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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 brand mentions
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
Competition in news
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
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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
Industry news
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
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