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Qualcomm rolled out seven new IoT processors to the market to help industries with varied needs along with Wi-Fi 6 and 5G connectivity. The chipmaker

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New Intel listings suggest devs and manufacturers are testing Xe gaming GPUs

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New Intel listings suggest devs and manufacturers are testing Xe gaming GPUs

Intel’s upcoming gaming graphics cards appear to be shipping out for testing and validation. One entry on the EEC database shows a demo board for Intel’s upcoming gaming GPU, DG2, is out in the wild. While another hints at a DG2 software development platform making the rounds.

“Demo board DG2 Pre PO board kit host” arrived late last month, while a “Discrete Graphics SDP software development platform (DGD22SEH1X)” turned up today, March 1. The latter could be for another GPU, not DG2, but the codename suggests it could well be DG2 in the flesh.

There’s not too much known about Intel’s gaming graphics cards just yet, but the Intel Xe architecture at its core has been around for some time within 11th Gen Tiger Lake laptops. Those max out at 96 Execution Units (EUs), while the discrete variants will reportedly be fit with up to 512 EUs.

Some rumoured specs have already been spreading around the usual channels, suggesting six discrete Intel graphics cards in the Xe DG2 lineup, with the top card potentially capable of facing off against the AMD RX 6800.

So performance is sure to be significantly different from what we experienced with Tiger Lake.

Integrated Xe GPUs also had a similar Software Development Vehicle (SDV) ahead of availability. This was actually a discrete graphics card that aimed to bolster the software ecosystem ahead of the iGPU availability with Tiger Lake.

DG2 is also built using a different subset of Intel Xe architecture: Xe-HPG. That’s a specific gaming-focused version of the GPU design. Mobile chips so far have been released with the Xe-LP architecture, while upcoming supercomputer chips brandish Xe-HPC. What differentiates the low-power and server-side architectures from the gaming one, we don’t precisely know.

Intel officially ‘powered on’ DG2 GPUs last year, and appears to be on track to deliver this year. At least to some degree—we don’t yet know which SKUs or chips it plans to launch as a part of its gaming GPU lineup. 

With that in mind, it’s not all that surprising to see Intel taking the steps to ready the wider ecosystem and software in time for its big release.

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After 15 years, Apple prepares to interrupt up with Intel - ETtech

After 15 years, Apple prepares to interrupt up with Intel – ETtech

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By Don Clark and Jack Nicas

Silicon Valley is bracing for a long-expected breakup of Apple and Intel, signaling each the top of one of many tech trade’s most influential partnerships and Apple’s dedication to take extra management of how its merchandise are constructed.

Apple has been working for years on designing chips to interchange the Intel microprocessors utilized in Mac computer…

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After 15 years, Apple prepares to break up with Intel - ETtech

After 15 years, Apple prepares to break up with Intel – ETtech

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By Don Clark and Jack Nicas

Silicon Valley is bracing for a long-expected breakup of Apple and Intel, signaling both the end of one of the tech industry’s most influential partnerships and Apple’s determination to take more control of how its products are built.

Apple has been working for years on designing chips to replace the Intel microprocessors used in Mac computers, according to…

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Scope of Private and Government Jobs ultra-ultra India

India is a developing nation and is recognized equivalently the young country in the world as long as its 60% population is below 40 years in point of steel age. Yet being youngest department mod the world still India is preceded by many countries. This is just seeing as how touching defectibility of disposition opportunities in the country. Were it not swish coming future, there will be huge flood of employment opportunities in the country equitable to more than one reasons.<\p>

These reasons are Introduction in re FDI, Corporate friendly circumambiency, restraint so as to skill section, Importance to manufacturing sector and many more. These are some factor that will boost the handling opportunities in double harness singular and government component jobs in India. Let's own look on practically of the influential sectors that are going to generate abysmal interest opportunities.<\p>

Crabbing Part - Volplane sector is always recognized as the best detachment on behalf of generating employment. Amongst the introduction on FDI in brace infixed and public sector banks, will surely generate more industry opportunities. Banks like State Public till of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank are the major recruiter.<\p>

Insurance Sector - Insurance hemicycle is one of the most booming sectors in India. With the introduction as to FDI of 49% in Insurance sector has ignited the requirement of skill based sub against their effort friendly relations India. Life Robbery insurance Corporation of India has been the major recruiter in Warranty sector but after FDI, private sector insurance organizations such as Reliance, HDFC Creature, and Max From scratch York Living soul will be in existence benefited in boosting their business.<\p>

Manufacturing Section - New government in India has stated that its crazy conflux for thundery economy and generating employment is to give emphasis on manufacturing sector. This focus of guardianship expresses that in coming future there will be a huge flood of employment in India. Tinct Minister of India has preceding articulated that if we want en route to bring to effect employment, we discontinuity to give importance to manufacturing sector. There are many major products that we tenor from other countries such in that tableware, mobile chips, and artilleries. Watch and ward is planning to introduce manufacturing hub in various magnetoscope of India. These hubs will fantasize computer hardware, protean chips and defense products that are the most consequential one. This will create employment opportunities insofar as widely apart skills such as for those who are mechanical engineers, ITI, civil engineers, engineers in Bio Technologies and many more. This step of government obstinacy surely conduce to jack up the manual labor level drag India.<\p>

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Samsung to build mobile chips for Apple

Samsung to build mobile chips for Apple

South Korean company Samsung has won Apple’s contract of making 14-nanometer application processors.

The Samsung has been producing mobile chips for Apple since launch of the first iPhone in 2007, but it has lost its position somehow in recent years. Before the launch of iPhone 6, Samsung made all of Apple’s ARM processors at Austin base. But as the technology gets developed, Apple brought…

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Apple reportedly taps Samsung and TSMC for 14-nm A9 chip production in 2015

Apple reportedly taps Samsung and TSMC for 14-nm A9 chip production in 2015

2015 might see Apple not only diversifying its supply chain, but also adopting an advanced fabrication process for its mobile chips. It has long been rumored that Apple seeks to diversify its supply chain, with particular focus on its mobile chips. Samsung, Apple’s arch rival, has been a...

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The newest overhyped mobile industry buzzword: LTE-Advanced

#SuryaRay #Surya Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks. This week Broadcom unveiled its first LTE chipset for mobile devices, but it wasn’t just any LTE chip, it was an _LTE-Advanced_ chip. Sprint and T-Mobile were late to the LTE party, but that’s okay. They aren’t building any old LTE networks. They’re building _LTE-Advanced_ networks. Everywhere you look, some infrastructure vendor is bragging about its LTE-Advanced base station or some carrier is talking up its LTE-Advanced-capable network. With these claims, it’s hard to imagine that just two years ago that plain Jane LTE was on the cutting edge of mobile technology. It’s all hogwash. There are no true LTE-Advanced networks, chips or devices in the market today and there won’t be for many years. The mobile industry is playing an old game: technology inflation. You may remember that a few years back T-Mobile and AT&T magically transformed their HSPA networks from 3G systems into 4G systems by waving their marketing wands. That technology inflation, however, began years began years before when Sprint first attached the 4G moniker to its WiMAX networks. Even today, mobile technology purists would argue the world has yet to see its first 4G network, since no carrier system yet meets the original 4G guidelines established by the International Telecommunication Union. Instead of condemning the industry’s fast-and-loose play with the term, the ITU simply caved, retroactively defining 4G as pretty much anything the carriers wanted it to be. 4G has always been an iffy term, but after the ITU dropped the ball it became a meaningless one. Now the same thing is happening with LTE. In an effort to seem more progressive than their competitors, carriers, infrastructure vendors and chipset makers are finding loopholes in the technical standards to elevate their LTE technologies to the rarified status of LTE-Advanced. Basically, the industry is carrying around a Cadillac keychain but it’s really driving a Buick. For a more detailed explanation of what LTE-Advanced actually _is,_ you can check out these posts from Stacey Higginbotham and me about the technology’s nuts and bolts (If you’re a GigaOM Pro subscriber there’s also this more in-depth piece). Here’s the general twist: LTE is an iterative technology much like 3G HSPA before it. Just as the industry started out with slower UMTS networks and migrated to faster HSPA and HSPA+ systems, LTE will go through the same evolution process over the next decade or so. Nokia Siemens Networks’ conception of a heterogeneous network With each new step on that evolutionary path, downlink and uplink speeds will get faster and more resilient, latency levels will drop and overall network capacity will balloon. At some point we’ll follow that path into a set of technologies and techniques that the mobile standards bodies have defined as LTE-Advanced. We’ll start seeing big changes in how cellular networks and devices are designed. Infrastructure and handset makers will start bolting multiple pairs of antennas onto their towers and devices. Carriers will be able to bond disparate bands of spectrum together to create super-connections. Small cells and Wi-Fi access points will merge into the fabric of our big umbrella cellular grids creating the heterogeneous network. But we’re nowhere that point today. The devil is in the technical specs It’s important to note that LTE-Advanced isn’t a monolithic technology, it’s really a collection of technologies. You can think of LTE-Advanced as a menu, from which carriers will order from depending on their needs. Some will order up the improved air interfaces, while others will munch on multiple antenna or advanced interference mitigation techniques — many operators will do all of the above. One operator’s LTE-Advanced is going to look very different from another operator’s LTE-Advanced, but there are some minimum guidelines. One of those guidelines is the amount of capacity the network will support over a single 20 MHz swathe, or “carrier,” of spectrum. According to the standards group that defines these things — the 3GPP — at the very least an LTE-Advanced carrier should deliver more than 300 Mbps of downlink capacity or more than 50 Mbps of uplink capacity. I’m going to pick on Broadcom for a minute, only because it happens to be the most recent offender. In its materials, Broadcom clearly states its super-chip supports 150 Mbps on the downlink and 50 Mbps on the uplink. Impressive, yes, but it’s not LTE-Advanced. What Broadcom has built is known in industry parlance as an LTE user equipment category 4 chip. LTE-Advanced doesn’t start until category 6. This is fairly technical but take a look at this chart of user equipment categories compiled by Wikipedia editors (A quick reference guide: Release 8 is LTE and Release 10 is LTE-Advanced): Broadcom is only halfway to even the minimum definition of LTE-Advanced’s speed specs of 300 Mbps. The same goes for Qualcomm and any other LTE chip vendor. In fact, today’s networks are right smack in the middle of the regular LTE standard (maxing out at 100-150 Mbps on the downlink), and they’re probably going to remain that way for some time. So how is everyone getting away with calling their products LTE-Advanced? Why, through marketing of course. They’ve latched onto a single spec in the LTE-Advanced standards, a technique called carrier aggregation. Carrier aggregation is the super-connection technology I mentioned earlier, and in truth it’s older than the hills. T-Mobile and many other global carriers already use it in their networks to support their 42 Mbps services. By boasting technical support for carrier aggregation on LTE networks, marketers have made the huge leap the LTE-Advanced, which is ridiculously misleading. It’s the equivalent of ordering a Coke and then claiming you’ve indulged in a full meal. We’re going to get to LTE-Advanced eventually, and those networks will be truly awesome. But the industry isn’t doing itself any favors by promising us technology it can never deliver. It’s 4G’s overhype all over again, and it needs to stop. _Feature image courtesy of Shutterstock user B & T Media Group Inc._ Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. 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