AMD specific news
A Linux journey, part 1: Building a SteamOS-powered GabeCube XLedit
Story Mode has published a feature on building a SteamOS-powered gaming PC using an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor and Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU. The article highlights the system’s smooth gaming performance, including running Onimusha: Way of the Sword at 4K resolution and 60 FPS. It showcases AMD’s strong graphics and processing capabilities, demonstrating the potential of AMD-powered hardware to deliver a high-performance, console-like gaming experience on Linux.
Publication: Story Mode
Onimusha: Way of the Sword review: Sharp combat, uneven pacingedit
Digit.in reviews Onimusha: Way of the Sword, highlighting its engaging sword combat, precise parrying and counterattacks, and visually impressive boss battles. The game follows samurai Miyamoto Musashi as he fights supernatural enemies in early Edo-period Kyoto. However, repetitive encounters, routine exploration and uneven pacing affect the overall experience. The review also highlights PC gaming performance, testing the game on an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D processor and AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card, with an average of 130 FPS at 1080p, 93 FPS at 1440p and 53 FPS at 4K.
Publication: Digit
AMD FSR 4.1 Is Finally Coming to Xbox Series X, Rivaling PS5’s QSSRedit
AMD FSR 4.1 has been a massive improvement for Team Red’s AI upscaling tech, but it was previously only available on Radeon 7000 and 9000 graphics cards. But today, AMD has announced that the technology will now be coming to more devices like the Xbox Series X. Just like DLSS, FSR 4.1 uses AI to take a lower resolution input image and upscale it back up to native resolution, but because it’s more computationally expensive than FSR 3, support for lower-powered hardware has been slow.
Publication: IGN
Competition in news
RTX Spark: All your questions about Nvidia’s new PC platform, answerededit
Nvidia’s new RTX Spark, which competes with Apple’s MacBook Pro lineup, combines Blackwell RTX graphics, Arm-based Grace processing, and up to 128GB of unified memory. This makes the new wave of Windows-powered laptops suitable for local AI, creative work, and software development.
Publication: The Indian Express
Chinese tech giants order $35 billion in Nvidia AI chipsedit
ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have placed orders for over 3 million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, with a collective sticker price exceeding $35 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter. This demand underscores Chinese companies’ continued appetite for Nvidia hardware despite US export curbs. The RTX PRO 5500 is a workstation chip, considered among the most powerful Nvidia chips still available to Chinese buyers.
Publication: ET Electronics
Nvidia wins fast-growing AI startup Modal for new central processorsedit
Nvidia has won central processor chip business with another fast-growing AI startup that until now relied entirely on chips from Intel and AMD, an early sign that its push into a market long controlled by those two rivals has traction. Modal, a cloud-computing startup that rents out computing power to AI developers, said it plans to start using Nvidia’s new Vera central processor for the first time for hosting AI agents, the AI systems that can carry out long running tasks for human users.
Publication: The Economic Times
Partner in news
Best Monitors For Work From Home And Gaming Under Rs. 20,000edit
A good monitor is one of the simplest upgrades for anyone who works or studies from home. Hunching over a laptop screen for eight hours strains your neck and eyes, and a bigger external display makes multitasking far easier. The good news is that you no longer need to spend much to get a capable screen. Here are five monitors on Amazon under Rs. 20,000 that suit work, gaming or both. Every pick is in stock and rated 4 stars or higher.
Publication: News18
HP Pavilion Aero 13 Review : An almost perfect blend of portability and performanceedit
The HP Pavilion Aero 13 is a light and compact laptop that offers excellent performance and decent build quality. The laptop weighs just 990g, making it one of the lightest laptops in the world. The chassis is made from Magnesium Alloy, and the laptop has a brushed aluminium finish. The laptop is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7735U CPU featuring 8-Cores, 16-Threads with 4.7GHz Max Boost Clock and 28W TDP, with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM running at 6400MHz, and a 1TB NCME PCIe Gen 4 SSD.
Publication: Digit
Industry news
Applied Materials wants India to take ownership of global semiconductor equipment productsedit
Applied Materials is looking to move its India operations further up the semiconductor equipment value chain, with the US company working towards giving its India teams ownership of product lines that can be developed and deployed for its global customers. “We have become really indispensable for the company, because almost every function, we have a team here supporting it,” Avi Avula, president of Applied Materials India, said in an interview with Fortune India. “Where we are taking this now is can we take ownership for certain product lines from here to end to end.”
Publication: Fortune India
Data integration becomes backbone of semiconductor engineeringedit
A shift is occurring within the semiconductor world, where data is becoming the unifying element between chip design and manufacturing processes. The global semiconductor industry is projected to reach $1.5 trillion in sales for 2026, driven significantly by the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. This growth highlights the importance of efficient chip production.
Publication: ET Datacenters
L&T Semiconductor, Tata Electronics Partner on Chip Manufacturing in Indiaedit
L&T Semiconductor Technologies Ltd (LTSCT) and Tata Electronics have agreed to explore semiconductor fabrication and packaging opportunities in India, combining L&T’s chip design capabilities with Tata Electronics’ foundry and packaging operations. The companies will assess manufacturing options for L&T Semiconductor’s existing and future products across Tata Electronics’ fabrication processes and packaging technologies. The work will also cover design-to-fabrication optimization to improve manufacturing efficiency at scale.
Publication: EE Times
Govt plans sovereign AI infrastructure with tighter control over data, GPUsedit
The government is drawing up India’s sovereign AI map that will identify critical sectors and data categories, said people with knowledge of the matter. This technology infrastructure including GPUs will be completely “on-premises, entirely owned by the government and air-gapped,” said one of them. Critical sectors such as defence could figure in this category, said the people cited. Not-so-sensitive yet relatively important.
Publication: The Economic Times
Amitabh Kant on how India s semiconductor future is taking shape: 6 states with 12 projects, Rs 1.64 lakh cr investmentsedit
India’s semiconductor ecosystem is gradually taking shape, with 12 approved projects across six states attracting committed investments of more than ₹1.64 lakh crore, former NITI Aayog CEO and G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said on Monday. The projects reflect India’s efforts to build domestic semiconductor manufacturing capabilities and develop an ecosystem covering multiple stages of chip production. Gujarat has emerged as the leading destination, accounting for six of the approved projects.
Publication: Live Mint
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