January 16, 2025

AMD specific news

AMD’s Calculated Delay of RDNA 4: A Bold Move to Outshine NVIDIA s RTX 50 Showcaseedit

AMD’s calculated delay of RDNA 4 has become a hot topic in the tech community. This strategic decision is not merely a setback; it’s a bold move aimed at positioning it favorably against NVIDIA s upcoming RTX 50 series. For gamers in India, this delay could bring exciting opportunities in the graphics card market, as it sets the stage for a more competitive environment.

Publication: Techno Sports

AMD brand mentions

Game Anywhere: Best Gaming Handhelds in 2025edit

AMD Ryzen Zen 4 processor and an RDNA 3 GPU are used for unrivaled performance.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Processing poweredit

The knowledge base also exists for India to become a big player in the artificial-intelligence development ecosystem, exploiting its own large domestic market as a “testbed” to create and deploy new use cases. In the short term, it would require smart diplomatic negotiations along with leveraging soft power India possesses to try and circumvent such curbs. Both Nvidia and AMD have India exposure with R&D centres.

Publication: Business Standard

Supermicro Empowers AI-driven Capabilities for Enterprise, Retail, and Edge Server Solutionsedit

Leveraging AMD’s EPYC series processors, this 1U, short depth system offers customers flexibility in both core counts and GPU capability by having the capacity to hold a single double width NVIDIA L40S GPU.

Publication: ANI News

5 best CPUs for Nvidia RTX 5090edit

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a new processor that was announced at CES 2025. It was advertised as the best card in the market and boasts a super impressive spec sheet.

Publication: Sports Keeda

Competition in news

NVIDIA Blackwell: Here s everything you need to knowedit

Ever since NVIDIA ventured into ray tracing with the Turing architecture, the company has consistently pushed the boundaries of GPU design.

Publication: Digit

Has Jensen Huang lost his mojo. His company Nvidia has lost over $330 billion since January 6; what could be the reasonedit

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is currently in need of a reality check as the AI-backed company’s share prices are dropping like crazy and US investors are growing all the more concerned and anxious. Nvidia has given Wall Street investors some superb growth in the last couple of years, and even though the company is planning on taking things to the next level, it looks like the stock market is rebounding on them

Publication: The Economic Times

Intel to be split in two, VC and investment arm named Intel Capital to be spun into a different companyedit

This decision is part of a broader effort to streamline Intel s operations, improve efficiency, and make the company more agile. While Intel will still be involved as an investor, this change will allow Intel Capital to grow on its own, focusing more on expanding its portfolio read more

Publication: First Post

Partner in news

Microsoft launches Copilot Chat for businesses to boost AI adoptionedit

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a chat service allowing businesses to use on-demand AI agents for routine tasks, betting on the payasyougo model to drive up the adoption of the technology

Publication: The Economic Times

Asus NUC 14 Essential Mini PC With Intel Core NSeries CPUs Unveiled: See Featuresedit

Asus NUC 14 Essential was launched on Tuesday, equipped with Intel Core Nseries processors. It is a compact, entry level mini PC that is claimed to offer improved performance and power efficiency over existing models, thanks to updated CPUs.

Publication: Gadgets 360

ASUS India partners with Zepto for quick delivery of accessoriesedit

ASUS India has partnered with Zepto, a popular quick commerce platform for delivering its accessories in a quicker manner across major cities of India.

Publication: Fone Arena

All gaming decks, on handedit

Lenovo Legion Go S Sporting an 8-inch PureSight display, the Lenovo Legion Go S slowly but steadily builds on making the iconic Legion experience mobile. The display supports refresh rates of up to 120 Hz for seamless gameplay. Powered by AMD Ryzen Z2 Go, the device is designed with Legion TrueStrike controllers and adjustable trigger switches.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Industry news

Supermicro Empowers AI-driven Capabilities for Enterprise, Retail, and Edge Server Solutionsedit

Leveraging AMD’s EPYC series processors, this 1U, short depth system offers customers flexibility in both core counts and GPU capability by having the capacity to hold a single double width NVIDIA L40S GPU.

Publication: ANI News

Telangana urges Centre to support semiconductor manufacturing missionedit

Telangana urges Centre to support semiconductor manufacturing mission Minister Sridhar Babu lauded the progress of the central government s prestigious Semiconductor Mission and expressed optimism about the collaboration between the state and central governments to drive growth in this sector.

Publication: Deccan Herald

Proposed US restriction on chip export threatens India s AI hardware plans: IESAedit

The proposed restriction on artificial intelligence chip export to non-key allies nations, including India, will challenge the country s plan for AI hardware, crucial for the local development of emerging technologies, semiconductor industry body IESA said on Wednesday.

Publication: The Economic Times

Online gaming spend from small towns up 16X in five yearsedit

Spending on online gaming in smaller towns has surged 16 times between 2019 and 2024, according to a white paper on payments by Visa. The trend underscores the rising influence of digital consumption across India’s non-metropolitan areas.

Publication: The Times of India

Meta develops artificial intelligence model for direct speech-to-speech translation for up to 101 languagesedit

Scientists at the US technology company Meta have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can facilitate direct speech-to-speech translation for up to 101 languages, including several spoken in India.

Publication: The Telegraph

India outpaces global AI adoption: BCG surveyedit

India has emerged as a global leader in terms of the adoption of AI as a core strategic focus, with 80 per cent of firms prioritising AI as a core strategic focus, outpacing the global average of 75 per cent in this space, according to a new Boston Consulting Group (BCG) AI Radar global survey.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

GenAI set to revolutionise 38 million jobs in India by 2030, unlocking significant productivity gains: EY India reportedit

The report predicts that AI adoption could transform 38 million jobs, driving a 2.61% productivity boost to the Indian economy through gains in the organised sector.

Publication: The Economic Times

AI to power 40 per cent of utility control rooms by 2027: Gartneredit

By 2027, 40% of control rooms in the power and utilities sector will deploy AIdriven operators, according to Gartner.

Publication: The Financial Express

‘Tackle local issues with local insightsedit

“As we continue to integrate AI into various sectors, it is crucial to do so responsibly, ensuring that AI itself remains sustainable and ethical,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in an interview. Excerpts:

Publication: The Financial Express

How US curbs on AI chip exports can hurt Indiaedit

Industry executives say India could potentially secure General National Validated End User authorisations due to its status as neither a re-exporter of Compute ICs nor an advanced compute manufacturing hub. The same along with Nvidia s and AMD s commitment to India, could position India favourably for licence approvals, Chandak said.

Publication: The Financial Express

GPU export curbs may derail India’s AI ambitions, tech-driven growthedit

Key chips designed in the US by companies like Nvidia and AMD are fabricated abroad. Some of the key raw-material inputs are also drawn from nations that are not on the “favoured” list. In addition, research and development (R&D) centres for chip design and data centres may be located in nations, such as India, which face import curbs, and they may choose to retaliate.

Publication: Business Standard

Disclaimer - For AMD Internal Use Only

Browse by Month
Browse by Month