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AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform Launched at $7,299: 5 Key Specsedit
AMD has released a powerful new mini-PC aimed at AI developers, and it comes with a very large memory pool. The AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform, based on the Gorgon Halo chip, is on sale in the US with up to 160GB of VRAM, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and a price of $7,299 for the 192GB RAM and 2TB storage configuration, according to Notebookcheck on October 13, 2026. It arrives less than a week after Asus and Dell revealed their own Nvidia RTX Spark mini-PCs, so the small-form-factor AI workstation race is heating up. Here is what the box offers and what to watch
Publication: Techno Sports
AMD launches Helion rack solution for agentic AIedit
The US-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Monday launched the Helion rack as an open blueprint for agentic AI infrastructure. The American multinational, whose data center chips are used for agentic AI, said Helion agentic rack configurations are currently under development with several ecosystem partners, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), HPE, Lenovo, QCT, Supermicro, and Wiwynn.
Publication: ET Telecom Analytics India Magazine Express Computer
Scaleway to build AMD-powered AI supercomputer in Swedenedit
Scaleway will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden, its first outside France, running on AI chips from AMD, the French cloud company said on Tuesday during its annual AI conference in Paris. Scaleway said the machine would be the first AMD-based AI supercomputer for commercial use in Europe, open to startups, AI companies and businesses across the continent.
Publication: ET CIO
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MSI PRO MAX EDGE AI+ Now Available in India with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Processoredit
MSI announced that the PRO MAX EDGE AI+ is now available in India, a compact 4-liter desktop PC built for professionals, agile teams and security-conscious organizations that want to run demanding AI workloads on their own hardware. It’s powered by up to an AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 processor, with up to 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000 unified memory, integrated Radeon™ 8060S graphics and a dedicated XDNA™ 2 neural processing unit. All of this fits inside a compact aluminum chassis with a built-in 300W power supply.
Publication: Digital Terminal
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Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Chip In A Bid To Cut Dependence On Nvidia & AMDedit
Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, its next-generation custom AI chip, at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose. The company says the chip will become its primary AI inference system and deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems. Microsoft plans to expand Azure Maia deployments to multi-gigawatt scale beginning in 2027 across Azure.
Publication: Free Press Journal
Intel and Qualcomm raise CPU prices as AI demand soars, Panther Lake sees steepest hikeedit
If you are planning to buy a new laptop or build a PC in the coming months, you might want to brace yourself for higher price tags. Major semiconductor giants Intel and Qualcomm have reportedly raised the prices of their processors, with rival AMD also expected to introduce price adjustments for select chips soon. According to a report by Taiwan’s Commercial Times, which cites supply chain sources, the sudden price hike is driven by surging global demand for AI-capable laptops, desktop PCs, and servers, combined with escalating manufacturing costs at leading chip fabrication plants.
Publication: India Today
NVIDIA Opens AI Factory Designs, Teams Up With Cisco on High-Speed Networkingedit
NVIDIA and Cisco have announced a new networking standard for AI data centres, designed to connect more computing systems without expanding existing network infrastructure. The companies unveiled the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP) module at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in Santa Clara, California. USFP supports electrical signals of up to 400 gigabits per second (Gb/s) per lane.
Publication: Analytics India Magazine
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Dell launches new tools to help AI agents understand business data and connect information across systems: What it meansedit
Dell Technologies has announced new tools to help AI agents understand business data and connect information across enterprise systems. At its latest announcement on October 13, 2026, the company expanded its Dell AI Data Platform with a Unified Semantic Layer, an Enterprise Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Agents. The updates aim to help AI systems interpret business terms, identify relationships between information, retrieve relevant data, and follow access controls. Dell has also announced improvements to data processing and storage security, along with services to help businesses deploy AI infrastructure.
Publication: Times Of India
Industry news
India’s AI Data Center Boom Driven by GPUs and Advanced Coolingedit
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries ranging from financial services and healthcare to manufacturing, automotive technology and telecommunications. Behind this transformation is a critical infrastructure layer: AI data centers capable of processing enormous volumes of data and supporting increasingly complex computational workloads. India is emerging as an important market for AI data center infrastructure as enterprises adopt generative AI, cloud computing and machine learning applications.
Publication: Times Tech
DRDO conclave to focus on indigenous semiconductor technologiesedit
The upcoming Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave-2026 will focus on boosting indigenous semiconductor development and strengthening India’s domestic chip-manufacturing capabilities, officials said on Tuesday. At the event, DRDO Scientist and Director General (Electronics and Communication Systems) B K Das underscored the importance of semiconductors and next-generation chips for economic competitiveness, digital sovereignty and national security.
Publication: The Economic Times
Tata Group’s semiconductor push a long-term bet on India: Chandrasekaranedit
For Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran, the group’s bet on semiconductors is not about getting the numbers right over the next two or three years, but about investing in a sector that will be critical to India’s long-term growth. He said the group’s experience had shown that investments made with the country’s needs in mind had consistently proved to be the right decisions. “Whether we get semiconductor chips right or we get the numbers right in two-three years, that is not the point. Chips are going to be fundamentally required for domestic consumers,” Chandrasekaran said. He was speaking at a panel discussion titled The End of Predictability at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026.
Publication: Business Standard
IndiaAI Mission GPU bidders can sell capacity globallyedit
Under the ₹10,372 crore IndiaAI Mission, 14 companies have successfully bid to onboard GPUs from various original equipment manufacturers, including Nvidia, Intel, AMD, AWS, and Google. A senior government official stated that these companies need to find the right commercial value for the GPUs they onboarded. The official noted that there is not enough uptake of GPUs in India right now. The request to allow successful bidders to sell GPU compute capacity globally came from the industry. This was accepted to ensure they remain profitable until demand in India picks up, the official said.
Publication: ET Datacenters
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