AMD specific news
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 brand mentions
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
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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
Partner in news
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
Industry news
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
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