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AMD Radeon RDNA 2 “Exclipse 920” GPU on Exynos 2200 is Only 17% Faster than Exynos 2100’s Maki GPUedit
Samsung’s Exynos 2200 SoC featuring the Exclipse 920 is reportedly just 17% faster than its predecessor, the Mali-G78 graphics (on the Exynos 2100). Based on AMD’s Radeon RDNA 2 graphics architecture, the Exclipse 920 is supposed to be one of the key highlights of the Exynos 2200. Boasting support for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing courtesy of dedicated Ray Accelerators, Samsung has been promising console-grade graphics with its next-gen SoC.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD CPU Share Reaches Record High of 25.6%, Driven by Strong Server, Notebook Salesedit
AMD achieved a record CPU market share of 25.6% by the end of 2021. Although Intel regained much of the lost market in the client segment, AMD had a strong server, enterprise, and data center portfolio, resulting in an over 10% share by the end of 2021. Ironically, the desktop market which has been Team Red’s primary home base saw Intel regaining 3 points market share, pushing the underdog to just 16% in Q4 2021 from 19% in Q4 2020.
Publication: Hardware Times
Rs 75000 PC Build | Ryzen 7 5700Gedit
Rs 75000 PC Build with Ryzen 7 5700G.
Publication: ModxComputers
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Technological Twist!edit
PlayStation 5’s main hardware features include a solid-state drive customized for high-speed data streaming to enable significant improvements in storage performance, an AMD GPU capable of 4K resolution display at up to 120 frames per second, hardware-accelerated ray tracing for realistic lighting and reflections, and the Tempest Engine allowing for hardware-accelerated 3D audio effects. Other features include the Dual Sense controller with haptic feedback and backward compatibility with most of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games.
Publication: The Hans India
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Intel May Make AVX-512 a Paid DLC-Styled Add-On for Next-Gen Xeon Sapphire Rapids-X CPUsedit
Intel has added support for its Software Defined Silicon “SDSi” functionality to the next version of Linux. Although still a murky topic, the primary impact of SDSi on microprocessors will be similar to the impact of paid DLCs on AAA games. Locked features (instructions?) that can be only enabled by paying an additional fee. The kernel mainlining of the necessary software support has been expanded to land with Linux 5.18.
Publication: Hardware Times
Microsoft, NVIDIA test waters for a large-scale generative language model with promising resultsedit
Thanks to self-supervised learning, few-shot, zero-shot, and fine-tuning techniques, the size of the language models are growing each passing day significantly, calling for high-performance hardware, software, and algorithms to enable training large models.
Publication: Analytics India
Acer Aspire 3 powered by 11th Gen Intel Processor is the company’s second Make In India laptopedit
Acer India has announced new 11th gen Intel-driven Aspire 3 laptops under its Make in India campaign. This is the second such laptop from the brand and is made in its Noida facility. Coming to the laptop’s specs, you are getting three models based on the internal machinery — an Intel Core i3 variant, a Core i5 with Intel iris Xe graphics, and a Core i5 with Nvidia GeForce MX350 graphics.
Publication: Digit
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AMD Radeon RDNA 2 “Exclipse 920” GPU on Exynos 2200 is Only 17% Faster than Exynos 2100’s Maki GPUedit
Samsung’s Exynos 2200 SoC featuring the Exclipse 920 is reportedly just 17% faster than its predecessor, the Mali-G78 graphics (on the Exynos 2100). Based on AMD’s Radeon RDNA 2 graphics architecture, the Exclipse 920 is supposed to be one of the key highlights of the Exynos 2200. Boasting support for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing courtesy of dedicated Ray Accelerators, Samsung has been promising console-grade graphics with its next-gen SoC.
Publication: Hardware Times
Best 4K monitor 2022: Not just for gamersedit
It has a refresh rate of 60Hz that’s serviceable for everyday tasks and office work, as well as support for AMD FreeSync Premium variable refresh rate technology to prevent screen stuttering. Along with HDMI and DisplayPort connections, it also has USB ports for connecting peripherals like keyboards and mice or external storage drives.
Publication: TechnologyForYou
Sony releases voice commands feature to PS5 in new beta updateedit
The voice command preview will only be available in the UK and the US, but it is likely that it will be available globally once the feature is out of the beta stage. Players selected to participate in the betas will receive email invitations when the updates are available to download.
Publication: Telangana Today
Microsoft to let Sony PS fans play CoD for years: Brad Smithedit
An obvious concern was that Microsoft could make CoD available exclusively on the Xbox console, undermining opportunities for Sony PlayStation users
Publication: Business Standard
Acer Aspire 3 powered by 11th Gen Intel Processor is the company’s second Make In India laptopedit
Acer India has announced new 11th gen Intel-driven Aspire 3 laptops under its Make in India campaign. This is the second such laptop from the brand and is made in its Noida facility. Coming to the laptop’s specs, you are getting three models based on the internal machinery — an Intel Core i3 variant, a Core i5 with Intel iris Xe graphics, and a Core i5 with Nvidia GeForce MX350 graphics.
Publication: Digit
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Technological Twist!edit
PlayStation 5’s main hardware features include a solid-state drive customized for high-speed data streaming to enable significant improvements in storage performance, an AMD GPU capable of 4K resolution display at up to 120 frames per second, hardware-accelerated ray tracing for realistic lighting and reflections, and the Tempest Engine allowing for hardware-accelerated 3D audio effects. Other features include the Dual Sense controller with haptic feedback and backward compatibility with most of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games.
Publication: The Hans India
Rs 75000 PC Build | Ryzen 7 5700Gedit
Rs 75000 PC Build with Ryzen 7 5700G.
Publication: ModxComputers
Industry news
How Cloud Continuum Is The Key To Thriving During Uncertaintiesedit
Cloud Continuum is a continually evolving operating model for innovation and, at a panel discussion organised jointly by Mint and Accenture, we explored what this migration holds for the world’s organisations. Read on to know more!
Publication: Mint
Cloud computing can help companies manage their Human Resourceedit
Human Resource functions have always been considered as the backbone powerhouse of organizations but have traditionally been relatively slower in technology adoption.
Publication: People Matters
TCS: Big Demand for Sustainability Suiteedit
India’s largest software services provider by revenue, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is seeing increased demand for technology-based solutions in the area of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), a senior executive told ET. On Thursday, TCS said its suite of sustainability solutions consisting of TCS Clever Energy Intelligent Power Plant (IP2) and TCS Envirozone will be available on Microsoft’s Azure Internet of Things (IoT) platform to help organizations gain insights into energy usage and reduce waste and emissions to accelerate towards their net-zero goals.
Publication: The Economic Times
Indian SaaS Firms Using AI Could Create Millions of Jobs’edit
The report, titled ‘AI Enabled SaaS: The Next Frontier for Global SaaS Startups from India’, said India’s AI opportunity could create more than 900,000 white-collar jobs and 3. 6 million new indirect jobs by 2030. We believe that globally, AI represents around $900 billion revenue opportunity by 2030 from infrastructure, applications and services,” it said. Based on an industry-wide study conducted in collaboration with tech giants including Cisco, Infosys, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, and Freshworks, the report said India’s opportunity will lie in AI-first software applications, AI application programming interfaces (API), platform BPO services and data stack services.
Publication: The Economic Times
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