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AMD Announces Zen 4Powered Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile Processors for Laptops; First Set of Laptops Expected To Launch in Q1 2024edit
AMD has officially announced the new Ryzen 8040 Series mobile processors today on December 6, 2023. This CPU series is expected to power a majority of laptops in 2024. You can check out the entire lineup of AMD Ryzen 8040 series processors below. AMD Ryzen 8040 Series mobile processors
Publication: Ign
Explore the Future of Generative AI with AMD s Latest Breakthrough | 19th December 2023edit
Welcome to the forefront of innovation! Join us for an exclusive webinar unveiling the power of the AMD Instinct MI300 Series, featuring the groundbreaking AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator.
Publication: Express Computer
AMD Stock: AMD Launches New Chip As AI Challenge To Nvidia Heats Upedit
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday launched its clearest challenge yet to the dominance of Nvidia (NVDA) in the redhot market for chips that power artificial intelligence applications. AMD stock wavered following the announcement. At a company event Wednesday, AMD launched its Instinct MI300 Series accelerator family. As previewed earlier this year, the chips are designed to handle the massive workloads in AI applications.
Publication: Investors India
AMD ROCm 6 is Here, OpenAI Adds Supportedit
AMD at the Advancing AI event has showcased significant advancements in its software part of its Instinct data centre accelerators, emphasising an open, proven, and ready AI software platform for the market.
Publication: Analytics India Mag
AMD Releases Ryzen AI PCs with NPUsedit
AMD, at the Advancing AI event, has revealed Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors, thereby extending its range of onedge offerings. These processors boast enhanced performance that surpasses the competition, establishing AMD s leadership in the mobile PC domain.
Publication: Analytics India Mag
AMD Releases MI300X Accelerator, Competing with NVIDIA H100edit
Lenovo has announced its design support for MI300 series accelerators, which planned availability from the first half of 2024. Supermicro also announced the H13 generation of accelerated servers, which would be powered by the 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and MI300 accelerators.
Publication: Analytics India Mag
AMD Launches Instinct MI300 AI Chips To Challenge Nvidia With Backing From Microsoft, Dell And HPEedit
AMD Launches Instinct MI300 AI Chips To Challenge Nvidia With Backing From Microsoft, Dell And HPE Dylan Martin The MI300 chips which are also getting support from Lenovo, Supermicro and Oracle re-present AMD’s biggest challenge yet to Nvidia s AI computing dominance.
Publication: CRN
AMD forecasts $45 billion AI chip market this yearedit
As AMD launched the new processors, company executives outlined how rapidly demand for AI chips has increased. The company said it now expects the market for data center AI chips to grow to roughly $400 billion by 2027.
Publication: The Economic Times
AMD forecasts $45 billion AI chip market this year, $2 billion in sales in 2024edit
The total addressable market forecast is up from AMD s $30 billion estimate in June. By Max A. Cherney (Reuters) AMD estimated there was a $45 billion market for its data center artificial intelligence processors this year as it launched a new generation of AI chips on Wednesday.
Publication: The Print
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Supermicro Extends AI and GPU Rack Scale Solutions with Support for AMD Instinct MI300 Series Accelerators USA English India Englishedit
The 8U system with the MI300X OAM accelerator offers the raw acceleration power of 8GPU with the AMD Infinity Fabric Links, enabling up to 896GB/s of peak theoretical P2P I/O bandwidth on the open standard platform with industry leading 1.5TB HBM3 GPU memory in a single system, as well as native sparse matrix support, designed to save power, lower compute cycles and reduce memory use for AI workloads.
Publication: Ians
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Empowering India’s Navigation: Qualcomm and ISRO collaborate to elevate geolocation capabilities through NavIC supportedit
Qualcomm Technologies has joined forces with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to announce a groundbreaking initiative.
Publication: The Financial Express
Qualcomm announces support for India’s NavIC L1 signals in select chipsetedit
Chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc on Wednesday announced their support for India s navigation satellite system NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) in select commercial chipset platforms across the company s upcoming portfolio.
Publication: Business Standard
Nvidia to develop new chips that comply with US export regulationsedit
Nvidia to develop new chips that comply with US export regulations Nvidia will continue to develop a new set of products that comply with U.S. government regulations involving exports of highend chips to China, its CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday.
Publication: MoneyControl
Amdocs, NVIDIA Partner to Propel Gen AI Adoption in $1.7T Telecomedit
Amdocs and NVIDIA today announced they are collaborating to optimize large language models (LLMs) to speed adoption of generative AI applications and services across the $1.7 trillion telecommunications and media industries. Amdocs and NVIDIA will customize enterprisegrade LLMs running on NVIDIA accelerated computing as part of the Amdocs amAIz framework.
Publication: Adgully
Nvidia,Yotta in GPU Infra Collaborationedit
Yotta Data Services on Wednesday announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver GPU computing infrastructure and platforms for its Shakti-Cloud platform. The collaboration will advance the development of AI solutions in India, Nvidia said..
Publication: The Economic Times
Nvidia chips to comply with US export normsedit
Nvidia will continue to develop a new set of products that comply with US regulations on exports of high-end chips to China, its CEO Jensen Huang said. The chip designer has commanded more than a 90 per cent share of China’s $7 billion AI chip market, but analysts have said tightening US curbs on chip exports are likely to create opportunities for Chinese rivals to make inroads.
Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine
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Sony gives us timely reminders that digital ownership is still not trustworthyedit
In the space of a few days, Sony s given us two reminders of the shaky foundations that justify ownership of digital content.
Publication: Hindustan Times
Dell Technologies India Digital Inclusion Program Outreach Expanded After Equipping 2 Million Citizens with Digital Skillsedit
change and address the digital divide, said Alok Ohrie, president and managing director, Dell Technologies India. goal to support communities to achieve digital equity , where they find themselves equipped with technology capacity needed for full participation in.
Publication: Express Computer
Apple Inc readies new iPads and M3 MacBook Air to combat sales slumpedit
Apple Inc, seeking to reverse a decline in Mac and iPad sales, is preparing several new models and upgrades for early next year, according to people familiar with the situation. The effort includes updating the iPad Air, iPad Pro and MacBook Air, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the products haven t been announced.
Publication: Business Standard
Industry news
Semiconductor Chips: Taiwan boosts protection of key tech, but says won’t affect chipmakers businessedit
Taiwan makes the majority of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips, used in everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, and the government has long worried about Chinese efforts to copy its success, including through industrial espionage and poaching engineers.
Publication: The Economic Times
Micron’s semiconductor project in Gujarat gains momentum, to provide job opportunitiesedit
Micron s ambitious semiconductor project in Sanand, Gujarat, is progressing at an accelerated pace, achieving significant milestones within a short span. The Union Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved Micron s semiconductor unit in India, with a substantial capital investment of Rs 22,516 crore (USD 2.75 billion) in June 2023.
Publication: ANI News
Husqvarna Group selects HCLTech as its exclusive Partner of Choice for IT and digital transformationedit
HCLTech, a global technology company, and Swedish manufacturer Husqvarna Group have extended their strategic IT and digital transformation partnership. In a major milestone for HCLTech, this is the first time a large global IT contract by an India headquartered technology company has been Vested certified, it said.
Publication: The Financial Express
Data centres in India to cross 1,300 MW capacity by 2024 end; Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Chennai to dominate 80% shareedit
India s Data Centre (DC) capacity is expected to cross Rs 1,300 MW by the end of 2024 from the current 880 MW (until June 2023), said a report from CBRE South Asia. The DC segment growth, it added, is likely to continue over 202324, with nearly 500 MW currently under construction across several cities.
Publication: The Financial Express
23,000 crore invested in online gaming between 202024edit
Advertisementled monetisation holds significance in India, as the paid user base is predominantly concentrated within the RMG segment, explains Raghav Anand, partner and leader Digital, new media and convergence EY Parthenon.
Publication: Fortune
China has reportedly made a new homegrown supercomputer; here’s how fast it isedit
Tianhe2 topped a list of the world’s 500 fastest systems for three consecutive years from 2013 but dropped out of the top position in 2016, the year after the U.S. government placed the NUDT on a blacklist that eliminated the university s access to the Intel processors it uses in its supercomputers.
Publication: The Financial Express
HSBC tests protecting FX trading from quantum computer attacksedit
HSBC’s test ran on a network created by British telecommunications company BT and using devices developed by Toshiba as well as support from Amazon Web Services. The test is an important step in showing the commercial applications of the technology using currently available fibre networks, said Andrew Shields, head of quantum technology, Toshiba Europe.
Publication: The Financial Express
Google’s AI edge set to catch rivalsedit
The launch of Gemini comes as industry stakeholders expect generative AI to mature in business use cases in the coming year. Last week, John Roese, global chief technology officer at Dell, said that more businesses will use more mature generative AI applications, while the general hype and pilots around the technology could die down.
Publication: Live Mint
India Should Embrace AI while Ensuring Safety’edit
India should be careful not to demonise artificial intelligence (AI) by focusing only on the risks related to the technology, said the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Publication: The Economic Times
Electronics Manufacturing to Touch $300 b by ’26: IT MoSedit
A Chips to Startup (C2S) programme has been initiated with an outlay of ?250 crore for a duration of five years, IT minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, in a written reply submitted to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Publication: The Economic Times
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