With Pat Gelsinger to helm Intel’s office from next month, we may soon see some changes in how the company operates. The future CEO is unhappy with how the company has fallen behind Apple in CPU technology, considering that the Cupertino Giant is relatively new in the field.

Publication: TechnoSports

According to reports from Oregonlive, Intel lured the VMware CEO, Patrick Gelsinger to the Blue side with a massive $116 million package which is nearly twice as much Bob Swan was paid in 2019 and thrice as much as his annual salary of $42 million at VMware.

Publication: Hardware Times

A few gaming benchmarks of the Rocket Lake-S flagship, the Core i9-11900K (Qualification sample, mind you) have surfaced, showing rather lackluster gaming performance compared to the existing 10th Gen Core i9-10900K.

Publication: Hardware Times

Multiple retailers have listed the pricing of Intel’s upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S lineup, with most of the newer processors priced roughly the same as their predecessors.

Publication: Hardware Times

The recent price cuts have brought this part down to just $400, making it more attractive than AMD’s newly launched Ryzen 7 5800X. Although the Zen 3 part is a bit faster in gaming workloads, the 10850K isn’t that far behind and a bit of memory and cache overclocking puts it right on par, if not faster than the new AMD chip.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel has announced the discontinuation of its Optane-based SSDs, ending the company’s several year-long stint in the high-end storage market. The company is ending the sales and production of all its consumer-grade Optane SSDs, namely the Memory M10, 800p, 900p as well as the 950p, with no new products in the pipeline.

Publication: Hardware Times

intel 11th Gen Desktop CPUs India 2021 | intel 11th Gen i9 11900K Rocket Lake S CPUs India 2021

Publication: Vimal Chintapatla

Nvidia recently revealed its GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards and the cards are a fresh bunch of entries that may remain in the market until May. But it seems that the green team executives are preparing to release even more graphics cards from the Ampere series.

Publication: TechnoSports

MSI didn’t seem to miss the opportunity to announce new products at the CES 2021 event and has revealed a bunch of laptops under its GE, GS, GP, and GF series that will be powered by Nvidia’s latest RTX 30 series graphics.

Publication: The Mobile Indian

The Responsible AI for Youth programme is jointly organized by Electronics, Information Technology Ministry of India and Intel.

Publication: The New Indian Express

The Predator Helios 300 is the latest that Acer has for PC gamers in India. Armed with the 10th Gen Intel i7-10750H processor, which was announced in April 2020, the Helios 300 laptop is targeted at serious gamers and content creators.

Publication: The Economic Times

If you imagine Intel as a giant restaurant chain, serving people all over the world with not only great food but also much needed fuel and sustenance, it wouldn’t be hard to picture Richard Uhlig as a masterchef tasked with discovering culinary breakthroughs and developing new recipes with a team of exceptionally talented chefs.

Publication: Indiatimes

Asus’ new VivoBook Flip 14 is an odd laptop, but odd in the right way. It isn’t hard to see why the VivoBook Flip 14 is an unusual release from Asus. The VivoBook Flip 14 isn’t a flagship laptop but isn’t any less of a premium experience.

Publication: The Indian Express

The action – likely the last against Huawei Technologies under Republican President Donald Trump – is the latest in a long-running effort to weaken the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, which Washington sees as a national security threat.

Publication: ET Telecom

Apple has been called many things by rival companies in the past. But a lifestyle company? Well, that’s a first and it can be attributed to Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger.

Publication: Gadgets Now

While Intel welcomes competition from Apple, Hallford said she still strongly believes that larger enterprises and businesses will always favour Intel-powered systems, because of the cost factor and the ease of getting things done.

Publication: The Indian Express

In case you missed them, here are the biggest developments from the world of tech from the week ending January 15.

Publication: Moneycontrol

MSI’s Resizable-BAR (AMD Smart Access Memory) is a well-known technology that takes CPU performance to the next level. It was confirmed earlier that the manufacturer is bringing the support of Resizable-BAR to AMD’s Threadripper platform.

Publication: TechnoSports

Gaming laptops are getting faster across the board at CES 2021.

Publication: Moneycontrol

The latest GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD have been nigh impossible to purchase from launch day itself. The precious few cards available were quickly lapped up by scalpers using bots and re-listed on eBay for a staggering premium.

Publication: Newsbytes

The Vaio E15 and Vaio SE14 thin and light laptops have officially launched in India marking the comeback of the erstwhile brand in India. Vaio exited the Indian market with Sony back in 2014, but this time it is backed by Hong-Kong based Nexstgo. As a part of its comeback, the company has introduced two new laptops, E15 and SE14 powered by AMD Ryzen and Intel processors respectively.

Publication: Digit