AMD specific news
Resident Evil Village on AMD Radeon graphics is an absolute joy to play (PROACTIVE)edit
Capcom launched the horror game Resident Evil Village, and AMD has been a long partnership with the publisher, so getting some performance improvements on AMD graphics is expected. We had the Radeon RX 6700 XT and our Ryzen 7 5800X combo to test the new game, so here’s how the game performed:
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD is trumping Intel in this vital computing marketedit
According to latest sales figures for Q1 2021, AMD has scored its highest single-quarter market share increase in the server segment since 2006, as it continues to chip away at Intel’s dominance in this space.
Publication: Tech Radar India
Exynos Chipset with AMD GPU For Laptops Coming in H2 2021edit
Until now, we just had Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Apple in the PC Chipset market, but we have a new player entering the PC market this year, the Exynos. According to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Samsung is readying a new Exynos chipset that can be used in smartphones and laptops.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD “Rembrandt” Ryzen 6900H APU Rumored To Have 12 RDNA 2 CUs, Based on Zen 3+ Architectureedit
AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 6900H APU is rumoured to have 12 compute units built on the RDNA 2 GPU process. The leak comes from Executable on Twitter who earlier leaked that the new ‘Rembrandt’ processor will be based on Zen 3+ architecture.
Publication: TechQuila
AMD brand mentions
New HP 14s laptop with new Ryzen 3 5300U available for only ₹ 41,990edit
HP is a close OEM with AMD, and so they are quite keen to bring laptops with the latest chips, and so they have brought the new HP 14s laptop with new AMD Ryzen 5000U mobile APUs launched at CES 2021. Some are Lucienne APUs with refreshed Zen 2 cores, and some are Cezanne APUs or actual Zen 3 cores.
Publication: TechnoSports
Security flaw in Intel, AMD processors affect billions of computers worldwideedit
In 2018, researchers found a hardware flaw that impacted processors and devices worldwide, including CPU architectures from Intel and AMD. Named Spectre, the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from speculative execution. This technique helps processor predict instructions it might end up executing and prepares by following the predicted path to pull the instructions from memory.
Publication: The Hindu
Best CPUs for Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit
Building a gaming computer requires careful consideration while picking the right graphics card and CPU. You have to ensure that one does not bottleneck the other. Pairing a high-end CPU with a mid-range GPU or the other way around will simply empty your wallet and give you sub-par gaming experience. To get things right, we’ve put together a list of the best CPUs for gaming from Intel and AMD. All processors in this list are within the latest three generations from either manufacturer so you’ll find CPUs after 8th Gen Intel and from the first gen AMD Ryzen onwards.
Publication: Digit
Leak: Samsung reportedly working on an M1 competitor powered by an AMD GPUedit
Apple’s M1 chip came as a shock for the silicon industry, and it shook many tech enthusiasts. With garnering praises from every corner of the PC market, the M1 silicon is a masterpiece in its own right. As such, the chip has encouraged Apple’s competitors to pursue and develop their own SoCs.
Publication: TechnoSports
Competition in news
Guide To NVIDIA’s Kaolin: A 3D Deep Learning Libraryedit
D Deep Learning is gaining more importance nowadays with vital application needs in self-driving vehicles, autonomous robots, augmented reality and virtual reality, 3D graphics, and 3D games. Unlike 2D data, 3D data is complex with more parameters and features. Collecting 3D data and transforming it from one representation to another is a tedious process. Thus 3D deep learning is more time consuming and error-prone than 2D Computer Vision.
Publication: Analytics India Mag
Security flaw in Intel, AMD processors affect billions of computers worldwideedit
In 2018, researchers found a hardware flaw that impacted processors and devices worldwide, including CPU architectures from Intel and AMD. Named Spectre, the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from speculative execution. This technique helps processor predict instructions it might end up executing and prepares by following the predicted path to pull the instructions from memory.
Publication: The Hindu
Best CPUs for Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit
Building a gaming computer requires careful consideration while picking the right graphics card and CPU. You have to ensure that one does not bottleneck the other. Pairing a high-end CPU with a mid-range GPU or the other way around will simply empty your wallet and give you sub-par gaming experience. To get things right, we’ve put together a list of the best CPUs for gaming from Intel and AMD. All processors in this list are within the latest three generations from either manufacturer so you’ll find CPUs after 8th Gen Intel and from the first gen AMD Ryzen onwards.
Publication: Digit
AMD is trumping Intel in this vital computing marketedit
According to latest sales figures for Q1 2021, AMD has scored its highest single-quarter market share increase in the server segment since 2006, as it continues to chip away at Intel’s dominance in this space.
Publication: Tech Radar India
Partner in news
Chromebooks are affordable, easy-to-use and for right reasons extremely popular in Covid timesedit
Market research firms claim that pandemic-hit times have pushed the demand for Chromebooks globally. HP lead from the front with 4.4 million Chromebook shipments in Q1 2021, as per IDC data.
Publication: India Today
Resident Evil Village on AMD Radeon graphics is an absolute joy to play (PROACTIVE)edit
Capcom launched the horror game Resident Evil Village, and AMD has been a long partnership with the publisher, so getting some performance improvements on AMD graphics is expected. We had the Radeon RX 6700 XT and our Ryzen 7 5800X combo to test the new game, so here’s how the game performed:
Publication: TechnoSports
New HP 14s laptop with new Ryzen 3 5300U available for only ₹ 41,990edit
HP is a close OEM with AMD, and so they are quite keen to bring laptops with the latest chips, and so they have brought the new HP 14s laptop with new AMD Ryzen 5000U mobile APUs launched at CES 2021. Some are Lucienne APUs with refreshed Zen 2 cores, and some are Cezanne APUs or actual Zen 3 cores.
Publication: TechnoSports
Leak: Samsung reportedly working on an M1 competitor powered by an AMD GPUedit
Apple’s M1 chip came as a shock for the silicon industry, and it shook many tech enthusiasts. With garnering praises from every corner of the PC market, the M1 silicon is a masterpiece in its own right. As such, the chip has encouraged Apple’s competitors to pursue and develop their own SoCs.
Publication: TechnoSports
Acer Donates Oxygen Concentrators To Help Fight COVID-19 In Indiaedit
Apart from this Acer India has also contributed oxygen cylinders to NGOs who run COVID-19 healthcare centers including all the expenses for continuous re-filling of the cylinders
Publication: BusinessWorld
Lenovo commits Rs.8 crore towards pandemic fightedit
PC maker Len- ovo on Monday announced aid worth ?8 crore towards covid-19 relief work in India through the Lenovo Founda- tion. Of this, 5 crore will be donated in the form of medi- cal equipment to hospitals. The remaining 3 crore will be dedicated towards hospital extensions and supporting medical frontline workers.
Publication: Mint
Industry news
Self-Sufficiency in Manufacturing Semiconductors is Critical for India: Top IBM Officialedit
Semiconductors are at the heart of everything and their necessity is growing at such a large pace that they are now almost as important as electricity. A country like India should reduce its import of semiconductors and start becoming self-sufficient since the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains, he added.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lenovo commits Rs.8 crore towards pandemic fightedit
PC maker Len- ovo on Monday announced aid worth ?8 crore towards covid-19 relief work in India through the Lenovo Founda- tion. Of this, 5 crore will be donated in the form of medi- cal equipment to hospitals. The remaining 3 crore will be dedicated towards hospital extensions and supporting medical frontline workers.
Publication: Mint
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