September 8, 2021

AMD specific news

AMD Radeon RX 580 Gaming Performance Increased by up to 18% Since Launch, Courtesy of Driver Updatesedit

AMD’s Radeon RX 580 has been one of the chipmaker’s most popular video cards. Based on the Polaris architecture that debuted more than six years back, the RX 570/580 lineup keeps coming back from the abyss, courtesy of cryptominers and video card shortages. According to testing conducted by “Testing Gaming” it appears that AMD has been consistently optimizing its graphics drivers for Polaris. Over the last four years or so, the game performance of the RX 580 has improved by up to 18%.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD brand mentions

Acer Swift X Premium Launched in India: Specifications and Priceedit

Acer India has announced the launch of its new Thin and light laptop – Acer Swift X the newest member of its premium Swift line of laptops, the first of its series to come powered with RTX 30 series discrete graphics. It’s housed with a revolutionary AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors and the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card for a powerhouse performance in an ultra-thin form factor. With up to 4.4 GHz, 8 cores, and 16 processing threads, this thin and light laptop is capable of rendering 4K videos to churning through spreadsheets without breaking a sweat.

Publication: PC Quest

AMD drops shares again in the latest Steam Hardware Surveyedit

Though the Red team is very much dominant in the CPU market in the latest Steam Hardware Survey for August, we see a drop in market shares for AMD again. Though in July, they did gain 0.65% of the total CPU market share, accounting for 29.18% market share, while Intel came with 70.82% market share.

Publication: TechnoSports

Competition in news

Intel NUC X15 is a reference gaming laptop kit powered by an 11th gen Core i7-11800H CPU & RTX 3070 GPUedit

Intel has released a reference gaming laptop kit called the NUC X15. We’re looking at a handful of configurations for this laptop, all powered by the Tiger Lake processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. We’re not entirely sure about the companies that plan on releasing the NUC X15 kit, but we do know all the confirmed specifications of all configurations, via Notebookcheck.

Publication: Digit

AMD drops shares again in the latest Steam Hardware Surveyedit

Though the Red team is very much dominant in the CPU market in the latest Steam Hardware Survey for August, we see a drop in market shares for AMD again. Though in July, they did gain 0.65% of the total CPU market share, accounting for 29.18% market share, while Intel came with 70.82% market share.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel Xe-HPG Graphics Card to Compete with AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT and NVIDIA RTX 3070edit

Intel’s Xe-HPG graphics cards are slated to launch in the first half of 2022. Since this will be the company’s first real foray into the discrete graphics card market, a lot needs to go well for a successful launch. Going by rumors and leaks, it looks like Intel will focus on the mid to upper midrange GPU market segments, along with gaming notebooks. This was confirmed by @Greymon on Twitter earlier today who believes that the DG2’s official competitors will be the GeForce RTX 3070 from NVIDIA and the Radeon RX 6700 XT from AMD.

Publication: Hardware Times

Partner in news

Acer Swift X Premium Launched in India: Specifications and Priceedit

Acer India has announced the launch of its new Thin and light laptop – Acer Swift X the newest member of its premium Swift line of laptops, the first of its series to come powered with RTX 30 series discrete graphics. It’s housed with a revolutionary AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors and the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card for a powerhouse performance in an ultra-thin form factor. With up to 4.4 GHz, 8 cores, and 16 processing threads, this thin and light laptop is capable of rendering 4K videos to churning through spreadsheets without breaking a sweat.

Publication: PC Quest

Acer Swift X Laptop With AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processor Launched in Indiaedit

Acer Swift X laptop was launched in the Indian market on Tuesday, September 7. It comes with the latest AMD Ryzen 5000 series processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card. The laptop has an all-metal chassis and comes in a variety of colours. It is lightweight weighing just at 1.39kg and is just 17.9mm thin. The notebook comes equipped with a 14-inch full-HD+ IPS display that covers 100 percent of the sRGB colour gamut. The company claims that the Acer Swift X offers up to 15 hours of battery life and is aimed at creative professionals, content editors, and streamers.

Publication: NDTV Gadgets360

Industry news

Dell Technologies launches telecom solutions in Indiaedit

Celebrating 5 years of successfully enabling customers with new-age innovative technology solutions, Dell Technologies has come up with new and enhanced offerings for communication service providers. Building on its vast experience helping companies digitally transform, Dell Technologies is anchoring the open, cloud-native telecom ecosystem—with infrastructure and solutions, industry partners and a new innovation lab—to put communications service providers (CSPs) on the fast track for innovation and revenue growth.

Publication: Express Computers

Apple A15 Powering iPhone 13 May Perform 13.7% Better, Will Samsung’s Upcoming AMD GPU Match it?edit

Apple iPhone 13 series is expected to debut on September 14. The company is expected to launch four new iPhone 13 models, including a mini variant alongside the Pro and Pro Max models. The four iPhones will launch as a successor to the iPhone 12 series launched last year. Apple is expected to make some internal upgrades in the iPhone 13 series.

Publication: MySmartPrice

Broken chipsedit

Just as India’s economy is charting a tentative recovery from Covid, its automobile and electronics industries are at the receiving end of global semi-conductor supply chain disruptions threatening the turnaround. With manufacturers such as Maruti and M&M cutting output significantly, the chip shortage looks likely to take the sheen out of upcoming festival sales. While the industry is hoping it will be resolved in a quarter, agencies such as Goldman Sachs predict, based on manufacturing lead times, that it could be 2023 before global chip supplies get back to pre-pandemic levels.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

As gaming takes off, demand for design & engg skills soaredit

Ashwin Jaishanker, co-founder and CEO of AutoVrse, which has been offering AR/VR (augmented reality and virtual reality) solutions for industrial training and which is now looking to make a VR-based game, says the gaming ecosystem in India has changed over the last few years as the barriers to entry have come down. That’s in part because Unity and Unreal Engine – the two platforms most used to develop mobile and desktop games – have released their source codes. This, Jaishankar says, has made it easy for game developers to create games at a more rapid pace.

Publication: The Times of India

How to collaborate across home and office perfectlyedit

Alysha Sidhartha, partner account manager for Teams Rooms at Microsoft India, said as organisations return to office and redesign physical spaces, they need to plan for extreme flexibility. She said this needs to be done with investment in technology that enables teamwork and creates a new digital experience that follows employees wherever they go.

Publication: The Times of India

Qualcomm’s chips to power Ola’s electric scootersedit

From powering mobile devices, US chip designer Qualcomm has tied up with Ola Electric to power its newly just launched electric scooters. Qualcomm is providing the key 4G connected octa core android platform which provides connectivity, computing capabilities and enables rich immersive displays with power saving software.

Publication: Business Standard

Ubisoft is giving away Far Cry 3 for Free on PC for a limited timeedit

Ubisoft is giving away the game on Ubisoft Connect, which means one would need to create a Ubisoft account in order to claim the game for free. Even if you don’t have a PC right now, then too you can just claim the game and once you get your hands on a system, you’d just need to login in to your Ubisoft account on Ubisoft Connect app and from there you can simply download the game.

Publication: TechQuila

Shortage of Silicon Engineers in the Bay Area Highlights US Reliance on Asian Foundriesedit

The semiconductor shortages have affected the entire world, with industries from PC to automobile scrambling to get a share of the limited chip supply. One of the many things the world (especially the US) had to accept in the aftermath was the acute reliance on Chinese and Taiwanese foundries for nearly the entirety of the chip supply. Although much of the IP and design is still carried out in the US and EU, manufacturing and packaging are done in Asian countries.

Publication: Hardware Times

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