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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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