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Chip Giant AMD to Buy This Cloud Startup For $1.9 Billionedit
Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it would acquire cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 billion to bolster its data center products and capitalize on booming demand from cloud and enterprise sectors. AMD said the deal value does not include working capital and other adjustments.
Publication :Think Wink
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors, Radeon RX 7000 GPU get production boostedit
AMD’s partner Tongfu Microelectronics has confirmed increasing the production of upcoming AMD CPUs and GPUs to prevent a chip shortage.Tongfu Microelectronics reported a net income of 15.812 billion yuan in 2021, a 46.84 percent YoY growthAMD 5nm Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 CPUs are tipped to be mass produced later this month.
Publication : 91 Mobiles
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Vultr opens cloud data centre in Mumbaiedit
The opening marks Vultrs 25th global location and brings easy to use, high-performance cloud infrastructure to Indian businesses and developers at affordable, predictable prices, enabling users to provision Optimized Cloud Compute instances powered by 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors, as well as Cloud Compute instances powered by Intel Xeon CPUs.
Publication : Express Computer
QpiAI & Quantrol Ox sign MoU to develop 25qubit quantum computing testbededit
QpiAI Advisory board also has industry stalwarts like Dr Madhusudan Atre former India head and Managing Director of AMD, Applied Materials, LSI, Lucent Microelectronics; and also advisor to startups and incubators. QpiAI board also has Dr Navakant Bhat who is former Chair of CeNSE and currently Dean of IISc.
Publication : Live Mint
New Radeon RX 6950XT SKUs are good news for your rig, but bad news for your walletedit
A new retail listing for AMD’s Gigabyte Radeon RX 6900XT GPU series seems to have surfaced, according to leaks from reliable Twitter leaker momomo_us. This one matches an earlier posting from the Eurasian Economic Commission regulatory office, which lists SKUs for the RX 6950XT, RX 6750XT, and 6650XT SKUs.
Publication : Techradar
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Qualcomm Still World’s Largest Cellular Chipset Makeredit
Qualcomm Still World’s Largest Cellular Chipset Maker: Counterpoint News oiAkshay Kumar The whole world is facing a chip shortage issues amidst the pandemic. According to market reports, the chip shortage will be lasting till the year 2023-2024.
Publication : Gizbot
Micron GDDR6X Increases Bandwidth and Capacity India, April 13edit
2022 Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the volume production of its new 16Gb GDDR6X memory, which is now shipping in the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card.
Publication : News Patrolling
More and more companies want built in hardware securityedit
Intel has published the results from a global study on the choices that companies are making around security for their hardware and software vendors. The survey, based on speaking to 1,406 people across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, found almost all businesses prioritise vendors that focus on security.
Publication : Tech Radar
Intel’s Smart Move Could Give Rivals a Run for Their Moneyedit
Intel ( INTC 1.10% ) has finally entered the market for discrete graphics processing units (GPU) that has so far been the playground of Nvidia ( NVDA 3.25% ) and Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD 2.78% )
Publication : Tech India Express
Intel is making some mysterious moves in quantum computingedit
Intel has shipped a mysterious quantum computing device to the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), in an interesting development in the company’s bid for quantum supremacy.
According to the ANL, Intel’s contribution will slot into a broader quantum computing test that’s being run at the lab.
Publication : Techradar
Intel commits to net-zero emissions in its global operations by 2040edit
Intel Corporation on Wednesday pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in global operations by 2040, in order to increase the energy efficiency and lower the carbon footprint of Intel products and platforms with specific goals, and to work with customers and industry partners to create solutions that lower the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire technology ecosystem.
Publication : Business standard
Intel Core i7-12700K Review: Feasible High-Performance CPUedit
With the 12th Gen Intel Core series of desktop processors, the company is regaining the top spot in the PC gaming segment offering great single-thread and multi-thread performance. While the Intel Core i9-12900K and even the newly launched Intel Core i9-12900KS are still the go-to CPUs for those who want nothing but the best.
Publication : Gizbot
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Dell Latitude 7430 vs Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3: Which must you getedit
As appears to be the case with a lot of Dell’s enterprise laptops, the Latitude 7430 is available in each clamshell and 2-in-1 variations, whereas the ThinkPad T14 is just a clamshell laptop computer. (AMD)
Publication : Tech India Express
Asus X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero review: Premium motherboard, affordable priceedit
No upgrade path after Ryzen 5000 Chipset fan can only be eliminated by going to the Dark Hero variant Our Verdict With the cost of PC components reaching new highs, its a good time to seek out the options that straddle premium features and sane pricing.
Publication : Tech Buzz Asia
Top 5 laptops under Rs 50,000 you can buy in India right nowedit
HP 14s The HP14s with i3 processor and 4GB RAM is available at a price of Rs 44,999. Weighing 1.53 kgs, the new HP 14s comes with a battery life of up to nine hours, accompanied by fast charging support for on the go consumers.
Publication : BGR
Industry news
Vedanta to set up semiconductor plant with Foxconn within two years: Chairmanedit
The Indian conglomerate had already entered into a pact with electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn to form a joint venture (JV) for manufacturing semiconductors in India. manufacturing plant in the next two years
Publication : Gadgets Now
More and more companies want built in hardware securityedit
Intel has published the results from a global study on the choices that companies are making around security for their hardware and software vendors. The survey, based on speaking to 1,406 people across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, found almost all businesses prioritise vendors that focus on security.
Publication : Tech Radar
Vultr opens cloud data centre in Mumbaiedit
The opening marks Vultrs 25th global location and brings easy to use, high-performance cloud infrastructure to Indian businesses and developers at affordable, predictable prices, enabling users to provision Optimized Cloud Compute instances powered by 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors, as well as Cloud Compute instances powered by Intel Xeon CPUs.
Publication : Express Computer
Top 5 laptops under Rs 50,000 you can buy in India right nowedit
HP 14s The HP14s with i3 processor and 4GB RAM is available at a price of Rs 44,999. Weighing 1.53 kgs, the new HP 14s comes with a battery life of up to nine hours, accompanied by fast charging support for on the go consumers.
Publication : BGR
Cos push smarter PCs amid greater remote work, security concernsedit
Last month, Dell launched a laptop that recognizes when someone is looking at the screen over the users shoulders and blurs the screen. If needed, it can even alert the user that someone’s peeping. The feature is part of a software called Dell Optimiser 3.0 and it has become part of Dells commercial line of laptops.
Publication : Live Mint
QpiAI & Quantrol Ox sign MoU to develop 25qubit quantum computing testbededit
QpiAI Advisory board also has industry stalwarts like Dr Madhusudan Atre former India head and Managing Director of AMD, Applied Materials, LSI, Lucent Microelectronics; and also advisor to startups and incubators. QpiAI board also has Dr Navakant Bhat who is former Chair of CeNSE and currently Dean of IISc.
Publication : Live Mint
HCL Founders launch non-profit to make 700 million LED chips in Indiaedit
A group of veterans from the Indian electronics industry have formed a new non-profit organization (NGO) called EPIC Foundation, which aims to produce Indian products and brands for electronics. The group, which includes HCL founders Arjun Malhotra and Ajai Chowdhry, along with semiconductor industry veteran Satya Gupta, has also signed memoranda of understanding with the government of Delhi, and Indian Institute of Technologys in Kanpur and Madras.
Publication : Mint
Chip making needs a lot of software talent todayedit
When we think chips, we think hardware. But that’s changing. An enormous amount of software is coming into semiconductors, both in simulating chip development, and in enhancing the functionality of chips.India’s core strength is software, and we should exploit that in chip development, Chinnu Senthilkumar, managing partner & CTO at Exfinity Venture Partners, said at our webinar last week. Senthilkumar has held technology executive roles in Intel, SanDisk and Texas Instruments in the US and India, and holds nine US Patents.
Publication : The Times of India
US will help India to boost country’s semiconductor ecosystemedit
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which represents the chip industry in the US and India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) signed an MoU to identify potential areas of the semiconductor industry.
Publication : Business Insider
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PowerColor is planning the release of AMD Radeon RX 6750XT Red Devil graphics cardedit
There’s little doubt that AMD’s board partners are gearing up for the unveiling of the updated Radeon RX 6000 variants on May 10th. One of the bespoke models that PowerColor (owned by TUL Corporation) is allegedly planning is the “AXRX Radeon RX 6750XT 12GBD6-3DHEOC.” On March 29th, this model was added to the RRA through a new file.
Publication : Technosports
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