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ASRock Brings Ryzen 5000 Support to X370 Taichi Boards along with Renoir AM4edit
ASRock has gone ahead and released a BIOS supporting the Ryzen 5000 processors on its X370 Taichi motherboard. Although this is an alpha release, keep in mind that official support for the 300-series boards was never promised for Vermeer. The BIOS version P6.11 that supports the new Zen 3 chips was released yesterday. Considering the alpha status, it’s likely going to contain bugs and/or instabilities and as such, isn’t recommended for permanent use just yet.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Big Navi Reference Cards are Reportedly Being Discontinued (Update)edit
According to a report from French outlet, Cowcotland, AMD’s Big Navi reference cards are already being discontinued and future shipments of all three GPUs will come from the AIB partners. Even the Radeon RX 6900 XT that was just released yesterday won’t be getting any further shipments of the reference model. The outlet further reports that French retailers were generally getting less than 50 units of the RX 6900 XT, so you can basically consider it to be a collectors’ item.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit
NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1650 Super to address the shortcomings of the vanilla 1650. The Super was faster than both the RX 570 as well as the GTX 1060. AMD’s answer was the Radeon RX 5500 XT. Initially, the 8GB variant was priced the same as the GeForce GTX 1660, making it a hard pass, while the 4GB model costed the same as the GTX 1650 Super. Recently, however, AMD has started phasing out the latter in favor of the former with reduced pricing.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT India Price Revealed At Almost Half The Cost Of NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, the most powerful graphics card in Big Navi GPU lineup, has finally got a price tag in India. Following the India price reveals of the RX 6800 and the 6800 XT, AMD has revealed the pricing of the 6900 XT in India.
Publication: Daily Hunt
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT India Price Revealed At Almost Half The Cost Of NVIDIA’s RTX 3090edit
The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, the most powerful graphics card in Big Navi GPU lineup, has finally got a price tag in India. Following the India price reveals of the RX 6800 and the 6800 XT, AMD has revealed the pricing of the 6900 XT in India.
Publication: Techquilla
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NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit
NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1650 Super to address the shortcomings of the vanilla 1650. The Super was faster than both the RX 570 as well as the GTX 1060. AMD’s answer was the Radeon RX 5500 XT. Initially, the 8GB variant was priced the same as the GeForce GTX 1660, making it a hard pass, while the 4GB model costed the same as the GTX 1650 Super. Recently, however, AMD has started phasing out the latter in favor of the former with reduced pricing.
Publication: Hardware Times
HP EliteBook 830 G8 and 840 G8 upgraded to Intel’s Tiger Lake platformedit
HP has been upgraded its already existing notebooks to meet Intel’s Evo platform criteria. Recently, the company’s HP EliteBook 830 G8 and EliteBook 840 G8 both received a host of new specs that came with its adoption of intel’s 11th gen processors—expected to start its sale at the end of this month, Intel Tiger Lake CPUs power the products.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lenovo Legion 7i (2020) review: A treat for gamersedit
The Lenovo Legion 7i for 2020 offers more than enough power for gaming and content creators. It is easily one of the best mobile power stations you can buy currently.
Publication: BGR
Apple MacBook Air (M1) reviewedit
With prior warning, Apple had primed us for a serious shakedown that would realign the ultrabook pyramid. They weren’t wrong in doing so because right on cue for the holiday season, they have dropped their own silicon on the PC industry like a nuke from hell. The Apple M1 chip, based on ARM, has found its way in three new devices – the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13 and the Mac Mini.
Publication: Stuff India
Apple Silicon M2 With Up To 32 Cores Expected To Power Future Macsedit
It looks like Apple is developing multiple ARM CPUs for laptops and desktops. The Apple Silicon M1 is the first ARM laptop CPU from the company, which outperformed the competition. On top of that, the company is also said to be working on the Apple Silicon M1X for the high-end MacBooks. Publication: Gizbot
Raja Koduri teases Intel’s upcoming Xe HP GPUsedit
Intel’s Senior Vice President, GM, Intel Architecture, Graphics, and Software take his Twitter account this time to showcase its achievement when it comes to computer graphics. In his tweet, we see both Intel Xe-HP & Xe-LP GPUs side by side as they are all set to come in 2021.
Publication: TechnoSports
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ASRock Brings Ryzen 5000 Support to X370 Taichi Boards along with Renoir AM4edit
ASRock has gone ahead and released a BIOS supporting the Ryzen 5000 processors on its X370 Taichi motherboard. Although this is an alpha release, keep in mind that official support for the 300-series boards was never promised for Vermeer. The BIOS version P6.11 that supports the new Zen 3 chips was released yesterday. Considering the alpha status, it’s likely going to contain bugs and/or instabilities and as such, isn’t recommended for permanent use just yet.
Publication: Hardware Times
HP EliteBook 830 G8 and 840 G8 upgraded to Intel’s Tiger Lake platformedit
HP has been upgraded its already existing notebooks to meet Intel’s Evo platform criteria. Recently, the company’s HP EliteBook 830 G8 and EliteBook 840 G8 both received a host of new specs that came with its adoption of intel’s 11th gen processors—expected to start its sale at the end of this month, Intel Tiger Lake CPUs power the products.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lenovo Legion 7i (2020) review: A treat for gamersedit
The Lenovo Legion 7i for 2020 offers more than enough power for gaming and content creators. It is easily one of the best mobile power stations you can buy currently.
Publication: BGR
Dell lost storage market share in Q3 as Huawei gainsedit
Dell Technologies’ storage systems share dropped to 28.8 percent in Q3 2020 from 30.2 percent during the third quarter of 2019, the latest IDC report has revealed.
Publication: Telecom Lead
Industry news
Lenovo Data Center Group Delivers New Data Management Solutionsedit
Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announces new end-to-end data management solutions allowing customers of all sizes to harness data more securely and efficiently, from edge to core to cloud, with a single set of tools and capabilities for a smarter way forward.
Publication: India Education Diary
India sees spike in AI adoption in 2020: PwCedit
India witnessed the highest increase in the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven technologies in 2020 compared with the U.S., U.K. and Japan, said PwC India. Over 90% of Indian enterprises surveyed by PwC are implementing or planning to invest in AI solutions or technologies to address business challenges brought in by the pandemic, as per the consulting firm.
Publication: The Hindu
Cyberpunk 2077: Here’s what you need to know about the most hyped game of 2020edit
Cyberpunk 2077 is set to launch on December 10 globally with some regions getting access to it on December 9. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of making the purchase.
Publication: IndiaTV News
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