AMD specific news
AMD implements a seven year old idea with an exascale monster that combines GPU, CPU, and HBM memory in one APUedit
The AMD Instinct MI250X accelerator received the worlds first dual chip graphics processor. In the second half of the year, Radeon RX 7000 video cards should be released, where two topend GPUs will also be dual chip.
Publication: Digit News
The Aya Neo 2 and Aya Neo Slide have specs that could challenge the Steam Deckedit
Handheld maker Aya Neo is adding the Aya Neo 2 and Aya Neo Slide to its lineup of portable PC gaming devices, both of which are set to come with an upgraded Ryzen 7 6800U chip and a Radeon 680M integrated GPU with RDNA 2 graphics, according to a report from Liliputing.
Publication: Iconic Verge
AMD FSR 2.0 is live in Deathloop and could be a true Nvidia DLSS rivaledit
AMDs FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) tech, which boosts frame rates in games which support it, saw version 2.0 launched earlier this week, and now the feature is live in Deathloop with plenty of gamers testing it out, and finding themselves impressed.
Publication: Tech Radar
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS processor, RTX 3070 Ti 3D accelerator, slim design and almost 360 rotating MiniLED display.edit
The hardware platform is based on the AMD Ryzen 6900HS processor, complemented by the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 3D accelerator. So the performance margin of such a laptop transformer is at least a few years ahead.
Publication: Digit News
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X Reportedly Spotted with 5.2GHz Boost Clock, 8 Cores/16 Threads, and 2,000GHz iGPU [Leak]edit
AMD’s Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 CPUs have entered mass production, with first samples already undergoing testing in labs. These 5nm chips will focus on single-threaded performance using a combination of high IPC and raised boost clocks. The core counts, however, will remain unchanged at 16 (8 x2). An octa-core Engineering sample of what appears to be the Ryzen 7 7800X has surfaced over at the OpenBenchmarking database
Publication : Hardware Times
AMD Instinct MI300 to Feature Zen 4 CPU, CDNA 3 GPU, and HBM, Epyc Genoa (96C) in Q3 2022, Bergamo (128C) in Q1 2023, Genoa-X in Q4 2023 [Report]edit
Following yesterday’s leak from Moore’s Law is Lead, we have another massive disclosure from AdoredTV in the form of AMD’s extended server roadmap and a bit of info on its next-gen MI300 data center GPU. According to Jim, the Instinct MI300 will be an APU rather than a GPU. It’ll leverage TSMC’s 5nm process to pair Zen 4 CPU chiplets with CDNA 3 dies along with on-die HBM memory. The design is almost finalized and the tapeout is expected to be complete by the end of the month. The first chips are slated to begin testing in the third quarter of the year.
Publication : Hardware Times
AYANEO2 becomes the first handheld console to feature Ryzen 7 6800U APU with RDNA2 graphicsedit
AYANEO recently announced that it will become the first to adopt the new Rembrandt APU. So, the Chinese company has announced its new AYANEO2 handheld gaming console featuring the latest 6nm based Ryzen 7 6800U.
Publication: Technosports
AMD has Seemingly Discontinued its Threadripper (non-PRO) Enthusiast CPUsedit
The HEDT market has been dying a slow death. Starting with Intel’s Core-X lineup, and now AMD’s Threadrippers restricted to a very specific niche, workstation processors have moved to the Xeon-W and Threadripper PRO families. Data from Puget Systems indicates that Intel’s Core X offerings began disappearing in the first half of 2021, after which AMD’s Threadrippers dominated the scene.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD May Be Working on a 24 Core Ryzen 9 7950X CPU with a TDP of 170W [Rumor]edit
From everything we’ve heard about AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 processors, the core counts will remain unchanged with the R9 7950X maxing out at 16 cores and 32 threads. All the focus seems to be on the IPC and boost clocks, translating into leadership single-threaded and gaming performance. All the X series SKUs, including the Ryzen 5 7600X, Ryzen 7 7800X, and the Ryzen 9 7900X will boost over 5GHz across all cores, a first for the Zen family.
Publication : Hardware Times
AMD Ryzen 7000 Mobile Processors May Feature 3D V-Cache to Boost Gaming Performance on Par with 60W RTX 3060 Mobile [Report]edit
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 mobile processors codenamed “Phoenix” may feature 3D stacked V-Cache to boost gaming performance despite leveraging integrated RDNA 2 graphics. In an industry first, this will be the first onboard GPU to come with 3D stacked L3 cache, something only the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has managed to date. And that’s a desktop processor without integrated graphics to boot.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD has Seemingly Discontinued its Threadripper (non-PRO) Enthusiast CPUsedit
The HEDT market has been dying a slow death. Starting with Intel’s Core-X lineup, and now AMD’s Threadrippers restricted to a very specific niche, workstation processors have moved to the Xeon-W and Threadripper PRO families. Data from Puget Systems indicates that Intel’s Core X offerings began disappearing in the first half of 2021, after which AMD’s Threadrippers dominated the scene.
Publication : Hardware Times
AMD Instinct MI300 is rumoured to be the company’s first Exascale APU Powered By Zen 4 CPU Cores & CDNA 3 GPU Coresedit
AMD also appears to be working on the Instinct MI300, a first-generation Exascale APU powered by Zen 4 CPU and CDNA 3 GPU cores. In a recent video by AdoredTV, the details of this HPC chip were also revealed.
Publication: Technosports
AMD reports Record achievement in x86 CPU Market Share In Q1 2022edit
According to the latest numbers from Mercury Research, AMD had another record quarter in terms of x86 CPU market share in Q1 2022. According to Mercury Research, AMD increased their market share by 2.1 points over the previous quarter, resulting in a 27.7% market share this quarter. This boosts AMD’s market share to a new high, surpassing Intel’s 72.3 percent share, which has been on the slide since AMD released its Zen CPU design.
Publication: Technosports
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CEO pay packages rose to $14.7 million in 2021, a new highedit
Two dozen women ran S&P 500 companies for the full year of 2021, the same number as 2020. None of them cracked the top 25 in terms of compensation. The highest paid was Lisa Su, who heads chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., with a package worth $29.5 million, including $25.1 million in equity.
Publication: Live Mint
MSI Now Supports the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (Fastest Gaming CPU) on its $60 A320 Motherboardsedit
MSI has released support for AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D on its budget and entry-level motherboards. These include the X370, B350, and the paltry A320 boards that were launched along with the 1st Gen Ryzen processors back in 2017. In addition to being easily accessible, the 300-series lineup is insanely cheap. The A320 boards start as low as $59.99.
Publication : Hardware Times
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Intel reveals Gaudi 2 AI training engine to challenge NVIDIAedit
Intel announced at Intel Vision 2022 that Habana Labs has launched its second generation deep learning processors for training and inference Habana Gaudi 2 and Habana Greco.
Publication: Analytics India Mag
Nations aim to secure supply chains by turning offshoring into friend shoringedit
In 2021, 92% of the world supply of advanced semiconductors came from one company, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., according to the White House report.
Publication: Live Mint
NVIDIAs Computex 2022 Keynote confirmed on 23rd Mayedit
NVIDIA has recently confirmed that they will also be a part of the annual show in Taipei i.e. Computex 2022 after AMD confirmed its CEOs keynote.
Publication: Techno Sports Co
EXCLUSIVE: 84% of the ₹5,551.27 crore of the alleged illegal remittance by Xiaomi India were to the Qualcomm Groupedit
Xiaomi has been under the scanner of Indian agencies for quite some time now for alleged tax evasion and Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations. As per an official press release, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently ordered a seizure of ₹5,551.27 crore from Xiaomi India.
Publication: Business Insider
NVIDIA’s RTX 4080/4090 Graphics Cards Launching as Early as July-August 2022 [Report]edit
NVIDIA is preparing to launch its next-gen RTX 40 series graphics cards next quarter. According to a well-reported source on the matter, Team Green is aiming for an early Q3 launch. Considering this timeline, you’d think that the reveal would come at Computex later this month. However, that’s not gonna happen, at least not in my opinion. Jensen has personally announced every new generation of gaming and data center GPUs for as long as I can remember. Since he won’t be presenting at this year’s Computex, I just don’t see a major launch happening this or the next month. An August or September launch is much more likely.
Publication : Hardware Times
This Chinese GPU Features the Same Memory as NVIDIA’s Next-Gen RTX 4090 and a Chiplet Architectureedit
Chinese GPU maker InnoSilicon has managed a remarkable feat. In November last year, it launched the Fenghua No.1 graphics card for desktops and data centers promising leadership compute performance and packaging technologies in one fell swoop. We now have more details on this SKU, confirming the specifications and various IPs used by it. The first and most important disclosure is with respect to memory. The Fenghua graphics card uses the same 21Gbps GDDR6X memory found on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti and its successor, the RTX 4090. Along with the top-end Ampere parts, it’s the only GPU to feature ultra-high-speed GDDR6X memory.
Publication : Hardware Times
AMD has Seemingly Discontinued its Threadripper (non-PRO) Enthusiast CPUsedit
The HEDT market has been dying a slow death. Starting with Intel’s Core-X lineup, and now AMD’s Threadrippers restricted to a very specific niche, workstation processors have moved to the Xeon-W and Threadripper PRO families. Data from Puget Systems indicates that Intel’s Core X offerings began disappearing in the first half of 2021, after which AMD’s Threadrippers dominated the scene.
Publication: Hardware Times
Intel XeSS Upscaling Tech to Debut with Dolmen on 20th May: Game to Feature NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR as Welledit
In an interview with WCCFTech, the developers of Dolmen (a souls-like RPG) have revealed that it will be the first game to feature Intel’s XeSS upscaling technology. Like NVIDIA’s DLSS 2.x upsampler, XeSS uses a temporal upscaling and a neural network to improve image quality with every frame. Dolmen will also be the first title to support all three upscaling technologies, namely AMD’s FSR (1.0 at launch, 2.0 later on), NVIDIA’s DLSS 2.x, and Intel’s XeSS right from the very start.
Publication: Hardware Times
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Asus Zenbook 14X OLED Space Launched In India: Check Specifications And Price Hereedit
Asus has launched the Zenbook 14X OLED Space edition laptop in India. The laptop has a 3.5-inch OLED display on the front chassis. It features up to a 12th Gen Intel Core i9 processor and has a number of ports to connect and transfer data from the laptop. Keep reading to know more about the Asus Zenbook 14X OLED Space laptop, its specifications and price.
Publication: Republic World
MSI Now Supports the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (Fastest Gaming CPU) on its $60 A320 Motherboardsedit
MSI has released support for AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D on its budget and entry-level motherboards. These include the X370, B350, and the paltry A320 boards that were launched along with the 1st Gen Ryzen processors back in 2017. In addition to being easily accessible, the 300-series lineup is insanely cheap. The A320 boards start as low as $59.99.
Publication : Hardware Times
Industry news
Video Explainer: How Karnataka Is Leading India’s Big Push For Building A Semiconductor ecosystemedit
To lure chip manufacturing behemoths and propel India into a global hub of semiconductors manufacturing, the Union Government recently set up the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM). It also unveiled incentives worth 10 billion USD (Rs 76,000 crores).
Publication: Swarajya
Memory chip maker Micron launches new pricing experiment for stabilityedit
Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc on Thursday announced it was experimenting with a new pricing model for its chips called forward pricing agreements that would aim to stabilize the steep price fluctuations that plague the industry.
Publication: ET Telecom
Germanys Rheinmetall has 5year supply of semiconductor chips: Report<edit
Chip supplies should last five years after it spent 500 million euros ($519 million) this year to ramp up inventory of semiconductors and electronic components, Rheinische Post reported on Friday.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Inside Anil Agarwals playbook to become the countrys No. 1 chipmakeredit
Anil Agarwal, chairman of the oiltometals Vedanta Group, has ambitions of setting a semiconductor chip plant in India, but says state governments need to look at creating a hub for electronics like Silicon Valley or what Taiwan has done.
Publication: The Economic Times
Chinas top chipmaker SMIC says smartphone, PC demand has dropped like a rockedit
Israels ISMC Analog Fab recently announced that it will invest $3 billion in Karnataka to set up a semiconductor chipmaking plant.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Samsung may hike prices for chip contract manufacturingedit
Samsung Electronics is in talks with clients about hiking prices for chip contract manufacturing by up to 20 percent this year, Bloomberg news report said. The move, expected to be applied from the second half of this year, is part of an industrywide push to raise prices to cover rising materials and logistics costs.
Publication: Telecom Lead
From Sony Playstations, Toyotas to Teslas, China Lockdowns Upend Global Supply Chainsedit
Automakers from Toyota to Tesla are facing unprecedented costs and production hurdles. Sony is struggling to make enough PlayStations. The economic consequences from Chinas Covid19 lockdowns are starting to be felt by companies and consumers across the globe, and expectations are that the reverberations will only get stronger.
Publication: Tech Hindustan Times
Arm Ltd. the chip firm under SoftBank Group reports Record revenue growth in 2021edit
SoftBank Group Corps chip technology firm Arm Ltd reported record revenue for 2021 on Thursday, and Chief Executive Rene Haas told Reuters that the companys business for innovative chip designs shows a bright future.
Publication: Techno Sports Co
CEO pay packages rose to $14.7 million in 2021, a new highedit
Two dozen women ran S&P 500 companies for the full year of 2021, the same number as 2020. None of them cracked the top 25 in terms of compensation. The highest paid was Lisa Su, who heads chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., with a package worth $29.5 million, including $25.1 million in equity.
Publication: Live Mint
Construction of first chip factory likely to start by year-endedit
Multinational chipmakers are in discussions with various states to build factories, and the construction of the first such plant in India is expected by the end of the year, a government official said.
Publication: MINT
5G phones may cost Rs 10,000 apiece by FY24 services in key markets of the country.edit
Consumers keen to pick up a 5G phone can expect some good news. Mobile device companies and global chipset manufacturers are closely working together to offer 5G mobile handsets at around Rs 10,000 by March next year, by which time the telcos are expected to have launched their 5G.
Publication: Hindi Business Standard
States, Take a Chance On Online Gamingedit
India is one of the fastest-growing markets for online gaming with deep backward software and hardware linkages. Gaming has emerged as the most dynamic segment among entertainment platforms. Augmented reality (AR) is pushing user engagement as social networking shows signs of fatigue. Technology giants like Microsoft and Meta of Facebook fame are placing big bets on online
Publication: The Economic Times
Inking of FTA with India: A better option for Taiwanese semiconductor industryedit
Taiwan’s labour drought and hunt for a manufacturing partner for offshoring China-based Taiwanese businesses and India with its abundant talent pool and enormous market size seem to be the perfect partner for each other and therefore, it is expected that the inking of an FTA (free trade agreement) would be a worthy step to remove all avoidable trade and investment barriers and would lead to a paradigm shift in the tariff regime.
Publication: The Print
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AMD next-gen Zen 4 CPU Is going to be huge! With rumored 15-24% faster IPC than Zen 3edit
According to the newest leaks, AMD’s next-generation Zen 4 architecture is “a larger deal than Zen 3 was,” which is evident by now… Later this year, AMD will once again deliver the goods with some CPU dominance.
Publication: Technosports
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