August 2, 2021

AMD specific news

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics Cards Announced for 1080p Gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has unveiled the new Radeon RX 6600 XT mid-range GPU, aimed at gamers who want to target high performance and high refresh rates at 1080p.

Publication: NDTV Gadgets360

AMD announces Radeon RX 6600 XT affordable graphics card for 1080p gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

Chipmaked AMD has announced the launch of the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card for gamers who want to game at high refresh rates with support for up to 1080p resolution.

Publication: Gadgets Now

AMD Ryzen 5000G APUs Unveiled at ChinaJoy; To Hit Global Retail Market Soon (PROACTIVE)edit

At the 19th China International Digital Interactive Entertainment Exhibition (ChinaJoy 2021), AMD officially released the Radeon RX 6600 XT for an MSRP of $369.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD CEO: We’ve Been Focused on Strategic Segments Like Gaming Notebooks, Premium Consumer Notebooks & Commercial Notebooksedit

The semiconductor shortages and growing demand for computers have changed the dynamics of the PC market. Every quarter is now a growth fiscal for chipmakers and vendors, and the most lucrative segments are key to maintaining dominance. This sentiment was echoed by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su in an interview with CNBC.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT to Cost $379; No Reference Models [Rumor]edit

It would appear that AMD’s budget RDNA offerings aren’t going to be very “budget” after all. According to YouTuber MILD, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is presently slated to launch for a price of $379 sometime later this quarter.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD LGA AM5 Socket w/ Zen 4 IHS Surfaces (Again)edit

Reputed leaker @ExecutableFix (Twitter) has once again shared a mockup of the AM5 socket along with the expected IHS (integrated heat spreader) of AMD’s next-gen Zen 4 Ryzen processors. As already reported a few months back, AMD will transition from a BGA to an LGA (1718) socket, similar to Intel. This means that the pins will be located on the socket, rather than the processor.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT mid-range GPU for 1080p gaming announced: Price, Specifiations (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has outed a new Radeon RX 6600 XT for the mid-range gaming market. The RX 6600 XT targets 1080p gaming and promises 9.6 teraflops performance

Publication: Digit

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU with up to 10.6 teraflops compute power launched, priced at $379 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD is looking to fill the 1080p GPU gap with a new member in the Radeon RX 6000 series family. The 6600 XT is the fifth card to be released in the series and is based on the company’s RDNA2 architecture. The same architecture present in Xbox Series X|S and the PlayStation 5.

Publication: Moneycontrol

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card launched: Priced at around Rs 28,000 (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD has launched its Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card, which it claims is designed to “deliver the ultimate high-framerate, high-fidelity and highly responsive 1080p gaming experience.” The new Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card is built on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture.

Publication: BGR

AMD Records All-Time High Price as it Blasts through $100/Share during Tradingedit

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) saw its shares reach an all-time high price today. The chipmaker had reported its stellar earnings for Q2 2021. AMD has made its mark in the industry courtesy of the use of leading-edge semiconductor technologies powering its products.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD plans to soon release Cyan Skillfish APU based on RDNA architectureedit

According to recent information, Advanced Micro Devices has been working on an accelerated processing unit (APU) with a built-in graphics processor codenamed “Cyan Skillfish”. Its been acclaimed that the new APU will be based on the first-generation RDNA architecture (Navi 1x).

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD’s upcoming next-generation AM5 CPU socket rendered in imagesedit

In the latest news, we have the latest rendered images of AMD’s next-generation AM5 CPU socket. This will be supporting the company’s upcoming 2022’s Ryzen Desktop CPUs. The credit of posting the rendered images online to show them to us goes to ExecutableFix.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD brand mentions

Fishing beyond FAANGsedit

Also, while an equal weighted investment in the FAANG stocks five years back would have yielded CAGR returns of 34 per cent, there are many stocks within the tech space, such as Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA, Fortinet, Paypal and Square that have yielded even better returns.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Intel Launches Xeon W-3300 CPUs Based on Ice Lake: Gets Squished by Threadrippersedit

Intel, earlier today, launched the Xeon W-3300 workstation processors, in an attempt to reaffirm its grip over the content creation and professional market.

Publication: Hardware Times

Save your Graphics Cards! (PROACTIVE)edit

The launch of AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is discussed in the first half of the video.

Publication: ModxTech

AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070 (PROACTIVE)edit

In this video, we compare the latest AMD Radeon RX 6800 and the NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 GPUs.

Publication: FoneArena

Intel’s high-end Xeon W-3300 lineup struggles to compete against AMD’s Threipper Pro lineupedit

Intel newly launched its latest Xeon W-3300 Workstation CPUs which the team blue advertised as being its latest power player in the data center market. However, as we have already heard that, the CPU was severely destroyed by Intel’s rival AMD’s Threadripper Pro lineup.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel launches new Xeon W-3300 Processors to counter AMD’s Threadripperedit

Intel, today, has announced their new Xeon W-3300 processors to counter AMD’s Threadripper processors that are gaining tremendous popularity in the HEDT market. These CPUs will be available from today from its system integrator partners.

Publication: TechnoSports

Vijay Sales to host its first Esports tournament: The Rising in association with Lenovo India & AMDedit

Vijay Sales, a leading retail chain for consumer electronics across India has teamed up with Lenovo India and AMD to host its first Esports tournament: The Rising.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel CEO says chip shortage could stretch into 2023edit

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger sees the global semiconductor shortage potentially stretching into 2023, adding a leading industry voice to the growing view that the chip-supply disruptions hitting companies and consumers won’t wane soon.

Publication: Mint

The computer-chip crunch is showing recovery, but not for everyoneedit

While chipmakers such as Qualcomm Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. struck an optimistic tone this week, certain products will remain scarce for some time to come.

Publication: Mint

Get up to ₹1500 discount when you buy a new HP Victus 16 with your SBI credit cardedit

HP has already launched the Victus 16 gaming laptop in India on Amazon Prime Day, powered by AMD Ryzen 5000H processors and NVIDIA graphics. In case, if you have missed availing of the Rs.2000 coupon on Prime Day, there’s good news for you as you get a flat ₹1500 discount on the new HP Victus 16 if you have an SBI credit card.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel’s disastrous journey of 2020 and moreedit

The events that transpired with Intel in 2020 were amazing, to say the least, and its journey is nothing short but a roller coaster ride. The company was ready to ride on the success of its 7nm process node. But then everything went wrong. In the summer of 2021, Intel declared its comeback and announced that it will yet again be crowned as the un-disputed chip-making king of the world.

Publication: TechnoSports

Five ASUS ROG Gaming laptops under $2,000 you should look out in 2021edit

Looking for a gaming laptop with premium specs and powerful? ASUS ROG gaming laptops are known for their premium built quality, high-end specs and great cooling, in 2021, they made a lot of them powered by AMD Ryzen 5000H processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Performance check: How the Intel Core i7-1185G7 chipset performs on the Evo-certified Dell XPS 13 (9310)edit

While Intel is still using the 10nm node for the new i7-1185G7 processor and 7nm chipsets are still a while away, the company says that the SuperFin design on the 11th Gen chipsets means it’s faster than its predecessor, the Intel Core i7-1065G7. It should even give its AMD Ryzen 7 counterpart a run for its money in single-core tests.

Publication: HT Tech

Acer Nitro 5 with new Core i7-11800H processor is here, starts at ₹89,999edit

Acer is bringing new gaming laptops always and its Nitro 5 model is very popular in a country like India. Well, Intel’s 11th Gen processors are everywhere in the Indian market but the true flagship-grade ones were still not available in the gaming laptops, until now!

Publication: TechnoSports

Apple CEO Tim Cook Warns Global Chip Shortage Will Affect iPhone Productionedit

Apple has now warned that the global chip shortage that is currently impacting iMacs and iPads will soon affect iPhone production, signaling a slow revenue growth.

Publication: Indiatimes

TSMC’s plant producing chip for Apple hit by contamination of gases for manufacturing processedit

According to recent sources, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co reported today that some of its production lines in southern Taiwan were hit with contamination from gases used in the chipmaking process. However, the company also stated that the mishap does not affect its operations and it will keep working at its full capacity.

Publication: TechnoSports

Competition in news

Fishing beyond FAANGsedit

Also, while an equal weighted investment in the FAANG stocks five years back would have yielded CAGR returns of 34 per cent, there are many stocks within the tech space, such as Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA, Fortinet, Paypal and Square that have yielded even better returns.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090 May Draw up to 450-500W of Poweredit

If you thought that the GeForce RTX 3080/3090 were power hogs, then you haven’t seen nothing yet. According to a couple of reputed leakers on Twitter (@kopite7kimi/@Greymon55), the Lovelace-based RTX 4080/4090 will draw as much as 500W of power under load.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel Launches Xeon W-3300 CPUs Based on Ice Lake: Gets Squished by Threadrippersedit

Intel, earlier today, launched the Xeon W-3300 workstation processors, in an attempt to reaffirm its grip over the content creation and professional market.

Publication: Hardware Times

Save your Graphics Cards! (PROACTIVE)edit

The launch of AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is discussed in the first half of the video.

Publication: ModxTech

AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070 (PROACTIVE)edit

In this video, we compare the latest AMD Radeon RX 6800 and the NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 GPUs.

Publication: FoneArena

Samsung maintains second spot in tablet market in Q2, says reportedit

Samsung Electronics stayed on as the world’s second-largest tablet computer vendor in the second quarter of the year, a report showed on Friday, as it strives to catch up with industry leader Apple.

Publication: Business Standard

Intel announces Xeon W-3300 processors for workstations: Details hereedit

Intel has launched its newest generation Xeon W-3300 processors that is built for advanced workstation professionals.

Publication: Business Standard

Intel unveils next-gen Xeon W-3300 processorsedit

Intel Xeon W-3300 processors feature a new processor core architecture representing a new era in performance and efficiency.

Publication: The Statesman

Intel Xeon W-3300 processors launched: Here’s what you need to knowedit

Intel has announced the launch of its Xeon W-3300 processors, which are built for advanced workstation professionals. The company, on Thursday, said that the new processors offer expanded platform capabilities and enterprise-grade security and reliability in a single-socket solution.

Publication: India TV

Intel announces NUC 11 “Beast Canyon” Extreme Kit modular desktop PC, pricing starts at $1,150edit

Intel has announced a new addition to the NUC 11 family code-named Beast Canyon. The NUC 11 Extreme is a small-form factor, modular desktop PC that ships with Intel’s 11th Gen Core Processors, has a full range of I/O ports and has support for a full-sized, discrete graphics card.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Samsung takes Intel’s chip-seller crown, but bigger showdown loomsedit

Intel Corp. aspires to chip-technology supremacy within four years. But for now, it has fallen from the industry’s top spot by one key measure. In the second quarter, Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Intel as the world’s top chip maker by revenue. Given divergent outlooks for their core businesses, the positioning is likely to stay that way in the near future, industry analysts say.

Publication: Mint

Redmi Book To Use 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU: Core i3/i5/i7?edit

The company has also confirmed that the Redmi Book will be based on the 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake processor. The laptop is likely to use the 15W U series process. However, as of now, there is no information if this laptop will be using a Core i3/i5/ or the Core i7 processor.

Publication: Gizbot

Apple leads tablet AP market with Intel, Qualcomm in tailedit

Apple Inc. maintained its tablet AP (app processor) market leadership with a 59 per cent revenue share in Q1. It is the company’s highest share in the past nine years, followed by Intel with 14 per cent and Qualcomm with 10 per cent, as per the report.

Publication: The Statesman

LG Gram laptops with Intel EVO badge coming soon in India via Amazonedit

LG launched their premium Gram notebooks at the CES 2021, all of them certified by Intel under their Evo branding. The new LG Gram lineup has been diversified with different sizes of laptops for different needs.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus Chromebook Flip C214 review: A compelling choiceedit

Asus Chromebook Flip 214 is powered by an Intel Celeron dual-core processor paired with 4GB of RAM.

Publication: Gadgets Now

HP Pavilion 13 Review: A good thin and light laptop, that could have been betteredit

Here we will be taking a look at how the new HP Pavilion 13 powered by the 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor performed during our review.

Publication: BGR

Xiaomi Redmi Book 15 laptop launch: Specs, features, India price, and all that we know so faredit

Xiaomi will be launching its much anticipated RedmiBook laptops in India on Tuesday, August 3. Among the models expected to be launched is the RedmiBook 15, powered by Intel’s 11th Gen Core i3 and Core i5 Tiger Lake processors.

Publication: India Today

Rebellion Games brings back games to NVIDIA GeForceedit

Rebellion Games now brings back some of their best games with NVIDIA GeForce and now this awesome collection of games is available on laptop, desktop, Mac, Chromebook, SHIELD TV, Android devices, iPhone or iPad.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel’s high-end Xeon W-3300 lineup struggles to compete against AMD’s Threipper Pro lineupedit

Intel newly launched its latest Xeon W-3300 Workstation CPUs which the team blue advertised as being its latest power player in the data center market. However, as we have already heard that, the CPU was severely destroyed by Intel’s rival AMD’s Threadripper Pro lineup.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel launches new Xeon W-3300 Processors to counter AMD’s Threadripperedit

Intel, today, has announced their new Xeon W-3300 processors to counter AMD’s Threadripper processors that are gaining tremendous popularity in the HEDT market. These CPUs will be available from today from its system integrator partners.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel CEO says chip shortage could stretch into 2023edit

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger sees the global semiconductor shortage potentially stretching into 2023, adding a leading industry voice to the growing view that the chip-supply disruptions hitting companies and consumers won’t wane soon.

Publication: Mint

Get up to ₹1500 discount when you buy a new HP Victus 16 with your SBI credit cardedit

HP has already launched the Victus 16 gaming laptop in India on Amazon Prime Day, powered by AMD Ryzen 5000H processors and NVIDIA graphics. In case, if you have missed availing of the Rs.2000 coupon on Prime Day, there’s good news for you as you get a flat ₹1500 discount on the new HP Victus 16 if you have an SBI credit card.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel’s disastrous journey of 2020 and moreedit

The events that transpired with Intel in 2020 were amazing, to say the least, and its journey is nothing short but a roller coaster ride. The company was ready to ride on the success of its 7nm process node. But then everything went wrong. In the summer of 2021, Intel declared its comeback and announced that it will yet again be crowned as the un-disputed chip-making king of the world.

Publication: TechnoSports

Five ASUS ROG Gaming laptops under $2,000 you should look out in 2021edit

Looking for a gaming laptop with premium specs and powerful? ASUS ROG gaming laptops are known for their premium built quality, high-end specs and great cooling, in 2021, they made a lot of them powered by AMD Ryzen 5000H processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Performance check: How the Intel Core i7-1185G7 chipset performs on the Evo-certified Dell XPS 13 (9310)edit

While Intel is still using the 10nm node for the new i7-1185G7 processor and 7nm chipsets are still a while away, the company says that the SuperFin design on the 11th Gen chipsets means it’s faster than its predecessor, the Intel Core i7-1065G7. It should even give its AMD Ryzen 7 counterpart a run for its money in single-core tests.

Publication: HT Tech

Acer Nitro 5 with new Core i7-11800H processor is here, starts at ₹89,999edit

Acer is bringing new gaming laptops always and its Nitro 5 model is very popular in a country like India. Well, Intel’s 11th Gen processors are everywhere in the Indian market but the true flagship-grade ones were still not available in the gaming laptops, until now!

Publication: TechnoSports

Apple CEO Tim Cook Warns Global Chip Shortage Will Affect iPhone Productionedit

Apple has now warned that the global chip shortage that is currently impacting iMacs and iPads will soon affect iPhone production, signaling a slow revenue growth.

Publication: Indiatimes

Partner in news

Chromebook shipments record 75% annual growth in Q2 2021, HP holds top spot: Canalysedit

Chromebook shipments recorded a 75 per cent on-year growth to hit 11.9 million units during the second quarter of 2021, outperforming other categories, according to Canalys data.

Publicatin: Financial Express

Data Security: Bridging the air gap between data and its protectionedit

“As these businesses worked towards maintaining continuity, while quickly shifting to a remote working style, they faced certain concerns, in the process,” says Ripu Bajwa, director and general manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies, India.

Publication: Financial Express

PC market rebootsedit

The personal computers (PC) and laptops segment is seeing high uptake as the work-from-home, e-learning and gaming trends, that dominated most of 2020, continue this year, too, for a large section of consumers

Publication: Financial Express

HP Leads Increased Chromebook Supply, Holds 36 Per Cent Of The Market Shareedit

According to report by a market research firm, the Chromebook market has seen a 75% year-on-year growth in the second quarter of 2021, with HP as top supplier.

Publication: Republic World

Acer Day 2021 Announced: Offers Fantastic Deals On Laptop And Accessoriesedit

Acer has officially announced Acer Day 2021, where, the company will have a host of offers on laptops and other PC accessories on August 3.

Publication: Gizbot

Redmi Book To Use 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU: Core i3/i5/i7?edit

The company has also confirmed that the Redmi Book will be based on the 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake processor. The laptop is likely to use the 15W U series process. However, as of now, there is no information if this laptop will be using a Core i3/i5/ or the Core i7 processor.

Publication: Gizbot

LG Gram laptops with Intel EVO badge coming soon in India via Amazonedit

LG launched their premium Gram notebooks at the CES 2021, all of them certified by Intel under their Evo branding. The new LG Gram lineup has been diversified with different sizes of laptops for different needs.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus Chromebook Flip C214 review: A compelling choiceedit

Asus Chromebook Flip 214 is powered by an Intel Celeron dual-core processor paired with 4GB of RAM.

Publication: Gadgets Now

HP Pavilion 13 Review: A good thin and light laptop, that could have been betteredit

Here we will be taking a look at how the new HP Pavilion 13 powered by the 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor performed during our review.

Publication: BGR

Xiaomi Redmi Book 15 laptop launch: Specs, features, India price, and all that we know so faredit

Xiaomi will be launching its much anticipated RedmiBook laptops in India on Tuesday, August 3. Among the models expected to be launched is the RedmiBook 15, powered by Intel’s 11th Gen Core i3 and Core i5 Tiger Lake processors.

Publication: India Today

Vijay Sales to host its first Esports tournament: The Rising in association with Lenovo India & AMDedit

Vijay Sales, a leading retail chain for consumer electronics across India has teamed up with Lenovo India and AMD to host its first Esports tournament: The Rising.

Publication: TechnoSports

Get up to ₹1500 discount when you buy a new HP Victus 16 with your SBI credit cardedit

HP has already launched the Victus 16 gaming laptop in India on Amazon Prime Day, powered by AMD Ryzen 5000H processors and NVIDIA graphics. In case, if you have missed availing of the Rs.2000 coupon on Prime Day, there’s good news for you as you get a flat ₹1500 discount on the new HP Victus 16 if you have an SBI credit card.

Publication: TechnoSports

Five ASUS ROG Gaming laptops under $2,000 you should look out in 2021edit

Looking for a gaming laptop with premium specs and powerful? ASUS ROG gaming laptops are known for their premium built quality, high-end specs and great cooling, in 2021, they made a lot of them powered by AMD Ryzen 5000H processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Performance check: How the Intel Core i7-1185G7 chipset performs on the Evo-certified Dell XPS 13 (9310)edit

While Intel is still using the 10nm node for the new i7-1185G7 processor and 7nm chipsets are still a while away, the company says that the SuperFin design on the 11th Gen chipsets means it’s faster than its predecessor, the Intel Core i7-1065G7. It should even give its AMD Ryzen 7 counterpart a run for its money in single-core tests.

Publication: HT Tech

Acer Nitro 5 with new Core i7-11800H processor is here, starts at ₹89,999edit

Acer is bringing new gaming laptops always and its Nitro 5 model is very popular in a country like India. Well, Intel’s 11th Gen processors are everywhere in the Indian market but the true flagship-grade ones were still not available in the gaming laptops, until now!

Publication: TechnoSports

Industry news

The chips are down: Why there’s a semiconductor shortageedit

The dearth of chips has exposed the modern world’s reliance on these miniscule components, the basic building blocks of computers which allow electronic devices to process data. Why is the shortage happening, and what can be done about it?

Publication: The Times of India

Hiranandani Grp likely to invest Rs6k-cr on data centreedit

After Microsoft, Adani Group and MAQ, construction giant Hiranandani Group has expressed interest in setting up a data centre in the state at an estimated cost of Rs.6,000 crore, a government spokesperson said on Friday.

Publication: The Times of India

The computer-chip crunch is showing recovery, but not for everyoneedit

While chipmakers such as Qualcomm Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. struck an optimistic tone this week, certain products will remain scarce for some time to come.

Publication: Mint

Apple CEO Tim Cook Warns Global Chip Shortage Will Affect iPhone Productionedit

Apple has now warned that the global chip shortage that is currently impacting iMacs and iPads will soon affect iPhone production, signaling a slow revenue growth.

Publication: Indiatimes

TSMC’s plant producing chip for Apple hit by contamination of gases for manufacturing processedit

According to recent sources, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co reported today that some of its production lines in southern Taiwan were hit with contamination from gases used in the chipmaking process. However, the company also stated that the mishap does not affect its operations and it will keep working at its full capacity.

Publication: TechnoSports

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