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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X becomes the best-selling CPU on Amazon Indiaedit
Previously, the older Ryzen 5 2600 was the best-selling CPU, now it is overtaken by the newer Ryzen 5 5600X, which though costs much but is worth extra bucks.
Publication: AMD
EXPLORING AFFORDABLE, FEATURE-RICH LAPTOPSedit
This laptop features a 14-inch FHD LED display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. It runs on AMD Ryzen 3 processor with Radeon Graphics that is coupled with up to 4GB of RAM and up to 1 TB of storage space. It runs on Windows 10 Home Basic and is backed by a 45W AC adapter. (HP, lenovo)
Publication: HT Tech
Valve Announces Steam Deck Handheld Console w/ Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU|RDNA 2 GPU, Offering 1.6 TFLOPs of Performanceedit
Valve has finally announced its Steam Deck handheld console (originally Steam Pal) based on a custom 7nm AMD SoC (reportedly Van Gogh) featuring four Zen 2 cores and eight RDNA 2 CUs (512 shaders), alongside 16GB of LPDDR5 (5,500 MT/s) memory and up to 750GB of high-speed NVMe storage. The CPU runs at a base clock of 2.4GHz and a boost of 3.5GHz, offering a rated FP32 performance of 448 GFlops, while the GPU has a base clock of 1GHz and a boost of 1.6GHz, resulting in an FP32 performance of 1.6 TFLOPs. The APU has a TDP of 4-15W.
Publication: Hardware Times
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EXPLORING AFFORDABLE, FEATURE-RICH LAPTOPSedit
This laptop features a 14-inch FHD LED display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. It runs on AMD Ryzen 3 processor with Radeon Graphics that is coupled with up to 4GB of RAM and up to 1 TB of storage space. It runs on Windows 10 Home Basic and is backed by a 45W AC adapter. (HP, lenovo)
Publication: HT Tech
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Asus Chromebook 15 C523 Review: Just What the Budget PC market Needededit
Seeing a large 15.6-inch laptop from afar does give an impression it would be mighty powerful, probably more power than you need. What if you just needed a big screen to watch content, read and type essays for classes, sans all that horsepower delivered by the expensive Intel and AMD CPUs with the diversities and complexities of Windows 10. What if, you just needed an Android interface, but on a big screen? Well, enter the Asus Chromebook 15 C523, that offers exactly that.
Publication: MySmartPrice
EXPLORING AFFORDABLE, FEATURE-RICH LAPTOPSedit
This laptop features a 14-inch FHD LED display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. It runs on AMD Ryzen 3 processor with Radeon Graphics that is coupled with up to 4GB of RAM and up to 1 TB of storage space. It runs on Windows 10 Home Basic and is backed by a 45W AC adapter. (HP, lenovo)
Publication: HT Tech
Valve Announces Steam Deck Handheld Console w/ Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU|RDNA 2 GPU, Offering 1.6 TFLOPs of Performanceedit
Valve has finally announced its Steam Deck handheld console (originally Steam Pal) based on a custom 7nm AMD SoC (reportedly Van Gogh) featuring four Zen 2 cores and eight RDNA 2 CUs (512 shaders), alongside 16GB of LPDDR5 (5,500 MT/s) memory and up to 750GB of high-speed NVMe storage. The CPU runs at a base clock of 2.4GHz and a boost of 3.5GHz, offering a rated FP32 performance of 448 GFlops, while the GPU has a base clock of 1GHz and a boost of 1.6GHz, resulting in an FP32 performance of 1.6 TFLOPs. The APU has a TDP of 4-15W.
Publication: Hardware Times
Industry news
TSMC expects auto-chip shortage to abate this quarteredit
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip maker, said it expects the chip shortage that has hampered car makers to start easing in the next few months after it ramped up its production of auto chips.
Publication: Mint
India among fast-growing mkts: Google Cloud CEOedit
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, who has been credited with revitalising Google Cloud since he took over the division in January 2019, said India is one of the fastest growing countries for his business globally. Google Cloud’s new cloud region is in Delhi-NCR. Cloud regions are data centres offering a full range of cloud services and solutions. Google had launched a cloud region in Mumbai in 2017. Delhi-NCR will be the 10th region in Asia-Pacific and the 25th globally. The new region will allow Google Cloud customers operating in India to benefit from lower latency and higher performance of their cloud-based workloads and data.
Publication: The Times of India
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