloitte, Myntra, EY, Cisco, Dabur, Whirlpool, Cipla, MakeMyTrip, AMD, SAP Labs, Max Healthcare, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Co and Ericsson told ET that they won’t change the current work arrangement which involves 10-20% staff in office. Additional staff are deployed as and when required.
Publication: The Economic Times
Laptops For College And School Students That Cater To Your Educational Purposesedit
Powered by AMD Ryzen 3 CPU, the Lenovo IdeaPad S145 is an impressive laptop for students on a budget. It comes with a standard 15.6-inch display with Full HD resolution along with LED-backlit keyboard. This laptop will be good enough for day to day college usage and also comes with 1TB hard drive to store all data. It also offers 1.5W Dolby speakers that enhance media consumption on the machine. On a single charge, the IdeaPad S145 can last up to 5.5 hours. It is designed for light usages such as checking emails, web browsing, and a spot of document editing or similar.
Publication: The Times of India
Apple M1 Mac Reviews Show Intel and AMD’s Game is Almost Over [Review Roundup]edit
Apple, last week, announced new Macs with its own in-house ARM-based Apple M1 chips and claimed significant improvements, in terms of both the battery life and performance, over the current Intel-based MacBooks. Publications like The Verge, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, and YouTubers like MKBHD and Dave Lee (Dave2D) got hands-on the new devices a week early before the public release of these Macs. So how do they fare against the current generation Macs? Here’s a roundup of all the reviews.
Publication: TechQuila
Xbox Series S hands-on: Here’s what I’ve learned in the first 48 hoursedit
The biggest difference apart from the lack of the disc drive on the Series S is the GPU in the smaller console. While both new next-gen consoles feature custom AMD Radeon RDNA 2 architecture, the Series X’s GPU 52 cores clocked at 1.825GHz for 12 teraflops and the Series S’ GPU has only 20 cores clocked at 1.565GHz for 4 teraflops.
Publication: Indian Express
Intel Rivals NVIDIA & AMD As It Introduces Its First GPU For Data Centersedit
Chipmaker Intel unveiled its first discrete GPU for data centres. Named Intel Server GPU, it is designed to power Android-based cloud gaming and media streaming segments. A low-power chip, Intel Server GPU will be used in the new PCIe graphics card which can be placed inside the servers. Interestingly, Raja Koduri, Intel Senior Vice President had released a teaser picture of a ‘mysterious GPU’ on his Twitter account in May, leading many to believe a future announcement related to GPU aimed at the data centre.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Nvidia to launch RTX 3080 Ti in January 2021edit
We already know that Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 3080 Ti will be launched soon. But there has been no official confirmation regarding the launch date of the graphics card. According to sources, HKEPC claims that Nvidia plans to release its RTX 3080 Ti card in January 2021. The news, however, is not confirmed by Nvidia. The graphics maker has already released the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 for US$699 and US$1,499, respectively. The RTX 3080 Ti is expected to be between the two cards and will come at a price of around US$999.
Publication: TechnoSports
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti w/ 10,496 Cores and 20GB GD6X Memory Coming in Jan 2021 [Rumor]edit
NVIDIA is reportedly prepping its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for launch as soon as in January 2021. This info comes from the East-Asian outlet, HKEPC, according to which the 3080 Ti will go up against AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT, with the same price tag of $999. As far as the specifications are concerned, we’re looking at the same core count as the RTX 3090 and 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM, but a reduced bus size of 320-bit, same as the RTX 3080.
Publication: Hardware Times
Aya Neo Founder Edition powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5 4500U APUedit
Digital gaming has seen an increase in popularity due to the pandemic. Gaming manufacturers are pushing forward to make their games more appealing and demanding to users. Amidst all this, a Redditor has spotted that the Aya Neo Founder Edition has gone up for preorder sales in China.
Publication: TechnoSports
Apple M1 Custom Silicon for Macs Launched to Take on Intel Core and AMD Ryzen Processorsedit
Apple M1 launched as the first in-house chipset for its range of Mac computers from the brand. The company claims that the chipset is the most powerful chip it has ever created. It is also the first chipset for the PC to be built using 6-nanometer process technology and packs 16 billion transistors. Apple has claimed a lot of superlatives for this chipset including fastest CPU performance, fastest integrated GPU, and more.
Publication: My Smart Price
Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Performance Guide: Best Graphics Settings for 60 FPSedit
At 4K, the RTX 2080 Super and AMD’s 5700 XT are the only surviving cards while the rest of GPU bow out with lows as dismal as 1 FPS. Here, the Navi flagship levels with the 2080 Super as the bandwidth advantage of the latter comes into the picture. I found that AMD cards perform the best at the balanced quality graphics preset. At highest quality, the 2070 S performs on par with the 5700 XT while the 2080 S manages to edge past it. So, anyone with a Navi card should stick to that preset and then increase those settings that don’t have a notable impact on performance.
Publication: Hardware Times
Huawei to launch new desktop computer soon: Reportedit
Chinese tech giant Huawei is reportedly planning to launch a desktop computer by the end of this year. The upcoming desktop computer from Huawei will be powered by the company’s own Kunpeng 920 chipset, along with a graphics processor from AMD which could be Radeon R7 430, reports GizmoChina.
Publication: India TV
Apple launches MacBook laptops with first microprocessor designed in-houseedit
Apple Inc on Tuesday introduced a MacBook Air notebook and other computers with the first microprocessor designed in-house, a move that will tie its Macs and iPhones closer together technologically. The new chip, called the M1, marks a shift away from Intel Corp technology that has driven the electronic brains of Mac computers for nearly 15 years. The Mini is targeted at engineers and scientists because of the artificial intelligence capabilities of the new chip that usually requires a graphics chip from Nvidia Corp or AMD.
Publication: Business Standard
Lenovo unveils custom Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card for its gaming desktopedit
AMD has already submitted its upcoming graphics processors to its OEM partners for custom development. However, not all OEMs have successfully adopted the next-gen graphics units as of yet. But recently, Lenovo product manager of Gaming Desktops posted three photos of the upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. The card has been compared with the OEM custom dual-fan version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 model.
Publication: TechnoSports
Apple ‘One More Thing’ event today: Here’s what to expectedit
Apple will be conducting the ‘One More Thing’ event today. The company is expected to launch new Mac computers powered by the company’s home-built chipsets. This will be strong departure from Apple’s previous partnership with Intel. The launch of its own chipsets is expected to bring new competitiveness in the chipset market that is mostly dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Publication: Livemint
ASUS warns of low AMD stock upon its launchedit
AMD’s Radeon RX, 6000 series graphics card, will be launched soon in the retail stores. But reports claim that the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will have limited stock at launch. The stock issues were only specific to Radeon RX 6900 XT. However, according to sources, even the Radeon RX 6800 XT supply will be minimal. The card is expected to be sold out within minutes of the launch.
Publication: TechnoSports
Acer Aspire 3 Ryzen 5 A315-41edit
Acer Aspire 3 Ryzen 5 A315-41 is a stylish and powerful Notebook Laptop and is powered by Quad Core core clocked at a speed of 2 GHz with Turbo Boost Upto 3.6 GHz and sports a 15.6 inch HD LED that comes with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels,so the picture quality is crisp and detailed.The screen size is big enough for an enriching gaming, surfing and video watching experience.
Publication: Digit
Acer Aspire 5 A515 with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U “Lucienne” APU listed on Amazon Italy for €779edit
Acer is always very active to bring new processors to its laptops whether its for Intel or AMD and it seems the Taiwanese OEM is planning to bring new Ryzen 5000U APUs to the market. AMD is planning to bring a lot of options for laptops in the form of Ryzen 5000 after a immense success it tasted with Ryzen 4000U processors.
Publication: TechnoSports
Amazon Sale is getting heavy discounts on Laptops from Asus to HP, hurry upedit
HP 245 G7 AMD Ryzen 5 – 3500U 14 inch Laptop (8GB RAM / 1TB HDD / Windows 10 / Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
Publication: Navbharat Times
Cyberpunk 2077 to Support Ray-Tracing on AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT/6900 XT (Big Navi)edit
It seems that Cyberpunk 2077 will support ray-tracing on AMD’s Big Navi graphics cards after all (on day 0 itself). This was more or less confirmed in WCCFT’s interview with Brian Burke, NVIDIA PR lead for Gaming Technology, Esports & Consumer VR. As per Burke, like most other games supporting ray-tracing (or in NVIDIA lingo, RTX), Cyberpunk 2077 too will support it on any DXR compatible GPU, including the Radeon RX 6800/XT and the RX 6900 XT.
Publication: Hardware Times
AVITA Liber V14 R5 Laptop Launched in India, Powered by Ryzen 5 AMD Processoredit
The slim and light-weight AVITA Liber V 14 R5 promises an ultra-immersive power-packed user experience through a Ryzen 5 Quad Core AMD processor. It comes with a spectacularly sharp and narrow, slim-bezel, IPS anti-glare FHD display for dazzling visuals for the most astounding visuals along with a beautiful island-style backlit keyboard. With an integrated AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphic processor and an internal memory of 8GB with DDR4 technology, the impressive Liber V 14 R5 is backed by a storage capacity of 512 GB SSD.
Publication: Telecom Today
Special edition Asus Zephyrus G14 launched in India at Rs 1,99,990edit
Asus has recently launched its Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop powered by AMD Ryzen processors in India. The company has now launched a special edition of the laptop created in collaboration with ACRONYM, a technical apparel design agency. The special edition G14 carries the design vision of Errolson Hugh. In terms of specifications, the special edition Asus Zephyrus G14 is powered by an 8 core, 16 thread AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS processor paired with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 MaxQ graphics. T
Publication: Gadgets Now
LG revealed the new UltraGear 27GN800-B, comes with NVIDIA G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premiumedit
Now the most interesting feature comes with support for both the G-SYNC compatibility and FreeSync Premium badge. There is no difference between G-SYNC and FreeSync fundamentally. G-SYNC is of NVIDIA, and FreeSync is of AMD, and it syncs the monitor with the GPU and lets it control the refresh rate continuously. This feature will attract gamers to this LG monitor.
Publication: TechnoSports
5 best laptops with high refresh rate displays in India (PROACTIVE)edit
HP’s Pavilion Gaming 15 laptop comes with a 15.6-inch IPS display that offers full HD resolution and a high refresh rate of 144Hz. It is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor, along with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 GPU with 4GB VRAM. The processor is paired with 8GB DDR4 RAM, which is expandable up to 16GB.
Publication:91 Mobiles
NVIDIA Lowers RTX 30 Series GPU Prices in India – Now Starting at Rs. 44,500edit
The community has been divided about this issue, and they do not know what is going on the scenes. There has been some speculation that AMD’s announcement of RDNA 2 cards might have forced NVIDIA to revise the prices of the FE models in order to ensure that there continues to some competition in the market. Of course, the pessimistic ones are suggesting that NVIDIA is trying to ensure consumer satisfaction by ensuring that everyone gets a GPU at the announced prices.
Publication: TechQuila
Asus ZenBook UM425 Reviewedit
The ZenBook UM425 arrives with an AMD Ryzen 7 4700U chip with accompanying AMD Radeon Vega 7 graphics, 16GB of LPDDR4x 3200MHz memory, and a mid-level 1TB Intel 660p PCIe X4 SSD. The 4700U brings an 8C/8T processor which brings fairly decent performance when it comes to single-core tasks. Multitasking is a massive plus when the ZenBook UM425 operates at a higher TDP setting with demanding loads.
Publication: Times Now
Asus launches a special edition ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop: Here’s how it looks likeedit
Asus ROG has announced the launch of its special edition ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop in India. What’s special about it is that this is made in collaboration with ACRONYM, a technical apparel design agency. As for the specs, the special edition laptop has a 14-inch screen that is also Pantone-validated. Powering it is the 8-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen 9-4900HS CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060-MaxQ GPU.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S and 12th Gen Alder Lake-S CPUs Spottededit
Intel is planning to launch its 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPUs in early 2021 to tackle the newly announced Ryzen 5000 parts from AMD. Based on the new Cypress Cove core architecture (read: Sunny Cove on 14nm) and boost clocks as high as 5.5-5.6GHz, Intel will be looking to regain the gaming crown which it will likely lose to Zen 3 very soon. The former is notably larger due to the use of a hybrid core architecture (Cove + Mont), featuring up to sixteen cores, fabbed on the 10nm SuperFin node, and paired with the Gen12 Xe integrated graphics.
Publication: Hardware Times
Asus launches special edition of ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptopedit
“We collaborated with ACRONYM to develop our latest offering that reinvents the way gamers and creators use G14 as a tool. This ground-breaking device is the synthesis of creative visions by brands that are a radical innovator in their respective field,” said Arnold Su, Business Head, Consumer And Gaming PC, System Business Group, Asus India. The Zephyrus G14-ACRNM comes armed with a punchy 8-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen 9-4900HS CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060- MaxQ GPU, which makes it well-equipped for all kinds of operations, be it editing videos or streaming.
Publication: Telangana Today
Asus TUF A15 FA566 gaming laptop review: Steely looks, solid gamingedit
Taiwanese technology firm Asus launched the TUF A15 and A17 budget gaming laptop series in India this year. Compared to the prior TUF series laptops, the newer ones come with some key design changes, especially in the display. The Asus TUF A15 FA566 is one of them. The gaming laptop comes at a starting price of Rs 62,990 and the unit we reviewed is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4800 processor, coupled with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti graphics card.
Publication: Gadgets Now
MSI’s Entire Line-up of AMD 400 Series Motherboards will support Ryzen TM 5000 series processorsedit
AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture Ryzen TM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors.
Publication: IT Voice
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Lenovo Yoga C940 – Reviewedit
Pioneering the 2-in-1 laptop/tablet model, tech giant Lenovo is capitalising on its premium segment, sleek-yet-powerful Yoga series laptops. While other brands were quick to push similar hinged hardware, the Yoga series introduced a whole range of consumer-oriented laptops/tablets. This year, with Intel’s 10th gen CPU, the Lenovo Yoga C940 is an upgrade of its 2019 model with a smoother typing experience, larger screen and Dolby Atmos residing in its hinge.
Publication: IGN India
Dell Latitude 9510 Review: Bold And Beautifuledit
The Dell Latitude 9510 is powered by the Intel Core i7-10810U six-core CPU with a base clock speed of 1.1GHz and a boost clock speed of up to 4.9GHz. Though this is a 10th Gen processor, it is not as power-efficient as Intel Core i7 1065G7, which is based on 7nm process and is found on the HP Spectre X360.
Publication: Gizbot
A semiconductor startup ecosystem finally seems to emergeedit
It began with Texas Instruments setting up a global R&D centre in Bengaluru in 1985 to design semiconductor chips and integrated circuits using Indian engineering talent. Other MNCs followed, including the world’s two leading chipset makers, Samsung Electronics and Intel. But even though so much semiconductor design work is being done in India, it’s all happening in MNCs and not Indian companies.
Publication: Livemint
NVIDIA Mobile GPUs Coming Early 2021 With AMD Mobile CPU Supportedit
NVIDIA and AMD have been busy lately with so many high-end GPU launches, but it’s only about to get more heated with the new NVIDIA mobile lineup. Wccftech has now reported exclusively that team green has fast-tracked the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 mobility GPUs to make it to market in early 2021. The report also showcases NVIDIA’s roadmap for 2021, with support for AMD’s mobile Ryzen processors also included.
Publication: TechQuila
Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 e-Learning Edition review: A new benchmark for budget laptopsedit
Xiaomi is offering a 10th Gen 2.1 GHz Intel Core i3-10110U Comet Lake processor as standard on the e-Learning Edition. This is paired with 8GB RAM DDR4 RAM clocked at 2666MHz and a 256GB SATA 3 SSD. There’s a genuine copy of Windows 10 Home onboard while the graphics part is dealt with the onboard Intel UHD 620 graphics.
Publication: BGR India
Intel takes a shot at rival AMDedit
We all know the famous rivalry between Intel and AMD. It is a proven fact that Intel is slowly losing its crown as the silicon giant in the tech industry. But that doesn’t mean it will lie down and take the blow. Instead, Intel has directly called out its rival in its latest presentation, claiming that AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs suffer major performance penalties when running on battery.
Publication: TechnoSports
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 mobile lineup to be launched in January 2021edit
We know that Nvidia is planning to introduce its RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 GPUs. The cards are expected to replace its SUPER lineup and the RTX 2060. And according to sources, the GPUs will be launched in January 2021. But they will initially only be available in ASUS and MSI custom flavors. HP, Dell, and Lenovo users will have to wait until April for the new GPUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
Best laptop for multitasking in India (PROACTIVE)edit
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a powerful machine that is packed in a compact package. It features a 14-inch Full HD IPS pantone validated panel offering 100% sRGB. It is powered by an AMD Ryzen 4600HS processor coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 1TB SSD. It comes with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti 4GB graphics. It offers a battery life of up to 10 hours. It comes with an ergonomic hinge that raises the laptop, offering a comfortable typing position.
Publication: Business Insider
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Card Review (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD has done it. The new ‘RDNA 2’-based Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are very competitive in performance and aren’t power-hungry for the performance that they deliver. We only have the pricing for the RX 6800 which does work out well for the Indian market given that the GPUs do have the performance to back it up. And now that the price for the RX 6800 XT has been unveiled, we don’t see any reason for Indian consumers to opt for the card. Performance wise, these cards do well in most benchmarks that we ran. At INR 54,279, the Radeon RX 6800 enjoys a very healthy and consumer-centric positioning in India while the Radeon RX 6800 XT,
Publication: Digit
Nvidia is bringing Fortnite and other GeForce Now cloud games to iPhones via Safari William Dickerson 2020-11-25edit
Nvidia is bringing Fortnite and other GeForce Now cloud games to iPhones via Safari. In this news, we discuss the Nvidia is bringing Fortnite and other GeForce Now cloud games to iPhones via Safari. Nvidia has announced that it is bringing the GeForce Now game streaming service to iOS. Interestingly, however, the service doesn’t go through the App Store because it doesn’t follow Apple’s guidelines. Instead, the company chose to use Safari to extend the service to its users on iOS.
Publication: BollyInside
Dell Latitude 9510: This PC makes your work-life easieredit
Cooped up in our homes for close to nine months now, our work and entertainment devices—laptops, tablets, mobile phones, TVs—are bearing the brunt of our office and education-related work overload. So much so that many among us have experienced device-related breakdowns during these pandemic times, leaving us high and dry. Physical damage, power surges or hard disk failure are cited as key reasons for computer breakdowns. In short, if you are on the lookout for a new machine that is sturdily built and comes packed with new technology, Dell Latitude 9510 can be a good option.
Publication: Financial Express
Redefining PC experience with ultrapowerful thin & light laptopsedit
Remember when heavy, big and bulky laptops used to be the only option for getting high PC performance? That’s a thing of the past now. With the powerful 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, powerful performance now comes in ultraportable thin and light laptops. No matter if you are working from home, on-the-go or from the office, these mighty processors are redefining what’s possible in thin and light laptops by giving you a seamless work and entertainment experience. 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Powered Laptops – Made for productivity and entertainment on-the-go.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano to feature Intel Core i7-1180G7edit
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Nano was first announced in late September 2020, and the release date was given beyond the 4th quarter of 2020. Now it means that the machine will be launched in December or most probably in early 2021. The speculation on the internet is which 11th gen CPU is included in the device. There are two kinds of Tiger Lake U processors, UP3 and UP4. The UP3 CPUs have a TDP of 12 to 28 W, while the UP4 processors can consume 7 to 15 W.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs To Arrive by March – New Cores, Backwards Compatible with Z490edit
Intel’s 11th Generation Desktop CPUs are anticipated by everyone from Intel users to just general hardware enthusiasts as well, not just because AMD seems to have taken over the market pretty dominantly by now, and some competition would be really great right now, but also because it has been confirmed that it will be finally replacing the Skylake microarchitecture that had been around way back since 2015. The presence of Skylake for so long in their desktop CPU lineup has been a major pain point for all hardware enthusiasts and Intel alike, as with time, the stagnation has led to decreased competition in the market.
Publication: TechQuila
NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti, 3060 to Get 6GB and 12GB VRAM: 3,584 and 3,584 Cores, Respectivelyedit
As per kopitekimi, a reputed source on NVIDIA Ampere leaks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti will be based on the GA106 die with 3,584 FP32 cores and a TBP of around 150W. Although this wasn’t specified, it’s likely that the RTX 3050 Ti will leverage a 192-bit bus (or 160-bit in clamshell mode), with 6GB of GDDR6 memory. The RTX 3060, on the other hand, will come with a 192-bit bus paired with 12GB of VRAM. In terms of the core count, we’re looking at 3,840 shaders and the same GA106 die as the RTX 3050 Ti.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti (Based on GA103) to Feature 7,424 Cores, 12GB GD6X VRAM, and a 320-bit Busedit
Reputed source on NVIDIA’s Ampere graphics cards, KopiteKimi has confirmed the specifications of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. The GPU will be based on the GA103 die (the same one that will power the RTX 30 mobile GPUs) and likely become the second fastest consumer GPU after the RTX 3080.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs To Arrive by March – New Cores, Backwards Compatible with Z490edit
Intel’s 11th Generation Desktop CPUs are anticipated by everyone from Intel users to just general hardware enthusiasts as well, not just because AMD seems to have taken over the market pretty dominantly by now, and some competition would be really great right now, but also because it has been confirmed that it will be finally replacing the Skylake microarchitecture that had been around way back since 2015.
Publication: Daily Hunt
Opinion | Reimagining India’s digital transformation in vital sectorsedit
India has been on a digital-first trajectory for a few years, spurred on by its goal of becoming a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025. Digital transformation across key sectors like manufacturing, education, healthcare, as well as government services and labor markets has the potential for each sector to create $10-$150 billion incremental economic value by 2025.
Publication: Livemint
Asus VivoBook 15 (X513) laptop Reviewedit
Asus has just refreshed their VivoBook lineup with the launch of the VivoBook 14 and the VivoBook 15. The new 11th Intel Core processor-powered machines come with model numbers X413 and X513, respectively. The VivoBook series from Asus is known to be affordable yet powerful. With the COVID-19 situation going around, most of you might have been hunting for a laptop that could provide the bang for your buck. Is the Asus VivoBook X513 the laptop you have been hunting for?
Publication: India TV News
Innovation culture fuelling business resilience in India: Studyedit
Amid the pandemic, 77 per cent of Indian organisations have found innovation to be critical or important to their performance and resilience, said a Microsoft and IDC report released on Tuesday. The study found that in a short span of six months, organisations in India have increased their ability to innovate by 4 per cent by maturing their culture of innovation. The study also showed that close to 78 per cent of India organisations are speeding up digitalisation in a variety of ways to adapt to the new reality.
Publication: ET Telcom – The Economic Times
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE Review: One GPU To Rule Them Alledit
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE is a special GPU that delivers unparalleled gaming performance at a relatively cheaper price, especially when compared to the price of the RTX 3090. On top of that, the graphics card also offers 10GB video memory, that too the GDDR6X, which has higher bandwidth when compared to the GPU like AMD Radeon RX 6800 or the RX 6800XT. For this review purpose, we used the AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU with the RTX 3080 FE GPU, and here are a few graphs to understand the performance of the GPU.
Publication: Gizbot
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Alleged Specifications Leaked by Custom Card Maker Manliedit
Nvidia is gearing up to launch a new GPU in its RTX series and it has been reported that the company is calling it the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Amid numerous leaks and rumours, the custom card maker Manli has revealed the specifications of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060Ti. Here’s a closer look at the specifications of the upcoming RTX 3060Ti graphics card.
Publication: MySmartPrice
Former Intel Engineer Explains Why Apple Ditched Intel And Switched To ARMedit
Apple has an average share of around 7 percent in the PC market. Every modern Mac shipped by Apple was powered by Intel CPU, until a few weeks back, where Apple announced two new MacBooks based on the ARM processor. François Piednoël has worked for Intel for the last 20 years as both a Principal Engineer and Performance Architect. According to PCGamer, François Piednoël, a former employee of Intel has explained that “bad quality assurance of Skylake” made Apple switch from Intel to Apple Silicon.
Publication: Gizbot
Upcoming RTX 3060 Ti GPU beats RTX 2080 SUPER in OpenCL & CUDA benchmarksedit
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is said to feature 4864 CUDA cores with 152 Tensor cores and 38 RT cores. This makes the new mid-range GPU faster than the last year’s RTX 2080 SUPER, and much like last year, the RTX 3060 Ti is supposed to cost 399 USD, launching on December 2nd. The 3060 Ti has a silver-tone 12-pin power cable; however, it comes with an adapter. So, the new RTX 3060 Ti GPU from NVIDIA is much more exciting than it seems because even though it will eventually cost under $400, it is more powerful than an RTX 2080 Super.
Publication: TechnoSports
NVIDIA Mobile GPUs Coming Early 2021 With AMD Mobile CPU Supportedit
NVIDIA and AMD have been busy lately with so many high-end GPU launches, but it’s only about to get more heated with the new NVIDIA mobile lineup. Wccftech has now reported exclusively that team green has fast-tracked the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 mobility GPUs to make it to market in early 2021. The report also showcases NVIDIA’s roadmap for 2021, with support for AMD’s mobile Ryzen processors also included.
Publication: TechQuila
TSMC to Reportedly Fab Intel’s Core i3 CPUs in 2022 on 5nm EUV Processedit
According to a report from TechNews Taiwan, Intel will be outsourcing its lower-end Core i3 processors to TSMC’s 5nm EUV process in 2022. This is a bit weird as it’d mean that the tape-out for the i3s would have to be optimized for TSMC’s manufacturing node, while the i5s and i7s would continue to use Intel’s own foundry. It’s possible that Intel plans to leverage both TSMC and its own process nodes to fabricate the same lineup, but that will undoubtedly cause variations in performance and efficiency across the same models.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Mobile GPUs Coming in 1H 2020: AMD APU Support Includededit
The higher-end RTX 3080 and 3070 mobile will be released at CES 2021 in January, with the RTX 2070 and 2080 Super being discontinued, simultaneously. The budget GTX 16 series will continue to be produced for the remainder of the year due to higher sales and popularity among the mainstream users. Interestingly, the newer GPUs will be exclusive to ASUS and MSI notebooks in the beginning, while HP, Dell, and Lenovo are expected to adopt them by Q2 2021.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel Claims AMD Systems Cede Performance For Better Battery Lifeedit
Intel hasn’t had things this year. From AMD’s impressive showing in benchmark scores, to Apple’s new Silicon M1 chips dominating benchmarks. The launch of its 11th-gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops has seemingly been pushed to the sidelines as a consequence and the silicon juggernaut is looking for ways to get back into the spotlight.
Publication: Mashable India
Best Budget Laptops for Studentsedit
Successor to the 2018 Lenovo IdeaPad 330, the Lenovo IdeaPad S145 recently entered the market with a slightly slimmer and lighter look. The Lenovo IdeaPad S145 range sports Intel’s 8th Gen Core series CPUs with both SSD and HDD options. The screen size is either 14 inches or 15.6 inches, making it a great choice for university students.
Publication: Digit
5 best compact laptops for travel you can buy in Indiaedit
The Dell Inspiron 5300 is a good compact laptop that gets thin bezels on two sides and weighs just 1.05kg. This laptop is powered by a 10th generation Intel Core i5-10210U chipset, which is paired with 8GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM, and a 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. It features a 13.3-inch IPS anti-glare display that offers FHD resolution and 95 percent sRGB colour gamut.
Publication: 91 Mobiles
Intel Rocket Lake-S Reportedly Coming in March 2021edit
As per a report from WCCFTech, Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPUs will be landing in March 2021, along with the new 500 series motherboards. The company shared some news regarding its Rocket Lake processors a while back, stating that the launch will be sometime in early 2021, but this gives us a solid timeline. As expected, the 11th Gen CPUs will be backward compatible with the existing 400 series boards, with PCIe 4.0 support likely limited to the higher-end Z490 chipset.
Publication: Hardware Times
Ryzen 9 5900x & RTX 3070 Gameplay Benchmarks… The New Fastest Gaming CPU? (PROACTIVE)edit
King of Gaming CPUs 2020 | The World’s Fastest Gaming CPU 2020 | Ryzen 9 5900x & Ryzen 9 5950x India | Ryzen 9 5900x Review & Gameplay Benchmarks India 2020
Publication: Vimal Chintapatla (YouTube)
Ray Tracing Support Isn’t Enough For Radeon RX 6000 To Compete With NVIDIA – Why FidelityFX Super Resolution Is Importantedit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 cards which have hardware ray tracing support are now out in the market, but that isn’t enough to compete with NVIDIA. The new graphics cards, built on the new RDNA 2 architecture, are meant to compete with NVIDIA’s enthusiast cards – the RTX 3070 and 3080.
Publication: TechQuila
The world has just scratched the surface of AI use, says Intel’s Nivruti Raiedit
“The world has just scratched the surface of AI use,” according to Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India and Vice President Data Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. Rai is one of the top tech executives in the world who strongly believes in the prowess of Artificial Intelligence. For her, India is the perfect testbed for AI, thanks to the big user base that is churning out data day and night. After all, AI thrives on the data. She also envisages the multi-faceted application of AI, not just limited to basic computing enhancements.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Techies Spoilt for Choice, Get Multiple Job Offersedit
“Limited availability of such talent puts them in a better place to negotiate,” said Ryan Lowe, partner, people advisory services, EY India, which is hiring in technology and digital. “Many of our clients in IT, financial services, FMCG, pharmaceutical and manufacturing are looking for tech professionals for future growth,” said Lowe.
Publication: The Economic Times
NVIDIA posts record revenue for fiscal 3Q21, thanks to the gaming marketedit
A few days ago, NVIDIA, the graphics giant, posted its recent revenues, and it really looks beyond promising. Yes, the company posted a record US$4.73 billion in revenue for the third quarter that ended October 25, 2020. This is an almost 57% increase from US$3.01 billion a year earlier, as well as up by 22% from US$3.87 billion in the previous quarter. This has exceeded the analysts’ expectations, who predicted it to be $4.41 billion, and it posted $2.91 per share, far beyond the $2.57 per share prediction.
Publication: TechnoSports
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition leaked totallyedit
There have been many rumors about the upcoming mid-range GPU for quite some time now, and finally, it has been leaked with full glory, thanks to Videocardz. The upcoming NVIDIA Ampere graphics cards will be a great option for those who aren’t looking to spend much yet want to enjoy games with ray tracing.
Publication: TechnoSports
Dell XPS 15 9500 (2020) review: One of the finest PC experiencesedit
If you have wanted a fine Windows PC experience, the Dell XPS range of laptops has been the easiest recommendation since an eternity. Whether you pick up a 13-inch or 15-inch variant, the XPS laptops do not compromise on performance and form factor -a rarity in the world of Windows laptops. The XPS 15, which is the bigger version, got an upgrade earlier this year with the latest Intel processors and I was eager to try it out. Also Read – Dell Latitude 9510 2-in-1 review: Excellent battery life, good performance.
Publication: BGR India
Asus Chromebox 4 With 10th-Gen Intel Core Processor Launched: Features, Priceedit
Mini PCs have become increasingly popular for their compact form factor packed with powerful features. The latest addition is the Asus Chromebox 4, a new mini PC with a 10th-gen Intel Core processor. Unlike its predecessor, the Asus Chromebox 4 has several new features internally, including Wi-Fi 6, Google Play support, and more.
Publication: Gizbot
Intel NUC M15 Laptop powered by its 11th gen processors announcededit
Intel has announced its NUC M15 Laptop Kit (originally code-named ‘Bishop County’), which will be a new addition to the whitebook market. The new laptop, which is designed in-house by Intel, will be powered by its 11th Gen Intel Core mobile processor (codenamed Tiger Lake). The announcement comes soon after Apple announced its own M1-powered laptops: the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. But keep in mind: the Intel NUC M15 is not a laptop that can be purchased by customers directly.
Publication: Indian Express ; News18
New M1 Apple MacBooks vs Intel MacBooks: The BIG differenceedit
With its latest line of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, Apple has made quite a splash simply because the laptops are powered by the company’s own processor. At the heart of the new Mac devices is the M1 chipset, which is reportedly faster than the Intel processors found in older MacBooks. iFixit, the teardown specialists, have reported that except the processor, both old and new MacBooks are pretty much the same internally.
Publication: The Times of India
Intel’s 32-Core Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU Beats 64-core AMD EPYC in Select Benchmarksedit
These new Xeon Scalable Processors will be running the Sunny Cove architecture and will be manufactured utilizing Intel’s 10 nm process node, according to Intel from their SC20 Event. Scheduled to be released for clients by mid-2021, these CPUs may boast over 18% IPC uplifts over older, Skylake-SP Xeon CPUs, as well as newer technologies such as PCIe 4.0, more memory channels and support for up to 6 TB of memory support per CPU socket.
Publication: TechQuila
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Specs Confirmed: 4,864 Cores, 8GB VRAM and 256-bit Busedit
A Geekbench listing of NVIDIA’s upcoming budget graphics card has surfaced, confirming the specs of the first Ti card in the lineup. All the specifications are in line with what we’ve heard up until now. You’re looking at 38 SMs or 4,864 FP32 cores paired via a 256-bit bus to 8GB of GDDR6 memory. The frequency mentioned in this test is 1.67GHz which is likely what we’ll see at launch. In comparison, most of the higher-end Ampere cards top out at around 1.70GHz.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 6700 Series Specifications Leak Out: 2560 Cores and 12GB VRAMedit
We already had an idea about the bus width and shader count of these cards, but now we know the memory size and TGP as well. The shader counts of these parts are expected to stay the same as their RDNA 1 counterparts, 2560 cores (40 CUs) for the 6700 XT and 2,304 cores (36 CUs) for the 6700. The memory bus is getting reducing for both the cards, from 256-bit to 192-bit. This deficit will be compensated by the Infinity Cache. Considering the pricey nature of SRAM, these GPUs will likely feature half as much Infinity Cache compared to the Big Navi parts: ~around 64MB.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060: Which one is Faster? (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT was launched to slot the gap between the RX 5500XT and the RX 5700. It goes head to head against NVIDIA’s RTX 2060 while costing $60 less. 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
AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs seem to have worse stocks than NVIDIAedit
The new AMD GPUs have created a lot of hype in the gaming community as because of its handsome specs against NVIDIA’s RTX 30-series GPUs. However, NVIDIA’s stock was pathetic and people got sick of waiting for the GPUs and a lot of people were inclined to opt for AMD instead. But, the situation after day 1 availability of these new AMD GPUs things seems far more concerning and bad than even NVIDIA. As the renowned YouTuber JayzTwoCents in his video talked about the availability of these two new RX 6800 GPUs and it doesn’t look good.
Publication: TechnoSports
Asus ZenBook 14 UX425 review: Lightweight, performs well, but battery could be betteredit
The ZenBook line of notebooks from Taiwanese computer brand Asus has so many models out there it’s hard to remember them all. For the past few days, I’ve been testing the ZenBook 14 UX425 that launched in India on November 10. It may not be radically different from what has come before but there is one huge change: The UX425 is one of the first laptops that contain the quad-core Core i7-1165G7 chipset, part of Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake line.
Publication: The News Minute
AMD Radeon RX 6800 India Pricing Revealed; Similar To RTX 3070edit
AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards based on RDNA 2 architecture are now available for purchase across the globe. The company has now revealed the Indian price of these new GPUs that competes against the RTX 3000 series of GPUs. The reference card (from AMD) of the RX 6800 will be available in India with a starting price of Rs. 45,999 (tax not included). Similarly, the AIB models (from board partners) of the RX 6800 and the RX 6800XT will go on sale in the country from November 25th.
Publication: Gizbot
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Reportedly Faster Than RTX 2080 Super In Benchmarksedit
NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has been detailed in a new leak by VideoCardz, in a slide that was reportedly sent to the press. No performance figures were given by the company besides a relative comparison between RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 2080 Super. VideoCardz were able to measure the bars and calculate rough performance from the charts.
Publication: TechQuila
Nvidia GeForce Now Games Available on Apple iPhone and iPad via Safari, Fortnite Coming Soonedit
Nvidia’s cloud-based game streaming service, GeForce Now is now available on iOS devices through the Safari web browser. Nvidia in a blog post said that the streaming service is currently available in beta version and over 5 million users can now use the service on Apple iPhone and iPad via Safari. The development also means that GeForce Now members with an Apple iPhone or iPad can play Fortnite on the device, which is currently unavailable on Apple App Store.
Publication: Network 18
Nvidia was a bit too amped upedit
Nvidia reported strong fiscal third-quarter results Thursday afternoon, managing to beat some already aggressive targets laid out by Wall Street. Revenue set new records at both the company’s key videogaming and data center segments, with sales for the latter exploding 162% year-over-year to hit $1.9 billion. Gaming revenue jumped 37%, exceeding $2 billion for the first time on a quarterly basis, thanks to strong demand for the company’s latest processors—and that was with supply shortages that the company said Thursday would take a few more months to clear.
Publication: Livemint
Intel’s Core i7-11370H makes its appearance on Geekbenchedit
The wait is finally over, and we yet to have the grand appearance of the Tiger Lake-H series on Geekbench. According to sources, Intel’s Core i7-11370H is a quad-core processor that comes with 12 MB of L3 cache plus 1.25 MB of L2 cache and 320 KB of combined L1 cache. The processor is a Hyper-Threaded processor with a base clock of 3.29 GHz and a boost clock of 4.79 GHz. According to sources, intel’s Core i7-11370H has been manufactured on its Tiger Lake-U platform, which is highly unusual. But the processor is named Core i7-11370H, which should imply that it is based on the Tiger Lake-H platform.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel to help small laptop brands take on HP, Dell with new NUC M15edit
Intel is reportedly gearing up to launch its new laptop with Core i5 and i7 processor. While Intel will be making the laptop, it will not be selling it with its own brand name. As per a report by The Verge, Intel will be supplying the laptop–called NUC M15– to small brands who will be able to use their own stickers and also decide the storage configuration.
Publication: The Times of India
AMD Radeon Rx 6800 GPU Review : Surprising! (PROACTIVE)edit
The new AMD RDNA2 GPUs take on Nvidia’s GPU dominance. The design and the build quality is unlike any other entry level card. The all metal design is great and the RED LED logo is backlit and looks great. Fighting really well with the 3070 and in most cases even defeating the 3080. An impressive result from AMD performance.
Publication: iGyaan – YouTube
AMD Radeon 6800XT – Nvidia RTX 3080 Killer??? (PROACTIVE)edit
In the budget and mid-range, AMD has great products. But with the high end products, NVIDIA has always dominated. Not anymore, with the latest Radeon RX 6000 series, AMD is taking the fight directly to NVIDIA’s 3000 series. Raytracing is finally back to the latest generation of cards. With these new GPUs, AMD introduced infinity Cache as well.
Publication: C4ETech – YouTube
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Review – Big Navi Bites Back, With Impressive Gains in RDNA 2 (PROACTIVE)edit
We’ve been testing and playing with the 6800 XT for almost a week now, and I should note a few things before diving deeper into the review. For one, we didn’t have an RTX 3080 to compare the 6800 XT with, hence the benchmark charts today won’t show any comparisons with that. We did source some benchmark data from certain other outlets for the 3080 so we could get a better look at comparative performance.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X brings out the best in both Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT (PROACTIVE)edit
Recently the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT were paired together with the same type of CPU to run for various simulations of Vulkan Geekbench tests. The CPU that was used for testing was the beast that comes with 16 cores and 32 threads. That’s right; we are talking about the processor none other than the AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X.
Publication: TechnoSports
Nvidia Forecasts Strong Holiday Revenue As Pandemic Bolsters Video Game Marketedit
Nvidia Corp forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on robust demand for its graphic chips for gaming devices and data centers. Nvidia also beat revenue expectations for the third quarter as gaming business revenue jumped 37% to $2.27 billion (£1.71 billion) from a year earlier, beating FactSet estimates of $2.06 billion.
Publication; Network 18
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Performance Leaked, Allegedly Beats RTX 2080 SUPERedit
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 series aims at bringing the entry point to ray tracing gaming even lower this year. NVIDIA currently has the RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 in the market. As usual, it is racing to put out more versions of the card, including lower SKUs in the series, as well as Ti and SUPER variants.
Publication: My Smart Price
MediaTek acquires Intel’s power-management chip biz for $85mnedit
Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has acquired Intel Enpirion power management chip product line-related assets, via its subsidiary Richtek, for approximately $85 million. With this acquisition, MediaTek is now aiming to expand its product line to offer integrated power solutions used in FPGA, SoC, CPU, and ASIC for the enterprise-level system applications, reports GizmoChina.
Publication: ET Telecom
Intel’s Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU is said to be 30% faster than AMD’s 2nd gen EPYC line-upedit
Intel will soon release its Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU’s and the processors will come with an updated core architecture. The processor will reportedly deliver 18% more IPC than its predecessors. The manufacturer claims that its CPU will be a better performer than AMD’s 2nd generation EPYC Rome CPU’s. The Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs is on track to be launched in the mid of 2021, and intel assures the same for its CPU. The Xeon CPU is based on a 10nm process node and comes with a brand new microarchitecture and a new platform.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU Review: Best Mainstream Processor By All Means (PROACTIVE)edit
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is one of the few silicon-designing brands that make both mainstream CPUs and GPUs. The company recently launched the Ryzen 5000 series processors based on the Zen 3 architecture to compete against the high-performance desktop CPUs from Intel. Similarly, the brand also launched the Radeon 6000 series of GPUs based on RDNA 2 architecture to compete against the NVIDIA RTX 3000 series of graphics cards.
Publication: Gizbot
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X brings out the best in both Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XTedit
Recently the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT were paired together with the same type of CPU to run for various simulations of Vulkan Geekbench tests. The CPU that was used for testing was the beast that comes with 16 cores and 32 threads. That’s right; we are talking about the processor none other than the AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Review: Chipping at the Heels of the RTX 3080 (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD’s RDNA 2 based Radeon Big Navi graphics cards are finally set to hit retail today, with the RX 6800 and 6800 XT reference models expected to be available across all major markets in limited quantities. In this post, we have a look at the Radeon RX 6800 and see how it holds up compared to the competition. We’ll be checking the core raster performance, ray-tracing grit, and an analysis of the much-advertised Smart Access Memory (SAM) which for the time being is exclusive to the Ryzen 5000 CPU-Radeon RDNA 2 GPU combos.
Publication: Hardware Times
How AI can be used to solve some of India’s biggest problemsedit
Two ingredients that are crucial to AI are talent and data. Both of which are available in plenty. Rai noted a Gartner study that estimated India has 8% of the world’s AI talent. P J Narayanan, professor & director at IIIT-Hyderabad, said we would eventually need to create a lot more talent. He noted that already interest levels are huge. IIIT-Hyderabad, he said, started an executive education programme in AI two years ago, and the response was phenomenal.
Publication: The Times fo India
Microsoft Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3 now available in Indiaedit
Microsoft on Monday announced that Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 are now available at starting prices of Rs 42,999 and Rs 1,56,299, respectively. Meanwhile, Surface Book 3 features 13-inch or 15-inch high-DPI PixelSense Display. It is powered by 10th Generation Intel Core processors and choice of discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX or Quadro RTX GPUs.
Publication: Telangana Today
Microsoft unveils highly-secure Pluton chip to protect Windows PCsedit
Microsoft has unveiled a new security chip called Pluton that has been designed to protect the future Windows PCs. The Pluton security processor will provide next-generation hardware security protection to Windows PCs through future chips from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, the tech giant said in a statement late on Tuesday. “In collaboration with leading silicon partners AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm Technologies, we are announcing the Microsoft Pluton security processor,” said David Weston, Director of Enterprise and OS Security.
Publication: Business Standard
Taiwan giant MediaTek spends $85 million to get Intel’s Enpirion Power Solutions businessedit
MediaTek is a prominent name in the chip industry as it’s a leader in making smartphone SoCs, modems, TV chips, IoT, and a lot more. The Taiwanese SoC giant has made some good revenue figures in 2020 despite the pandemic, thanks to 5G innovations and new Dimensity 5G SoCs. So, it seems MediaTek is now spending money to acquire one of Intel’s many businesses, i.e., Intel® Enpirion® Power Solutions. For that, the company has shelled out almost 2.4 billion yuan (around $85 million) through its subsidiary Richtek.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel Claims 30% More Perf with Ice Lake-SP (32C) Over AMD Epyc Rome (64C)…in Select AVX512 Benchmarksedit
Intel today detailed some very interesting “benchmarks” of its upcoming 10nm Ice Lake-SP, despite the fact that it has repeatedly asked reviewers to not base their verdict based on “benchmarks”. Regardless, as per Intel’s internal tests, a 32-core Intel Ice Lake CPU manages to beat its Epyc Rome rival which features twice as many cores.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Shares have grown by 1,000% Over the Last Four Years; Intel Largely Stagnantedit
As 2020 comes to an end, it’s hard not to have a look at the last decade and realize how much the landscape of the semiconductor industry has really changed. Apple has moved onto making its own silicon, RISC-based designs are gaining (mild) popularity and most importantly, the x86 market has seen a major change in design leadership.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA announces new products at SC20 supercomputing conferenceedit
NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and NVIDIA DGX A100 640GB – The world’s first petascale workgroup server for AI and data science that plugs in anywhere, DGX Station A100 packs four of the new A100 80GB GPUs. See what’s inside in the video available here. GPU memory capacity doubles in the new DGX A100 640GB — the world’s most advanced AI platform — to tackle the largest data center AI, HPC and data science workloads with eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs per system.
Publication: InfoTechLead
AI, ML and (IoT) Holds Key to Future, Increased Road Safety: Nivruti Rai, Intel| Interviewedit
Vehicles today are increasingly becoming safer and connected thanks to various technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT). The marriage of a vehicle’s mechanicals with such high-end electronics is all thanks to companies like Intel, who are working hard to make today’s vehicle tomorrow’s people mover. We got in touch with Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India and Vice President – Data Platforms Group, Intel Corporation to discuss the technology of today and tomorrow and how India fits in the Intel’s scheme of things.
Publication: Network 18
Acer launches five new laptopsedit
The current situation is making a dynamic shift in consumer behaviour with multi-PCs per family becoming ubiquitous. With the future of working and learning to change, spending long durations in front of PCs and laptops is inescapable. The necessity of a personal computer has changed over the years from being a luxurious purchase to an attractive good to own device and to now being an essential investment. We have seen an upsurge in demand for laptops both from the enterprise and consumer side.
Publication: The Telegraph
Apple M1-Powered MacBook Air Trumps Intel Core i9-based MacBook Pro, Other Mac Devices on Geekbenchedit
Apple’s newly launched 13-inch MacBook Air powered by the Apple M1 SoC has surfaced on the Geekbench website. As per the listing, the new MacBook Air model outperforms the 16-inch MacBook Pro with 10th Gen Intel Core i9 processor that the company launched early this year, though still refers to as MacBook Pro 16 (2019). The Cupertino-based tech giant has also refreshed the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 processor.
Publication: Network 18
Intel i3-10100 vs AMD Ryzen 3 3300X: Gaming Performance & Benchmarks (PROACTIVE)edit
In terms of gaming performance, the deltas between the Core i3-10100 and the Ryzen 3 3300X are hardly noticeable. In multi-threaded content creation workloads, that’s where the latter really sets itself apart. However, as already mentioned, AMD’s extended platform support and overclocking ability for even the lower-end B series motherboards are what really seal this win for the 3300X.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel vs AMD Ryzen: Best CPUs for Gaming in 2020 [November Update] (PROACTIVE)edit
With the launch of the Ryzen 5000 CPUs, AMD has successfully vanquished Intel in the PC gaming segment. Even the $300 Ryzen 5 5600X manages to beat the Comet Lake-S flagship (Core i9-10900K) which costs twice as much. Therefore, as you can expect, our recommendations for the best gaming CPU will primarily include AMD parts this time around. Although stocks are still scarce, they are expected to improve in the coming week, so don’t worry too much about the availability.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Zen 3 Based Epyc Milan CPUs up to 30% Faster than Rome: Beating Intel in ST Workloadsedit
The first benchmarks of AMD’s Epyc Milan server CPUs based on the Zen 3 core architecture have surfaced, showing single-threaded gains of around 20-30%. This is in line with the ST performance uplifts that we saw with the Ryzen 5000 consumer CPUs. However unlike the latter, server workloads aren’t latency sensitive (gaming), and AMD was already almost on par with the fastest Xeons across the board.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA Announces Alternative to AMD Smart Access Memory, Claim Competitive Performance Gainsedit
In a statement to technology YouTube channel GamersNexus, NVIDIA has stated its intentions of releasing a competitor, or a substitute to AMD’s newly-announced Smart Access Memory (SAM) Technology. AMD’s SAM Technology was announced with their Radeon RX 6000 Series of graphics cards, which in turn were launched just after AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs.
Publication: DailyHunt
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Review: A budget laptop that gets all the basics rightedit
The IdeaPad Slim 3i Lenovo sent us rocked a 10th Gen Intel Core i3 processor (Core i3-1005G1) with Intel’s UHD Graphics. The CPU was paired with 8GB of RAM of DDR4 RAM that can be extended to 12GB. Our model arrived with 256GB of PCIe M.2 SSD storage, although it can also be configured with HDD or hybrid (HDD + SDD) storage.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Review: A Premium Laptop That’s Powerfully Intelligentedit
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned during the lockdown and throughout 2020, it’s that you can never have too many gadgets. With the work-from-home and e-schooling culture taking over, there’s a surge in demand for laptops, tablets – well, anything with a display! Lenovo has risen to the occasion with the new Yoga Slim 7 laptop.
Publication: Gizbot
Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen 2 and L13 Yoga Gen 2 is powered by Intel Tiger Lake launchededit
Lenovo has released two new ThinkPad laptops without any formal declaration. The first one is L13 Gen 2 and the second one is L13 Yoga Gen 2. Both the business model comes with Intel Tiger Lake. This laptop is the first L series laptop which features Thunderbolt 4. A few weeks ago, E14 and E15 Gen 2 with Intel Tiger Lake were updated. Now Lenovo enters the market with the new Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen and ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 2.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel Rivals NVIDIA & AMD As It Introduces Its First GPU For Data Centersedit
Chipmaker Intel unveiled its first discrete GPU for data centres. Named Intel Server GPU, it is designed to power Android-based cloud gaming and media streaming segments. A low-power chip, Intel Server GPU will be used in the new PCIe graphics card which can be placed inside the servers. Interestingly, Raja Koduri, Intel Senior Vice President had released a teaser picture of a ‘mysterious GPU’ on his Twitter account in May, leading many to believe a future announcement related to GPU aimed at the data centre.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Lenovo Legion 5i (2020) review: Reasonable gaming package for casual gamersedit
Lenovo’s Legion lineup of gaming laptops has proven to be a safe bet for most PC gamers over the years. You can always find a Legion model at a reasonable price with decent specifications and solid build quality. Moreover, Lenovo is one of the few brands that keeps updating its offerings with the latest Intel processor upgrades. While the world is moving to the newer and promising 11th gen Intel laptops, we happened to chance upon the 10th Gen based Legion 5i laptop.
Publication: BGR India
Nvidia’s RTX 3050 to come with GA107 GPUedit
There are a lot of leaks and rumors going on around about Nvidia’s upcoming graphics card lineups. We now know a lot of details regarding the new cards. However, many things pop up on the internet that can surprise us by a lot. According to sources, both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti will use the GA106 GPU. But its upcoming video card for budget users, namely the non-Ti RTX 3050, will use a different core. However, it is all rumours and leaks, and it should be taken with a pinch of salt. Nvidia has still neither confirmed nor denied these rumours.
Publication: TechnoSports
Apple’s M1-based MacBook Air performs better than Intel Core i9-based MacBook Proedit
Apple touted its ARM-based M1 processor as the first 5nm chipset to power MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini. During the event, it talked a lot about the number of times it is faster and more efficient than Windows PCs and their own previous-gen Intel-based Mac devices. But since the reviews were not out, we had no option but to believe what the iPhone maker had to say. However, now the product has gone through Geekbench again.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Intel Gamer Days Offering Massive discounts and freebies on Gaming hardwareedit
Things in the PC space have been getting very exciting over the last two years. We’ve seen AMD come roaring back to dominate the CPU-space, and Nvidia’s GPUs deliver impressive performance gains YoY, with the price you pay per performance point also dropping significantly. IF you look at the holistic picture of the PC space right now, what’s clear is that it’s a great time to be into PC gaming. Sweetening that deal just ahead of the festive season is Intel, which is currently running its Intel Gamer Days promotion.
Publication: Digit
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti to Feature 8GB of Memory and 256-Bit Bus, 3060 to get up to 12GBedit
In response to AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics cards, NVIDIA is looking to increase its VRAM buffers across the board. As per our regular source, kopitekimi, the GeForce RTX 3060 will pack as much as 12GB of memory, twice as much as the RTX 2060. It’s likely that NVIDIA will offer a 6GB as well as 12GB variant of the card, with the latter costing a $50 premium.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel Rocket Lake-S Based i9 Fails to Beat the Ryzen 9 5900X in ST or MT Performanceedit
Intel’s upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S processors will feature the Sunny Cove core architecture which the company is calling Cypress core for some reason. It will be the first architectural upgrade since 2016’s Skylake: That’s nearly 5 years since a new core was introduced in the desktop space. AMD launched Zen, Zen 2, and Zen 3 in the same interval while Intel kept adding pluses to its 14nm node. Regardless, Rocket Lake’s single-threaded performance is looking pretty solid.
Publication: Hardware Times
Overclocked Radeon RX 6800 XT @ 2.55GHz Reportedly Locks Horns with the RTX 3090edit
AMD’s Radeon RTX 6800 XT apparently manages to reach boost clocks of 2.55GHz on board partner models when overclocked. That is 300MHz higher than the stock boost clock of 2.25GHz. Before we continue, please take this report with a grain of salt as GPU-Z doesn’t take into account whether the overclock is stable. Regardless, this is an impressive achievement as AMD has already promised rather lofty overclocking capabilities from its Big Navi graphics cards due to the use of the Infinity Cache which significantly cuts down latency.
Publication: Hardware Times
Nvidia to launch RTX 3080 Ti in January 2021edit
We already know that Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 3080 Ti will be launched soon. But there has been no official confirmation regarding the launch date of the graphics card. According to sources, HKEPC claims that Nvidia plans to release its RTX 3080 Ti card in January 2021. The news, however, is not confirmed by Nvidia. The graphics maker has already released the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 for US$699 and US$1,499, respectively. The RTX 3080 Ti is expected to be between the two cards and will come at a price of around US$999.
Publication: TechnoSports
Asus Unveils New ZenBook 14, VivoBook Ultra Models With Intel 11th Gen CPUs: Price, Specifications & Moreedit
Taiwanese computer brand Asus has updated its VivoBook and ZenBook laptops with Intel’s latest 11th Generation Core processors. While the VivoBook range gets three new laptops, the ZenBook range only gets one new offering with the new ZenBook 14. The new offerings in the VivoBook range include the VivoBook Ultra 14, VivoBook Ultra 15, and the VivoBook Ultra K15. Among all the new Asus laptops, the ZenBook 14 is the most expensive offering and comes with a diamond-cut aluminium body.
Publication: Network 18
Apple M1 launch: MacBook Pro and Mac mini with Intel chips are still availableedit
Apple revealed its M1 processor that will be powering new Macs at a special event yesterday. The 13-inch MacBook Air, Pro and Mac Mini will run on the newly-released chips with ARM-based architecture. Currently, the 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at Rs 1,22,900. However, the Intel-powered MacBook Pro and Mac Mini will still be available from Apple for now. The 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with six-core i7 and eight-core i9 options which cost Rs 1,99,900 and Rs 2,39,900 respectively.
Publication: Indian Express
Intel debuts Xe-based server GPU with focus on Android cloud gamingedit
Intel has debuted its first discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) for the data center, Intel Server GPU, based on the Xe-LP microarchitecture and designed specifically for high-density, low-latency Android cloud gaming and media streaming. “Today is a key moment in our ambitious oneAPI and XPU journey. With the gold release of our oneAPI toolkits, we have extended the developer experience from familiar CPU programming libraries and tools to include our vector-matrix-spatial architectures.”
Publication: The Times of India
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti w/ 10,496 Cores and 20GB GD6X Memory Coming in Jan 2021 [Rumor]edit
NVIDIA is reportedly prepping its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for launch as soon as in January 2021. This info comes from the East-Asian outlet, HKEPC, according to which the 3080 Ti will go up against AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT, with the same price tag of $999. As far as the specifications are concerned, we’re looking at the same core count as the RTX 3090 and 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM, but a reduced bus size of 320-bit, same as the RTX 3080.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Responds to Ryzen 5000 Limited Supply at Launchedit
The supply situation for AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs may have been relatively better than NVIDIA’s Ampere cards, but it’s far from sufficient. Many regions, most notably Asia-Pacific and global retailers such as Newegg got little to no supply on day 1. As already reported yesterday, the Ryzen 9 5900X is the most in-demand Zen 3 part. Whether that’s due to limited supply or excessive demand is hard to say for sure, but it’s likely a combination of both.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel Launches Server Card for Media and Game Streaming: 4x DG1 GPUs w/ 3,072 Cores and 32GB VRAMedit
With the launch of Intel’s first discrete graphics, the Iris Xe Max, the company is looking to maximize the target market for the DG1. Today, the server GPU, called the H3X XG310 was launched. Technically speaking, it’s not a GPU. The XG310 features four DG1 (or Iris Max) GPUs on a single PCB, leveraging the PCIe PCIe 3.0 standard. That brings the total core count to 768 x4= 3,072 shaders or 96 x4= 384 EUs, with a total of 8GB of LPDDR4x per GPU or 32GB for the entire part.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel Xe-HPG Gaming GPUs Powered On, Xe-HP Sampling and Ponte Vecchio (HPC) in Manufacturing Stageedit
In a new video update, Intel has asserted that it’s Xe-HPG (High-Performance Gaming) graphics cards have been successfully “powered on”, while the Xe-HP GPUs (for Data Centers and servers) are presently being sampled. This would fall in line with a recent leak where the Xe-HP GPU was described. It will supposedly feature HBM2 memory and be fabbed on TSMC’s 7nm class process node? Thirdly, Intel has also released the first revision of its chiplet-based HPC part (Ponte Vecchio) to manufacturing, and is waiting on their arrival to power it on too.
Publication: Hardware Times
Amazon Great Indian Festival: Top Lat Minute Gamer Deals (PROACTIVE)edit
Amazon’s Great Indian Festival is still going strong and as always, you have a bunch of deals to look forward to. This time around, we will be looking at a few deals that should interest gamers. This list will include PC components, controllers, accessories, games and even a TV. So let’s get started. The Ryzen 7 3800XT is aimed at high-end systems and packs eight cores with 16 threads. It has a base clock speed of 3.9GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.7GHz. It supports DDR4 memory with a nominal clock speed of 3200 MHz.
Publication: DigitBest CPUs for Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is one of the best mainstream processors on the market right now. It’s multi-threaded performance and the inclusion of PCIe 4.0 makes it one of the best picks, if you don’t consider stepping up to the HEDT market. The processor is packed with 12 cores and 24 threads and is priced similarly to the Intel Core i9-9900K, which has only 8 cores and 16 threads. It can handle gaming, video and 3D work with ease and is slowly beginning to match up Intel in single-threaded performance as well.
Publication: Digit
Asus launches new Intel 11th Gen laptops in India starting at Rs 42,990: Check detailsedit
Asus has announced its updated lineup of lightweight ultrabook models for the Indian market. The new VivoBook and ZenBook laptops are using the latest Intel 11th Gen processors, promising significant performance boosts over the older models. The laptops come with updated designs as well as more accessible price tags. The most affordable model you can buy right is the VivoBook Ultra K15 starting at Rs 42,990. Also Read – Asus ROG Phone 3 gets price cut of Rs 3,000 in India.
Publication: BGR India
NVIDIA Names Aarti Shah to Board of Directorsedit
NVIDIA today announced that it has named to its board of directors Aarti Shah, who serves as senior vice president and chief information and digital officer of Eli Lilly and Company. Shah, age 56, leads IT, digital health, cybersecurity, and advanced analytics & data sciences at Lilly, which she joined 26 years ago out of graduate school. She has held a long series of positions there, starting as a senior statistician and most recently as global brand development leader, before being named to her current role in 2016.
Publication: IndianWeb2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Specifications Leak, 90W Card With New Ampere GPU Variantedit
NVIDIA has no plans of slowing down with its RTX 3000 series of graphics cards, despite the stock issues. The GPU giant launched the RTX 3070, 3080, and 3090 recently. We have since then heard about the mobile versions of these GPUs being in the works. Now, we have some word on an upcoming lower-end variant in the RTX 3000 series, which is likely to be the entry point for this range of graphics cards. The specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 have leaked, and it looks like a solid new addition to the RTX 3000 line.
Publication: My Smart Price
NVIDIA’s Pricing for the RTX 3060/3060 Ti is Unrealistic: Board Partners Claimedit
NVIDIA’s upcoming budget graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3060 (or 3060 Ti) is expected to launch next month with an MSRP of $299. This is easily the most important segment, as the majority of users opt for a $200-400 GPU, as we’ve already seen with Steam’s Hardware Surveys. However, NVIDIA’s board partners claim that the targeted price tag of $250 to $300 is simply unrealistic and that “they’d be bankrupt if they sold it at those prices”. As GN explains it in their exclusive, going with NVIDIA’s price would mean that the AIB partners would have to opt for an Intel stock cooler-class heatsink which barely cools just the GPU, while ignoring the VRM, memory, and other PCB components.
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Apple launches MacBook laptops with first microprocessor designed in-houseedit
Apple Inc on Tuesday introduced a MacBook Air notebook and other computers with the first microprocessor designed in-house, a move that will tie its Macs and iPhones closer together technologically. The new chip, called the M1, marks a shift away from Intel Corp technology that has driven the electronic brains of Mac computers for nearly 15 years. The Mini is targeted at engineers and scientists because of the artificial intelligence capabilities of the new chip that usually requires a graphics chip from Nvidia Corp or AMD.
Publication: Business Standard
Chip maker NVIDIA signs in-car entertainment system deal with Hyundai Motoredit
Chip maker NVIDIA Corp on Monday announced that Hyundai Motor Group will use the NVIDIA DRIVE in-vehicle information and entertainment system for all its Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis models from 2022.
Publication: Livemint
Nivruti Rai of Intel: ‘India has 8% of world’s AI talent … we can bring different people together for creating solutions’edit
Bringing together of people from non-conventional technological backgrounds like mathematicians and statisticians, in addition to experts in verticals such as education and healthcare will be key to India’s artificial intelligence (AI) story, Intel India country head Nivruti Rai told Pranav Mukul. She said these are some of the backgrounds in which companies including Intel are looking to hire to solve some of the population-scale problems using AI.
Publication: Indian Express
AMD Radeon RX 6800 may be 50% faster than GeForce RTX 3090 for cryptominingedit
If the rumors are true, then the new AMD Radeon RX 6800 (not the RX 6800XT) is 50% better at mining for cryptocurrency than the current crypto champ, the Nvidia RTX 3090. When factoring in the associated costs of cryptocurrency mining, as explained by Videocards, the RTX 3090 can generate about $3.37/£2.63/AU$4.72 of cryptocurrency a day, or about $103/£80/AU$144 a month. The RX 6800, meanwhile, can potentially mine about $5.00/£3.90/AU$7.00 a day, or roughly $152/£118/AU$213 a month.
Publication: Gadget Page
AMD has a subtle dig at Intel, suggesting Alder Lake CPUs don’t make senseedit
AMD has come out and stated that it doesn’t make any sense to be taking a leaf out of ARM’s guide through the use of one thing just like huge.LITTLE tech for Ryzen desktop CPUs, not less than not within the close to future – which is a not so refined manner of casting doubt on Intel’s processor plans. Primarily as a result of as you might bear in mind, Intel attends to undertake an enormous.LITTLE form of method – the place ‘huge’ (normal) processor cores is paired with low-power extra environment-friendly ‘little’ cores.
Publication: Tech Bhaskar
NVIDIA RTX 1060 Still the Most Popular GPU Among Steam Gamers: GTX 1650 @ #4, Courtesy of Gaming Notebooksedit
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 is still the most popular graphics card among Steam gamers, even four years after its launch in Q2 2016. The GTX 1050 Ti is the second-most popular GPU, while the 1050 is the third. The highest-ranked Turing part (#4) is the GTX 1650 which is new as the most popular NVIDIA GPU from every generation is usually the x60/x70. The CPU market was relatively quiet in October, with gamers patiently for the Ryzen 5000 lineup from AMD. Considering how well these new parts perform in gaming workloads, we should see even greater gains on AMD’s sides in the coming months.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Specifications (Expected): 2304 Shaders, 128-bit Bus w/ 4GB of VRAM (90W)edit
As per kopitekimi, a reputed source on NVIDIA Ampere leaks, the GeForce RTX 3050 will be based on the GA107-300 die with 2304 FP32 cores and a TGP of 90W. Although this wasn’t specified, it’s likely that the RTX 3050 will leverage a 160-bit bus in clamshell mode, with 6GB of GDDR6 memory. NVIDIA could opt for a slimmer 128-bit bus and 4GB of memory, but seeing as both the RTX 3080 has been upgraded to a 320-bit from the usual 256-bit one, it’s very likely that Team will opt for a 160-bit memory interface and a larger VRAM buffer.
Publication: Hardware Times
No, AMD Big Navi Won’t be 1.5x Faster than NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 in Miningedit
Many rumors have been floating around lately claiming that AMD’s Big Navi graphics cards will be as much as 1.5x faster than the NVIDIA Ampere flagship, the RTX 3090 in crypto-mining. Before you start panicking, we have some good news for you. No, the Radeon RX 6800XT and the 6900XT won’t be 1.5x faster than the RTX 3090, or maybe even the RTX 3080 in terms of the mining hash-rate. As a certain Twitter user points it out, the mining performance is largely based on the GPU’s raw memory bandwidth.
Publication: Hardware Times
Qualcomm is finally cleaning upedit
The new 5G iPhones are a clear boon for Qualcomm. And luckily for the chip maker, it now has more to its story.
Publication: Livemint
Intel’s next-line of CPUs leaked onlineedit
A new rumor has been making rounds on the internet that states Intel has at least three lineups planned for launch after its 11th Gen Rocket Lake. It includes the 12th Gen Alder Lake, 13th Gen Meteor Lake, and the 14th Gen Lunar Lake processors.
Publication: TechnoSports
Difference Between AMD And Intel: Which Processor Should You Buy?edit
Intel and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) are two of the most recognized CPU manufacturers in the world. Both companies have been dominating the markets with their wide range of product offerings and technology advancements. However, there have been numerous debates over the years around AMD vs Intel and which brand has an edge over the other in terms of their speed and power. So, let us give you a quick breakdown of the key difference between AMD and Intel.
Publication: Republic World
Qualcomm applies for license to resume business with Huaweiedit
The ongoing dispute between China and the U.S. doesn’t seem to end. What started as an attempt to secure American technology’s future has now sent ripples across the global tech market. Amidst all chaos and confusion, the company that suffered the most was the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Publication: TechnoSports
Asus Zenbook 14 with latest 11th Gen Intel processors launching on 10th November via Amazon Indiaedit
Intel has recently launched the new Tiger Lake processors based on 10nm process and a lot of OEMs have upgraded their existing laptops with these processors. These new 11th Gen processors are more efficient and powerful, also special because they pack a lot of GPU horsepower this time.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel’s success came with making its own chips. Until nowedit
Intel Corp., more than any other company, represents the historical silicon in “Silicon Valley.” It has held its reign not only by designing compelling new circuitry but also by etching it into silicon at its own factories.
Publication: Livemint
Intel Xe HPC GPUs to be Fabbed on TSMC’s 7nm Node w/ HBM 2 [Rumor]edit
As per a report from the Chinese Bilibili forums, Intel is presently testing engineering samples of its upcoming Xe-HPC (High-Performance Compute) GPUs. These parts are reportedly based on TSMC’s 7nm node and will feature HBM 2 memory.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series GPUs to be in Limited Supply Till Feb/March 2021edit
As per multiple sources, NVIDIA’s RTX 30 series graphics cards continue will be in limited supply till March 2021. This was first indicated by CapFrameX, the man behind the popular benchmarking tool of the same name. We did a bit of digging and asked some board partners as well as some of our sources at NVIDIA, and got similar replies.
Publication: Hardware Times
Cyberpunk 2077 to Support Ray-Tracing on AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT/6900 XT (Big Navi)edit
It seems that Cyberpunk 2077 will support ray-tracing on AMD’s Big Navi graphics cards after all (on day 0 itself). This was more or less confirmed in WCCFT’s interview with Brian Burke, NVIDIA PR lead for Gaming Technology, Esports & Consumer VR. As per Burke, like most other games supporting ray-tracing (or in NVIDIA lingo, RTX), Cyberpunk 2077 too will support it on any DXR compatible GPU, including the Radeon RX 6800/XT and the RX 6900 XT.
Publication: Hardware Times
ARM unveils new Cortex-A78C CPU for on-the-go computersedit
Semiconductor company ARM, which was recently acquired by Nvidia, is playing out its latest gamble to take on computer chipmakers. ARM recently launched the Cortex-A78 CPU for mobile devices. It is now looking outside of the phones with the Cortex-A78C. It is based on the Cortex-A78 but brings several optimisations for on-the-go laptops, which ARM says will target enhanced compute performance, scalability, and security.
Publication: India Today
Fortnite to return to Apple devices via Nvidia cloud gaming service: Reportedit
Users of Apple Inc’s iPhone and iPad could soon be able to play Epic Games’s “Fortnite” game again via Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, the BBC reported on Thursday. Nvidia Corp has developed a version of its GeForce cloud gaming service that runs in the mobile web browser Safari, the report said. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while Epic declined to comment.
Publication: Business Standard
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Cinebench Score Surfaces: On Par with 18 Core Intel i9-10980XE HEDT Flagship (PROACTIVE)edit
The Cinebench scores of the Ryzen 9 5900X have surfaced, showing how powerful AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 5000 processors really are. The 12-core part scores an insane 8,736 and 643 points in the multi-core and single-core tests, respectively. That’s roughly the same as Intel’s HEDT flagship, the Core i9-10980XE which packs 18 cores and 36 threads. The single-threaded performance is higher than any other CPU in the database, surpassing the highest-performing chip (10900K with 524 points) by 20%.
Publication: Hardware Times
Nvidia plans to resurrect its RTX 3080 Ti SKUedit
Amidst several leaks and rumors regarding Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series. But no other leaker is as active as Kopite when it comes to Nvidia. The leaker has now reported that Nvidia has plans to revive its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti card. The rumor comes as a surprise because the company earlier stated that it had canceled the development of the RTX 3080 Ti SKU. It was announced almost two months ago, and the company indicated that it would move ahead with its plan of launching the RTX 3090.
Publication: TechnoSports
LG revealed the new UltraGear 27GN800-B, comes with NVIDIA G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premiumedit
Now the most interesting feature comes with support for both the G-SYNC compatibility and FreeSync Premium badge. There is no difference between G-SYNC and FreeSync fundamentally. G-SYNC is of NVIDIA, and FreeSync is of AMD, and it syncs the monitor with the GPU and lets it control the refresh rate continuously. This feature will attract gamers to this LG monitor.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD is gaining ground on Intel’s CPU dominanceedit
Intel nonetheless instructions a agency lead by way of total CPU market share however efforts from AMD with its Ryzen household have actually narrowed the hole lately. And with solely a few days to go till the launch of Ryzen 5000 collection CPUs, AMD is poised to realize further floor throughout the vacation quarter and past.
Publication: TechFunda
How NVIDIA Powered America’s Fastest Supercomputer In The Fight Against COVID-19edit
Working on data-intensive projects like protein folding research, drug discovery, or deep space leads to several TBs of data. And, using queries on CPUs to sort information can take days. Time is a key constraint while fighting global pandemics. Research labs and governments around the world have accommodated money and manpower to speed up drug discovery. But this isn’t sufficient. There is a need for a smart, diligent solution that combines the existing technologies without trying to reinvent the wheel.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Intel buys Cnvrg.io to boost machine learning and AI operationsedit
The company operates a platform for data scientists to build and run machine learning models which can be used to train and track multiple models. “Cnvrg will be an independent Intel company and will continue to serve its existing and future customers,” an Intel spokesperson said in a statement. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cnvrg, co-founded by Yochay Ettun (CEO) and Leah Forkosh Kolben, had raised $8 million from investors and is valued at around $17 million in its last round.
Publication: InfoTechlead
Purism launches new Librem Mini v2 with Intel Core i7-10510U Comet Lake Processoredit
After launching the first model of Librem Mini, Purism is going to launch a new version of this series. The new Librem Mini v2 features a powerful 10th generation Intel Core i7 Comet Lake processor with a price tag of $699. Librem Mini v1 has a Core i7-8565U processor and now the company said that the new version comes with an up-gradation and it will feature a Core i7-10510U processor, which will boost a 6% performance than the previous Librem Mini. The v2 contains a 15W chip of Intel’s Comet Lake-U.
Publication: TechnoSports
NVIDIA Prepping the RTX 3080 Ti w/ 10,496 FP32 Cores, 20GB GD6X VRAM: Radeon RX 6800XT Competitor?edit
AMD’s Big Navi launch kind of caught NVIDIA with their pants down. The Radeon RX 6900 XT manages to beat the RTX 3090 (thanks to SAM) and all the while being $500 cheaper. The RX 6800 XT, meanwhile crushes the RTX 3080, again costing $50 less and featuring more memory. On top of this, the Big Navi parts also have a lower TBP and smaller form factor. As if that weren’t enough, tests show that the RDNA 2 parts perform the same as Ampere in ray-traced titles. Although NVIDIA still has an advantage with DLSS 2.0, that will likely change as well.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA Lowers RTX 30 Series GPU Prices in India – Now Starting at Rs. 44,500edit
The community has been divided about this issue, and they do not know what is going on the scenes. There has been some speculation that AMD’s announcement of RDNA 2 cards might have forced NVIDIA to revise the prices of the FE models in order to ensure that there continues to some competition in the market. Of course, the pessimistic ones are suggesting that NVIDIA is trying to ensure consumer satisfaction by ensuring that everyone gets a GPU at the announced prices.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel’s new CPU’s and GPU’s leaked on GPU driversedit
Intel is the leading manufacturer of semiconductors in the market and is considered the best in business. We already know that Intel’s Tiger Lake is on the verge of rising with many OEM’s already adopting the new technology. But now a new leak has been making rounds on the internet. Courtesy of a Reddit user, stblr, we now know that several of Intel’s next-generation products, including CPUs and GPUs, are available for review at GPU drivers. The new products include the CPU lineup, which is codenamed Lunar Lake, and two Gen 13 powered Xe GPUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X spotted running with RTX 3080 on Userbenchmarkedit
Just before the new AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors‘ actual availability, we are seeing a lot of benchmarks and numbers floating across the internet. Both the upcoming Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 5 5600X have been spotted on Userbenchmark, and now finally, we see the 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X in action. Like all other benchmarks, this one too is courtesy of @TUM_APISAK who has spotted this upcoming Zen 3 based CPU coupled with an RTX 3080.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Destroys the Intel Core i7-10700 in Leaked Cinebench Benchmarkedit
As per a leaked Cinebench R15 benchmark, the hex-core Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than Intel’s Core i7-10700 both in terms of single-threaded as well as multi-threaded performance. The 5600X also manages to beat the 3600XT and the 3700X in terms of single-threaded performance, while just lagging behind the former by an inch. The Cinebench R20 benchmark of the Ryzen 5 5600X has also surfaced over at the LTT forums.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S and 12th Gen Alder Lake-S CPUs Spottededit
Intel is planning to launch its 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPUs in early 2021 to tackle the newly announced Ryzen 5000 parts from AMD. Based on the new Cypress Cove core architecture (read: Sunny Cove on 14nm) and boost clocks as high as 5.5-5.6GHz, Intel will be looking to regain the gaming crown which it will likely lose to Zen 3 very soon. The former is notably larger due to the use of a hybrid core architecture (Cove + Mont), featuring up to sixteen cores, fabbed on the 10nm SuperFin node, and paired with the Gen12 Xe integrated graphics.
Publication: Hardware Times
Best budget laptops for studentsedit
The HP 14 laptop is a great option if you want power-packed performance with fast and abundant storage. It has a 14-inch Full HD display and is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor. This processor is paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage, providing you optimum speed for a wide range of tasks. A 1TB internal hard disk is also included, allowing you to save plenty of files. This HP laptop strikes a good balance between power, performance and price.
Publication: Business Insider
Nvidia reportedly delays the launch of its RTX 3060 Tiedit
Nvidia is the leading manufacturer of graphics modules. The cards manufactured by the company are the best in the market and have been seen for years. But things are changing, and the company’s biggest rival, AMD, has taken the lead. Advanced Micro Devices has launched several of its next-gen cards that seem to leave Nvidia’s latest innovation in the dust. Owing to all this, Nvidia is still planning to release its RTX 30 series cards real soon. But according to sources, the company has allegedly postponed the launch of its upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti till December 2nd. The graphics card was due to launch on November 17th.
Publication: TechnoSports
Asus ROG Zephyrus S17 (GX701LXS) Review: A thin and light gaming powerhouse with minuscule compromisesedit
For performance, the new ROG Zephyrus S17 opts for an Intel Core i7-10875H or a Core i7-10750H, both 8-core CPUs capable of 5.0 GHz speeds. For graphics, the Zephyrus S17 can be equipped with an Nvidia RTX 2060 Max-P, RTX 2070 Super Max-P, or RTX 2080 Super Max-Q. Our model was retrofitted with an Intel Core i7-10875H, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB NVMe SSD, and lastly, an RTX 2080 Super Max-Q GPU.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Asus ExpertBook B9 laptop review: As good as it getsedit
The Asus ExpertBook B9 supports Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201. It also supports Wi-Fi 802.11ax wireless network protocol that operates at 2.4 GHz and 5GHz dual-band connections with maximum transfer bandwidth of up to 2.4 GHz. Additionally, the ExperBook B9 comes with Bluetooth version 5.1. It has an extremely comfortable display along with long battery life. And it has powerful hardware too. Sure, the Numpad 2.0 does throw a fit once in a while but that can be easily fixed using a software update.
Publication: HT Tech
AMD’s supersampling feature to compete with Intel and NVIDIAedit
AMD is not much behind Intel in the GPU and CPU game respectively. And now the company has innovated with the new Supersampling feature to provide better performance. The one thing that NVIDIA and AMD still fall a little short of is high-performance with Ray tracing turned on but that might soon change for AMD. So, we might even see the company beat Intel and NVIDIA in terms of performance.
Publication: TechStory
Intel To Purchase SigOpt, An AI Software Optimisation Platformedit
Intel has announced that the company is planning to acquire a San Francisco-based software optimisation startup — SigOpt. The company further stated that the terms of the deal are expected to close this quarter, however, weren’t disclosed to the media. According to the company’s statement to the media, Intel is planning to leverage SigOpt’s technologies across its products to accelerate, amplify, and scale AI software tools for developers. The company further stated that SigOpt’s software technologies would be combined with Intel hardware products to gain a competitive advantage and provide differentiated value for data scientists and developers.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Intel Iris Xe MAX Discrete GPU For Laptops Launched: Competition To NVIDIA And AMD?edit
Intel, after a long gap, has officially launched a dedicated graphics card — the Iris Xe MAX discrete GPU. Though the name might make it look intimidating, it is just an entry-level discrete GPU, aimed towards offering better computer performance rather than gaming. The Intel Iris Xe MAX GPU is designed and developed to go with the 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors, which comes with built-in Iris Xe-LP GPU, where LP stands for low-power. The Iris Xe MAX is likely to go head-to-head against the NVIDIA MX250/MX350 GPUs, instead of mainstream graphics cards.
Publication: Gizbot
AMD mocks NVIDIA for its bulky GPUs, power requirements, and 12-pin power connectorsedit
The Red team recently dropped its Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs a few days ago and this has already made gaming fans excited because it is the first time AMD has matched or even beat NVIDIA in high-performance graphics. Also, the new Ryzen 5000 processors have already laid a coffin to Intel’s gaming supremacy as even the lowest of the stack Ryzen 5 5600X beats the flagship Core i9-10900K in single-core benchmarks. This has made team Red fans even more excited, on top of this, AMD promises some further tweaks like Smart Access Memory if you use Ryzen + Radeon combo.
Publication: TechnoSports
You Should Probably Upgrade To An SSD On Your Gaming PC; Not For Improved Performanceedit
No matter if you have the Ryzen 5000 CPU or the NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU, a bad storage device can impact the overall gaming performance of your rig. It could be a brand new gaming PC with the latest GPU and CPU, or a PC from a couple of years, you should do this to get a better gaming experience.
Publication: Gizbot
AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit
Based mostly on graphics big Nvidia, AMD said that the flagship Radon RX 6900 XT is the final word 4K graphics card and the quickest AMD gaming graphics card. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics playing cards are anticipated to be accessible beginning November 18 for $ 579 and $ 649 respectively. The corporate stated in a press release on Wednesday that the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is anticipated to be accessible from December eight for $ 999.
Publication: Jobsvacancy
Nvidia offers free COD bundled with its RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 GPUsedit
Nvidia is the leading manufacturer of graphics processing units, and we already know that the company is gearing to expand its dominance further. We discussed a lot on the soon to be released Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series line-up. The cards will be based on the company’s ampere GPU’s and are said to be high-performing than its domineering 2080 Ti GPUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 series doesn’t seem to stop in crushing inteledit
We already know that AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series is the town’s buzz and has the community going wild because it reportedly clocks higher than Intel’s Core- i9 processors. According to SiSoftware, the 6-core Zen 3 CPU is 15% to 40% faster than Zen 2 Ryzen 5 3600X, while the 8-core 5800X is 25 to 40% faster than its 3700X. The Ryzen 5 5600X was even able to overtake 8-core Intel i9-9900K processors, which is a massive win since the 9900K is the leader in gaming CPUs.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel Rocket Lake Details Revealed: Finally Not Skylake, But Still 14 nmedit
It is not an exaggeration to say that Skylake had overstayed its welcome on Intel CPUs. It had been around since 2015, part of the 6th Generation! The many successors of it were present in the 7th through 10th Generation of Intel desktop CPUs. So finally, Intel has decided to move on. In the previous generation, we saw Intel move to a newer socket, LGA 1200 as well, so Skylake managed to be on two different sockets for the same target market too.
Publication: TechQuila
Intel launches IRIS XE Max Discrete graphics for low-power notebooksedit
Since Iris MAX Xe is designed to compete in the same league as NVIDIA’s MX-class GPUs and AMD’s RX Vega Integrated GPUs, it hosts several features such as variable rate sharing, Intel DLBoost, AV1 decode support, PCIe Gen 4.0 support, adaptive sync and Intel Deep Link which we will get to shortly. It should be noted that Iris Xe MAX supports DirectX 12.1 and has Variable Rate Shading which is a DX12 Ultimate feature.
Publication: Digit
NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit
The RX 5500 XT is the clear winner here. It maintains notably higher frame rates than the GTX 1650 Super across all ten games tested, all the while costing less. The gap swells to a significant 20-30% in the Navi favored titles in-line with AMD’s official figures.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel Launches DG1 as the Iris Xe Max: 768 Cores, 4GB Memory, and a 128-bit Busedit
After much waiting and a ton of speculation, Intel has finally announced its first discrete GPU in the form of the Iris Xe Max (or the DG1) for ultra-portable laptops and notebooks. Technically speaking, you’re basically looking at the Gen 12 Xe LP iGPU found on Tiger Lake with its own bus and L3 cache. Sure, the clocks have been ramped up and the GPU gets its own memory in the form of 4GB LPDD4x (not GDDR6), but ultimately it’ll mostly bounce around the iGPU space.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Expected to Launch on 17th Nov: Slightly Slower than the RTX 2080 Ti @ $349-399edit
With both the top-end Ampere and Navi 2 graphics cards announced, it’s time for the budget parts to be unveiled. The first one to take the stage will likely be the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti: a cut-down variant of the GA104 core, featuring 4,864 FP32 shaders (1,024 less than the RTX 3070) and the same 8GB of GDDR6 memory, paired with a 256-bit bus. The boost clocks will likely be slightly lower than the RTX 3070 to ensure that it doesn’t come too close to the latter. Mydrivers reports a base clock of 1410MHz and a boost of 1665MHz (RTX 3070 tops out at 1.73GHz).
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Enters Major Leagues, Big Tech’s Big Gains And More In This Week’s Top Newsedit
In the last week’s top news, we briefed about the AMD-Xilinx rumor mill. And, it turned out to be true. AMD bagged their rival Xilinx for a hefty $35 billion deal. This marks another tectonic shift within the semiconductor industry followed by NVIDIA’s deal with ARM last month. AMD’s goal of chipping off market share from Intel is no more a secret now. Read more about why AMD bought Xilinx and what is at stake for Intel in this week’s top news brought to you by Analytics India Magazine.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
AMD is looking to fight Nvidia in 4K gaming technology (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is busy taking on its rival companies like Intel and Nvidia. It seems that the company is doing so while offering high performance and innovations to its customers. According to sources, the company is currently testing a new supersampling feature designed to increase performance during ray tracing. Sources claim that this feature is an alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS feature and will be open and cross-platform. So we can assume that it may come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, both of which are powered by AMD technology.
Publication: TechnoSports
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HP OMEN 15 REVIEW! 4800H, 1650Ti! (PROACTIVE)edit
Review of the AMD Powered HP Omen 15 – 4800H Processors
Publication: Dhananjay Bhosale (YouTube)
Lenovo Yoga C940 – Reviewedit
Pioneering the 2-in-1 laptop/tablet model, tech giant Lenovo is capitalising on its premium segment, sleek-yet-powerful Yoga series laptops. While other brands were quick to push similar hinged hardware, the Yoga series introduced a whole range of consumer-oriented laptops/tablets. This year, with Intel’s 10th gen CPU, the Lenovo Yoga C940 is an upgrade of its 2019 model with a smoother typing experience, larger screen and Dolby Atmos residing in its hinge.
Publication: IGN India
Microsoft Xbox Series X Is The World’s Most Powerful Console? Sony PlayStation 5 Is Outperforming Itedit
Yes, you read that right. Microsoft has regularly claimed the Xbox Series X is the world’s most powerful gaming console, but it is getting outperformed by the Sony PlayStation 5 across a number of performance criteria and game performance. In what is supposed to be the next big battle of gaming consoles, it has been a sluggish start for the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S, with the performance difference between the Xbox Series X in comparison with the Sony PlayStation 5 standing out the most.
Publication: Network 18
MI Notebook 14 E-learning Editionedit
On the hand, it is about 55% slower than a gaming machine that packs an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X processor or a Core i5-9600K (9th Gen) chip. Also, its graphics-processing abilities lag by 85% when compared with notebook GPUs like the Radeon RX Vega or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070. What you do get, however, is a very clear HD camera—and a built-in mic—that works well for Skype and Zoom calls. Its audio output is crisp and balanced through the headphone port, and sound through its stereo speakers is loud and clear enough for movie watching, albeit devoid of any bass output.
Publication: The Times of India
Dell Latitude 9510 Review: Bold And Beautifuledit
The Dell Latitude 9510 is powered by the Intel Core i7-10810U six-core CPU with a base clock speed of 1.1GHz and a boost clock speed of up to 4.9GHz. Though this is a 10th Gen processor, it is not as power-efficient as Intel Core i7 1065G7, which is based on 7nm process and is found on the HP Spectre X360.
Publication: Gizbot
Apple working on crazy fast M1X chip for the 16-inch MacBook Proedit
When Apple recently launched the new Macs with the M1 chip, many were surprised to see the absence of the 16-inch MacBook Pro. However, a report from LeaksApplePro claims a new 16-inch MacBook Pro is in the works with Apple’s unannounced M1X processor. The new chipset is going to be substantially faster than the first-generation M1 chip. In fact, M1X is rumoured to come with 12 cores, out of which eight cores will be optimised for high performance, while the other four will be used for power efficiency.
Publication: Indian Express
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4, Surface Pro 8 features, specs leaked online: Know detailsedit
The Surface Laptop 4 is also rumoured to include AMD processor options, which will likely be a custom Microsoft chip based on AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series. The upcoming products are expected to be officially announced early next year. Their availability, however, could be slightly delayed beyond the first quarter.
Publication: India TV News
Finally Lenovo is launching the Legion 5 with AMD Ryzen 4000H Processors in Indiaedit
Although it has been a year since the original announcement of AMD Ryzen 4000H processors, Lenovo wants to impress its fans with its Legion 5 RYZEN.
Publication: TechnoSports
Pandemic Accelerates Digital Transformation in India According to Latest Study from Dell Technologiesedit
Dell Technologies today released results from a global study that shows organizations are shifting their digital transformation programs into high gear and have already accomplished in a few months what would normally have taken the m years. The findings, updated biennially in the Dell Technologies’ Digital Transformation Index (DT Index), indicate organizations are accelerating transformational technology programs during the global COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Publication: CXO Today
Dell bets on everything as a service for clients’ digital pushedit
D ell Technologies Inc. is betting on an “every- thing-as-a-service” model to help drive the digital transformation journey of its customers, senior executives said at Dell Technologies Forum, the annual flagship event that was held virtually on Thursday. As part of a new strategy called Project Apex, Dell will deliver a simplified service and cloud experience to customers and partners through its cloud console, an integrated online platform for managing cloud workloads and services through a single web interface.
Publication: Mint
Digital transformation seen as critical business enabler in India: Studyedit
Dell Technologies today released results from a global study that shows organizations are shifting their digital transformation programs into high gear and have already accomplished in a few months what would normally have taken the m years. The findings, updated biennially in the Dell Technologies’ Digital Transformation Index (DT Index), indicate organizations are accelerating transformational technology programs during the global COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Publication: ETCIO
Microsoft Delays Xbox Series X/S Production To Get All RDNA 2 Featuresedit
Microsoft and Sony have officially launched their latest consoles but they are nowhere to be found in the market for purchase. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox has now confirmed that Microsoft has started manufacturing the Xbox Series S and the Xbox Series X a bit late when compared to the PS5 for a specific reason.
Publication: Gizbot
Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 e-Learning Edition review: A new benchmark for budget laptopsedit
Xiaomi is offering a 10th Gen 2.1 GHz Intel Core i3-10110U Comet Lake processor as standard on the e-Learning Edition. This is paired with 8GB RAM DDR4 RAM clocked at 2666MHz and a 256GB SATA 3 SSD. There’s a genuine copy of Windows 10 Home onboard while the graphics part is dealt with the onboard Intel UHD 620 graphics.
Publication: BGR India
Apple M1X Chip Might Be Bad News For Intel: Here Is What Awaits The MacBook Pro 16 And iMac In 2021edit
It has barely been a few weeks since Apple unleashed the ultra-powerful Apple Silicon, the Apple M1 chip with the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini, but if you expected Apple to sit back and rest on its laurels, you’d be completely off the mark. It is now believed that the successor to the M1, dubbed the M1X at this time, is already doing rounds of the test labs and delivering some interesting test results. That is, if we are to believe the details shared online.
Publication: Network 18
Best laptop for multitasking in India (PROACTIVE)edit
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a powerful machine that is packed in a compact package. It features a 14-inch Full HD IPS pantone validated panel offering 100% sRGB. It is powered by an AMD Ryzen 4600HS processor coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 1TB SSD. It comes with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti 4GB graphics. It offers a battery life of up to 10 hours. It comes with an ergonomic hinge that raises the laptop, offering a comfortable typing position.
Publication: Business Insider
COVID-19 impact: Dell sees sales rise as demand booms for remote-work toolsedit
Dell Technologies Inc forecast current-quarter sales above market expectations as a pandemic-driven shift to remote work and learning powered demand for its desktops and notebooks, helping it post a surprise rise in third-quarter revenue. The company said, on an earnings call with analysts on Tuesday, that it expects fourth-quarter revenue to rise 3% to 4% sequentially, implying a range between $24.18 billion and $24.42 billion, compared with analysts’ average expectation of $23.09 billion.
Publication: Indian Express
Apple Silicon M1 Creates New Record On AnTuTu; Most Powerful ARM Processoredit
Apple Silicon M1 is creating ripples in the silicon industry with its exceptional efficiency and performance. The latest ARM-based processor from Apple powers the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and the Mac mini. It comes with an integrated GPU and memory. This is a benchmark from Apple MacBook Air with 8GB RAM and 512GB internal storage. Hence, the Apple Silicon M1 will have eight CPU cores and eight GPU cores, instead of seven GPU cores on the entry-level model.
Publication: Gizbot
France tells tech cos to pay digital taxedit
France will require online technology giants to pay a new “digital tax” on their 2020 earnings, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, despite Washington’s warning that it could retaliate with new tariffs on French imports. “The companies subject to this tax have been notified,” a ministry official said, referring in particular to the US firms Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, which the US says are being unfairly targeted by the levy.
Publication: The Times of India
Home/Office PC Upgrade for ₹40K Featuring WD Blue SN550 500GB SSD #SPONSOREDedit
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Improving the productivity of your home / office PC doesn’t cost a lot. Here’s a build for around 40K that’ll speed up software commonly used for day-to-day tasks such as Excel, Word, etc. and also video editing software. Components used: Processor – AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Graphics Card – MSI GTX 1650 Ventus XS OC Edition Motherboard – MSI A320M-A PRO MAX RAM.
Publication: Digit
Samsung launches ‘Odyssey’ curved gaming monitors in India: Details hereedit
Samsung on Wednesday launched a new line-up of curved Odyssey G9 and G7 gaming monitors in India at a starting price of Rs 49,000. The new range of gaming monitors comprises two models: the G9 — with 49-inch display — and the G7, available in 32-inch and 27-inch size variants.
Publication: Business Standard
Dell Latitude 9510: This PC makes your work-life easieredit
Cooped up in our homes for close to nine months now, our work and entertainment devices—laptops, tablets, mobile phones, TVs—are bearing the brunt of our office and education-related work overload. So much so that many among us have experienced device-related breakdowns during these pandemic times, leaving us high and dry. Physical damage, power surges or hard disk failure are cited as key reasons for computer breakdowns. In short, if you are on the lookout for a new machine that is sturdily built and comes packed with new technology, Dell Latitude 9510 can be a good option.
Publication: Financial Express
Redefining PC experience with ultrapowerful thin & light laptopsedit
Remember when heavy, big and bulky laptops used to be the only option for getting high PC performance? That’s a thing of the past now. With the powerful 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, powerful performance now comes in ultraportable thin and light laptops. No matter if you are working from home, on-the-go or from the office, these mighty processors are redefining what’s possible in thin and light laptops by giving you a seamless work and entertainment experience. 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Powered Laptops – Made for productivity and entertainment on-the-go.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano to feature Intel Core i7-1180G7edit
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Nano was first announced in late September 2020, and the release date was given beyond the 4th quarter of 2020. Now it means that the machine will be launched in December or most probably in early 2021. The speculation on the internet is which 11th gen CPU is included in the device. There are two kinds of Tiger Lake U processors, UP3 and UP4. The UP3 CPUs have a TDP of 12 to 28 W, while the UP4 processors can consume 7 to 15 W.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Enables Smart Memory Access (SAM) on B450 and X470 Motherboards (PROACTIVE)edit
With the launch of the beta BIOS by ASUS and ASRock, Zen 3 support has been brought to the older B450 and X470 boards well ahead of the slated date. However, it appears that the said update (AGESA v2 1.1.0.0) also brings a little surprise along with it: Smart Memory Access (SAM) is now also available on the 400 series boards, only with a Ryzen 5000 CPU and RX 6000 GPU though.
Publication: Hardware Times
How Fifa 21 on PC won’t be the same as the one on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S consolesedit
Those of you who are looking forward to playing Fifa 21 on PC, this news may disappoint you a bit. The PC version of the game will be a slightly toned-down one compared to the game versions on the PS5 and the Xbox Series X and S as the PC version will not get the next-gen features the new consoles will get, as per a report by Eurogamer. The decision has been taken by EA “to keep the game’s minimum specs down”, says the report.
Publication: Gadgets Now
MINISFORUM launches new Mini-PC called EliteMini UM700 with AMD’s Ryzen 7 3750Hedit
Demand for high-performing portable devices has increased tremendously during the pandemic. With most of the business-driven to move online, PCs that can be covered under the budget and still offer high performance are the target of every buyer. Following the demand, the tech manufacturer MINISFORUM has unveiled yet another mini-PC. The device is called the new EliteMini UM700 and is already available to order for US$539 directly from the manufacturer. The machine comes with 8 GB of SO-DIMM RAM and 128 GB of M.2 2280 storage. The price is significantly more for the 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage; it rises to US$669.
Publication: TechnoSports
Best VR-Ready Laptops Capable Of Handling Virtual Reality Headsets (PROACTIVE)edit
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Gaming Laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS Processor along with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti graphic cards. The Asus ROG lineup offers one of the best gaming laptops with solid gaming hardware at a reasonable budget. The device features a 14-inch full HD screen with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and refresh rate up to 120Hertz.
Publication: The Times of India
Dell sees sales above estimates on booming demand for remote-work toolsedit
Dell Technologies Inc forecast current-quarter sales above market expectations as a pandemic-driven shift to remote work and learning-powered demand for its desktops and notebooks, helping it post a surprise rise in third-quarter revenue. The company said, on an earnings call with analysts on Tuesday, that it expects fourth-quarter revenue to rise 3% to 4% sequentially, implying a range between $24.18 billion and $24.42 billion, compared with analysts’ average expectation of $23.09 billion.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Asus VivoBook 15 (X513) laptop Reviewedit
Asus has just refreshed their VivoBook lineup with the launch of the VivoBook 14 and the VivoBook 15. The new 11th Intel Core processor-powered machines come with model numbers X413 and X513, respectively. The VivoBook series from Asus is known to be affordable yet powerful. With the COVID-19 situation going around, most of you might have been hunting for a laptop that could provide the bang for your buck. Is the Asus VivoBook X513 the laptop you have been hunting for?
Publication: India TV News
Innovation culture fuelling business resilience in India: Studyedit
Amid the pandemic, 77 per cent of Indian organisations have found innovation to be critical or important to their performance and resilience, said a Microsoft and IDC report released on Tuesday. The study found that in a short span of six months, organisations in India have increased their ability to innovate by 4 per cent by maturing their culture of innovation. The study also showed that close to 78 per cent of India organisations are speeding up digitalisation in a variety of ways to adapt to the new reality.
Publication: ET Telcom – The Economic Times
Top 20 Black Fridays deal you can avail right nowedit
The Black Friday deals have arrived. The actual Black Friday is still a few days away but retailers have started floating out their deals early. Because of the ongoing pandemic, there has been an increase in advance sales which is partly because of the ongoing pandemic. Ongoing sales which go on for longer periods of time indicate that people are actually stepping less into physical stores.
Publication: Times Now News
5 best compact laptops for travel you can buy in Indiaedit
The Dell Inspiron 5300 is a good compact laptop that gets thin bezels on two sides and weighs just 1.05kg. This laptop is powered by a 10th generation Intel Core i5-10210U chipset, which is paired with 8GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM, and a 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. It features a 13.3-inch IPS anti-glare display that offers FHD resolution and 95 percent sRGB colour gamut.
Publication: 91 Mobiles
IBM and AMD to cooperate on cybersecurityedit
IBM and AMD are two stalwarts of the modern computer industry, even though IBM is now struggling to regain some relevance as its glory years of leading the computer industry are far behind now. Nevertheless, IBM remains a pioneer in the space, while AMD is one of the largest chip makers in the world, and rivals Intel in terms of popularity among consumers and businesses for their computing requirements. Thus, it is important that companies which lead the space in this manner make it a point to work towards the issues of the day, and one of the biggest issues facing the industry at this moment is the question of cybersecurity.
Publication: TechStory
AMD to grow gaming market share through partnerships with OEMS and retailers (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD is focusing on partnerships with equipment manufacturers, retailers and channel partners to build the market for its gaming systems in India, according to a senior executive. The US-based semiconductor maker is pursuing partnerships with laptop manufacturers such as Dell, HP, ASUS and Lenovo, who have made big bets on the gaming segment for their premium and mass market notebooks.
Publication: ET Tech – The Economic Times
Dell XPS 15 9500 (2020) review: One of the finest PC experiencesedit
If you have wanted a fine Windows PC experience, the Dell XPS range of laptops has been the easiest recommendation since an eternity. Whether you pick up a 13-inch or 15-inch variant, the XPS laptops do not compromise on performance and form factor -a rarity in the world of Windows laptops. The XPS 15, which is the bigger version, got an upgrade earlier this year with the latest Intel processors and I was eager to try it out. Also Read – Dell Latitude 9510 2-in-1 review: Excellent battery life, good performance.
Publication: BGR India
Asus Chromebox 4 With 10th-Gen Intel Core Processor Launched: Features, Priceedit
Mini PCs have become increasingly popular for their compact form factor packed with powerful features. The latest addition is the Asus Chromebox 4, a new mini PC with a 10th-gen Intel Core processor. Unlike its predecessor, the Asus Chromebox 4 has several new features internally, including Wi-Fi 6, Google Play support, and more.
Publication: Gizbot
Intel NUC M15 Laptop powered by its 11th gen processors announcededit
Intel has announced its NUC M15 Laptop Kit (originally code-named ‘Bishop County’), which will be a new addition to the whitebook market. The new laptop, which is designed in-house by Intel, will be powered by its 11th Gen Intel Core mobile processor (codenamed Tiger Lake). The announcement comes soon after Apple announced its own M1-powered laptops: the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. But keep in mind: the Intel NUC M15 is not a laptop that can be purchased by customers directly.
Publication: Indian Express ; News18
New M1 Apple MacBooks vs Intel MacBooks: The BIG differenceedit
With its latest line of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, Apple has made quite a splash simply because the laptops are powered by the company’s own processor. At the heart of the new Mac devices is the M1 chipset, which is reportedly faster than the Intel processors found in older MacBooks. iFixit, the teardown specialists, have reported that except the processor, both old and new MacBooks are pretty much the same internally.
Publication: The Times of India
WFH to Stay Preferred Mode of Work in 2021edit
Companies are reviewing working arrangements nearly eight months after the pandemic took hold. But with no clear timetable for the mass availability of vaccines, most have no option but to further extend work-fromhome (WFH) arrangements, some more than others. Last week, Flipkart and Myntra announced the extension of WFH until May 2021. EY has extended it until June while Whirlpool has done so to the end of this year.
Publication: The Economic Times
Asus ZenBook 14 UX425 review: Lightweight, performs well, but battery could be betteredit
The ZenBook line of notebooks from Taiwanese computer brand Asus has so many models out there it’s hard to remember them all. For the past few days, I’ve been testing the ZenBook 14 UX425 that launched in India on November 10. It may not be radically different from what has come before but there is one huge change: The UX425 is one of the first laptops that contain the quad-core Core i7-1165G7 chipset, part of Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake line.
Publication: The News Minute
India can up laptop production: ICI-4Aedit
After mobile phones, these are the biggest IT products. “By making lap-tops and tablets in India for the world, and obtaining a sizable share of the global market will give us a manu-facturing value of $100 bil-lion by 2025,” Mohindroo said. The National Policy on Electronics 2019 envisages electronic manufacturing turnover of $400 billion by 2025, out of which $190 bil-lion is expected to come from the phone segment. According to ICEA, whose members include Apple, Xiaomi, Motorola, Nokia, Foxconn, Electronics, Lava, Vivo, among others, the domestic market will ac-count for around $170 billion by 2025, and there is a need to look at export markets for rest of $230 billion to meet the target of NPE 2019.
Publication: Telangana ...
Intel to help small laptop brands take on HP, Dell with new NUC M15edit
Intel is reportedly gearing up to launch its new laptop with Core i5 and i7 processor. While Intel will be making the laptop, it will not be selling it with its own brand name. As per a report by The Verge, Intel will be supplying the laptop–called NUC M15– to small brands who will be able to use their own stickers and also decide the storage configuration.
Publication: The Times of India
Dell Inspiron 15 (3505) review: A budget laptop that meets the need for remote learningedit
When a professor friend asked me to suggest a laptop under Rs 35,000 for a student, I had no clear answer. This was around the time the nationwide lockdown 2.0 was announced. After months of searching, my (nearly) impossible hunt for a budget laptop seems to have ended with the Dell Inspiron 15 (3505), a 15-inch laptop with AMD Ryzen 3 3250U CPU. At Rs 32,990, the Dell Inspiron 15 makes sense for people who want a laptop for web browsing, checking emails, online classes, and basic routine tasks.
Publication: Indian Express
PowerColor Shows off the Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Deviledit
After much teasing, PowerColor today showed off its Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil graphics card, featuring an aesthetic design with plenty of (red) LED lighting and a bulky triple-fan heatsink. Colorful is opting for a 14 phase VRM for its flagship, a step down from the reference PCB which comes with a 15 phase design for the graphics core and 2 phases for the memory.
Publication: Hardware Times
What Is Ray Tracing In PS5? List Of PS5 Games That Support Ray Tracingedit
Sony has officially released the PlayStation 5 in several parts of the world including North America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. It is clearly one of the most powerful gaming consoles that comes with an 8-core 3.5 GHz AMD Zen 2 processor, along with a 10.3 teraflop AMD RDNA 2 graphics, among other impressive specifications. While the next-generation console comes with plenty of upgrades over its predecessor, one of the highlighting features is its ray-tracing rendering support.
Publication: Republic World
These are the best AMD Ryzen laptops: Surface Laptop 3, ROG Zephyrus G14 and More (PROACTIVE)edit
HP has been on the top of our lists when it comes to 2-in-1 convertible notebooks. The company offers the Envy x360 with the AMD Ryzen 4000 series processor and a choice of either a 13-inch or a 15-inch model that offers the same set of specs apart from their size. Apart from the options of a Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, or Ryzen 7 4000 series processors to choose from, the convertible notebook is backed up by 8GB of RAM (upgradeable on the 15-inch variant), fast SSD storage, and a vibrant touch display along with support for a touch pen.
Publication: XDA – Developers
Microsoft, chip makers team up to improve PC securityedit
Microsoft said it has developed a security technology that chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices plan to incorporate into personal computer processors to boost their ability to ward off hackers and cyber-attacks. Intel and AMD said chips with the new technology, which Microsoft is calling Pluton, will be ready within the next few years. Qualcomm expressed support for the approach, but declined to say whether it would incorporate this specific design in its chips.
Publication: Financial Express
Microsoft Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3 now available in Indiaedit
Microsoft on Monday announced that Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 are now available at starting prices of Rs 42,999 and Rs 1,56,299, respectively. Meanwhile, Surface Book 3 features 13-inch or 15-inch high-DPI PixelSense Display. It is powered by 10th Generation Intel Core processors and choice of discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX or Quadro RTX GPUs.
Publication: Telangana Today
Amazon Making In Roads Into Chip Industry; Now Uses Its Own Machine Learning Chips For Alexa Servicesedit
At last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS announced the launch of its Inferentia chips designed to process machine learning workloads. This week, AWS has announced that the Alexa services will now be powered by AWS Inferentia, their own chip. As a result, they have migrated the majority of their GPU-based ML inference workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Laptops For College And School Students That Cater To Your Educational Purposesedit
Powered by AMD Ryzen 3 CPU, the Lenovo IdeaPad S145 is an impressive laptop for students on a budget. It comes with a standard 15.6-inch display with Full HD resolution along with LED-backlit keyboard. This laptop will be good enough for day to day college usage and also comes with 1TB hard drive to store all data. It also offers 1.5W Dolby speakers that enhance media consumption on the machine. On a single charge, the IdeaPad S145 can last up to 5.5 hours. It is designed for light usages such as checking emails, web browsing, and a spot of document editing or similar.
Publication: The Times of India
Dell G5 15 SE 5505 gaming laptop review: Does the trick for gamers (PROACTIVE)edit
The Dell G5 5505 is a competent machine for gamers. It has a sturdy build, excellent heat dissipation and loud audio capabilities. With the highest possible graphics settings in graphically demanding games, there might be some moments of lag during gameplay but with the settings slightly toned down, the games run smoothly. For first time buyers who want a budget gaming machine from the house of Dell only, this product could do the trick for them.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Acer launches five new laptopsedit
The current situation is making a dynamic shift in consumer behaviour with multi-PCs per family becoming ubiquitous. With the future of working and learning to change, spending long durations in front of PCs and laptops is inescapable. The necessity of a personal computer has changed over the years from being a luxurious purchase to an attractive good to own device and to now being an essential investment. We have seen an upsurge in demand for laptops both from the enterprise and consumer side.
Publication: The Telegraph
Apple M1-Powered MacBook Air Trumps Intel Core i9-based MacBook Pro, Other Mac Devices on Geekbenchedit
Apple’s newly launched 13-inch MacBook Air powered by the Apple M1 SoC has surfaced on the Geekbench website. As per the listing, the new MacBook Air model outperforms the 16-inch MacBook Pro with 10th Gen Intel Core i9 processor that the company launched early this year, though still refers to as MacBook Pro 16 (2019). The Cupertino-based tech giant has also refreshed the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 processor.
Publication: Network 18
HP beats Lenovo to regain leadership in notebook marketedit
HP has shipped 14.7 million notebooks during the third quarter of 2020 as compared with 14.6 million by Lenovo, 8.5 million by Dell, 6 million by Apple and 4.9 million by Acer. HP has increased its notebook share to 23.6 percent in Q3 2020 from 22.2 percent in Q3 2019.
Publiation: InfoTechLead
IBM and AMD Announce Joint Development Agreement to Advance Confidential Computing for the Cloud and Accelerate Artificial Intelligenceedit
“The commitment of AMD to technological innovation aligns with our mission to develop and accelerate the adoption of the hybrid cloud to help connect, secure and power our digital world,” said Dario Gil, Director of IBM Research. “IBM is focused on giving our clients choice, agility and security in our hybrid cloud offerings through advanced research, development and scaling of new technologies.”
Publication: CellIT
Xbox Series S hands-on: Here’s what I’ve learned in the first 48 hoursedit
The biggest difference apart from the lack of the disc drive on the Series S is the GPU in the smaller console. While both new next-gen consoles feature custom AMD Radeon RDNA 2 architecture, the Series X’s GPU 52 cores clocked at 1.825GHz for 12 teraflops and the Series S’ GPU has only 20 cores clocked at 1.565GHz for 4 teraflops.
Publication: Indian Express
Lenovo introduces two new gaming monitorsedit
Lenovo has announced two new IPS gaming monitors. The monitors are called the G27q-20 and the G27-20 and are both 27 inches monitors. the monitors feature a unique base design that is a V-shaped base which is illuminated by teal LED accent lighting. The screens also offer up to 400 nits of brightness and a near-borderless system offering a high screen to border ratio.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Review: A budget laptop that gets all the basics rightedit
The IdeaPad Slim 3i Lenovo sent us rocked a 10th Gen Intel Core i3 processor (Core i3-1005G1) with Intel’s UHD Graphics. The CPU was paired with 8GB of RAM of DDR4 RAM that can be extended to 12GB. Our model arrived with 256GB of PCIe M.2 SSD storage, although it can also be configured with HDD or hybrid (HDD + SDD) storage.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Lenovo announces finance options on its products, offers ‘contactless purchase and after-sales service’edit
Lenovo has announced offers and financing schemes for the festive season. Among the various offers, consumers can avail zero down payment schemes on HDFC Bank credit/debit cards; longer tenure EMI plans on both premium and entry-level laptops; and payment options offered by its financial partners including Bajaj, HDFC, Pine Labs and Amazon Pay. Customers can get benefits up to Rs 14,990 on Yoga Slim 7i laptop, powered by Intel 10th generation core i7 processor.
Publication: The Times of India
Chromebooks, tablets rule the global PC market in Q3: Reportedit
Google Chrome OS-based Chromebooks were the best performing PC product in the third quarter of 2020, as shipments grew 122 per cent to a total of a record high of 9.4 million. HP led the Chromebook market, more than doubling volumes from a year ago to hit 3.2 million units, with the majority of shipments coming in its home market of the US. The worldwide tablet market also posted stellar growth in Q3 2020, with shipments of 44.3 million units, up 43 per cent year-on-year.
Publication: ET Telecom ; Telangana Today
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Review: A Premium Laptop That’s Powerfully Intelligentedit
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned during the lockdown and throughout 2020, it’s that you can never have too many gadgets. With the work-from-home and e-schooling culture taking over, there’s a surge in demand for laptops, tablets – well, anything with a display! Lenovo has risen to the occasion with the new Yoga Slim 7 laptop.
Publication: Gizbot
Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen 2 and L13 Yoga Gen 2 is powered by Intel Tiger Lake launchededit
Lenovo has released two new ThinkPad laptops without any formal declaration. The first one is L13 Gen 2 and the second one is L13 Yoga Gen 2. Both the business model comes with Intel Tiger Lake. This laptop is the first L series laptop which features Thunderbolt 4. A few weeks ago, E14 and E15 Gen 2 with Intel Tiger Lake were updated. Now Lenovo enters the market with the new Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen and ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 2.
Publication: TechnoSports
Developing future workforceedit
DELL TECHNOLOGIES IN partnership with the American India Foundation (AIF), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the University of Mumbai have launched ‘Project Future Ready’ to equip the workforce with career skills. With AIF as an implementation partner and NSDC as the skilling partner, the project is set to impact over 100,000 students in Mumbai and Delhi NCR, of which 60% are female. The project aims to provide skills development for these students through career mentoring, leveraging online skilling platforms, and providing market aligned skills training for employability and inculcating entrepreneurial mind-set.
Publication: Financial Express
PC market registers highest growth in 7 yrs in Jul-Sep quarteredit
The demand for notebooks remains much higher than the current supply, which is like- ly to lead to another strong quarter of shipments in Octo- ber-December, it said. HP Inc retained the top position in the overall PC market with a share of 28.2 per cent in September 2020 quar- ter, followed by Lenovo (21.7 per cent), Dell Technologies (21.3 per cent), Acer Group (9.5 per cent) and Asus (7.5 per cent)
Publication: The Statesman
ASRock implements AMD Ryzen embedded V2000 for the first time everedit
ASRock becomes the first company to announce its implementation for the new AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 processor with the Zen 2 cores. Currently, the fanless mini PCs that are powered by 10W 6-core and 8-core models come under the offering. The new fanless PCs are coming under the iBOX lineup and equipped with the heatsink fins on the side panels and on top of the barebone chassis.
Publication: TechnoSports
IBM, AMD sign joint development agreementedit
Tech giants IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings of both the companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive “confidential computing” in hybrid cloud environments, a statement said.
Publication: Gadgets Now; The Statesman ; CRN; Enterprise Talk
Lenovo Legion 5i (2020) review: Reasonable gaming package for casual gamersedit
Lenovo’s Legion lineup of gaming laptops has proven to be a safe bet for most PC gamers over the years. You can always find a Legion model at a reasonable price with decent specifications and solid build quality. Moreover, Lenovo is one of the few brands that keeps updating its offerings with the latest Intel processor upgrades. While the world is moving to the newer and promising 11th gen Intel laptops, we happened to chance upon the 10th Gen based Legion 5i laptop.
Publication: BGR India
IBM & AMD To Advance Confidential Computing For Cloud & Accelerate AIedit
IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and artificial intelligence offerings of both companies. This joint development agreement has been planned to expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures in order to drive confidential computing in hybrid cloud environments. It would also support a broad range of accelerators across high-performance computing, and enterprise-critical capabilities such as virtualisation and encryption.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U “Lucienne” APU spotted running on HP Pavilion Laptop 15edit
Well, if you thought AMD had had enough with its Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops, then you have probably mistaken. The upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 5700U “Lucienne” APU has again been spotted, not on an Acer Aspire 5 A515 but an HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx laptop. A new Geekbench listing of this laptop shows that the upcoming Ryzen 7 5700U will be an 8 core, 16 thread APU with 1.8GHz base and 4.3GHz boost clock speeds, which was previously confirmed with the leak of the Acer laptop as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
IBM, AMD ink joint development pact for security, Artificial Intelligence offeringsedit
Tech giants IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings of both the companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive ‘confidential computing’ in hybrid cloud environments, a statement said.
Publication: The New Indian Express
IBM, AMD ink joint development pact for security, AI offeringsedit
Tech giants IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend the security and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings of both the companies. The joint development agreement will expand this vision by building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive ‘confidential computing’ in hybrid cloud environments, a statement said.
Publication: ET Tech – The Economic Times
AMD groups up with IBM to tackle Intel and Nvidia in final battle royaleedit
AMD and IBM have introduced a multiyear joint improvement collaboration to boost and prolong the safety and AI choices of each firms. To exhibit how the approaching collectively of the 2 will influence computing, the duo additionally introduced the event of a prototype thatll run an OpenShift occasion thats encrypted and secured on the {hardware} degree utilizing AMDs SEV (Safe Encrypted Virtualization) extension.
Publication: Gadgets360 TechNews
Covid boosts demand for personal computers in Indiaedit
Anticipating a longer WFH possibility, enterprises are getting ready for a larger mobile workforce and keep reducing their dependency on desktops.
Publication: Financial Express
Asus Unveils New ZenBook 14, VivoBook Ultra Models With Intel 11th Gen CPUs: Price, Specifications & Moreedit
Taiwanese computer brand Asus has updated its VivoBook and ZenBook laptops with Intel’s latest 11th Generation Core processors. While the VivoBook range gets three new laptops, the ZenBook range only gets one new offering with the new ZenBook 14. The new offerings in the VivoBook range include the VivoBook Ultra 14, VivoBook Ultra 15, and the VivoBook Ultra K15. Among all the new Asus laptops, the ZenBook 14 is the most expensive offering and comes with a diamond-cut aluminium body.
Publication: Network 18
Introducing The New Dell Latitude Familyedit
Get to work faster and stay productive longer. Smaller, lighter and stylish products built for faster, smarter end user experiences and an intelligent, unified approach to management. Featuring Express technologies and a trusted Safe suite of features, Latitude continues to innovate with the most secure commercial PCs.
Publication: Express Computers
PCs, Laptops See Highest Shipments in 7 Years as Work From Home Continues for Manyedit
The Indian PC market that includes desktops, laptops, and workstations projected a 9.2 percent growth during the July-September 2020 period (Q3 2020), as per the latest data provided by market analyst International Data Corporation (IDC). The data shows that PC shipments in India during the third quarter was also the highest in the last seven years with 3.4 million units, and the boost in shipments is credited to rising demands in e-learning as well as work from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publication: Network 18; Livemint
July-Sept 2020 best quarter for PC market in 7 yrs: IDCedit
In the commercial segment, enterprises reduced their dependency on desktops anticipating a longer work from home possibility but SMBs resumed purchases as business operations started with a relaxation in lockdown. “Despite the supply challenges, vendors were able to stock up for the upcoming online festivals. However, the demand for notebook PCs [laptops] remains much higher than the current supply, which is likely to lead to another strong quarter of shipments in October-December,” analysts at IDC said.
Publication: The Times of India ; The Economic Times
Xbox Series S, Series X now available for purchase in Indiaedit
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its next-gen Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X are now available for purchase in India. Xbox Series X’s price in India is set at Rs 49,990, while the Xbox Series S will set you back Rs 34,990. The two next-gen Xbox consoles are available on Flipkart, Amazon and offline retail channels. The Xbox Series X has a Zen 2-based octa-core CPU clocked at a maximum of 3.8GHz paired with 16GB of GRRD6 RAM.
Publication: ET Telecom
Indian PC market shipped a record 3.4 million units in Q3, led by HP: Reportedit
India’s traditional PC market (inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 9.2% year-on-year in Q3 2020 to reach an all-time high of 3.4 million shipments, led by America’s HP, as per market tracker firm IDC’s latest report. The July-September quarter is the biggest PC quarter in the last seven years in India. Although the commercial segment had very few governments and education projects, the consumer segment logged its biggest quarter to date with 2 million shipments, growing 41.7% year-on-year and 167.2% quarterly.
Publication: ET Telecom
Asus launches new Intel 11th Gen laptops in India starting at Rs 42,990: Check detailsedit
Asus has announced its updated lineup of lightweight ultrabook models for the Indian market. The new VivoBook and ZenBook laptops are using the latest Intel 11th Gen processors, promising significant performance boosts over the older models. The laptops come with updated designs as well as more accessible price tags. The most affordable model you can buy right is the VivoBook Ultra K15 starting at Rs 42,990. Also Read – Asus ROG Phone 3 gets price cut of Rs 3,000 in India.
Publication: BGR India
Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Performance Guide: Best Graphics Settings for 60 FPSedit
At 4K, the RTX 2080 Super and AMD’s 5700 XT are the only surviving cards while the rest of GPU bow out with lows as dismal as 1 FPS. Here, the Navi flagship levels with the 2080 Super as the bandwidth advantage of the latter comes into the picture. I found that AMD cards perform the best at the balanced quality graphics preset. At highest quality, the 2070 S performs on par with the 5700 XT while the 2080 S manages to edge past it. So, anyone with a Navi card should stick to that preset and then increase those settings that don’t have a notable impact on performance.
Publication: Hardware Times
Huawei to launch new desktop computer soon: Reportedit
Chinese tech giant Huawei is reportedly planning to launch a desktop computer by the end of this year. The upcoming desktop computer from Huawei will be powered by the company’s own Kunpeng 920 chipset, along with a graphics processor from AMD which could be Radeon R7 430, reports GizmoChina.
Publication: India TV
Sapphire unveils the next-generation AMD RX 6800 graphics cards (PROACTIVE)edit
We know that AMD’s next-gen Zen 3 based graphics cards will soon be custom adopted by the OEM’s. As such, we can quickly expect to hear a lot about them in the coming days. Recently, Sapphire officially announced its next-generation Nitro+ and PULSE Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards. It includes three Nitro+ and two PULSE series cards, which has both Radeon RX 6800 XT & RX 6800 variants.
Publication: TechnoSports
ASRock A320 Gets Ryzen 5000 & Renoir Support via Unofficial BIOS; Renoir tooedit
ASRock’s A320 motherboard has received support for the newly launched Ryzen 5000 CPUs as well as the Renoir APUs, courtesy of an unofficial BIOS posted to the Chiphell forums. Furthermore, both the lineups support an Infinity Clock and memory of up to 2,000MHz+ on the A320 board in a 1:1 ratio, maximization the memory bandwidth and reducing the latency. The poster tested the top-end Ryzen 9 5950X using the same BIOS on his ASRock A320 and everything worked properly. The same was reported for the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750 which ran at a memory speed of 4333MT/s.
Publication: Hardware Times
Lenovo unveils custom Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card for its gaming desktopedit
AMD has already submitted its upcoming graphics processors to its OEM partners for custom development. However, not all OEMs have successfully adopted the next-gen graphics units as of yet. But recently, Lenovo product manager of Gaming Desktops posted three photos of the upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. The card has been compared with the OEM custom dual-fan version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 model.
Publication: TechnoSports
ASUS warns of low AMD stock upon its launchedit
AMD’s Radeon RX, 6000 series graphics card, will be launched soon in the retail stores. But reports claim that the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will have limited stock at launch. The stock issues were only specific to Radeon RX 6900 XT. However, according to sources, even the Radeon RX 6800 XT supply will be minimal. The card is expected to be sold out within minutes of the launch.
Publication: TechnoSports
Acer Aspire 3 Ryzen 5 A315-41edit
Acer Aspire 3 Ryzen 5 A315-41 is a stylish and powerful Notebook Laptop and is powered by Quad Core core clocked at a speed of 2 GHz with Turbo Boost Upto 3.6 GHz and sports a 15.6 inch HD LED that comes with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels,so the picture quality is crisp and detailed.The screen size is big enough for an enriching gaming, surfing and video watching experience.
Publication: Digit
Acer Aspire 5 A515 with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U “Lucienne” APU listed on Amazon Italy for €779edit
Acer is always very active to bring new processors to its laptops whether its for Intel or AMD and it seems the Taiwanese OEM is planning to bring new Ryzen 5000U APUs to the market. AMD is planning to bring a lot of options for laptops in the form of Ryzen 5000 after a immense success it tasted with Ryzen 4000U processors.
Publication: TechnoSports
Sony Has Confirmed That The PS5 Won’t Support Expandable SSD Storage At Launchedit
The built-in usable storage of the PS5, Xbox Series S and Series X are already known and those that are looking to pick up a PS5 should know that the console comes with 825GB of storage of which 667GB is available to users for games and apps. One of the highlights of the PS5 is that users can simply slot in an M.2 PCIe gen 4 drive to expand the storage. The catch is that the drive must be compatible with Sony’s console.
Publication: Digit
Asus Zenbook 14 with latest 11th Gen Intel processors launching on 10th November via Amazon Indiaedit
Intel has recently launched the new Tiger Lake processors based on 10nm process and a lot of OEMs have upgraded their existing laptops with these processors. These new 11th Gen processors are more efficient and powerful, also special because they pack a lot of GPU horsepower this time.
Publication: TechnoSports
Sea of Thieves to run at 4K 60 FPS on the Xbox Series X|1080p 60 FPS on the Series Sedit
Microsoft’s first-party pirate coop game, Sea of Thieves will run at 4K 60 FPS on the next-gen Xbox Series X and a rather mild 1080p 60 FPS on the Series S. This was announced by the game’s official Twitter handle. Along with the resolution upgrades, you can also look forward to faster load times and higher graphics details.
Publication: Hardware Times
How gaming laptops are pushing the envelope across all price pointsedit
(Sponsored Post by Dell)
Traditionally, PC gaming has been divided into two main divisions. You have desktop gamers and laptop gamers. Desktop gaming usually requires users to buy and build their own PC which can be customized to their personal needs. Not only does this ensure that gamers get a PC that is truly theirs, but the act of building a PC is generally considered quite an enlightening experience. However, building a PC requires a bit of know-how and newcomers might be put off by its apparent complexity.
Publication: Digit
AVITA Liber V14 R5 Laptop Launched in India, Powered by Ryzen 5 AMD Processoredit
The slim and light-weight AVITA Liber V 14 R5 promises an ultra-immersive power-packed user experience through a Ryzen 5 Quad Core AMD processor. It comes with a spectacularly sharp and narrow, slim-bezel, IPS anti-glare FHD display for dazzling visuals for the most astounding visuals along with a beautiful island-style backlit keyboard. With an integrated AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphic processor and an internal memory of 8GB with DDR4 technology, the impressive Liber V 14 R5 is backed by a storage capacity of 512 GB SSD.
Publication: Telecom Today
Special edition Asus Zephyrus G14 launched in India at Rs 1,99,990edit
Asus has recently launched its Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop powered by AMD Ryzen processors in India. The company has now launched a special edition of the laptop created in collaboration with ACRONYM, a technical apparel design agency. The special edition G14 carries the design vision of Errolson Hugh. In terms of specifications, the special edition Asus Zephyrus G14 is powered by an 8 core, 16 thread AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS processor paired with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 MaxQ graphics. T
Publication: Gadgets Now
Lenovo logs record quarter sales amid strong PC, laptop demandedit
Riding on the surge in demand for PCs and laptops in the remote working and learning times, Lenovo Group has announced record Group revenue of $14.5 billion in its second quarter, up 7 per cent year-on-year and with all businesses showing strong growth. Net income was up 53 per cent (year-on-year) to reach $310 million. Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group (IDG) continues to lead the growth with all-time record revenue for the PC and Smart Devices Group (PCSD) of $11.5 billion, up 8 per cent year-on-year.
Publication: Express Computers
Tech benefits: Yang Yuanqing, Chairman & CEO, Lenovoedit
Technology not only provides solutions, but ignites hope, inspires possibilities, and confirms that human intelligence can make a difference in a chaotic world.
Publication: Financial Express
5 best laptops with high refresh rate displays in India (PROACTIVE)edit
HP’s Pavilion Gaming 15 laptop comes with a 15.6-inch IPS display that offers full HD resolution and a high refresh rate of 144Hz. It is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor, along with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 GPU with 4GB VRAM. The processor is paired with 8GB DDR4 RAM, which is expandable up to 16GB.
Publication:91 Mobiles
Lenovo logs record quarter sales amid strong PC, laptop demandedit
Riding on the surge in demand for PCs and laptops in the remote working and learning times, Lenovo Group has announced record Group revenue of $14.5 billion in its second quarter, up 7 per cent year-on-year and with all businesses showing strong growth. Net income was up 53 per cent (year-on-year) to reach $310 million. Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group (IDG) continues to lead the growth with all-time record revenue for the PC and Smart Devices Group (PCSD) of $11.5 billion, up 8 per cent year-on-year.
Publication: ET Telecom
Here’s Everything Apple Is Expected To Announce At Its ‘One More Thing’ Event Next Weekedit
Apple announced a new event that will take place next week on November 10th, however many people are wondering what’s left for Apple to announce. It has been long rumoured that Apple is ready to announce a new range of laptops but this time around it will be a bit different. For the first time in history, Apple is expected to announce new Macbook devices that will be powered by its own CPUs based on ARM.
Publication: MensXp
Asus ZenBook UM425 Reviewedit
The ZenBook UM425 arrives with an AMD Ryzen 7 4700U chip with accompanying AMD Radeon Vega 7 graphics, 16GB of LPDDR4x 3200MHz memory, and a mid-level 1TB Intel 660p PCIe X4 SSD. The 4700U brings an 8C/8T processor which brings fairly decent performance when it comes to single-core tasks. Multitasking is a massive plus when the ZenBook UM425 operates at a higher TDP setting with demanding loads.
Publication: Times Now
Asus launches a special edition ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop: Here’s how it looks likeedit
Asus ROG has announced the launch of its special edition ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop in India. What’s special about it is that this is made in collaboration with ACRONYM, a technical apparel design agency. As for the specs, the special edition laptop has a 14-inch screen that is also Pantone-validated. Powering it is the 8-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen 9-4900HS CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060-MaxQ GPU.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Asus launches special edition of ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptopedit
“We collaborated with ACRONYM to develop our latest offering that reinvents the way gamers and creators use G14 as a tool. This ground-breaking device is the synthesis of creative visions by brands that are a radical innovator in their respective field,” said Arnold Su, Business Head, Consumer And Gaming PC, System Business Group, Asus India. The Zephyrus G14-ACRNM comes armed with a punchy 8-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen 9-4900HS CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060- MaxQ GPU, which makes it well-equipped for all kinds of operations, be it editing videos or streaming.
Publication: Telangana Today
Asus TUF A15 FA566 gaming laptop review: Steely looks, solid gamingedit
Taiwanese technology firm Asus launched the TUF A15 and A17 budget gaming laptop series in India this year. Compared to the prior TUF series laptops, the newer ones come with some key design changes, especially in the display. The Asus TUF A15 FA566 is one of them. The gaming laptop comes at a starting price of Rs 62,990 and the unit we reviewed is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4800 processor, coupled with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti graphics card.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Best budget laptops for studentsedit
The HP 14 laptop is a great option if you want power-packed performance with fast and abundant storage. It has a 14-inch Full HD display and is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor. This processor is paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage, providing you optimum speed for a wide range of tasks. A 1TB internal hard disk is also included, allowing you to save plenty of files. This HP laptop strikes a good balance between power, performance and price.
Publication: Business Insider
Asus ROG Zephyrus S17 (GX701LXS) Review: A thin and light gaming powerhouse with minuscule compromisesedit
For performance, the new ROG Zephyrus S17 opts for an Intel Core i7-10875H or a Core i7-10750H, both 8-core CPUs capable of 5.0 GHz speeds. For graphics, the Zephyrus S17 can be equipped with an Nvidia RTX 2060 Max-P, RTX 2070 Super Max-P, or RTX 2080 Super Max-Q. Our model was retrofitted with an Intel Core i7-10875H, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB NVMe SSD, and lastly, an RTX 2080 Super Max-Q GPU.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Asus ExpertBook B9 laptop review: As good as it getsedit
The Asus ExpertBook B9 supports Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201. It also supports Wi-Fi 802.11ax wireless network protocol that operates at 2.4 GHz and 5GHz dual-band connections with maximum transfer bandwidth of up to 2.4 GHz. Additionally, the ExperBook B9 comes with Bluetooth version 5.1. It has an extremely comfortable display along with long battery life. And it has powerful hardware too. Sure, the Numpad 2.0 does throw a fit once in a while but that can be easily fixed using a software update.
Publication: HT Tech
MSI’s Entire Line-up of AMD 400 Series Motherboards will support Ryzen TM 5000 series processorsedit
AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture Ryzen TM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors.
Publication: IT Voice
Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS for B450 Boards Supporting Ryzen 5000 CPUsedit
In an official press release, Gigabyte has announced the release of the BIOS updates supporting the Ryzen 5000 CPUs on the 500 series motherboards. However, as per a source on Twitter, the latest F60b BIOS also adds support for the Zen 3 chips on all B450 boards. This isn’t preliminary support we’re talking about here, rather full-fledged compatibility. We haven’t been able to confirm this for obvious reasons, but will update this post as soon as we have a confirmation.
Publication: Hardware Times
Industry news
How the online gaming industry is playing the game of lawsedit
The integration of technology with day-to-day lives of people has been going on for the better part of last two decades globally. This has resulted into legislators introducing laws and regulations with an aim to address and regulate any challenges posed by the introduction of technology which otherwise would have remain unaddressed. While significant reforms have been made by the legislators to effectively regulate sectors such as the e-commerce sector, the online gaming and fantasy sports space in India largely remain unregulated.
Publication: Financial Express
Google Cloud builds strong India team, hires top execsedit
Kurian’s success is seen to have been the result of aggressive investments in people and partnerships. That playbook is now being replicated in India. He has hired over half a dozen senior executives this year. Karan Bajwa, who was MD of IBM India, took over as MD of Google Cloud India in March. Anil Bhansali, who was corporate vice-president of Microsoft’s Azure cloud division and the site leader for the R&D team in India, joined as VP of engineering and head of the development centre for Google Cloud India.
Publication: The Times of India
India’s answer to superfast optical AI computingedit
There’s a need for edge computing at the speed of light. Hyderabad’s LightspeedAI has thrown its hat in the ring. With the designs in place, the next stage for the startup is fabrication for a minimum viable product, expected in six months. The age of AI and 5G is around the corner. If there was an explosion of data as we moved from 2G and 3G to 4G (fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology), that’s set to multiply 1,000 times with 5G.
Publication: Livemint
S Korean mobile carriers eyeing more cloud gaming usersedit
South Korean telecom operators are targeting wider market penetration of cloud gaming services by expanding availability, industry officials said amid strong demand from mobile gamers. The country’s three major carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. have in recent months opened up their subscription services that stream console games on smartphones to other carrier users and networks, reports Yonhap news agency.
Publication: Telangana Today
Apple working on crazy fast M1X chip for the 16-inch MacBook Proedit
When Apple recently launched the new Macs with the M1 chip, many were surprised to see the absence of the 16-inch MacBook Pro. However, a report from LeaksApplePro claims a new 16-inch MacBook Pro is in the works with Apple’s unannounced M1X processor. The new chipset is going to be substantially faster than the first-generation M1 chip. In fact, M1X is rumoured to come with 12 cores, out of which eight cores will be optimised for high performance, while the other four will be used for power efficiency.
Publication: Indian Express
A semiconductor startup ecosystem finally seems to emergeedit
It began with Texas Instruments setting up a global R&D centre in Bengaluru in 1985 to design semiconductor chips and integrated circuits using Indian engineering talent. Other MNCs followed, including the world’s two leading chipset makers, Samsung Electronics and Intel. But even though so much semiconductor design work is being done in India, it’s all happening in MNCs and not Indian companies.
Publication: Livemint
An Expert Explains: Why the Apple M1 chip could be the start of something bigedit
CISC was adopted and developed by Intel and that formed the basis of their X86 architecture, also used by AMD. In 1984, based on IBM’s work, Stanford introduced a new more efficient architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). In 1985, ARM (Acorn RISC Machine, later changed to Advanced Risc Machine), a very significant RISC-based architecture of the future was introduced by UK-based Acorn Computers Ltd.
Publication: Indian Express
Ministry of Electronics & IT collaborates with IBM to enhance employabilityedit
The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITy) and IBM India Pvt Ltd today announced a collaboration to create a robust education and skilling ecosystem that creates critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and next generation innovators through the Common Services Centre Academy.
Publication: ETCIO
Digital transformation seen as critical business enabler in India: Studyedit
Dell Technologies today released results from a global study that shows organizations are shifting their digital transformation programs into high gear and have already accomplished in a few months what would normally have taken the m years. The findings, updated biennially in the Dell Technologies’ Digital Transformation Index (DT Index), indicate organizations are accelerating transformational technology programs during the global COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Publication: ETCIO
Microsoft Delays Xbox Series X/S Production To Get All RDNA 2 Featuresedit
Microsoft and Sony have officially launched their latest consoles but they are nowhere to be found in the market for purchase. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox has now confirmed that Microsoft has started manufacturing the Xbox Series S and the Xbox Series X a bit late when compared to the PS5 for a specific reason.
Publication: Gizbot
Apple M1X Chip Might Be Bad News For Intel: Here Is What Awaits The MacBook Pro 16 And iMac In 2021edit
It has barely been a few weeks since Apple unleashed the ultra-powerful Apple Silicon, the Apple M1 chip with the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini, but if you expected Apple to sit back and rest on its laurels, you’d be completely off the mark. It is now believed that the successor to the M1, dubbed the M1X at this time, is already doing rounds of the test labs and delivering some interesting test results. That is, if we are to believe the details shared online.
Publication: Network 18
Microsoft delayed Xbox Series X and S production to get full RDNA 2 featuresedit
Microsoft started the manufacturing of its new console in the late summer, whereas Sony started earlier, without waiting for AMD’s final design of its new GPU architecture. The company said that “Xbox Series X|S are the only next-generation consoles with full hardware support for all the RDNA 2 capabilities”. This features Mesh Shaders, Variable Rate Shading, hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing, and Sample Feedback Streaming.
Publication: TechnoSports
COVID-19 impact: Dell sees sales rise as demand booms for remote-work toolsedit
Dell Technologies Inc forecast current-quarter sales above market expectations as a pandemic-driven shift to remote work and learning powered demand for its desktops and notebooks, helping it post a surprise rise in third-quarter revenue. The company said, on an earnings call with analysts on Tuesday, that it expects fourth-quarter revenue to rise 3% to 4% sequentially, implying a range between $24.18 billion and $24.42 billion, compared with analysts’ average expectation of $23.09 billion.
Publication: Indian Express
Apple iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Watch in high demand but AirPods sales flat, says analystedit
Apple’s 2020 lineup of devices, including the new 5G iPhone, M1-powered MacBooks, latest Apple Watch models, iPads, and more, is now out globally. As Apple enters the holiday season in the US, the demand for the new products has surged and the company is performing better than what was expected. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new note that outlines the recent performance of Apple products. While most of the product lines of Apple are seeing high demands, there is only one product category that is selling at a regular pace.
Publication: India Today
Apple Silicon M1 Creates New Record On AnTuTu; Most Powerful ARM Processoredit
Apple Silicon M1 is creating ripples in the silicon industry with its exceptional efficiency and performance. The latest ARM-based processor from Apple powers the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and the Mac mini. It comes with an integrated GPU and memory. This is a benchmark from Apple MacBook Air with 8GB RAM and 512GB internal storage. Hence, the Apple Silicon M1 will have eight CPU cores and eight GPU cores, instead of seven GPU cores on the entry-level model.
Publication: Gizbot
France tells tech cos to pay digital taxedit
France will require online technology giants to pay a new “digital tax” on their 2020 earnings, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, despite Washington’s warning that it could retaliate with new tariffs on French imports. “The companies subject to this tax have been notified,” a ministry official said, referring in particular to the US firms Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, which the US says are being unfairly targeted by the levy.
Publication: The Times of India
Data Center Switch Market Size USD 12200 Million by 2026 at a CAGR 5.7% | Valuates Reportsedit
The Data Center Switch Market is Segmented by type (Core Switches, Distribution Switches, Access Switches), by application (Enterprises, Telecommunications Industry, Government Organizations, Cloud Service Providers). It also covers Global & Regional Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast to 2026. The global Data Center Switch market size is projected to reach USD 12200 Million by 2026, from USD 11490 Million in 2020, at a CAGR of 5.7% during 2021-2026.
Publication: IT News Online
India IT, Business Services market to reach $13bn this year: IDCedit
The IT and Business Services market in India is expected to grow annually by 5.4 per cent to reach $13 billion by the end of the year, an IDC report said on Wednesday. In the first half (January-June period), the India IT and Business Services market grew by 5.3 per cent (on-year) as compared to the 8.9 per cent growth in the first half last year, according to the IDC’s ‘Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker-1H20’. When it comes to only IT Services, the market contributed 77.4 per cent in the first half this year and grew by 5.9 per cent (on-year) compared to the 9.3 per cent growth in 1H2019.
Publication: ETCIO
Samsung launches ‘Odyssey’ curved gaming monitors in India: Details hereedit
Samsung on Wednesday launched a new line-up of curved Odyssey G9 and G7 gaming monitors in India at a starting price of Rs 49,000. The new range of gaming monitors comprises two models: the G9 — with 49-inch display — and the G7, available in 32-inch and 27-inch size variants.
Publication: Business Standard
TSMC Launches 3nm Factory; 5nm Capacity to Exceed 100K in 1H 2021edit
TSMC inaugurated its first 3nm factory in Nanke, Taiwan on the 24th of November, with risk production for the same slated to begin in 2021. At the same time, the mass production of the 5nm EUV node has been progressing as per schedule. In Q4, the monthly production reached 90K pieces per month, the bulk of which is supplied to Apple. TSMC is starting the mass production of its 3nm wafers in the second half of 2022, however, as already explained, these will leverage the standard FinFet technology rather than GAA.
Publication: Hardware Times
How Fifa 21 on PC won’t be the same as the one on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S consolesedit
Those of you who are looking forward to playing Fifa 21 on PC, this news may disappoint you a bit. The PC version of the game will be a slightly toned-down one compared to the game versions on the PS5 and the Xbox Series X and S as the PC version will not get the next-gen features the new consoles will get, as per a report by Eurogamer. The decision has been taken by EA “to keep the game’s minimum specs down”, says the report.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Opinion | Reimagining India’s digital transformation in vital sectorsedit
India has been on a digital-first trajectory for a few years, spurred on by its goal of becoming a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025. Digital transformation across key sectors like manufacturing, education, healthcare, as well as government services and labor markets has the potential for each sector to create $10-$150 billion incremental economic value by 2025.
Publication: Livemint
Enabling Edge AI Through Future Ready Software Development Kitedit
Edge AI is here to stay! Artificial intelligence (AI) is powering many real-world applications which we see in our daily lives. AI, once seen as an emerging technology, has now successfully penetrated into every industry (B2B & B2C) Banking, logistics, healthcare, defence, manufacturing, retail, automotive, consumer electronics. Smart Speaker like Echo, Google Nest, is one such example of Edge AI solutions in the consumer electronics sector. AI technology is powerful, and human-kind has set its eye on the path of harnessing its potential to the fullest. Intelligence brought to the device can be very useful and creative.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Former Intel Engineer Explains Why Apple Ditched Intel And Switched To ARMedit
Apple has an average share of around 7 percent in the PC market. Every modern Mac shipped by Apple was powered by Intel CPU, until a few weeks back, where Apple announced two new MacBooks based on the ARM processor. François Piednoël has worked for Intel for the last 20 years as both a Principal Engineer and Performance Architect. According to PCGamer, François Piednoël, a former employee of Intel has explained that “bad quality assurance of Skylake” made Apple switch from Intel to Apple Silicon.
Publication: Gizbot
Apple M1X Processor could debut alongside 16-inch Macbook PRO (2021) and iMacedit
Apple M1X could be the name of the successor to the recently announced M1 processors and is likely to make its debut in 2021 with the 16-inch MacBook Pro. Apple announced its octa-core M1 SoC earlier this month and unveiled three products. Apple’s homegrown M1 silicon powers the latest 13-inch MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini.
Publication: Digit
Fortnite could make a return on Apple via Nvidia GeForceedit
With the launch of a web client that allows users to play games using web browsers, the mobile gaming platform is taking the next step in cloud gaming. Gamers can now play the titles which are unavailable on Apple devices. They can use their browsers on Apple mobile and then can play their games using Safari. It could very well mean that we can see the advent of Fortnite on Apple after many months.
Publication: TechnSports
AI, ML, 5G, IoT will be most important tech in 2021: Studyedit
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) would be the most important technologies in 2021, according to a new study by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The technical professional organisation on Monday released the results of a survey of Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Technology Officers (CTO) in the US, the UK,China, India and Brazil. The survey was on the most important technologies for 2021, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the speed of their technology adoption and the industries expected to be most impacted by technology.
Publication: ET Telecom – The Economic Times
Techies Spoilt for Choice, Get Multiple Job Offersedit
“Limited availability of such talent puts them in a better place to negotiate,” said Ryan Lowe, partner, people advisory services, EY India, which is hiring in technology and digital. “Many of our clients in IT, financial services, FMCG, pharmaceutical and manufacturing are looking for tech professionals for future growth,” said Lowe.
Publication: The Economic Times
Virtual work in progressedit
According to App Annie,the aggregated total downloads of top video conference and team communication apps (Google Meet, Zoom Cloud Meetings, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Flock) across iOS and Google Play in India grew 40 times in the month of October 2020, compared to the same period last year. (Sequoia)
Publication: The Financial Express
Big Tech Shares in Demand with Indian Investorsedit
Investing from India in US stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Alphabet and Tesla has gone mainstream. Retail investors have been rushing to take advantage of surging FAANG stocks, thanks to domestic brokerages that have launched global trading platforms. Demand has been on the rise in the past six months. Over 100,000 new accounts have been opened on global trading platforms so far in 2020, while turnover is up 10-fold from December last year, according to market participants.(AMD)
Publication: The Times of India
Laptop, tablet manufacturing in India $100B opportunity: Reportedit
Boosting export-oriented local manufacturing of laptops and tablets can open up $100 billion opportunity for India by 2026, said a new report on Wednesday. Currently, the global manufacturing hubs for laptops and tablets are limited to a handful of countries with China being the predominant supplier to the world with 66 per cent market share in 2019, worth $100 billion, said the joint report by industry body India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA) and global consultancy major EY.
Publication: Express Computers
Data centre industry gets nearly $400 mn fundingedit
Indian data centre industry is emerging as an alternative real estate asset class and has attracted investment worth nearly $400 million during January-September this year, according to a report by property consultant Anarock and Mace. The data centre industry has attracted close to $977 million in private equity and strategic investments since 2008. Out of this, nearly 40 per cent or approx $396 million was infused between Jan-Sept 2020 period alone, Anarock said in a statement.
Publication: Telangana Today
WFH to Stay Preferred Mode of Work in 2021edit
Companies are reviewing working arrangements nearly eight months after the pandemic took hold. But with no clear timetable for the mass availability of vaccines, most have no option but to further extend work-fromhome (WFH) arrangements, some more than others. Last week, Flipkart and Myntra announced the extension of WFH until May 2021. EY has extended it until June while Whirlpool has done so to the end of this year.
Publication: The Economic Times
India can up laptop production: ICI-4Aedit
After mobile phones, these are the biggest IT products. “By making lap-tops and tablets in India for the world, and obtaining a sizable share of the global market will give us a manu-facturing value of $100 bil-lion by 2025,” Mohindroo said. The National Policy on Electronics 2019 envisages electronic manufacturing turnover of $400 billion by 2025, out of which $190 bil-lion is expected to come from the phone segment. According to ICEA, whose members include Apple, Xiaomi, Motorola, Nokia, Foxconn, Electronics, Lava, Vivo, among others, the domestic market will ac-count for around $170 billion by 2025, and there is a need to look at export markets for rest of $230 billion to meet the target of NPE 2019.
Publication: Telangana ...
Google’s new Chromebook with AMD processor spotted onlineedit
The pandemic induced lockdown has forced many professions to move online and has increased their dependency on technology. The most noticeable impact was seen in education, and it resulted in both teachers and students adopting notebooks and Chromebooks for online teaching. With the increase in demand for Chromebooks, most prominent players in the market are rushing to increase their profits.
Publication: TechnoSports
MacBooks with Apple M1 chip now available, they bring a future extremely exciting and a little frighteningedit
If it wasn’t for AMD Zen 3 processors, announced just a few weeks ago and yet to reach market in any meaningful way, you could have said that November 17, 2020, was a bloodbath for Intel and AMD processors. On Tuesday Apple’s new MacBooks and the Mac mini became available. Outwardly, there is nothing strikingly new about the late 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13-inch and Mac mini. But inside them a revolution is going on.
Publication: India Today
MediaTek acquires Intel’s power-management chip biz for $85mnedit
Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has acquired Intel Enpirion power management chip product line-related assets, via its subsidiary Richtek, for approximately $85 million. With this acquisition, MediaTek is now aiming to expand its product line to offer integrated power solutions used in FPGA, SoC, CPU, and ASIC for the enterprise-level system applications, reports GizmoChina.
Publication: ET Telecom
What Is Ray Tracing In PS5? List Of PS5 Games That Support Ray Tracingedit
Sony has officially released the PlayStation 5 in several parts of the world including North America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. It is clearly one of the most powerful gaming consoles that comes with an 8-core 3.5 GHz AMD Zen 2 processor, along with a 10.3 teraflop AMD RDNA 2 graphics, among other impressive specifications. While the next-generation console comes with plenty of upgrades over its predecessor, one of the highlighting features is its ray-tracing rendering support.
Publication: Republic World
Microsoft Pluton chip announced, brings Xbox-level security to upcoming Windows PCedit
Microsoft has announced a new chip called Pluton that will enhance the security on its future Windows PC. Microsoft Pluton is a security chip that will be built into the CPUs on the next-generation computers and laptops running Windows. It will also replace the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that currently provides security to the entire Windows ecosystem and the hardware using cryptographic keys.
Publication: India Today
Microsoft unveils highly-secure Pluton chip for Windows PCsedit
Microsoft has unveiled a new security chip called Pluton that has been designed to protect the future Windows PCs. The Pluton security processor will provide next-generation hardware security protection to Windows PCs through future chips from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, the tech giant said in a statement late on Tuesday.
Publication: Telangana Today
How AI can be used to solve some of India’s biggest problemsedit
Two ingredients that are crucial to AI are talent and data. Both of which are available in plenty. Rai noted a Gartner study that estimated India has 8% of the world’s AI talent. P J Narayanan, professor & director at IIIT-Hyderabad, said we would eventually need to create a lot more talent. He noted that already interest levels are huge. IIIT-Hyderabad, he said, started an executive education programme in AI two years ago, and the response was phenomenal.
Publication: The Times fo India
Covid Spike Fails to Spook India Inc; Ops with Limited Workforce Continue (PROACTIVE)edit
About 20 leading companies such as Maruti Suzuki, Deloitte, Myntra, EY, Cisco, Dabur, Whirlpool, Cipla, MakeMyTrip, AMD, SAP Labs, Max Healthcare, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Co and Ericsson told ET that they won’t change the current work arrangement which involves 10-20% staff in office. Additional staff are deployed as and when required.
Publication: The Economic Times
Xbox Series X might be in short supply till April or longer: Microsoftedit
The Xbox Series S and Series X launched last week and if you were not one of those people who were able to get your hands on pre-orders and early units, you might be waiting for as long as next year April. According to a top Microsoft executive, that’s when there might be enough Xbox supply for you to easily get one. Xbox’s chief financial officer Tim Stuart said at the Jefferies Interactive Entertainment Virtual Conference that they think supply shortages will be there through the post-holiday quarter which covers Microsoft’s Q3, calendar Q1.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
India now has two of the top 100 most powerful supercomputers in the worldedit
India’s newest and fastest supercomputer, PARAM-Siddhi AI, has been ranked 63rd in the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world. The supercomputer was established earlier this year, under the National Supercomputer Mission (NSM) and is going to be installed in the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing’s (C-DAC) unit. The Top500 project tracks the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and is published twice a year.
Publication: Livemint
Modernize your servers to maximize data valueedit
Research conducted by industry analysts reveals that market-leading businesses are combining data management and analytics with modernized IT to drive business value and stand out from the competition. Organizations that have modernized IT are better prepared to capitalize on and deliver value through data and analytics than orgs with aging IT.1 ESG research shows 4 ways these orgs are more effective at driving business value.
Publication: Express Computers
Amazon Making In Roads Into Chip Industry; Now Uses Its Own Machine Learning Chips For Alexa Servicesedit
At last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS announced the launch of its Inferentia chips designed to process machine learning workloads. This week, AWS has announced that the Alexa services will now be powered by AWS Inferentia, their own chip. As a result, they have migrated the majority of their GPU-based ML inference workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
Microsoft unveils highly-secure Pluton chip to protect Windows PCsedit
Microsoft has unveiled a new security chip called Pluton that has been designed to protect the future Windows PCs. The Pluton security processor will provide next-generation hardware security protection to Windows PCs through future chips from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, the tech giant said in a statement late on Tuesday. “In collaboration with leading silicon partners AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm Technologies, we are announcing the Microsoft Pluton security processor,” said David Weston, Director of Enterprise and OS Security.
Publication: Business Standard
Apple M1 Mac Reviews Show Intel and AMD’s Game is Almost Over [Review Roundup]edit
Apple, last week, announced new Macs with its own in-house ARM-based Apple M1 chips and claimed significant improvements, in terms of both the battery life and performance, over the current Intel-based MacBooks. Publications like The Verge, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, and YouTubers like MKBHD and Dave Lee (Dave2D) got hands-on the new devices a week early before the public release of these Macs. So how do they fare against the current generation Macs? Here’s a roundup of all the reviews.
Publication: TechQuila
Online Gaming Industry Showing Impressive Financial Growth Worldwideedit
Casino games initially started off humbly with their rudimentary websites and fundamental, simple game offerings. As technology has become easier to access, democratic, portable and more user friendly, so has the online gaming industry. Smartphones, needless to say were the biggest catalyst for massive growth in almost every field of computer software, and have made it easier for anybody to gamble at anytime, from anywhere.
Publication: The Week
Data centre capacity to treble by 2025: Analystsedit
India’s data centre industry, which expects revenues to grow 20% y-o-y in FY21, is experiencing huge demand for expansion, as the country’s appetite for consuming data grows at a scorching pace. Buoyed by the sentiment, analysts project the current capacity of around 360 megawatt (MW) to treble in the next four-five years as the digital economy landscape matures further.
Publication: Financial Express
Everything you need to know to become a cloud security engineeredit
Cloud technology, just like other prominent fields of tech such as AI, ML and big data, is growing exponentially year after year. Cloud computing brings limitless computing resources, drastically changing how industries, such as IT, function at their core. As cloud computing grew, three prominent names emerged in this burgeoning field – AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The growing vendors in this market also drove intense competition.
Publication: Digit
Lenovo announces finance options on its products, offers ‘contactless purchase and after-sales service’edit
Lenovo has announced offers and financing schemes for the festive season. Among the various offers, consumers can avail zero down payment schemes on HDFC Bank credit/debit cards; longer tenure EMI plans on both premium and entry-level laptops; and payment options offered by its financial partners including Bajaj, HDFC, Pine Labs and Amazon Pay. Customers can get benefits up to Rs 14,990 on Yoga Slim 7i laptop, powered by Intel 10th generation core i7 processor.
Publication: The Times of India
Chromebooks, tablets rule the global PC market in Q3: Reportedit
Google Chrome OS-based Chromebooks were the best performing PC product in the third quarter of 2020, as shipments grew 122 per cent to a total of a record high of 9.4 million. HP led the Chromebook market, more than doubling volumes from a year ago to hit 3.2 million units, with the majority of shipments coming in its home market of the US. The worldwide tablet market also posted stellar growth in Q3 2020, with shipments of 44.3 million units, up 43 per cent year-on-year.
Publication: ET Telecom ; Telangana Today
PC market registers highest growth in 7 yrs in Jul-Sep quarteredit
The demand for notebooks remains much higher than the current supply, which is like- ly to lead to another strong quarter of shipments in Octo- ber-December, it said. HP Inc retained the top position in the overall PC market with a share of 28.2 per cent in September 2020 quar- ter, followed by Lenovo (21.7 per cent), Dell Technologies (21.3 per cent), Acer Group (9.5 per cent) and Asus (7.5 per cent)
Publication: The Statesman
Apple’s M1-based MacBook Air performs better than Intel Core i9-based MacBook Proedit
Apple touted its ARM-based M1 processor as the first 5nm chipset to power MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini. During the event, it talked a lot about the number of times it is faster and more efficient than Windows PCs and their own previous-gen Intel-based Mac devices. But since the reviews were not out, we had no option but to believe what the iPhone maker had to say. However, now the product has gone through Geekbench again.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
Apple’s biggest chip gamble yetedit
Apple spent most of its event Tuesday arguing against this notion, boasting of the superior performance specifications of its new chips. Only time will tell if those claims hold up. Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research notes that Apple is using a chip architecture “that is fundamentally different from what Intel and AMD do.” Alternatively, Stacy Rasgon of Bernstein says that Apple’s success with its new in-house Mac processors could serve as “existence proof” for other non-x86 chips in the PC and server markets—damaging Intel’s position even further.
Publication: Livemint
PC sales hit 7-year high in July-September on WFH: Studyedit
As more people worked from home, personal computer shipments, led by laptops, registered their best-ever quarter in seven years during the July-September period. At 3.4 million units, PC shipments (including desktops, notebooks and workstations) recorded a 9.2% year-over-year growth rate in the September quarter, according to International Data.
Publication: The Times of India
Indian PC market sees best quarter in seven years, with 3.4 million units shipped in Q3 2020edit
The Indian PC has recorded tremendous growth in the third quarter of 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has forced several people around the country to work from home, forcing employees to upgrade their systems. According to the analysis from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Q3 2020 saw 3.4 million PC shipping in total, a 9.2 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth as compared to the same quarter last year. These PC units shipped include notebooks, workstations, and desktops.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Covid boosts demand for personal computers in Indiaedit
Anticipating a longer WFH possibility, enterprises are getting ready for a larger mobile workforce and keep reducing their dependency on desktops.
Publication: Financial Express
MNCs ride on digital talent to make India their core innovation centreedit
Multi-national companies (MNC) such as Airbus, Mercedes Benz, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Texas Instruments Inc (TI) are making India their core innovation centre, riding on its digital-savvy talent that is able to work on advanced technologies and build solutions for the world. Over the years, the India technology hubs have evolved from being a cost arbitrage centre to supporting global teams to driving core innovation today.
Publication: Livemint
Apple M1 launch: MacBook Pro and Mac mini with Intel chips are still availableedit
Apple revealed its M1 processor that will be powering new Macs at a special event yesterday. The 13-inch MacBook Air, Pro and Mac Mini will run on the newly-released chips with ARM-based architecture. Currently, the 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at Rs 1,22,900. However, the Intel-powered MacBook Pro and Mac Mini will still be available from Apple for now. The 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with six-core i7 and eight-core i9 options which cost Rs 1,99,900 and Rs 2,39,900 respectively.
Publication: Indian Express
Aya Neo Founder Edition powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5 4500U APUedit
Digital gaming has seen an increase in popularity due to the pandemic. Gaming manufacturers are pushing forward to make their games more appealing and demanding to users. Amidst all this, a Redditor has spotted that the Aya Neo Founder Edition has gone up for preorder sales in China.
Publication: TechnoSports
Apple M1 Custom Silicon for Macs Launched to Take on Intel Core and AMD Ryzen Processorsedit
Apple M1 launched as the first in-house chipset for its range of Mac computers from the brand. The company claims that the chipset is the most powerful chip it has ever created. It is also the first chipset for the PC to be built using 6-nanometer process technology and packs 16 billion transistors. Apple has claimed a lot of superlatives for this chipset including fastest CPU performance, fastest integrated GPU, and more.
Publication: My Smart Price
PCs, Laptops See Highest Shipments in 7 Years as Work From Home Continues for Manyedit
The Indian PC market that includes desktops, laptops, and workstations projected a 9.2 percent growth during the July-September 2020 period (Q3 2020), as per the latest data provided by market analyst International Data Corporation (IDC). The data shows that PC shipments in India during the third quarter was also the highest in the last seven years with 3.4 million units, and the boost in shipments is credited to rising demands in e-learning as well as work from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publication: Network 18; Livemint
Apple November Event highlights: Apple’s own M1 processor and MacBooks powered by itedit
Apple Event November 2020 Live Updates: Apple’s third product event, titled ‘One More Thing’ is now over. Apple is switching to its own ARM-based processors for its MacBooks, following the path of the iPhone and iPad. The new M1 processor with eight cores and an integrated CPU and GPU will also power the latest Mac Mini desktop. The M1 comes with a dedicated 16-core Neural Engine for machine learning and AI-related tasks.
Publication: Indian Express
July-Sept 2020 best quarter for PC market in 7 yrs: IDCedit
In the commercial segment, enterprises reduced their dependency on desktops anticipating a longer work from home possibility but SMBs resumed purchases as business operations started with a relaxation in lockdown. “Despite the supply challenges, vendors were able to stock up for the upcoming online festivals. However, the demand for notebook PCs [laptops] remains much higher than the current supply, which is likely to lead to another strong quarter of shipments in October-December,” analysts at IDC said.
Publication: The Times of India ; The Economic Times
Apple introduces the new M1 processor for Mac devicesedit
At its One More Thing event, Apple announced a new processor that will power its Mac range of computers. Called M1, the processor features an eight-core CPU and Apple claims it is the fastest CPU in the world. The new M1 processor, as per Apple, is all about power efficiency. The eight-core CPU, according to Apple, gives the best performance per watt in a CPU. Comparing it other laptop CPUs, Apple said that the M1 chip draws 1/4th of power to deliver peak performance. The eight-core CPU is also paid with four high-efficiency cores. What the Apple processor will also do is allow iPhone and iPad apps to run on the Mac devices.
Publication: The Times of India
Indian PC market shipped a record 3.4 million units in Q3, led by HP: Reportedit
India’s traditional PC market (inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 9.2% year-on-year in Q3 2020 to reach an all-time high of 3.4 million shipments, led by America’s HP, as per market tracker firm IDC’s latest report. The July-September quarter is the biggest PC quarter in the last seven years in India. Although the commercial segment had very few governments and education projects, the consumer segment logged its biggest quarter to date with 2 million shipments, growing 41.7% year-on-year and 167.2% quarterly.
Publication: ET Telecom
Apple launches MacBook laptops with first microprocessor designed in-houseedit
Apple Inc on Tuesday introduced a MacBook Air notebook and other computers with the first microprocessor designed in-house, a move that will tie its Macs and iPhones closer together technologically. The new chip, called the M1, marks a shift away from Intel Corp technology that has driven the electronic brains of Mac computers for nearly 15 years. The Mini is targeted at engineers and scientists because of the artificial intelligence capabilities of the new chip that usually requires a graphics chip from Nvidia Corp or AMD.
Publication: Business Standard
Amazon Web Services to invest INR 20,761 Crore to set-up three data centres in Hyderabad, Telanganaedit
Amazon Web Services, abbreviated as AWS is an on-demand cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon. AWS has recently been reported to invest a hefty amount of USD 2.77 Billion (INR 20,761 Crore) to set up three AWS Data Centres in Hyderabad, Telangana. According to Telangana Information Technology department and K.T. Rama Rao, Industries Minister of Telangana, Amazon Web Services will build out three Availability Zones in the city of Hyderabad.
Publication: TechStory
Video game prices going upedit
This week, video game publishers will press ahead with an industry-wide effort to raise the standard price to $70. The move coincides with the debut of two new game consoles from Microsoft and Sony, a generational change that comes every seven years or so.
Publication: Business Standard
Apple ‘One More Thing’ event today: Here’s what to expectedit
Apple will be conducting the ‘One More Thing’ event today. The company is expected to launch new Mac computers powered by the company’s home-built chipsets. This will be strong departure from Apple’s previous partnership with Intel. The launch of its own chipsets is expected to bring new competitiveness in the chipset market that is mostly dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Publication: Livemint
IT ministry suggests infrastructure status, captive power plants for for data centres in draft policyedit
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has suggested demarcation of specific zones with necessary infrastructure such as roads, running water and electricity to set up data centre parks.
Publication: The Indian Express
PUBG Mobile Might Return To India By The End Of The Year: Reportedit
While PUBG Mobile may have announced its departure from India a few weeks ago, it seems like it might just make its return sooner than expected. Sources tell TechCrunch that the game might come back to India before the end of the year.
Publication: Digit
AWS to invest ~20K cr in Telangana data centresedit
“We have more than 15 mil- lion students using BYJU’S mobile app, and we could not support that number without being on AWS. As we expand the business in India and look for new ways to reach students, an additional AWS region will help support that growth,” said Prakash Ramachandran, chief technology officer, BYJU’S, an active AWS customer. Other clients in India include Ola, Oyo, Dream11, Axis Bank and Freshworks.
Publication: Business Standard
WFH rules will allow tech cos to tap new talent poolsedit
The government’s radical deregulation of what are called other service providers (OSPs) is expected to provide a big boost to the $40-billion BPM (business process management) industry, including the call centre business. IT/BPM industry body Nasscom’s president Debjani Ghosh described it as “a game-changing reform”. Nasscom said the new guidelines will sharply reduce the compliance burden for BPM companies. Tiger Tyagarajan, CEO of Genpact, one of India’s biggest BPM companies, said the simplification of the OSP regulations opens doors for geographic diversity of talent and increased employment options for many.
Publication: The Times of India
How Custom PC Gaming Builds Found a Fresh Audience in India During the Pandemicedit
In 2016, Naman Gupta visited New Delhi’s Nehru Place Market to put together a custom gaming PC. What he found was a bunch of stores that were willing to handover lists of products to pick from, but couldn’t help him in figuring out what parts would work together best, or what alternatives to go for if the parts he wanted weren’t available. For gaming enthusiasts — a growing tribe in India, albeit still a niche — this wasn’t a new experience. But a frustrated Gupta took a step that many thought was strange — he decided to set up a store himself, from his own home.
Publication: Gadgets 360
Indian data centre market to touch $5bn by 2025: Crisiledit
As digital adoption grows amid the pandemic across the spectrum, the data centre industry in India is likely to touch $1.2 billion in the fiscal 2020 and is expected to log a rapid 25-30 per cent compound annual growth rate CAGR to reach $4.5-$5 billion by fiscal 2025, a new report said on Monday. The Indian data centre industry, which accounts for 1-2 per cent of the global pie, is estimated to have clocked a modest CAGR of 15-20% since fiscal 2016 to touch $1billion in fiscal 2019, according to a Crisil Research report.
Publication: Express Computers
Cloud may Take a while to be the Rainmaker for IT Firmsedit
In fact, cloud-related revenues for companies like Infosys and TCS are only expected to grow gradually by financial year 2022 rather than in the second half of the ongoing fiscal year, they said. Hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon Web Services have downgraded their cloud business prospects to a ‘mixed bag’ status and no cloud provider has reported a growth spurt in the nine months ended September 30.
Publication: The Economic Times
Computing trends: The bedrock of modern data centresedit
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 digitalisation journey was a difficult decision due to factors such as financial resources, IT readiness, etc. However, as organisations across the board tried to stay competitive, they realised that IT is the essential backbone.
Publication: Financial Express
Why fewer chips say ‘Made in the U.S.A.’edit
In 1990, the U.S. and Europe produced more than three-quarters of the world’s semiconductors. Now, they produce less than a quarter. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China have risen to squeeze out the U.S. and Europe. And China is on pace to become the world’s largest chip producer by 2030.
Publication: Livemint
AI will replace human decision-making: HDFC Life COOedit
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly finding widespread use in the insurance industry. It has transformed insurance purchase and customer servicing. BusinessLine caught up virtually with Parvez Mulla, Chief Operating Officer, HDFC Life, to understand how this life insurance biggie has adopted AI and other digital tech trends. Excerpts:
Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine
More than 60% of Indian organisations plan to leverage cloud technology: IDC surveyedit
The pandemic has led to the mainstreaming of cloud computing technology. More than 60% of India’s business organizations plan to leverage cloud platforms for digital innovation, a Covid-19 impact survey by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has found. As building digital IT infrastructure to support resilient operations becomes a key priority, organizations in India are re-strategizing their IT spending plans and accelerating investment in cloud infrastructure.
Publication: The Times of India
Data centre industry to see USD 5 billion investment by 2025 on data localisation, higher digitisationedit
Data centers, which have seen massive growth on the back of data localization diktats and the pandemic, will witness USD 5 billion in investments till March 2025 and a threefold increase in capacity, a report said on Monday. The overall capacity, which is measured by the amount of power they consume, stood at 360 MW as of March 2020, and the same is expected to surge to 1,100-1,200 MW by the end of March 2025 after the investments of up to USD 5 billion, the report by the research arm of rating agency Crisil said.
Publication: CNBC TV 18
HCL partners with Green Datacenter to help organisations accelerate digital transformationedit
HCL Technologies (HCL), today announced a new strategic partnership with Green Datacenter (Green), one of the providers of data center services in Switzerland. With the DACH region being of strategic importance to HCL, this collaboration will help organizations adopt cloud technologies and improve client outcomes. Offering an end-to-end IT services portfolio, organizations will be strategically positioned to create new market value, differentiation and revenues, adhering to Switzerland’s stringent data privacy requirements.
Publication: ET CIO
Snapdragon 875 likely to be 25% faster than predecessoredit
Chipmaker Qualcomms next-gen flagship mobile processor the Snapdragon 875 will reportedly be 25 per cent faster than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 865/865+. According to AnTuTu benchmark score, the upcoming chipset notched up more than 847,000 points as opposed to the 663,000 scored by its predecessor, reports GSMArena. AnTuTu benchmark is a benchmarking tool for Android smartphones and tablets, that lets you check the performance of your device. For comparison, the iPhone 12 scored 565,000. While the Kirin 9000 and Exynos 1080 posted scores of 696,000 and 693,000, respectively
Publication: ET Telecom
Apple may launch first ARM-based PCs on 10 Novedit
Technology giant, Apple, might be launching its first ARM-based Mac computers on November 10. The company sent out invites to media and bloggers today, inviting them to an event on that date, titled “One More Thing”. Long time Apple followers would know that the company has used the “One More Thing” tagline for its newest products in the past.
Publication: Livemint
Chip-making a big opportunity for Indiaedit
“While multicore chips is one of the alternatives to get faster processing, there is also a limit on how many cores you can put inside a chip,” says Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys, and also an angel investor. “India can play a role there and on the fab side, you need to track the new materials and new technologies that are coming, and see whether you can take a lead there.”
Publication: Business Standard
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 Is Now Available for Purchase in India, SEP Set at Rs 45,999 (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card, unveiled last month by the US chipmaker, is now available for purchase in India. The Radeon RX 6800 is part of the Radeon RX 6000 series, which includes the AMD Radeon RX 6800, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. While pricing for the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT has yet to be announced, the AMD Radeon RX 6800’s suggested e-commerce price (SEP) has been announced at Rs 45,999 in India (excluding GST) .
Publication: News Tube
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