Intel on Wednesday won its fight against a EUR-1.06-billion (roughly Rs. 8,900 crore) EU antitrust fine that the US chipmaker was handed 12 years ago for stifling a rival, in a major setback for EU antitrust regulators. The judgment by Europe’s second-top court in support of Intel’s arguments is likely to cheer Alphabet unit Google in … Read more
Samsung has teased its next flagship smartphone SoC — expected to be called Exynos 2200 ahead of its upcoming January 11 announcement. Taking to the official Twitter account, the company shared a teaser video of the upcoming chipset. The South Korean tech giant also shared the clip on its official YouTube channel. It should be … Read more
At the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit this week Qualcomm announced a new generation of chips under its Snapdragon branding. The showstopper was Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that is essentially an incremental update to last year’s Snapdragon 888 and is meant for next-generation flagship Android phones coming later this year and next year. The San Diego-based … Read more
At the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit this week Qualcomm announced a new generation of chips under its Snapdragon branding. The showstopper was Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that is essentially an incremental update to last year’s Snapdragon 888 and is meant for next-generation flagship Android phones coming later this year and next year. The San Diego-based … Read more
AMD occurs commonly in the elderly, usually after 50 years of age, due to gradual thinning of the macula or even due to abnormal growth of blood vessels under the retina. Navi Mumbai based Stem Rx Bioscience Solutions Pvt Ltd successfully restored the eyesight of a 58-year-old man with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by cell-based … Read more
There’s still no end in sight to the insane graphics card shortage and resulting price spikes that have turned our market upside down. For over a year now, it has been virtually impossible to find a graphics card in India selling at anywhere near its MSRP – people have been forced to pay double or … Read more
The US Department of Energy is nearing a deal to purchase a supercomputer made with chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices as a key lab waits for a larger supercomputer from Intel that has been delayed for months, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Nvidia and AMD machine, to be called Polaris, … Read more
Intel on Thursday gave new details of its turnaround strategy to source subcomponents of its chips from external factories, including new specifics of partnerships with rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Intel is one of the few remaining semiconductor firms that still designs and manufactures its own chips. But it lost its lead in making … Read more
AMD has unveiled the new Radeon RX 6600 XT mid-range GPU, aimed at gamers who want to target high performance and high refresh rates at 1080p. The company is touting 15 percent better performance than rival Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 and up to 2.5X better performance for anyone who want to upgrade from a GeForce … Read more
PC maker Dell said it has stopped shipping some versions of its powerful gaming systems to California and five other states because the products do not meet new energy efficiency standards. The regulations affect “select configurations” of its Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 gaming PCs, Dell said in a statement sent to Reuters late on Tuesday. … Read more