AMD specific news
Best AMD based laptops to buy in India (PROACTIVE)edit
The growing competition between Intel and AMD has only yielded better products for the consumers. AMD’s processor range has improved significantly over the years and more OEMs have now started selling an AMD laptop for gaming and more. This list of best AMD laptops in India includes some of the options which we think are best for the consumers in terms of the price to performance ratio. Speaking of AMD laptop price, a lot of these notebooks are much cheaper than their Intel counterparts.
Publication: Digit
Google will use 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors to launch First Tau VM Instance (PROACTIVE)edit
AMD and Google Cloud have recently announced the launch of the new T2D instances, the first in a new family of virtual machines for the Google Compute Platform called Tau VMs. So, this first instance in the new family of Tau Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors.
Publication: TechnoSports
Rumor | Exynos with AMD mRDNA 2 to be unveiled in July, peak performance better than next-gen Mali GPU while beating latest Mali even with 30% throttling; Google signing up for mRDNA 2 as welledit
AMD’s mobile Radeon mRDNA 2 graphics is reportedly a bit faster than the upcoming ARM Mali GPU in peak performance, and the performance is higher than the latest Mali GPU even if subjected to a 30% performance drop under throttling. Samsung and AMD will likely unveil the new SoC in July. We are also hearing that Google has also signed the contract with AMD for mRDNA 2.
Publication: Notebookcheck
AMD’s CPU Market Share Has Doubled in the Last 2-3 Years, GPU Share Declined by 33%edit
AMD has been consistently gaining CPU market share at Intel’s expense over the past few years. But how much has the former’s shipments increased in recent years compared to the past? Going by Mercury’s statistics, you can see that right before the launch of the Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 processors, AMD held over 10-12% of the total x86 CPU market. With the arrival of Matisse and Rome in 2019, the company continued to erode Intel’s share, slowly but steadily.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs 3600X vs 3700X: Which is the Best Budget CPU for Gaming?edit
AMD launched its new Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 CPUs last year, promising the best gaming performance at affordable price points. Featuring an IPC boost of 19%, higher boost clocks, and wider core complexes with each core having access to twice as much L3 cache, we’re looking at generational gains ranging from 20-35%, especially in gaming workloads. You can read our architectural deep-dive of the Ryzen 5000 CPUs and the Zen 3 core here. We compared the inter-core and cache latency/bandwidth of Matisse and Vermeer and got some very interesting results.
Publication: Hardware Times
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Asus Zenbook 13 UM325U Review: Asus has done almost everything right with this oneedit
Asus is a company that has long been making laptops for consumers and gamers. One of its most famous series is the Zenbook series. Their recent launch of Asus Zenbook 13 UM325U came to us to play with, and this is our review of the nifty little device, which falls in the ultra-thin category.
Publication: Gadget Bridge
Samsung hiring ex-Apple and AMD engineers for designing a custom CPU: Rumoredit
Some reports are saying that Samsung is currently working on its custom CPU, just like Apple. But earlier, the South Korean manufacturer has shut down its in-house CPU design department. The reason is that the Mongoose cores didn’t perform better than the stock ARM designs. Similarly, famous chipset manufacturer Qualcomm also stopped making its custom chips years ago. But, Samsung is turning again into its custom chipsets.
Publication: TechnoSports
No World without Chipedit
Intel gets its 20% CPU production with the help of TSMC. Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD also customers of TSMC.
Publication: The Hindu (Tamil)
Competition in news
Nvidia might be faking its processor performance scoresedit
We have often seen the appearance of the processors appearing on the benchmark systems. It’s a ritual where before the official launch of any processor, their manufacturers like to flaunt the performance of the processors and often compare it with what their rivals offer.
Publication: TechnoSports
Intel to make a chip mega factory in the German state of Bavariaedit
Intel has been remotivated after Pat Gelsinger took over as the CEO and is focusing on its foundry business to make chips for itself and other tech companies.
Publication: TechnoSports
Samsung hiring ex-Apple and AMD engineers for designing a custom CPU: Rumoredit
Some reports are saying that Samsung is currently working on its custom CPU, just like Apple. But earlier, the South Korean manufacturer has shut down its in-house CPU design department. The reason is that the Mongoose cores didn’t perform better than the stock ARM designs. Similarly, famous chipset manufacturer Qualcomm also stopped making its custom chips years ago. But, Samsung is turning again into its custom chipsets.
Publication: TechnoSports
No World without Chipedit
Intel gets its 20% CPU production with the help of TSMC. Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD also customers of TSMC.
Publication: The Hindu (Tamil)
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Dell Inspiron 15, Inspiron 14 laptops with refreshed design launched in India: Price, specificationsedit
Optimised with technology that simplifies life, Dell Inspiron laptops and 2-in-1s offer a range of easy-to-use features all packaged in a minimalist and modern design, so users can stay connected from anywhere.
Publication: India Today
Asus Zenbook 13 UM325U Review: Asus has done almost everything right with this oneedit
Asus is a company that has long been making laptops for consumers and gamers. One of its most famous series is the Zenbook series. Their recent launch of Asus Zenbook 13 UM325U came to us to play with, and this is our review of the nifty little device, which falls in the ultra-thin category.
Publication: Gadget Bridge
Samsung hiring ex-Apple and AMD engineers for designing a custom CPU: Rumoredit
Some reports are saying that Samsung is currently working on its custom CPU, just like Apple. But earlier, the South Korean manufacturer has shut down its in-house CPU design department. The reason is that the Mongoose cores didn’t perform better than the stock ARM designs. Similarly, famous chipset manufacturer Qualcomm also stopped making its custom chips years ago. But, Samsung is turning again into its custom chipsets.
Publication: TechnoSports
Industry news
The world relies on one chip maker in Taiwan, leaving everyone vulnerableedit
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage
Publication: Mint
Car, phonemakers may have to wait longer for chips, thanks to bitcoinedit
The growing popularity of bit- coin across the world is spur- ring demand in an unexpected industry — semiconductors. In response, global chip- makers are re-purposing their plants to make chips which can power the high processing speeds required by bitcoin servers. They are also moving to smaller but more powerful nanometer chips w
Publication: Business Standard
Why cloud computing will be the tech of the futureedit
Cloud computing is the use of different services on the internet for operations such as storing, managing and processing data on a common storage that can be accessed anywhere rather than from one particular system. Instead of being stored directly on your personal device, cloud-based data is stored on servers owned by companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google, and is made accessible to you via the internet. Whether you are accessing your Gmail or streaming your movies through Netflix or listening to your favourite songs on Spotify, you are a customer of a cloud services provider.
Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine
No World without Chipedit
Intel gets its 20% CPU production with the help of TSMC. Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD also customers of TSMC.
Publication: The Hindu (Tamil)
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Microsoft to set up four new cloud data centers in Chinaedit
Microsoft Corp. is all set to expand its business in Asia further and is planning to set up as many as four new data centers in China by the beginning of 2022.
Publication: Tech Story
Intel sees IPU helping companies leverage resources with secure, programmable, stable solutionedit
The IPU is a programmable network device that intelligently manages system-level infrastructure resources by securely accelerating those functions in a data center.
Publication: The Times of India
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