December 20, 2023

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Digit Zero1 Awards and Best Buy Awards 2023: Best Performing Thinn Light Laptopedit

The HP Pavilion Aero 13 offers a featherweight aluminum build and a practical matte IPS screen, powered by an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor for efficient everyday use.

Publication: Digit

10 best HP laptops: Check out these productivity enhancers for professional and personal workedit

The HP 255 G8 Notebook PC is one of the best HP laptops. It features an AMD Ryzen 3 3250U processor, clocked at 2.6 GHz base frequency and up to 3.5 GHz max boost clock. With 8 GB DDR42400 MHz RAM and a spacious 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD, this laptop delivers responsive performance and ample storage for seamless multitasking.

Publication: Tech Hindustan Times

10 best gaming computer set for enthusiasts: Buying guideedit

The Kuro Starter Gaming PC Pro, powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G processor and Radeon Graphics, is an excellent choice for gamers looking for a balance between price and performance. This desktop is designed to handle modern games at decent settings, thanks to its 6 cores and 12 threads processor.

Publication: Mint

Gaming Monitors With 240Hz Refresh Rateedit

For a competitive advantage, AMD FreeSync Premium ensures stutter free gameplay in fast paced, intricate game sequences. FHD resolution and IPS panel ensure that you see everything with great clarity. Samsung Gaming Monitor Price: Rs 20,549 Specifications

Publication: Jagran

At $34mn Accenture’s Julie sweet is highest paid female CEOedit

With $34mn in compensation Accenture’s Julie sweet was the highest paid female CEO in this year’s report by research firm Equilar. She however took home less than a sixth of her male counterpart Sundar Pichai of alphabet who was paid $226mn in 2022. (AMD)

Publication: The Times of India

Competition in news

Qualcomm says its Snapdragon X Elite PC platform is 21% faster than Apple M3 siliconedit

Underpinned by the Oryon CPU, the company compared its unreleased PC chip to the competition, which at that time included the Apple M2 silicon, Intel Core i713800H, and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS. Since the competition has upgraded, Qualcomm is now pitting the Snapdragon X Elite against Apple s M3 series chips.

Publication: News9 Live

Meet the 3 trailblazing EV startups in the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge 2023 cohortedit

As the world accelerates towards sustainable transportation, the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge 2023 spotlights three startups at the forefront of this green revolution.

Publication: YourStory

NVIDIA’s Tech Strategy of 2023: A Comprehensive Reportedit

As we step into 2024, NVIDIA s tech strategy promises to redefine the landscape of technology, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. This report delves into the key components of NVIDIA s tech strategy for the year and explores how these initiatives are poised to impact various industries.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Nvidia workers warned CEO Jensen Huang that AI might be harmful to minorities. One was so dissatisfied with his response that she quit shortly after.edit

Two Nvidia workers met CEO Jensen Huang to warn that AI posed a threat to minorities, a report says. Both were unsatisfied with his response, Bloomberg reported, and quit the company soon afterward. One said on LinkedIn the meeting was the most devastating 45 minutes of my professional life.

Publication: Business Insider

MediaTek and Nvidia Team Up for AI powered Carsedit

MediaTek and Nvidia unite for a transformative alliance in AI powered automotive technology In a groundbreaking collaboration, semiconductor giants MediaTek and Nvidia have joined forces to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to the forefront of the automotive industry.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Brace yourselves as the Nvidia 40 series will be out super soon!edit

Brace yourselves as the Nvidia 40 series will be out super soon! A leaked embargo document spills the beans on Nvidia s plans for the highly anticipated GeForce RTX 40 Super series. Brace yourselves, gamers, as three powerful new graphics cards could hit the scene shortly after Nvidia s CES 2024 presentation. Get ready for some serious GPU excitement!

Publication: India Today Gaming

2023 Layoff Tracker: Intel Cuts 235 Employeesedit

Tech giant Intel announced plans this week to lay off roughly 235 employees in its fifth round of job cuts this year, making it the latest major U.S. company to reduce its head count, even as recession fears start to cool (see Forbes layoff tracker from earlier this year here).

Publication: Forbes

Partner in news

Unleash Power and Precision with Lenovo’s Latest Gaming Desktop PCsedit

Lenovo, the global technology powerhouse, unveiled its new gaming innovations with the Lenovo Legion Tower 5i and LOQ Tower in India. Designed for those who demand the highest levels of power, speed, and reliability, the new desktop PCs meet the evolving needs of gamers and digital creators.

Publication: Device Next

High On PLIedit

Dixon Technologies right now is a beehive of activity. It is building a new facility in Noida to make 1.3 million laptops for Taiwanese PC maker Acer. The facility must be up and running in four months. The pace of activity will only increase. Last week Dixon won a similar contract from Lenovo, the Chinese personal computer maker and the third largest information technology (IT) hardware brand in India, to assemble laptops and notebooks.

Publication: Business Standard

Industry news

TSMC chairman to retire next year, board recommends CEO as successoredit

TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said on Tuesday that its chairman Mark Liu would retire next year and the board had recommended as his successor the company’s current CEO and Vice Chairman C.C. Wei.

Publication: The Print

LTI Mindtree shares recover on Microsoft tie up on AI powered employee engagement appsedit

Shares of LTI Mindtree Ltd cut intraday losses to trade marginally lower in Tuesday s session after the technology consulting and digital solutions company announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to introduce AI powered employee engagement applications. LTI Mindtree said the collaboration marks a significant leap forward in delivering enhanced employee and customer experiences.

Publication: Business Today

Five reasons why organisations select Hybrid Data Centersedit

For decades, traditional data centers have been the most predictable and controlled infrastructure to house high risk and proprietary assets, such as personal information, medical records and financial information. Widely distributed applications must adapt, resize, relocate, and reconfigure to meet evolving business requirements.

Publication: CRN

Chipmaker Qorvo to sell some China facilities to Lux share Precision Industryedit

This transaction furthers our efforts to reduce capital intensity while supporting our long term gross margin objectives and ensuring continuity for our customers in China, said Qorvo s Chief Financial Officer Grant Brown.

Publication: ET Telecom

Bridging talent and business in the 21st centuryedit

For the better part of the last decade, HR teams were focused on L&D, talent acquisition, and internal brand building. The COVID19 pandemic completely shifted our perspective on the role that HR and people leaders and their teams need to play.

Publication: The Financial Express

$245 bn IT sector sees tougher terms amid scramble for contracts: Reportedit

The big IT firms classify contracts worth $100 million or above as large deals India s information technology firms are accepting tougher contract terms to win large deals from clients as they compete for fewer orders in an uncertain global economy, industry insiders and analysts say.

Publication: Business Standard

Artificial Intelligence: A new supercomputer aims to closely mimic the human brainedit

This allowed us to have smaller and cheaper computers. However, transistor sizes are now approaching the atomic scale. At these tiny sizes, excessive heat generation is a problem, as is a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which interferes with the functioning of the transistors.

Publication: The Economic Times

MeitY secy: Invest in electronics mfg in eastedit

With the IT market growing in Bengal, it was time for entrepreneurs to consider investing in setting up electronic gadget and semiconductor manufacturing units, said ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) secretary S Krishnan on Tuesday.

Publication: The Times of India

India should go up the value chain in Making electronic componentsedit

Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are coming together with improvements in the hardware”, he said. “Presently the portion of the hardware component in the country’s digital economy is USD 100 billion. This amount should go up to USD 300 billion over five to six years time”, he added.

Publication: The Pioneer

India key talent hub for cutting-edge tech: SAPedit

German technology major SAP is bullish on India as a key market as well as a talent hub, said Punit Renjen, deputy chairperson of the supervisory board at SAP. “From a SAP perspective, India is incredibly important not only from a standpoint of a marketplace but also where we attract and retain top talent to develop cutting-edge innovation for the rest of the world,” Renjen said at a media briefing in Bengaluru.

Publication: Business Standard

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