AMD specific news
Back-To-School Laptopsedit
The good news is that the budget laptop segment in India has never been stronger. You can now walk away with a machine packing a 7th-generation AMD Ryzen processor, a 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM and a full HD display, all for well within this ceiling.
Publication: Free Press Journal
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Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery tech drastically reduces game loading timeedit
All three GPU vendors, NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, have promised support for Advanced Shader Delivery, but the feature has not been released or seen in action until now. Microsoft just showed off how Advanced Shader Delivery technology eliminated shader compilation in Forza Horizon 6 on AMD GPUs, thereby reducing game loading time by up to 95%. Here’s more on the story.
Publication: Sports Keeda
AI has moved beyond pilot phaseedit
The company also expanded partnerships with firms including OpenAI, Google Cloud, AMD, Cisco and ServiceNow during the year, while acquisitions of Coastal Cloud and List Engage were aimed at strengthening its Salesforce and agentic AI capabilities.
Publication: The New Indian Express
Competition in news
Qualcomm recalibrates chipsets to mitigate concerns about rising phone priceedit
Tech major Qualcomm rolled out a portfolio of new generation chipsets for devices in mid-premium and lower-tier to mitigate concerns around the rising average selling price of smartphones due to the higher cost of storage chips, a company official said on Thursday.
Publication: News 18
Ursa Compute mulls $300 mn boost to India’s sovereign AIedit
Ursa Compute, the AI compute infrastructure arm of Ursa Group, said it planned to invest $300 million in building sovereign AI compute infrastructure in India, including the deployment of 2,888 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Publication: The Hindu
Intel-Apple: Why Ai Chips Are A Big Dealedit
For Apple, the logic is different. It remains deeply dependent on TSMC for manufacturing nearly all of its custom-designed chips. It also had leverage on the company. Every time TSMC developed a new, more advanced chip-making process, Apple was the first major customer, sometimes buying up nearly all of the initial production. In the past few years, demand for TSMC’s capacity has grown among AI chipmakers such as Nvidia and AMD.
Publication: MINT
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HP wants to become the ‘platform of choice’ as AI moves from reactive to Agentic: HP India MD Ipsita Dasguptaedit
The devices optimised for things like thermal power, battery power and allow for the most intense work that anyone needs to do to happen.
Publication: The Times of India
Industry news
India’s first semiconductor unit launched in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan:edit
India’s first semiconductor unit was launched in the Bhiwadi industrial hub of Alwar district of Rajasthan on Friday. Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma virtually inaugurated the Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)-led Semiconductor facility for assembly, testing, and packaging (OSAT/ATMP), including memory products, on Friday from Jaipur.
Publication: The Statesman
Tata unit, ASML ink MoU to boost chip making in Indiaedit
Tata Electronics Ltd. and ASML, a leading semiconductor equipment making firm, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost advanced semiconductor manufacturing in India.
Publication: The Hindu
Tata-ASML to expand chip manufacturing in Indiaedit
Tata Electronics and Netherlands’ ASML have signed MoUs in India have entered into a partnership for semiconductor manufacturing. The agreement was announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Netherlands. According to a joint statement, ASML will support Tata Electronics in setting up and operating its 300mm semiconductor fab in Gholera, Gujarat.
Publication: Samagya
Netherlands, India elevate ties to strategic partnershipedit
India And The Netherlands have agreed to elevate their relationship to a strategic partnership and announced a five-year road map for it covering areas like agriculture, technology, energy transition and defence cooperation.
Publication: The Financial Express
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