July 20, 2021

AMD specific news

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Game Upscaling: Can It Really Make Games Run Faster on Any GPU? (PROACTIVE)edit

Until the launch of the Radeon RX 6000 series earlier this year, AMD’s Radeon GPUs were not exactly competitive with Nvidia’s top-end GeForce RTX series. Now that the red team has finally delivered the kind of hardware that fans want, it’s time to fill in the missing pieces of the strategy – and AMD is calling it FidelityFX Super Resolution, or FSR.

Publication: NDTV Gadgets360

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Arcadegeddon Becomes First PS5 Game to Implemented AMD FSR Alongside TAAU Upscalingedit

Co-op shooter Arcadegeddon has become the first PS5 game to use AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling technology. This implementation, however, is a bit special.

Publication: Hardware Times

Arcadegeddon is the first PlayStation 5 game to use AMD’s FSRedit

AMD’s revolutionary new FidelityFX Super Resolution is now being implemented on new games every now and then. It doesn’t require any specific hardware as it’s a general upscaling technique that works both on AMD and NVIDIA graphics as well as can be implemented on any platform.

Publication: TechnoSports

Amazon Prime Day sale: Deals on laptops, smartwatches, tablets revealededit

Amazon Prime Day will begin in a week’s time and the e-commerce giant has revealed a few deals and offers on some popular products that include smartwatches, laptops, earbuds and others. The company will be conducting the Prime Day sale from 26 July to 27 July. Only Amazon Prime members will be eligible for the sale.

Publication: Mint

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE REVIEW: Beautiful display; best dual-screen gaming laptopedit

Taiwanese tech giant Asus announced the launch of the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE laptop, under its sub-brand Republic of Gamers (ROG) in a bid to attract more customers in India. Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE is powered by AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU processor, and it has 32GB of RAM.

Publication: Zee Business

The Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition with 5900HX+RX6800M starts at 13,999 yuan in Chinaedit

Asus launched its the World’s First Laptop with AMD Advantage Badge: ASUS ROG Strix G15 and the ROG Strix G17 laptops some time ago. Finally, they are on sale in China with ROG Moba 5R and ROG Moba 5R Plus, respectively and sporting an all-AMD combo of Ryzen 9 5900HX and the new Radeon RX 6800M.

Publication: TechnoSports

MSI has a plan to ship 24 million motherboards and graphics cards in 2021edit

Micro-Star International or MSI is a common name in the PC peripherals market with a wide range of motherboards, components and of course GPUs from both NVIDIA & AMD. So, MSI expects its overall motherboard and graphics card shipments, both brand and OEM ones, to reach a whopping 24 million units in 2021, as per the company’s chairman Joseph Hsu.

Publication: TechnoSports

Steam Deck SSD Replacement Possible on All Modelsedit

Valve’s upcoming handheld Steam Deck will allow its users to replace and upgrade its internal SSD with their own, although the company strongly recommends against it.

Publication: IGN

Competition in news

Intel Driver Log Leaks Windows 11 Release Dateedit

Intel may have, unintentionally leaked the release date of Windows 11 through a driver log. As per the chipmaker’s driver release notes, the first build of Windows 11 will land in October this year. This has been mentioned by several insiders already, and as such, shouldn’t come as a surprise to those already in the loop.

Publication: Hardware Times

NVIDIA Runs Wolfenstein: Youngblood w/ Ray-Tracing (RTX) on an Arm Platform (GDC 2021); RTX SDKs Now Support Arm and Linuxedit

A pair of new demos running ray-tracing on an Arm (still using an NVIDIA RTX GPU though) platform was unveiled by NVIDIA today at this week’s Game Developers Conference. The demos shown include Wolfenstein: Youngblood from Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames, as well as The Bistro from the Open Research Content Archive running in real-time on a MediaTek Arm platform with ray-traced graphics.

Publication: Hardware Times

Nvidia shows off Raytracing on ARM-based devicesedit

At the ongoing Game Developer’s Conference (GDC), Nvidia has showed off technical demos of Raytracing running on an ARM based MediaTek processor. The company says that this shows how advanced graphical options can be extended to a broader range of devices.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Nvidia Showcases DLSS and Ray Tracing on ARM Platform, Can Chromebooks Finally Game?edit

NVIDIA, being a pioneer in the field, are showing up to GDC with big guns – with their focus being a pair of technical demos pairing its GeForce RTX technologies with ARM-based MediaTek processor. This demo will mark the latest milestone in bringing advanced graphics, and shiny new tech like RTX to ARM-based systems. This will be the first time that Ray Tracing and DLSS will be showcased on ARM.

Publication: MySmartPrice

Windows 11 coming to your PC in this month, leaked Intel document confirmsedit

Support document from Intel for a GPU driver update show that Windows 11 stable build could be coming out in October 2021, with a wider release possible in 2022.

Publication: Mint

Windows 11 could be available in October, suggests leaked Intel documentedit

Microsoft’s next operating system update for PCs, Windows 11 launched back on June 24, but is currently only available as an early access version to Windows Insiders. However, new release notes from Intel suggests we may see the rollout happen in October this year.

Publication: The Indian Express

Windows 11 Stable Version May Roll Out in October, Intel Document Teasesedit

The Windows 11 OS was formally unveiled on June 24; however, its stable rollout details remain unclear. It appears that the next-gen OS may start rolling out in October 2021, as per an Intel document spotted by Windows Latest.

Publication: News18

Semiconductor manufacturing important to overall electronics industry: Intel India’s Prakash Mallyaedit

Prakash Mallya, vice president and MD of sales, marketing and communications group Intel said that the company is “deeply” committed to the market, having invested over $7 billion so far in the country towards design and R&D facilities.

Publication: ET Telecom

Feature-Packed and Future-Proof: Why You Should Consider the Asus Zephyrus Laptop M16 and S17edit

Under the hood, the Asus Zephyrus Laptop M16 and S17 sport the Intel Core i9 11900H processor and have GPU options ranging from the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.

Publication: IGN

Amazon Prime Day sale: Deals on laptops, smartwatches, tablets revealededit

Amazon Prime Day will begin in a week’s time and the e-commerce giant has revealed a few deals and offers on some popular products that include smartwatches, laptops, earbuds and others. The company will be conducting the Prime Day sale from 26 July to 27 July. Only Amazon Prime members will be eligible for the sale.

Publication: Mint

MSI has a plan to ship 24 million motherboards and graphics cards in 2021edit

Micro-Star International or MSI is a common name in the PC peripherals market with a wide range of motherboards, components and of course GPUs from both NVIDIA & AMD. So, MSI expects its overall motherboard and graphics card shipments, both brand and OEM ones, to reach a whopping 24 million units in 2021, as per the company’s chairman Joseph Hsu.

Publication: TechnoSports

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Feature-Packed and Future-Proof: Why You Should Consider the Asus Zephyrus Laptop M16 and S17edit

Under the hood, the Asus Zephyrus Laptop M16 and S17 sport the Intel Core i9 11900H processor and have GPU options ranging from the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.

Publication: IGN

Amazon Prime Day sale: Deals on laptops, smartwatches, tablets revealededit

Amazon Prime Day will begin in a week’s time and the e-commerce giant has revealed a few deals and offers on some popular products that include smartwatches, laptops, earbuds and others. The company will be conducting the Prime Day sale from 26 July to 27 July. Only Amazon Prime members will be eligible for the sale.

Publication: Mint

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE REVIEW: Beautiful display; best dual-screen gaming laptopedit

Taiwanese tech giant Asus announced the launch of the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE laptop, under its sub-brand Republic of Gamers (ROG) in a bid to attract more customers in India. Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE is powered by AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU processor, and it has 32GB of RAM.

Publication: Zee Business

The Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition with 5900HX+RX6800M starts at 13,999 yuan in Chinaedit

Asus launched its the World’s First Laptop with AMD Advantage Badge: ASUS ROG Strix G15 and the ROG Strix G17 laptops some time ago. Finally, they are on sale in China with ROG Moba 5R and ROG Moba 5R Plus, respectively and sporting an all-AMD combo of Ryzen 9 5900HX and the new Radeon RX 6800M.

Publication: TechnoSports

MSI has a plan to ship 24 million motherboards and graphics cards in 2021edit

Micro-Star International or MSI is a common name in the PC peripherals market with a wide range of motherboards, components and of course GPUs from both NVIDIA & AMD. So, MSI expects its overall motherboard and graphics card shipments, both brand and OEM ones, to reach a whopping 24 million units in 2021, as per the company’s chairman Joseph Hsu.

Publication: TechnoSports

Industry news

Chip Woes to Keep Car Delivery in Slow Laneedit

The situation remains a bit precarious. Our impact is going to be within the limits of what we imagine.” Earlier this month, the stock of Tata Motors touched its lower circuit of 10% after its British subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover said that its production during the ongoing quarter could be lower by 50% than what was planned due to semiconductor shortage

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Chip shortage reaches smartphone makersedit

The smartphone industry is showing battle scars from the world-wide chip crunch. Shipments are slowing and customers are seeing their first significant price increases in years. Some companies have had to scale back production and delay new releases. All this has halted what had been a strong start to the year.

Publication: Mint

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