February 2, 2021

AMD specific news

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT could offer 1440p gaming with 12GB GDDR6 memoryedit

AMD confirmed at CES 2021 that they would introduce more mainstream RDNA 2 graphics cards including the Radeon RX 6700 XT in the first half of this year.

Publication: TechnoSports

In 2020, China Generated More Revenue for AMD than the USedit

China became AMD’s largest customer base for the first time in 2020, accounting for 23.9% of its overall revenue, just edging past the US which brought in 23.5% of the company’s revenue.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD brand mentions

Intel Core i9-11900K Outshines Ryzen 5950X In CPU Performance: Most Powerful Desktop CPU?edit

Intel is all set to launch two high-performance desktop CPUs — the Intel Core i7-11700K and the Intel Core i9-11900K in Q1 2021. It now looks like the company is extensively testing the performance of these two CPUs across various benchmark platforms, and the Core i9-11900K has emerged as the fastest desktop CPU ever.

Publication: GizBot

PS5 Vs Xbox Series X: Clash Of The Titans!edit

Both consoles run on a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU (8 cores) and an RDNA 2 GPU with dedicated ray tracing. The PS5 doesn’t have locked clock speeds for the CPU and GPU like the Series X. The PS5 will also use something called Smart Delivery which is an AMD technology for its mobile chips where a reduction in power is smartly optimized between the CPU and the GPU, based on the workload.

Publication: Digit

Intel Core i9-11900K CPU becomes the fastest single-threaded chip on Passmark, performs 7% faster than the fastest AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’edit

Intel Core i9-11900K rocket Lake processor appeared in the Passmark CPU benchmark database and scored the highest single-threaded performance among all desktop processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel Outside: How The Chip Giant Lost Its Edgeedit

Intel’s inflexibility with their design and manufacturing strategies has cost them dearly.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

Competition in news

Touchscreen laptop at just ~ Rs 65,000! Asus Vivobook Flip 14 Review- | TP470EAedit

Asus Vivobook Flip 14 comes with Intel Core i5-1135G7 11th Gen, 14″ FHD Touchscreen, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Intel Iris Xᵉ Graphics!

Publication: Dhananjay Bhosale

NVIDIA’s upcoming Ampere based GA106 GPU leakededit

The graphics giant NVIDIA is planning to brings next big GPU to market in the form of GA106 GPU and much like the G104 GPU, which we see on the new RTX 30-series GPUs, the image of it is leaked by none other than Videocardz.

Publication: TechnoSports

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 Laptop GPU Gaming Performance Tested on MSI GS66 STEALTHedit

Nvidia announced the RTX 30-series laptop GPUs only a month ago at CES and we have already gotten our hands on a unit. Meet the MSI GS66 Stealth 2021 edition, powered by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, which also comes with a 15.6-inch 1440p display with a refresh rate of 240Hz.

Publication: Digit

Global baseband revenue hits $7.1billion in Q3 2020: Reportedit

Qualcomm, MediaTek, HiSilicon, Samsung LSI and Intel captured the top-five cellular baseband revenue share spots in Q3 2020, according to the report by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

Publication: Telangana Today

Union Budget 2021: How heads of technology companies in India rate itedit

Prakash Mallya, Vice President and Managing Director, Intel India At a time of great uncertainty, the first ever paperless Union Budget 2021 stood out for its unremitting focus on economic recovery through higher spending and inclusive growth opportunities.

 

Publication: Gadgets Now

Rs 50,000 cr allocation to NRF will spur innovation: Expertsedit

“The allocation of Rs. 50,000 crores over the next five years through the National Research Foundation to develop India’s potential as a global innovation hub is particularly exciting,” Prakash Mallya, Vice President and Managing Director — Sales, Marketing and Communications Group, Intel India, said in a statement.

Publication: Business Standard

Global Chip Sales Rose 6.5 Percent in 2020 After Year-End Rush: Reportedit

The increase is credited to high-end memory chips used in applications such as data centers run by the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Publication: Gadgets 360

Intel Core i9-11900K Outshines Ryzen 5950X In CPU Performance: Most Powerful Desktop CPU?edit

Intel is all set to launch two high-performance desktop CPUs — the Intel Core i7-11700K and the Intel Core i9-11900K in Q1 2021. It now looks like the company is extensively testing the performance of these two CPUs across various benchmark platforms, and the Core i9-11900K has emerged as the fastest desktop CPU ever.

Publication: GizBot

NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service enables M1 Mac supportedit

Gaming on Macs was pretty much a source of memes for the longest time, but that is about to change with Apple’s new M1 chips. NVIDIA’s game streaming service GeForce NOW has just added native support for the M1 silicon-based Macs.

Publication: NewsBytes

Samsung Exynos 2100 makes a new record, defeats Snapdragon 888edit

The South Korean giant’s new 5nm based Exynos 2100 has changed the reputation of the company, showing how capable it is in making a powerful SoC. Both the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 are in toe-to-toe to with each other and the new benchmark prove Samsung is ahead of Qualcomm this time.

Publication: TechnoSports

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU spotted on OpenCL benchmarkedit

NVIDIA has recently launched the RTX 3060 desktop GPU as well as the RTX 30-series mobile GPUs at the CES 2021. Now, a lot of gaming laptops will be adopting these new GPUs in the coming months and the first benchmark of this upcoming RTX 30-series GPU is out.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel Core i9-11900K CPU becomes the fastest single-threaded chip on Passmark, performs 7% faster than the fastest AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’edit

Intel Core i9-11900K rocket Lake processor appeared in the Passmark CPU benchmark database and scored the highest single-threaded performance among all desktop processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel Outside: How The Chip Giant Lost Its Edgeedit

Intel’s inflexibility with their design and manufacturing strategies has cost them dearly.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

14 Core/20 Thread Intel Alder Lake-P Mobile CPU Spotted with 24MB L3 Cacheedit

An Intel Alder Lake-P mobile CPU with 14 cores and 20 threads has been spotted for the first time on Geekbench 5. Similar to Sunny and Willow Cove, it features 32KB and 48KB of L1 and L2 cache per core, but the L3 cache is a massive 24MB, likely divided into two chunks for the Golden Cove (big) and Grace Mont (little) cores.

Publication: Hardware Times

Partner in news

Touchscreen laptop at just ~ Rs 65,000! Asus Vivobook Flip 14 Review- | TP470EAedit

Asus Vivobook Flip 14 comes with Intel Core i5-1135G7 11th Gen, 14″ FHD Touchscreen, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Intel Iris Xᵉ Graphics!

Publication: Dhananjay Bhosale

ASUS Just Made It Easier For Indian Gamers To Turn Professional With Its New Training Academyedit

Taiwanese company ASUS has set up its first academy for gamers who want to turn professional in esports. However, at the time the training academy programme is to be conducted digitally for upcoming gamers who are looking to turn professional.

Publication: MensXP

Nirmala Sitharaman reads out Budget 2021 from ‘Made in India’ tablet: All you need to knowedit

Sitharaman was holding in her hands what was assumed to be another ‘Bahi-khata’ covered in a red cloth. As a backup option, the Finance Ministry had a Made in India tablet of Acer company.

Publication: CNBC-TV18

IT leaders hail budget for creating digital infrastructureedit

Top IT industry leaders on Monday hailed the budget’s thrust on domestic manufacturing, incentivising digital transformation and helping Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Publication: The Hans India

Government proposal of Rs 7,000 crore PLI for IT hardware insignificant; at least Rs 20,000 crore needed: MAITedit

IT hardware makers urge the government to allocate Rs 20,000 crore under the production-linked incentive scheme, to boost manufacturing of personal computers, tablets and servers in the country.

Publication: Gadgets Now

Startups are the Bedrock of India’s Economic Revival Post Covid Crisis says Rajan Anandan on Closing Day of Resurgence TiEcon Delhi-NCRedit

Speaking on the association of Dell with startups, Venkat Sitaram, GM & GEO Head-South India Corporate Business- Dell Technologies said “We’ve built a framework called the smarter healthcare framework which addresses a bunch of transformative solutions including Multi Cloud, Healthy IT infrastructure, creating a Digital workplace, virtual & Personalized Health. We partner with innovators and have a Startup Partnership Program, we give access to our Centres of Excellence – for app testing & validation.

Publication: Silicon India

Global Chromebook market grows by over 4 times, HP leadsedit

Lenovo placed second in the Chromebook market, having managed to greatly ramp up production to hit 2.8 million units for a massive 1,766 per cent growth,” according to the report by market research firm Canalys.

Publication: Telangana Today

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 Laptop GPU Gaming Performance Tested on MSI GS66 STEALTHedit

Nvidia announced the RTX 30-series laptop GPUs only a month ago at CES and we have already gotten our hands on a unit. Meet the MSI GS66 Stealth 2021 edition, powered by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, which also comes with a 15.6-inch 1440p display with a refresh rate of 240Hz.

Publication: Digit

Union Budget 2021: How heads of technology companies in India rate itedit

Prakash Mallya, Vice President and Managing Director, Intel India At a time of great uncertainty, the first ever paperless Union Budget 2021 stood out for its unremitting focus on economic recovery through higher spending and inclusive growth opportunities.

 

Publication: Gadgets Now

NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service enables M1 Mac supportedit

Gaming on Macs was pretty much a source of memes for the longest time, but that is about to change with Apple’s new M1 chips. NVIDIA’s game streaming service GeForce NOW has just added native support for the M1 silicon-based Macs.

Publication: NewsBytes

PS5 Vs Xbox Series X: Clash Of The Titans!edit

Both consoles run on a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU (8 cores) and an RDNA 2 GPU with dedicated ray tracing. The PS5 doesn’t have locked clock speeds for the CPU and GPU like the Series X. The PS5 will also use something called Smart Delivery which is an AMD technology for its mobile chips where a reduction in power is smartly optimized between the CPU and the GPU, based on the workload.

Publication: Digit

Industry news

Chip sales rose 6.5% globally in 2020 after year-end rush: Reportedit

Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5% overall in 2020, as a recovery during the last three months of the year helped offset a sharp dropoff in March and April, when pandemic stay-home orders rolled out around the world.

Publication: Gadgets Now

Global baseband revenue hits $7.1billion in Q3 2020: Reportedit

Qualcomm, MediaTek, HiSilicon, Samsung LSI and Intel captured the top-five cellular baseband revenue share spots in Q3 2020, according to the report by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

Publication: Telangana Today

Union Budget 2021: How heads of technology companies in India rate itedit

Prakash Mallya, Vice President and Managing Director, Intel India At a time of great uncertainty, the first ever paperless Union Budget 2021 stood out for its unremitting focus on economic recovery through higher spending and inclusive growth opportunities.

 

Publication: Gadgets Now

Rs 50,000 cr allocation to NRF will spur innovation: Expertsedit

“The allocation of Rs. 50,000 crores over the next five years through the National Research Foundation to develop India’s potential as a global innovation hub is particularly exciting,” Prakash Mallya, Vice President and Managing Director — Sales, Marketing and Communications Group, Intel India, said in a statement.

Publication: Business Standard

Global Chip Sales Rose 6.5 Percent in 2020 After Year-End Rush: Reportedit

The increase is credited to high-end memory chips used in applications such as data centers run by the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Publication: Gadgets 360

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