AMD specific news
Lenovo Legion 5 powered by AMD Ryzen 5 launched in India: Everything you need to know (PROACTIVE)edit
Lenovo has launched its latest gaming laptop, the Legion 5. It is powered by the 7nm AMD Ryzen 5 4600H-Series mobile processor paired with up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti GPU. It is available in the sole Phantom Black colour option and is priced at Rs 75,990 for the base variant. The device is currently available on Lenovo.com and Lenovo Exclusive Stores, and will soon be made available across other online partner platforms, and retail stores.
Publication: Indian Express
AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su Ranked #2 on Fortune’s List of Top Businessperson for 2020; Ahead of NVIDIA CEOedit
AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su has been ranked #2 on Fortune’s list of top businessperson for the year 2020, right ahead of rival NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang. The list was lead by SpaceX and Telsa CEO, Elon Musk, no surprise considering the string of recent successes with SpaceX launches.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Sold 7x More CPUs than Intel at MF Germany: Approx 5,000 Zen 3 Chipsedit
As per the latest sales figures from Mindfactory (Germany), AMD sold seven times more CPUs than Intel this month. To put this into perspective, only 5,000 Intel parts were purchased in the time period while AMD sold a whopping 35,000 chips, including 5,000 of the newly launched Ryzen 5000 CPUs.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT gets up to 16% Performance Boost w/ SAM on an Intel Platform (PROACTIVE)edit
Recently, ASUS enabled Re-Sizable BAR, marketed as “Smart Memory Access” or simply SAM on its Intel Z490 motherboards. This technology is part of the PCIe 3.0 spec and allows for a wider interconnect between the VRAM buffer and the CPU, improving performance in bandwidth starved situations:
Publication: Hardware Times
New Amazon Web Services Cloud Instance is powered by AMD EPYC Processors and Radeon Pro GPUs (PROACTIVE)edit
Both the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU combo powering the new Amazon EC2 G4ad Instance gives up to 40% better graphics performance. Indeed this is a great 7nm combo for AMD CPUs and GPUs. So with this new instance, AMD is powering 8 Amazon EC2 instance families across 20 global AWS Regions.
Publication: TechnoSports
All AMD PC Featuring 3700X and 5700XT Overview (PROACTIVE)edit
All in all, the 3700x and the 5700XT is a fantastic combination for gamers who are looking to produce content of their own and want to do so within a strict budget As the 3700X costs 28,000 Indian Rupees and the 5700XT costs 36,000 Indian Rupees. This pairing is quite powerful and great value for money given how well it performs in productivity-related tasks as well as in gaming benchmarks.
Publication: TechGoggles
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 performance benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS is insane! (PROACTIVE)edit
Having used a Ryzen 4000U series powered VivoBook Flip 14 laptop as a daily driver, I always wanted to test a Ryzen 4000H APU, and I did get to test the best one. The Ryzen 9 4900HS is an 8 core, 16 threaded processor with 3.0GHz base clock speed and up to 4.3GHz boost clock speed, drawing a lower 35W TDP.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop with AMD Ryzen 4000H processor launched, price starts at Rs 75,990 (PROACTIVE)edit
Lenovo has launched the Legion 5 gaming laptop in India. This laptop is one of the anticipated ones because it brings onboard the AMD Ryzen 4000H processor. The Legion 5 is a tweaked version of the Legion 5i that comes with 10th-generation Intel Core processors and was launched a few months back in India. The Lenovo Legion 5 comes with several high-grade hardware meant for premium gaming, such as a 120Hz screen and a backlit keyboard.
Publication: India Today
Lenovo Legion 5 with AMD Ryzen 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650Ti, launched in India for Rs 75,990 (PROACTIVE)edit
The laptop underneath has AMD Ryzen TM 5 4600H mobile processor with six cores functioning. And, then there’s graphics support featuring NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650ti 4GB DDR6. Lenovo also hops in its Legion Coldfront 2.0 tech for thermal management. The storage options include up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM along with up to 1TB SSD and 1TB HDD.
Publication: DailyHunt
AMD RX 6900 XT custom graphics cards could soon arrive to unlock full potential of Big Naviedit
AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT goes on sale imminently, but that’s the reference board – although there’s now word on when third-party custom variants of this Big Navi graphics card might be available, or a rumor at least. Whereas the RX 6800 series cards launched in November swiftly witnessed the arrival of third-party versions from different manufacturers – or at least, a dribble of such products, but that’s another story – the Big Navi flagship which lands on December 8 is only coming as a reference board from AMD, with no mention of other variants thus far.
Publication: Gadget Page
Competition in news
Intel Rocket Lake CPU Benchmark leaked, has 8 Cores and 16 threadsedit
Intel’s Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPU benchmark is now leaked on the internet; it shows the CPU performance with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, which is based on a 7nm chip of Zen 3 core architecture. @TUM_APISAK revealed the recent benchmark about the chip running on an HP Omen OEM desktop PC, which now, clearly indicates that partners and OEMs have early access to the Rocket Lake. It is expected to launch in early 2021.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel’s Habana Labs starts to chip away at Nvidia in cloud with AWS dealedit
Intel Corp’s Habana Labs business said on Wednesday it would take time to gain market share from Nvida in cloud and data centre computing but its deal this week with Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a solid first step. Intel in December bought Israel-based artificial intelligence firm Habana for about $2 billion, seeking to expand its AI portfolio to bolster its data-centre business.
Publication: ET Telecom
Alienware m15 R3 Review: A thin and light gaming powerhouse that runs hot under pressureedit
The m15 R3 model Dell sent us came with a 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10750H processor paired with an Nvidia RTX 2070 DDR6 8GB GPU. The notebook can also be configured with up to 32GB of RAM and up to a 1TB PCIe M.2 SSD. However, you can go all out with an Intel Core i9-10980HK and an Nvidia RTX 2080 Super Max-Q GPU with 8GB of VRAM. So, how did the laptop do in real-world tests, well, let’s find out.
Publication: Moneycontrol
HP Envy 15 Is A Classy, Premium Laptop That Is Built For Creators Who Can Afford Itedit
In terms of internal hardware, the HP Envy 15 sports a great combination of processor, memory, graphics and storage — the foundational building blocks of any PC. There’s an Intel Core i7-10750H chip clocked at 2.6 GHz in there with 16 gigs of RAM, a lightning quick 1 TB nVME Samsung SSD and Nvidia GeForce 1660Ti graphics with 6GB GDDR6 memory paired with Intel onboard UHD graphics.
Publication: India Times
Gaming laptops that make performance issues a thing of the pastedit
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In fact, Intel keeps collaborating with popular game studios to optimize in-game experiences. One such collaboration has taken place between Intel and Square Enix’s Crystal Dynamics where Intel helped develop some PC-exclusive Marvel’s Avengers graphics improvements. By optimizing tasks more suited to CPU-based computation, like the physics engine, it allows for more GPU headroom for other tasks.
Publication: India Today
AMD Sold 7x More CPUs than Intel at MF Germany: Approx 5,000 Zen 3 Chipsedit
As per the latest sales figures from Mindfactory (Germany), AMD sold seven times more CPUs than Intel this month. To put this into perspective, only 5,000 Intel parts were purchased in the time period while AMD sold a whopping 35,000 chips, including 5,000 of the newly launched Ryzen 5000 CPUs.
Publication: Hardware Times
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Lenovo Legion 5 powered by AMD Ryzen 5 launched in India: Everything you need to know (PROACTIVE)edit
Lenovo has launched its latest gaming laptop, the Legion 5. It is powered by the 7nm AMD Ryzen 5 4600H-Series mobile processor paired with up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti GPU. It is available in the sole Phantom Black colour option and is priced at Rs 75,990 for the base variant. The device is currently available on Lenovo.com and Lenovo Exclusive Stores, and will soon be made available across other online partner platforms, and retail stores.
Publication: Indian Express
Alienware m15 R3 Review: A thin and light gaming powerhouse that runs hot under pressureedit
The m15 R3 model Dell sent us came with a 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10750H processor paired with an Nvidia RTX 2070 DDR6 8GB GPU. The notebook can also be configured with up to 32GB of RAM and up to a 1TB PCIe M.2 SSD. However, you can go all out with an Intel Core i9-10980HK and an Nvidia RTX 2080 Super Max-Q GPU with 8GB of VRAM. So, how did the laptop do in real-world tests, well, let’s find out.
Publication: Moneycontrol
HP Envy 15 Is A Classy, Premium Laptop That Is Built For Creators Who Can Afford Itedit
In terms of internal hardware, the HP Envy 15 sports a great combination of processor, memory, graphics and storage — the foundational building blocks of any PC. There’s an Intel Core i7-10750H chip clocked at 2.6 GHz in there with 16 gigs of RAM, a lightning quick 1 TB nVME Samsung SSD and Nvidia GeForce 1660Ti graphics with 6GB GDDR6 memory paired with Intel onboard UHD graphics.
Publication: India Times
New Amazon Web Services Cloud Instance is powered by AMD EPYC Processors and Radeon Pro GPUs (PROACTIVE)edit
Both the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Radeon™ Pro GPU combo powering the new Amazon EC2 G4ad Instance gives up to 40% better graphics performance. Indeed this is a great 7nm combo for AMD CPUs and GPUs. So with this new instance, AMD is powering 8 Amazon EC2 instance families across 20 global AWS Regions.
Publication: TechnoSports
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 performance benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS is insane! (PROACTIVE)edit
Having used a Ryzen 4000U series powered VivoBook Flip 14 laptop as a daily driver, I always wanted to test a Ryzen 4000H APU, and I did get to test the best one. The Ryzen 9 4900HS is an 8 core, 16 threaded processor with 3.0GHz base clock speed and up to 4.3GHz boost clock speed, drawing a lower 35W TDP.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop with AMD Ryzen 4000H processor launched, price starts at Rs 75,990 (PROACTIVE)edit
Lenovo has launched the Legion 5 gaming laptop in India. This laptop is one of the anticipated ones because it brings onboard the AMD Ryzen 4000H processor. The Legion 5 is a tweaked version of the Legion 5i that comes with 10th-generation Intel Core processors and was launched a few months back in India. The Lenovo Legion 5 comes with several high-grade hardware meant for premium gaming, such as a 120Hz screen and a backlit keyboard.
Publication: India Today
Lenovo Legion 5 with AMD Ryzen 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650Ti, launched in India for Rs 75,990 (PROACTIVE)edit
The laptop underneath has AMD Ryzen TM 5 4600H mobile processor with six cores functioning. And, then there’s graphics support featuring NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650ti 4GB DDR6. Lenovo also hops in its Legion Coldfront 2.0 tech for thermal management. The storage options include up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM along with up to 1TB SSD and 1TB HDD.
Publication: DailyHunt
Industry news
Registrations open for the first all-digital CES 2021edit
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® today announced that registration is now open for the first-ever, all-digital CES® 2021 – on track to become one of the largest digital events. The world’s most influential technology event will open its digital doors, Jan. 11-14, 2021, bringing the global tech community together for next-gen product announcements, press events and keynotes from industry visionaries. “We’ve fully reimagined the CES 2021 experience, creating a digital platform that will inspire, engage and fuel the future of the global tech industry,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA.
Publication: IT News Online
80% jump in Cloud spending since onset of the pandemicedit
The IT services industry will see huge growth opportunities going forward,but will have to focus on certain key things, including life long skilling of empolyees and a way to tap it, said Pravin Rao, chairman of Nasscom ans chief operating officer Infosys.
Publication: The Economic Times
AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su Ranked #2 on Fortune’s List of Top Businessperson for 2020; Ahead of NVIDIA CEOedit
AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su has been ranked #2 on Fortune’s list of top businessperson for the year 2020, right ahead of rival NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang. The list was lead by SpaceX and Telsa CEO, Elon Musk, no surprise considering the string of recent successes with SpaceX launches.
Publication: Hardware Times
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