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Early Gaming Benchmarks Put AMD Ryzen 9850X3D Slightly Ahead Of 9800X3Dedit
The official benchmarks for the new AMD Zen 5 Ryzen 7 9850X3D will go live on January 28, and here we have the second benchmark leak for the processor. The first benchmark leak showcased that Ryzen 9850X3D is not much ahead of the 9800X3D, but these were mostly synthetic benchmarks.
Publication: WCCF Tech
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SaaS startup SpotDraft raises $8 million from Qualcomm Venturesedit
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) company SpotDraft, which specialises in contract management and legal agreements, has raised $8 million from Qualcomm Ventures.
Publication: The Economic Times
Nvidia unveils AI models for faster, cheaper weather forecastsedit
At the American Meteorological Society s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA today unveiled a new NVIDIA Earth2 family of open models, libraries and frameworks for weather and climate AI, offering the world’s first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle
ET Graphics: Nvidia rising as AI reorders data centre marketedit
The AI boom has reordered the pecking order in the data centre market in just a few years catapulting firms such as Nvidia as the dominant player in the industry even as traditional chipmakers like Intel lost ground.
Publication: The Economic Times
ASML rides Nvidia’s coattails with lasers and huge chip printersedit
As artificial intelligence firms jostle for the Nvidia chips needed to power the AI boom, Dutch firm ASML has carved out a key niche in the supply chain: building the laser using machines needed to print them.
Publication: The Economic Times
Angry Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says: Stop calling all my investments and acquisitions …edit
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has criticised doomer narratives around artificial intelligence, arguing that science fiction style fears distort public understanding and regulation.
Publication: The Times of India
Intel reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 financial resultsedit
“Our conviction in the essential role of CPUs in the AI era continues to grow,” said Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO. “We delivered a solid finish to the year and made progress on our journey to build a new Intel.
Publication: Communication Today
Nvidia lacks clear successor for superstar CEOedit
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, the longest-serving CEO in Silicon Valley, was recently asked how he’s managed to stay in the job more than three decades. “The secret for being CEO for this long is, one: Don’t get fired. And then, two: Don’t get bored,” the 62-year-old said during a company event in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Publication: The Times of India
Industry news
Half of the global chip design will happen in India to boost semiconductor industry, says Ashwini Vaishnawedit
Union IT and Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced a fresh roadmap to strengthen India s semiconductor ecosystem. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Vaishnaw said India s position in the global semiconductor space has changed significantly over the past few years.
Publication: CNBC TV18
Fiber in the hot seat as AI data centers redefine connectivity and speededit
Fiber moves from background plumbing to front line constraint in 2026, as AI first data centers discover that GPUs are useless without enough glass in the ground and inside the hall.
Publication: Communications Today
AI Data Center Surge Risks Delaying Infrastructure Projectsedit
The rapid expansion of AI data centers could come at the expense of long over due infrastructure upgrades, as governments and private companies compete for the same resources, according to a Bloomberg report.
Publication: Var India
After SCL Mohali, Tata’s Dholera plant to help startups build prototype chipsedit
After the state-owned Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, Tata Electronics upcoming semiconductor plant in Dholera will provide fabrication support to chip startups for design tapeouts, Union electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.
Publication: Live Mint
Govt aims to make 3-nm chips by 2032edit
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday laid out an ambitious roadmap for India’s semiconductor push, saying the government plans to support at least 50 fabless chip companies in the next phase of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), also called ISM 2.0, by scaling up the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme, with the long-term goal of producing “one AMD” and “one Qualcomm” out of the country.
Publication: Hindustan Times
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