March 11, 2021

AMD specific news

AMD CPU Sales Grow by Over 50% at Puget Systems in Less than 2 Yearsedit

As per details provided by professional workstation builder, Puget Systems, AMD’s sales at the SI have grown by over 50% in just over a year and a half. Going back to 2017, Team Red had been completely eradicated by Intel’s robust offerings, with a full 100% share. With the launch of the Ryzen processors in late 2017, AMD started making small yet steady gains, reaching the 10% mark by 2019.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Falls to Retail Price Following the Ryzen 7 5800Xedit

Starting from the last week of February, the best gaming CPU on the market, AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X has been available at its official MSRP of $449, easing concerns of gaming facing one of the worst component shortages in history. If you’re looking to build a high-end PC for both gaming and content creation workloads, then the 5800X is the sweet spot, offering higher single-threaded as well as multi-threaded performance compared to rival Intel parts.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD’s Discrete Market Share Fell by 14% in 2020edit

AMD may have been excelling in the CPU market over the years, but its GPUs haven’t been doing all that well, with the company progressively losing share to NVIDIA in the discrete graphics card market. As per figures cobbled together by JPR, AMD was sitting at a comfortable 31% of the total AIB share at the end of 2019. However, that’s where things started going in NVIDIA’s direction. AMD lost around 14% of the market share in the next 12 months, with NVIDIA ramping up its presence to over 80% by the end of 2020.

Publication: Hardware Times

Competition in news

NVIDIA Unveils AI Enterprise Software Suite to Help Every Industry Unlock the Power of AIedit

NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA® AI Enterprise, a comprehensive software suite of enterprise-grade AI tools and frameworks optimized, certified and supported by NVIDIA, exclusively with VMware vSphere 7 Update 2, separately announced today.

Publication: CXO Today

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Host AI Pioneers YoshuaBengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, and Others, at GTC21edit

Online Conference to Feature Jensen Huang Keynote and 1,300 Talks from Leaders in Data Center, Networking, Graphics and Autonomous Vehicles Bangalore, Karnataka, India Business Wire India NVIDIA today announced that its CEO and founder Jensen Huang will host renowned AI pioneers YoshuaBengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun at the companys upcoming technology conference, GTC21, running April 12-16.

Publication: Devdiscourse

Intel 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon Platinum 8352S & 8352Y Core CPU Benchmarks has been revealededit

The new Intel 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU benchmarks have now been revealed within the SiSoftware Sandra database, and we can say that the performance has improved a little bit, bringing the chips to close the EPYC Rome competitors of AMD.

Publication: TechnoSports

Nvidia hits new highs in GPU sales as Ampere dominates AMD Big Naviedit

Nvidia’s graphics cards are more dominant than they’ve ever been in recent years in the discrete GPU market, going by some freshly released figures. This number crunching comes from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), an analytics firm that regularly chimes in with GPU stats, and this latest report provides some eye-opening stats for the discrete desktop market.

Publication: News Break

Partner in news

ASUS ROG Strix G17 with up to AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD & GeForce RTX 3070 makes its way to Amazonedit

ASUS launched a bunch of gaming laptops as usual at the CES 2021, and now, a bunch of them are making their way to the shelves but with limited stocks. AMD’s Ryzen 5000H gaming processors power these beefier gaming laptops along with NVIDIA’s RTX 30-series mobile GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

Lenovo Launches Lenovo Device Intelligence, a new SaaS tool in India for Smarter PC Fleet Managementedit

Lenovo, a global technology provider, today announced the launch of Lenovo Device Intelligence, a latest Software as a Service (SaaS) tool, among its wide range of services and offerings in India. The Lenovo Device Intelligence is a cloud-based SaaS offering capable of assisting in not only diagnosing PC issues, but also in predicting potential system failures before they occur.

Publication: The CSR Journal

Dell adds on hybrid cloud management to its client computing softwareedit

In a bid to support the work from home anywhere environment, Dell has released an updated version of its Dell Hybrid Client app that allows secure access to applications and data wherever they are located.

Publication: Tech Radar India

ASUS TUF Dash F15 Gaming Laptop Launched in India, Check Detailsedit

Taiwanese tech giant Asus on Tuesday, 9 March, announced the expansion of its TUF laptop series in India. Asus TUF Dash F15 was revealed globally during a virtual conference at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021.

 Publication: The Quint

Industry news

Taiwan govt accuses semiconductor recruiters of illegally poaching talent for Chinese company, raids their officesedit

The raid was conducted at the offices of WiseCore Technology and IC Link, recruitment companies that have headhunted hundreds of chip experts over the past three years through a joint venture with a mainland Chinese chip maker, the prosecutors’ office in the New Taipei district said on Tuesday

Publication: ANI News

 

Microsoft Finalises Purchase Of Bethesda Softworks; PC And Xbox Exclusive Games Coming Upedit

Microsoft, the makers of Xbox, have finally confirmed their purchase of Bethesda studios after the EU gave them permission. New exclusive game titles for Xbox.

Publication: Republic World

Qualcomm Will Challenge Apple’s M1 Silicon Chip With The New Snapdragon 8cx Processor!edit

Qualcomm is working on a next-generation Snapdragon 8cx chipset designed mainly for Windows notebooks and 2-in-1 devices. The Qualcomm processor can usually handle a light workload. But the report says that it is targeting to make more powerful high-end SoCs for laptops running on Windows. Spotted in import-export databases with the internal model number SC8280. It seems that Qualcomm will try its best to compete with AMD, Intel and Apple’s proprietary M1 silicon chips since the chipset is being tested in at least two variants.

Publication: Trak.in

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