September 3, 2024

AMD specific news

AMD’s Inaugural ML Perf Submission: Showcasing the Power of Instinct MI300X GPUs (Proactive)edit

AMD has proudly announced its first ever submission to ML Perf, focusing on the capabilities of its Instinct MI300X GPUs. This submission marks a significant milestone for AMD, as it highlights the company s advancements in AI technology and its competitive edge in the market.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors are built on Zen 5 architecture (Proactive)edit

According to AMD, the new Zen 5 architecture delivers a 16% boost in IPC performance over its predecessor, Zen 4.

Publication: Stuff India

Is AMD Developing a NextGen APU with Integrated GDDR7 Memoryedit

A fresh NBD finds points to what could be a future GDDR7equipped chip with integrated CPU and GPU cores, which for an APU is code for AMD.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

AMD’s Focus on High Performance Computing, Market Strategy, and Growth Opportunities (Proactive)edit

AMD leads in providing processors for high performance and adaptive computing; embedded systems; and gaming, Commercial and Consumer PCs to address the performance critical needs and challenges.

Publication: NCN Online

AMD Takes Lead in AI with Latest MLPerf Submission (Proactive)edit

The AMD MLPerf Inference v4.1 submission has three entries for Llama 2 70B, which showcase: The best combination of AMD CPU and GPU that are available on the market for AI tasks.

Publication: Digital Terminal

AMD’s acquisition of ZT Systems boosts its data centre AI systems capabilities (Proactive)edit

AMD declared the signing of a final contract to buy ZT Systems, the provider of AI infrastructure to the biggest hyperscale computing firms globally.

Publication: Var India

Competition in news

OpenAI funding round tempts Nvidia as Big Tech leans on ChatGPTedit

Nvidia Corp., the world’s biggest chipmaker, has discussed joining a funding round that would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have also been in talks about participating in the financing, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.

Publication: Communications Today

Intel Plans To Slash Capital Spending, Altera Likely To Be Soldedit

Intel Corporation is to present a strategic revamp to its board of directors later this month. According to sources familiar with the situation, CEO Pat Gelsinger and other top executives will unveil a strategy to exit underperforming businesses and slash capital spending in an effort to resuscitate the company s fortunes.

Publication: Business World

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to pitch board on plans to shed assets, cut costsedit

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and key executives are expected to present a plan later this month to the company’s board of directors to slice off unnecessary businesses and revamp capital spending, according to a source familiar with the matter, as they try to revive the once-dominant chipmaker’s fortunes.

Publication: The Economic Times

Nvidia expands role amid AI boom: From chipmaker to datacenter designeredit

The company’s move into datacenter design comes on the heels of rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) acquiring ZT Systems, a datacenter design and manufacturing company, in a deal valued at nearly $5 billion.

Publication: Business Upturn

Partner in news

HP to pursue $4 billion damages after Mike Lynch yacht deathedit

HPE won the British civil case over the collapse of Lynch’s Autonomy Corp. and is waiting for a judge to decide how much it is owed.

Publication: Money Control

Step into the Future Powered by Artificial Intelligence at the Dell Technologies Forum 2024edit

At the core of this seismic shift is Dell Technologies that is transforming businesses at an unprecedented pace with AI and GenAI, offering a variety of advantages that can give your business a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Publication: Dq India

Best Selling Acer Laptop Price: Suitable Options For All Your Needsedit

The AMD Ryzen laptop comes with 8 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD card to store all your files, data, and media.

Publication: English Jagran

Charting India’s Digital Destinyedit

Retaining its market leader position, HP captured approximately 36.2% market share in Q4 2023, according to 6Wresearch. HP’s diverse product portfolio, ranging from budget friendly inkjet printers to high-performance laser printers, catered to various consumer segments.

Publication: Var India

Acer launches its first AI-powered gaming laptop in Indiaedit

Acer has launched its first complete AI gaming laptop, the Acer Nitro V 16. Set to redefine gaming with its cutting-edge technology, this device features AMD Ryzen R7 Series processors and NVIDIA GeForce series AI graphics with 16GB DDR5 RAM and 1TB SSD seamlessly integrated with the revolutionary Copilot in Windows 11.

Publication: Var India

Industry news

Why it makes strategic sense to incentivise domestic chip researchedit

One of these is a manufacturing unit by the Tata group with Power chip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, Taiwan s third largest semiconductor foundry And four are Assembly Testing Marking and Packaging (ATMP) and Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) one by Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test.

Publication: Business Standard

India, Singapore likely to sign pacts on semiconductors, health; Brunei to be part of defence groupedit

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed to Brunei and Singapore on Tuesday, India and Singapore are looking at a number of new, forward looking futuristic areas of cooperation in semiconductors, digitisation, skill, health, advance manufacturing and connectivity, and are likely to sign pacts in these areas, officials said on Monday.

Publication: The Indian Express

Chips Are Up For Gujaratedit

In another decision, the Cabinet has approved the proposal of Kaynes Semicon Pvt Ltd to set up a semiconductor unit in Sanand, Gujarat, at a cost of Rs 3,300 crore. This unit will have the capacity to produce 60 lakh chips per day. These chips would cater to industrial and automotive units, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, telecom and mobile phones.

Publication: The Hindu

EU’s Semicon Group Seeks ‘Chips Envoy’edit

Europe’s main computer chip industry group ESIA called on the European Union on Monday to speed up aid, draw up a revamped “Chips Act 2.0” support package and name an envoy to champion the sector.

Publication: The Economic Times

China warns Japan of new chip curbsedit

China Has Threatened severe economic retaliation against Japan if Tokyo further restricts sales and servicing of chipmaking equipment to Chinese firms, complicating US led efforts to cut the world’s second-largest economy off from advanced technology.

Publication: The Financial Express

BigEndian Raises $3 million from Vertex, Othersedit

Endian Semiconductors, a fabless-semiconductor design startup, raised $3 million in a funding round led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India.

Publication: The Economic Times

Govts Say ‘Aye’ to Sovereign AIedit

A pre-bid meeting hosted by the IT ministry saw participation from heavyweights like Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Palo Alto Networks. Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping global economies, with nations scrambling to leverage this transformative technology for economic and productivity gains.

Publication: The Economic Times

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