April 21, 2021

AMD specific news

AMD Adds Enhanced Streaming and Recording, AV1 Decode w/ Adrenaline 24.4.1: Still No Word on Super Resolution (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD’s Adrenaline 24.4.1 Graphics Driver is officially out, adding enhanced streaming and recording features, along with AV1 hardware-accelerated decoding, improved in-built overclocking, and OSD to the Radeon control panel. There’s still no word on Super Resolution, the company’s cross-platform response to NVIDIA’s DLSS upscaling solution which comes as a bit of a shock as DLSS is now natively supported on both Unreal and Unity game engines.

Publication: Hardware Times

New Ryzen 5000G APUs are here, Good News & BAD News.edit

AMD Ryzen 5000G APUs India 2021 | AMD Ryzen 5000G APUs Specs & Details 2021 | AMD Ryzen 5000G India details & everything you need to know.

Publication: Vimal Chintapatla

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 brings Remote Gaming with AMD Link, new features, and much more (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has today announced their new major Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 update, the next edition of its software suite for AMD Radeon graphics, providing gamers, creators and enthusiasts with incredible visual fidelity, ultra-responsive gaming and advanced features to unlock the full potential of their AMD gaming experience.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD brand mentions

Created as a joke, dogecoin moves mainstreamedit

Should dogecoin go on to hit $1, its value would exceed blue-chip companies includ- ing Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CVS Health Corp. and General Motors Co. “This is absurd,” said Billy Markus, the co-creator of dogecoin. “I haven’t seen any- thing like it. It’s one of those things that once it starts going up, it might keep going up.” Dogecoin serves no pur- pose, and unlike bitcoin, faces no limit on the number of coins that can exist.

Publication: Mint

Competition in news

Analyst Believes NVIDIA Only Has a 10% Chance of Acquiring Armedit

NVIDIA’s acquisition of Arm has been a controversial deal from the very beginning but the British government’s decision to intervene in the takeover has cast doubts over whether it will be actually approved or not. The antitrust investigation into the NVIDIA-SoftBank deal will determine whether the acquisition is a threat to the country’s national security, and decide its course depending on the result. Analysts are divided over the outcome, with some claiming that it won’t be approved while the rest of the opinion that the matter is already done and dusted, with only the formalities, pending.

Publication: Hardware Times

Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop with NVIDIA RTX 3060 launched in Indiaedit

Acer, the global PC brand announced the launch of its Predator Helios 300 laptop in India equipped with octa-core Intel Core i7 mobile gaming processors and comes with the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs for high performance gaming experience.

Publication: CRN

Partner in news

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is now free on PS5, PS4: Here’s how to downloadedit

Sony is giving away the Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for free to PlayStation 4 and PS5 owners as part of its Play at Home 2021 initiative. Also Read – Sony has decided it will not shut down PS3 and PlayStation Vita online stores

Publication: BGR

Microsoft to test Xbox cloud gaming on PCs, Apple mobile devicesedit

Microsoft’s gaming division Xbox will roll out a beta version of its cloud gaming service on web browsers of Windows 10 PCs and Apple’s iPhones and iPads starting Tuesday.

Publication: The Economic Times

Lenovo introduces As-a-Service Solution for Hosted Desktops with Nutanixedit

Lenovo with Nutanix announces an As-a-Service solution for Hosted Desktops to help IT decision makers thrive in the new remote hybrid workforce model. According to Lenovo’s recently released “Future of Work and Digital Transformation” study, 83 percent of businesses expect post-pandemic work to be remote at least half the time.

Publication: CRN

Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop with NVIDIA RTX 3060 launched in Indiaedit

Acer, the global PC brand announced the launch of its Predator Helios 300 laptop in India equipped with octa-core Intel Core i7 mobile gaming processors and comes with the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs for high performance gaming experience.

Publication: CRN

Lenovo sheds light on new specs of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050edit

According to fresh reports from Lenovo, we are finally getting some spec reports about NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3050 Ti & RTX 3050 GPUs for entry-level gaming laptops. There have been quite a few laptops making their appearance and are equipped with unreleased Ampere gaming chips.

Publication: TechnoSports

Industry news

IBM’s cloud business helps first-quarter revenue edge higheredit

The company last week said that the services business it plans to spin off by the end of this year would be called Kyndryl and be based in New York City

Publication: Mint

MediaTek Announces Plans To Strengthen India Footprintedit

MediaTek, the world’s leading fabless semiconductor company powering nearly 2 billion connected devices a year, has announced plans to further strengthen its India footprint by enabling the smart device ecosystem through OEM collaborations in technologies like 5G, IoT and Wi-Fi routers across both smartphones and smart device categories. The leading provider for Smartphone SoCs has also introduced its flagship System-on-Chip (SoC), Dimensity 1200, in the Indian market with realme being the first smartphone brand to feature the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC in India.

Publication: India Education Diary

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