AMD specific news
AMD processors accelerating the performance of top Supercomputers Worldwide (PROACTIVE)edit
During this year’s Supercomputing Conference 2021 (SC21), AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) is showcasing its expanded presence and growing preference in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry with exceptional innovation and adoption of AMD data center processors and accelerators. Customers across the industry continue to expand their use of AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators to power cutting-edge research needed to address some of the world’s biggest challenges in climate, life sciences, medicine, and more.
Publication: PinkVilla Tech
AMD to Record Highest Growth Rate of 65% Among Chipmakers in 2021, Intel w/ Negative Growth [Report]edit
AMD is expected to top the annual revenue growth rate chart for 2021 with a massive increase of 65% in earnings. Team Red is slated to lead the impressive growth rate achieved by most chipmakers in the post-COVID environment despite the shortages. AMD will be followed by MediaTek and NVIDIA with growth rates of 60% and 54%, respectively. The last two years have been absolutely fabulous for Dr. Lisa Su and Co, with record revenue reports nearly quarter.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD May One-Up Apple by Leveraging Samsung’s 3nm GAA Process Node for Zen 5edit
The latest whispers from the semiconductor industry indicate that foundry competition may be heating up in the next round. AMD has been using TSMC’s 7nm (N7) process for both its Zen 2, Zen 3, RDNA, RDNA 2, as well as the console SoCs may ditch the Taiwanese foundry for South Korea’s Samsung foundries. According to a report from DigiTimes, Samsung is slated to mass-produce its 3nm GAA-based chips in the first half of 2022, much like TSMC (the latter is sticking to FinFet instead of GAA for its 3nm nodes).
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD brand mentions
Asus TUF A15 spews poweredit
It has been a fantastic year for the gaming industry. There has been plenty of action on the acquisition front among video game developers, arrival of new gaming rigs (though released late last year) as well as a slew of great gaming laptops, one of which is the Asus TUF A15. Asus, in fact, has made tremendous progress with gaming laptops that look snazzy, work effortlessly and offer good battery life. The machine we have is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (with Radeon graphics) and that makes a big difference on the performance front.
Publication: The Telegraph
Intel’s $200 Core i5-12400 Tackles AMD’s $300 Ryzen 5 5600X in Content Creation Benchmarksedit
While Intel’s newly launched Alder Lake-S processors are impressive in their own right, they have failed to beat AMD’s Ryzen 5000 offerings in terms of sales and popularity. Much of this boils down to supply and the troubles of upgrading to a brand new platform with a new memory standard (DDR5). As a result of this, Z690 motherboards and the Core i9-12900K have been witnessing luke-warm sales despite offering better gaming and single-threaded performance than any other CPU on the market.
Publication: Hardware Times
Competition in news
LTTS helps NVIDIA and Mavenir to accelerate AI-on-5G platformedit
L&T Technology Services Ltd (LTTS) said it has been selected as an engineering partner by Mavenir and NVIDIA, to accelerate adoption of the industry’s first converged AI-on-5G.
Publication: Mint
Dell Inspiron 16 Plus review: A semi creator laptop with lot of potentialedit
Although the creator laptop segment falls in the ultra-high-end segment, its market potential is huge, especially with the surge in young digital creators. While the choices available in the “pro” segment are growing, brands like Dell have started to realise that they need to offer options that cater to budding creators who aren’t willing to spend big bucks on top-tier hardware. The new Inspiron 16 Plus is designed to meet the needs of such customers but without sacrificing the raw performance expected from a creator-centric notebook.
Publication: Indian Express
L&T Technology Servicesedit
Bags order from NVIDIA and Mavenir to accelerate adoption of AI-on-5G
Publication: Business Standard
Intel’s $200 Core i5-12400 Tackles AMD’s $300 Ryzen 5 5600X in Content Creation Benchmarksedit
While Intel’s newly launched Alder Lake-S processors are impressive in their own right, they have failed to beat AMD’s Ryzen 5000 offerings in terms of sales and popularity. Much of this boils down to supply and the troubles of upgrading to a brand new platform with a new memory standard (DDR5). As a result of this, Z690 motherboards and the Core i9-12900K have been witnessing luke-warm sales despite offering better gaming and single-threaded performance than any other CPU on the market.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA Image Scaling Limited to DX11 GPUs, Not for Vulkan/OpenGL as is, Unlike AMD FSRedit
Some interesting facts about NVIDIA’s newly open-sourced Image Scaling technology have come to light. According to users on the Phoronix forums, unlike AMD’s FSR spatial upscaler, NVIDIA’s NIS is a D3D compute shader (FSR is a generic HLSL/GLSL shader compatible with any API and hardware) limited to DX11+ compatible games and systems. Furthermore, NIS is much more abstract and high-level compared to FSR which makes it hard to customize and tweak depending upon the game.
Publication: Hardware Times
Partner in news
Asus TUF A15 spews poweredit
It has been a fantastic year for the gaming industry. There has been plenty of action on the acquisition front among video game developers, arrival of new gaming rigs (though released late last year) as well as a slew of great gaming laptops, one of which is the Asus TUF A15. Asus, in fact, has made tremendous progress with gaming laptops that look snazzy, work effortlessly and offer good battery life. The machine we have is powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (with Radeon graphics) and that makes a big difference on the performance front.
Publication: The Telegraph
Dell Inspiron 16 Plus review: A semi creator laptop with lot of potentialedit
Although the creator laptop segment falls in the ultra-high-end segment, its market potential is huge, especially with the surge in young digital creators. While the choices available in the “pro” segment are growing, brands like Dell have started to realise that they need to offer options that cater to budding creators who aren’t willing to spend big bucks on top-tier hardware. The new Inspiron 16 Plus is designed to meet the needs of such customers but without sacrificing the raw performance expected from a creator-centric notebook.
Publication: Indian Express
ASUS further strengthens its retail presence in Maharashtraedit
ASUS India has announced the launch of its Exclusive store in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The outlet will feature the entire range of Notebooks and Netbooks that have been launched in India till date. Arnold Su, Branch Head – Pune, System Business Group, ASUS India, said, Maharashtra has a large and well-informed youth population who are increasingly looking for speed, entertainment, convenience and mobility in PCs.
Publication: Punya Nagiri
Microsoft Surface Go 3 Launched in India, Available to Pre-Book on Amazonedit
Microsoft Surface Go 3 two-in-one laptop that launched in September, is now available to pre-order in India. As an upgrade to the existing Surface Go 2, the Surface Go 3 is rated to deliver 60 percent faster performance through the 10th-generation Intel Core i3 processor. Customers can also choose the base model that ships with Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y processor. The device is available in a Platinum finish, and pre-ordering customers will get a complimentary Surface Pen worth Rs 9,699.
Publication: Navashakti
Industry news
India’s digital transformation in pandemic akin to mobile revolution: IBM’s Arvind Krishnaedit
India’s rapid digital transformation over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic is similar to what the country did with its mobile phone revolution, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna says.
Publication: The Economic Times
Qualcomm shares rise to record high on ambitious growth targetsedit
The push by Qualcomm Inc.’s new chief executive to diversify into everything from cars to connected devices now comes with ambitious targets that are boosting investor sentiment for the company best known for providing cellphone chips.
Publication: Mint
IT Cos are Stealing a March on Rivalsedit
The buoyancy in hiring in the tech and startup space and plummeting offer acceptance rates are pushing companies to think of new strategies to gain advantage in the talent hunt game. These include “stealing” candidates who are serving notice period (and are set to join a new firm).(Infosys)
Publication: The Economic Times
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