AMD specific news
AMD Ryzen 5000 PBO & Auto-Overclocking: 4.85GHz on the 5600X (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD introduced Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and Auto-overclocking with its 3rd Gen Ryzen processors to allow users to get a small performance boost without manually tweaking any of the more confusing BIOS settings. Although Auto-Overclocking (AutoOC) did improve performance by a small amount, PBO wasn’t really effective. With AMD’s Ryzen 5000 “Zen 3” processors, the CPUs’ boosting algorithm and clock residency have significantly improved, often showing higher than the marketed boost frequencies across most workloads.
Publication: Hardware Times
The demand for PCs was unprecedented in 2020: Vinay Sinha, MD – Sales, AMD India (PROACTIVE)edit
As per IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2020, global shipments grew 26.1% year over year to 91.6 million units.
Publication: Just Dial
Report: AMD to increase the supply of Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs by 20%edit
Due to the increase in demand for processors and GPUs, the world-leading semiconductor manufacturers are facing a shortage of manufacturing materials for their chips. As such, the supply has been reduced tremendously and the prices of the cards high skyrocketed.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X + Radeon RX 6900 XT = Absolute best from the Red team tested! (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD last year released two of its best products in terms of CPUs and GPUs – the 16 core Ryzen 9 5950X based on the latest Zen 3 architecture and the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU based on RDNA 2 architecture. So, we were fortunate enough to get these rare parts and test them for a prolonged amount of time.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 3070: Gaming Benchmarks and Overclocking Performance (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD recently launched its first midrange Navi 2x GPU in the form of the Radeon RX 6700 XT. With a price tag of $479, the GPU goes up against NVIDIA’s RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. While the former lacks the same grit in ray-tracing performance, it’s not a big deal (just yet). The additional VRAM on the 6700 XT is a major advantage, or at least that’s what AMD would have you believe. In this post, we compare the performance of the RX 6700 XT against the GeForce RTX 3070 across a dozen titles with a mini-segment dedicated to ray-tracing and overclocking performance.
Publication: Hardware Times
The demand for PCs was unprecedented in 2020 (PROACTIVE)edit
In enterprise, the adoption of AMD-powered servers also grew in the fourth quarter of 2020 as Dell, HPE and Lenovo secured new end customer wins with Fortune 1000 accounts across key verticals, including manufacturing, financial services, and automotive. In HPC, the number of AMD-powered supercomputers on the November 2020 top 500 list increased to 21 systems, including two of the top 10 and the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
Publication: Financial Express
AMD brand mentions
50K AMD Ryzen Pro 4650G Budget Gaming PC Build… Woahh !!edit
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Publication: Vimal Chintapatla
Premium Touchedit
Asus is known for making sleek and premium laptops under the ZenBook series. The company has added a new laptop to the series with the 13 OLED UM325. The ultrabook is powered by an AMD Ryzen series processor and comes with a metallic body. It has a textured finish on the flap and smooth matte interior which adds to its premium looks. Its brushed exterior keeps fingerprints at bay. The lightweight and compact laptop comes with an Ergolift hinge (automatically adds a gentle 3-degree tilt to the keyboard when you open the laptop). The sturdy design makes it durable and it also comes with all the essential connectivity ports.
Publication: The Economic Times
15 ‘most-admired’ tech companies in the worldedit
Fortune recently released its list of the world’s most admired companies. On the list — topped by Apple — are several tech companies. Fortune compiled the list after conducting a survey of 3,800 corporate executives, directors and analysts. We pick the top 15 most-admired tech companies in the world
Publication: Gadgets Now
Competition in news
Nvidia plans to increase the supply of its GTX 1650 graphics cardedit
As we already know that, Graphics cards are currently in a shortage, and the world is facing an imminent shortage of cards. And it is being estimated that the crisis will be carried on to the mid of next year as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake Xeon W-1300 CPUs full specifications leaked onlineedit
In the latest leak, we got to see the amazing specs of Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake Xeon W-1300 workstation desktop CPU. the line-up will have seven variants under it and they will all range from 6 to 8 cores.
Publication: TechnoSports
50K AMD Ryzen Pro 4650G Budget Gaming PC Build… Woahh !!edit
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Publication: Vimal Chintapatla
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 3070: Gaming Benchmarks and Overclocking Performance (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD recently launched its first midrange Navi 2x GPU in the form of the Radeon RX 6700 XT. With a price tag of $479, the GPU goes up against NVIDIA’s RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. While the former lacks the same grit in ray-tracing performance, it’s not a big deal (just yet). The additional VRAM on the 6700 XT is a major advantage, or at least that’s what AMD would have you believe. In this post, we compare the performance of the RX 6700 XT against the GeForce RTX 3070 across a dozen titles with a mini-segment dedicated to ray-tracing and overclocking performance.
Publication: Hardware Times
Partner in news
The tough balancing actedit
As India Inc worked from home for a significant part of 2020, consumer sales of personal computers saw a 74.1% y-o-y growth, according to IDC. Until 2019, enterprise sales contributed the majority chunk of sales in this category. However, in 2020, the share of consumer sales increased to 50%, from 37% in 2019. HP led the market with a 28.7% share in CY20, and shipped more than 2.94 million PCs in India.
Publication: Financial Express
HP announces gaming scholarship with benefits worth Rs. 12 lakhedit
HP has announced the OMEN Esports Gold Quest in India in collaboration with AMD. The scholarship is meant to help esports players establish their gaming careers.
Publication: News Bytes
Lenovo Legion 2 Pro to have bigger battery: Reportedit
Lenovo said that it’s upcoming gaming smartphone, the Legion 2 Pro, is all set to launch on April 8, which will feature a bigger battery than its predecessor Legion Pro. Legion 2 Pro will house a 5,500 mAh battery, which is 500 mAh larger than what its predecessor Legion Pro ships with, GSMArena reported on Saturday.
Publication: Free Press Journal
Premium Touchedit
Asus is known for making sleek and premium laptops under the ZenBook series. The company has added a new laptop to the series with the 13 OLED UM325. The ultrabook is powered by an AMD Ryzen series processor and comes with a metallic body. It has a textured finish on the flap and smooth matte interior which adds to its premium looks. Its brushed exterior keeps fingerprints at bay. The lightweight and compact laptop comes with an Ergolift hinge (automatically adds a gentle 3-degree tilt to the keyboard when you open the laptop). The sturdy design makes it durable and it also comes with all the essential connectivity ports.
Publication: The Economic Times
Industry news
TSMC to invest $100 billion to increase semiconductor outputedit
The investment to meet surging demand builds on a record annual capital-expenditure budget for the world’s largest contract chip maker
Publication: Mint
China is ready to launch its first 7nm ‘Big Island’ GPU-based graphics cardedit
Looking at the global chip crisis and increase in demand for semiconductors, the chip manufacturing fabs worldwide are looking to establish and increase production capacity to become the leading chip manufacturer in the silicon market. Publication: TechnoSports
Pandemic-hit India server market crashes by 11.2% in Q4 2020edit
Owing to deals spill over and weakening demand in the pandemic, the overall server market in India witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) decline of 11.2 per cent in terms of revenue to reach $266.1 million in Q4 2020, an IDC report showed on Thursday.
Publication: Express Computer
Company’s signal stays strong on surge in Cloud adoptionedit
The gains came on expectations that the company will post strong growth given its presence in application to peer (A2P) services and the fast-growing communication platform as a service (CPaaS) segment. The company offers CPaaS, a Cloud-based delivery model, which enables enterprises, over the top (OTT) players and mobile network operators or MNOs to add voice, video and messaging to business applications.
Publication: Business Standard
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