August 3, 2021

AMD specific news

Acquisition of Xilinx by AMD to bring competitive advantage in the chip businessedit

AMD’s pending acquisition of Xilinx is now a hot discussion across wall street. If the deal clicks through, that could be valued at more than $30 billion and mark the latest big tie-up in the rapidly consolidating semiconductor industry.

Puublication: VARINDIA

The hybrid workplace: Balancing trust and risk (PROACTIVE)edit

While all signs are pointing to a future of work that combines working from home with time in the office, this puts employers at a difficult crossroad. Employers know that data breaches are far more likely to occur when staff is working away from the office.

Publication: ET CIO

AMD brand mentions

KL Deemed to be University achieves highest-ever placement offers; secures 3,200+ corporate offersedit

Prominent recruiters from IT, BFSI, Consultancy, E-commerce, Automobile among other industries, like ServiceNow, Flipkart, HP, Hyundai, Vodafone, KPMG, Naukri.com, Bharati Airtel, BYJU’S, HCL Technologies, CISCO Systems, ICICI Bank, Accenture, L&T, Virtusa, Goldman Sachs Inc., Amazon, Deloitte, Infosys, TCS, Pegasystems, Wipro, Mentor Graphics, AMD, Analog Devices, Informatica, Hitachi, Quotient Technology, Optum, NCR corporation, KIA Motors and others, recruited from the university.

Publication: The Times of India

Asus to soon launch its ProArt Creator series laptops powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5000 ditching Inteledit

Asus announced a few days ago that the company will soon be launching its brand new segment of ProArt Creator series laptops that will feature AMD Ryzen CPUs & NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus Vivobook Flip 14 (2021) Ryzen 5500U Review: Perfect for Everyday Useedit

The new Asus Vivobook Flip (2021) makes settling for a budget laptop a little easier. Vivobooks are Asus’ budget offerings and the Vivobook Flip offers something for everyone. The Vivobook Flip this year is offered in both AMD and Intel CPUs but you only get the AMD variants here.

Publication: MySmartPrice

Fortnite game to shift to Unreal Engine 5? Here is what we know so faredit

Popular battle royale game Fortnite developers recently revealed their plan to shift the game to Unreal Engine 5. Owners of AMD Ryzen CPUs and Radeon graphics cards are likely the first in line for getting these benefits.

Publication: HT Tech

Intel Unveils Roadmap To Recover Lost Gloryedit

Intel has unveiled a roadmap to make up lost ground in the chip manufacturing industry. The chip giant intends to accelerate its investments and drive innovation to power Intel through 2025 and beyond.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE review: A gaming ninjaedit

Gaming laptops are like sports cars, you don’t necessarily need them but those who want it will have them no matter how expensive they are. While reviewing the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE, I had a similar feeling. Inside, you have got a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, 32GB of memory, 2TB of SSD storage, and GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.

Publication: The Indian Express

Meet India’s Top 5 Gaming Content Creators Who’re Raking in The Moolahedit

Aaditya Sawant, better known by his channel name Dynamo Gaming, the popular PUBG Mobile player now turned as BGMI creator has over 9.8 million subscribers on YouTube and 2 million followers on Instagram. He has collaborated with brands like HP India, AMD India, ASUS and other brands for multiple campaigns.

Publication: Inside Sport

Intel’s Xe-HPG DG2 512 EU might be released during CES 2022edit

According to a popular Chinese hardware account at Weibo, Intel will be launching its first discrete graphics cards based on the Xe-HPG DG2 GPU architecture at CES 2022. The chip will reportedly measure at around 396mm2 and is bigger than the AMD RDNA 2 and NVIDIA Ampere offerings. And it will also come in the BGA-2660 package which measures 37.5mm x 43mm.

Publication: TechnoSports

Competition in news

Production cuts, delays and plant closures: Chip crunch hurts global manufacturingedit

AMD: CEO Lisa Su said in July that though supply chain was tight, the company has been planning well with its partners.

Publication: Business Standard

Govt Seeks Info to up IT Hardware Sopsedit

MAIT, which has Acer, Cisco, Dell, HP, Intel and Samsung among others as its members, made a presentation to minister of state for IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, last week, seeking an expansion of the current outlay along with hiking the incentive rate to 5% from the current average of 2.3% annually.

Publication: The Economic Times

Perfect Budget PC Build in 2021… Great Potential !!edit

Best Budget Gaming PC Build india 2021 | Best Budget intel 10th Gen Gaming PC Build india 2021

Publication: Vimal Chintapatla

Rebooting education and empowering the next generation of innovatorsedit

Opinion: Hybrid models are a welcome step towards greater access, flexibility, robustness, and equity; but education systems must always be ready for learning to take place anywhere and prepare students to take on the challenges of the future.

Publication: The Indian Express

Asus to soon launch its ProArt Creator series laptops powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5000 ditching Inteledit

Asus announced a few days ago that the company will soon be launching its brand new segment of ProArt Creator series laptops that will feature AMD Ryzen CPUs & NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel’s Alder Lake CPU with 16 cores and 24 threads spotted onlineedit

Internet is filled with many rumors and leaks and according to recent rumors we now have the Intel Alder Lake-S Desktop CPU entry which features 16 cores and 24 threads which are spotted over at UserBenchmark by TUM_APISAK.

Publication: TechnoSports

RedmiBook laptop revelations and expectations: Sub-Rs 40,000 price or higher for 11th Gen Intel?edit

RedmiBook laptops are going to offer Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors. That is good to see given that not many affordable laptops under Rs 50,000 offer 11th Gen chips.

Publication: BGR

New variants of ASUS TUF Gaming F15 with Core i7-11800H or RTX 3060 are now available on Amazonedit

ASUS launched the TUF Gaming F15 gaming laptop with up to Core i9-11900H & RTX 3060 and for quite some time very few models of the laptop were available. Now, however, you have a lot of them on Amazon India.

Publication: TechnoSports

Realme Book laptop in Blue and Grey colour variants teased ahead of launchedit

According to various reports, the Realme Book will get a 14-inch LCD display with FHD resolution. It will be powered by the latest 11th gen Intel processors, and it would also support Windows 11.

Publication: 91Mobiles

Govt seeks info to up PLI sops for IT hardwareedit

The government has sought estimates of production, exports and the nature of value addition that will take place if the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware were to be expanded beyond ₹7,325 crore.

Publication: The Economic Times

Lenovo YOGA Duet 2021 4G 2-in-1 will go on sale on August 3 in China for 7499 yuanedit

Lenovo has recently confirmed that on its official website that the new YOGA Duet 2021 4G 2-in-1 notebook will go on August 3 for 7,499 yuan or 1,160 USD or 86,300 INR. It is more like an upgrade over its predecessor with the new YOGA Duet 2021 4G 2-in-1 notebook featuring an 11th generation Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor with a boost frequency of up to 4.2GHz.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus Vivobook Flip 14 (2021) Ryzen 5500U Review: Perfect for Everyday Useedit

The new Asus Vivobook Flip (2021) makes settling for a budget laptop a little easier. Vivobooks are Asus’ budget offerings and the Vivobook Flip offers something for everyone. The Vivobook Flip this year is offered in both AMD and Intel CPUs but you only get the AMD variants here.

Publication: MySmartPrice

Oversize #29: Intel’s plan to reclaim chipmaker crown by 2025edit

Adecade ago, Intel was worth $118 billion, $40 billion more than Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Combined. Today, Intel is up to nearly $220 billion. However, the others total up to $1.1 trillion.

Publication: The Morning Context

Fortnite game to shift to Unreal Engine 5? Here is what we know so faredit

Popular battle royale game Fortnite developers recently revealed their plan to shift the game to Unreal Engine 5. Owners of AMD Ryzen CPUs and Radeon graphics cards are likely the first in line for getting these benefits.

Publication: HT Tech

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE review: A gaming ninjaedit

Gaming laptops are like sports cars, you don’t necessarily need them but those who want it will have them no matter how expensive they are. While reviewing the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE, I had a similar feeling. Inside, you have got a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, 32GB of memory, 2TB of SSD storage, and GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.

Publication: The Indian Express

Intel’s Xe-HPG DG2 512 EU might be released during CES 2022edit

According to a popular Chinese hardware account at Weibo, Intel will be launching its first discrete graphics cards based on the Xe-HPG DG2 GPU architecture at CES 2022. The chip will reportedly measure at around 396mm2 and is bigger than the AMD RDNA 2 and NVIDIA Ampere offerings. And it will also come in the BGA-2660 package which measures 37.5mm x 43mm.

Publication: TechnoSports

Partner in news

Production cuts, delays and plant closures: Chip crunch hurts global manufacturingedit

AMD: CEO Lisa Su said in July that though supply chain was tight, the company has been planning well with its partners.

Publication: Business Standard

Govt Seeks Info to up IT Hardware Sopsedit

MAIT, which has Acer, Cisco, Dell, HP, Intel and Samsung among others as its members, made a presentation to minister of state for IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, last week, seeking an expansion of the current outlay along with hiking the incentive rate to 5% from the current average of 2.3% annually.

Publication: The Economic Times

Exclusive interview with Abhilash GK, BU Head-SDI, Lenovo ISG, Asia Pacificedit

In our latest episode of the Podcast series, Shivani Muthyala, Content Analyst at Analytics Insight, speaks to Abhilash GK, BU Head-SDI, Lenovo ISG, Asia Pacific. Abhilash who sheds light on how AI, Cloud Computing and Analytics are transforming Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Acer encourages all to ‘Live Your World’ this Acer Dayedit

The annual Acer Day celebration is back this year and will be held virtually across 10 Asia Pacific regions. Acer Day Sale in India is all ready to begin on August 03 and it will continue for three days till August 05.

Publication: Express Computer

HP Chromebook 11a Review: Great budget option for the new normaledit

HP Chromebook 11a is powered by the Mediatek MT8183 processor paired with 4GB of RAM. It gets 64GB of eMMC storage for the OS as well as your offline files. When you purchase this notebook, you also get 100GB of Google Drive storage for one year.

Publication: India TV

Asus to soon launch its ProArt Creator series laptops powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5000 ditching Inteledit

Asus announced a few days ago that the company will soon be launching its brand new segment of ProArt Creator series laptops that will feature AMD Ryzen CPUs & NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

RedmiBook laptop revelations and expectations: Sub-Rs 40,000 price or higher for 11th Gen Intel?edit

RedmiBook laptops are going to offer Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors. That is good to see given that not many affordable laptops under Rs 50,000 offer 11th Gen chips.

Publication: BGR

New variants of ASUS TUF Gaming F15 with Core i7-11800H or RTX 3060 are now available on Amazonedit

ASUS launched the TUF Gaming F15 gaming laptop with up to Core i9-11900H & RTX 3060 and for quite some time very few models of the laptop were available. Now, however, you have a lot of them on Amazon India.

Publication: TechnoSports

Realme Book laptop in Blue and Grey colour variants teased ahead of launchedit

According to various reports, the Realme Book will get a 14-inch LCD display with FHD resolution. It will be powered by the latest 11th gen Intel processors, and it would also support Windows 11.

Publication: 91Mobiles

Govt seeks info to up PLI sops for IT hardwareedit

The government has sought estimates of production, exports and the nature of value addition that will take place if the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware were to be expanded beyond ₹7,325 crore.

Publication: The Economic Times

Lenovo YOGA Duet 2021 4G 2-in-1 will go on sale on August 3 in China for 7499 yuanedit

Lenovo has recently confirmed that on its official website that the new YOGA Duet 2021 4G 2-in-1 notebook will go on August 3 for 7,499 yuan or 1,160 USD or 86,300 INR. It is more like an upgrade over its predecessor with the new YOGA Duet 2021 4G 2-in-1 notebook featuring an 11th generation Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor with a boost frequency of up to 4.2GHz.

Publication: TechnoSports

Asus Vivobook Flip 14 (2021) Ryzen 5500U Review: Perfect for Everyday Useedit

The new Asus Vivobook Flip (2021) makes settling for a budget laptop a little easier. Vivobooks are Asus’ budget offerings and the Vivobook Flip offers something for everyone. The Vivobook Flip this year is offered in both AMD and Intel CPUs but you only get the AMD variants here.

Publication: MySmartPrice

Intel Unveils Roadmap To Recover Lost Gloryedit

Intel has unveiled a roadmap to make up lost ground in the chip manufacturing industry. The chip giant intends to accelerate its investments and drive innovation to power Intel through 2025 and beyond.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE review: A gaming ninjaedit

Gaming laptops are like sports cars, you don’t necessarily need them but those who want it will have them no matter how expensive they are. While reviewing the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE, I had a similar feeling. Inside, you have got a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, 32GB of memory, 2TB of SSD storage, and GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.

Publication: The Indian Express

Industry news

Govt Seeks Info to up IT Hardware Sopsedit

MAIT, which has Acer, Cisco, Dell, HP, Intel and Samsung among others as its members, made a presentation to minister of state for IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, last week, seeking an expansion of the current outlay along with hiking the incentive rate to 5% from the current average of 2.3% annually.

Publication: The Economic Times

Why chips are in short supplyedit

The start of the Covid-19 crisis in early 2020 prompted a global spending spree on electronic items — from extra monitors as people rushed to set up home offices, to televisions and games consoles for beating lockdown boredom.

Publication: The HinduBusinessLine

Gartner Says Four Trends Are Shaping the Future of Public Cloudedit

Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner, Inc.

Publication: Express Computer

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