French video game company Ubisoft has admitted that a cyber security incident temporarily disrupted some games, systems and services. The incident came to light after graphics chip maker Nvidia and South Korean giant Samsung suffered a data breach this month.

Publication: SiaSat

US sanctions on Russia landed soon after the invasion, restricting sales of chips and other technology to Russia’s strategic industries. While the curbs don’t require chip makers to stop all sales to Russia, many have done so, including market leaders Intel Corp., Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Russia isn’t a major market for chip-makers, analysts say.

Publication: MINT

Strategic partnership with Taiwan, a leading global hub for semiconductor design and manufacturing, with leading producers of the semiconductor chip like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which caters to the needs of Apple, Intel, AMD, Nvidia and other conglomerates, can be a good beginning in this direction.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

I had a great unboxing experience. The box included the Tab, the carry sleeve, the keyboard and the hardback magnetic cover. Oh yes, there was also the Asus Stylus Pen. To me, this was a complete work package that I need for my travels and work.

Publication: Mashable India

According to The Register, both Dell and Lenovo are planning to forego Microsoft’s Pluton technology in business PCs, which Microsoft launched two years ago as a superior means of incorporating security directly into the CPU. Qualcomm and Intel were initially hesitant to support the technology, but AMD — which had helped create the technology to safeguard the Xbox gaming system — was more eager.

Publication: BollyInside

The festival of Holi is almost upon us, and we cannot help but look forward to getting bathed in all kinds of colours. The annual occasion brings out a unique sense of delight in all of us, and much of it has to do with the sheer number of colours that are on display. You can extend this delight further during this Holi by choosing from a host of colourful 11th Gen Intel® Core™ laptops that are available in the market. Let us give you a list of 10 such laptops which will bring more colours into your life this Holi.

Publication: 91Mobiles

Lenovo IdeaPad D330 82H0001YIN Laptop Intel Celeron N4020/4GB/128GB SSD/Windows 10 is a good choice that you can go for. The laptop is equipped with a Intel Celeron N4020 with 1.1 GHz clock speed that lets you multitask with ease and experience faster performance.

Publication: Gadgets Now

Intel’s blockchain bets are paying off, with the most recent design win coming from one of the world’s largest bitcoin mining operations. Hive, a blockchain startup, stated that it has contracted to buy Intel’s next-generation “BMZ2” Bonanza Mine ASICs. Hive said that the inclusion of Intel’s forthcoming CPUs would nearly quadruple its bitcoin mining power, increasing it from 1.9 to 3.8 exahashes per second (Eh/s). The chips will be used in Compute North LLC’s new 100 MW renewable-energy-focused installation in Texas.

Publication: TechnoSports

Within Intel’s Graphics System Controller Firmware Update library in Linux, the SOC3, Intel’s third DG2 GPU based on the Xe-HPG architecture, has been found. The Intel SOC1 ‘DG2-512’ and the SOC2 ‘DG2-128’ are the only Xe-HPG powered DG2 GPUs we’ve seen so far. Both of these processors are based on the TSMC 6nm fabrication node, however, Intel appears to be working on another product.

Publication: TechnoSports

Xilinx designs develop and markets complete programmable logic solutions. The company’s solutions include advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as cores of logic, and field engineering support. It is the world’s leading provider of all programmable FPGAs, MPSoCs, SoCs, and 3D ICs, enabling the next generation of smarter, connected, and differentiated systems and networks.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Also, the new customizations with various Armor caps have been a fan favourite of this series, now, ASUS introducing new color options. Also, the tease confirms the Intel variants with 12th processors will surely make their way paired with NVIDIA’s RTX 30-series GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

With news of the Nvidia RTX 40 and AMD RX 6000 series updates, we can’t forget that Intel is putting the finishing touches on its ARC Alchemist GPU lineup. According to Igors Labs (via Toms Hardware), the series is expected to launch in May-June.

Publication: Techstory

The GeForce MX550 discrete GPU from NVIDIA has been tested, and it just edges out an AMD RDNA 2 ‘Radeon 680M’ integrated GPU. The Turing TU117 GPU is used by the NVIDIA GeForce MX550.

Publication: TechnoSports

Previously, AMD played the game of providing great multi-core performance, however, Intel has taken this very seriously as these efficient cores are really powerful enough to almost give a performance of ten full-fledged scores.

Publication: TechnoSports

This week brought news of a new Spectre BHB vulnerability that only affects Intel and Arm chips, but Intel’s investigation into these new attack routes uncovered another issue: Since 2018, one of the patches AMD deployed to fix the Spectre vulnerabilities has been broken. STORM, Intel’s security team, discovered the flaw in AMD’s solution. As a result, AMD has published a security warning and modified its guidelines to offer an alternative way for mitigating the Spectre vulnerabilities, thus resolving the problem.

Publication: TechnoSports

The RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT are part of AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 ‘RDNA 2 Refresh’ graphics card portfolio, which will be available on April 20th. There are multiple rumours that the new cards will include midnight black edition reference versions, though their availability has not been confirmed.

Publication: TechnoSports