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Asus Updates ROG Strix Scar, Strix, Zephyrus and Flow Gaming Laptop Lineups With Intel and AMD CPUs

Asus Updates ROG Strix Scar, Strix, Zephyrus and Flow Gaming Laptop Lineups With Intel and AMD CPUs

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Asus has refreshed its ROG gaming laptop lineup in India. The new range of gaming-focussed laptops, which were announced during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025) in January, comprises six models — the Asus ROG Strix Scar 16, ROG Strix Scar 18, ROG Strix G16, ROG Zephyrus G16, ROG Zephyrus G14, and the ROG Flow Z13. The new ROG laptops are powered by Intel Core Ultra 9 and AMD Ryzen AI Max processors. All models come with AI-accelerated capabilities and pack up to 90W battery. They run on Windows 11 Home and feature speakers with Dolby Atmos support. All models offer Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.  Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, Strix Scar 16, Strix G16, Zephyrus G16, Zephyrus G14, Flow Z13 Price in India Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 price in India starts at Rs. 3,79,990, while the ROG Strix Scar 18 begins at Rs. 4,49,990. They are available in an Off Black colourway. On the other hand, pricing for the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 starts at Rs. 3,59,990, while the ROG Zephyrus G14 and ROG Strix G16 …

Dell Pro, Pro Plus and Pro Premium AI PCs With Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen 300 CPUs Launched in India

Dell Pro, Pro Plus and Pro Premium AI PCs With Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen 300 CPUs Launched in India

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Dell launched a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) PCs in India across multiple series on Wednesday. The company’s newly added portfolio in the country includes notebooks, desktops, monitors, and more. These devices are being released under the Dell Pro, Dell Pro Plus, Dell Pro Premium, Dell Pro Max, and Dell Ultrasharp series. The new AI PCs are powered by Intel and AMD’s processors. Dell said that its broad portfolio launch with a multi-silicon strategy will let users find the device best suited for them. Dell Launches New AI PCs: Price and Details In a press release, Dell announced the new range of devices launching in India. The company said the latest portfolio adds on top of the Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs launched last year to meet “a wide range of organisational demand.” Coming to the launched lineup, the Dell Pro 14 can be configured with Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) and AMD Ryzen 300 Series processors, along with an AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU. The professional-focused laptop comes in Textured Magnetite and Sleek Platinum Silver colour …

SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with .5B Acquisition of Chip Startup Ampere

SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with $6.5B Acquisition of Chip Startup Ampere

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Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group. Image: SoftBank YouTube SoftBank has announced plans to acquire the chip startup Ampere for $6.5 billion in an all-cash deal that “broadens its AI infrastructure investments.” For the last eight years, Ampere has been designing high-performance processors tailored for cloud computing, AI workloads, and data centres. Ampere’s lead investors, private equity firm Carlyle and IT giant Oracle, will sell their shares, which equate to 59.65% and 32.27% stakes in the company, respectively, according to SoftBank. The Japanese telco will retain Ampere as an independent subsidiary based in Santa Clara, once the deal closes in the second half of 2025. SEE: US Chip Export Rule Proposes Limits to Thwart Chinese GPUs More must-read AI coverage SoftBank’s goal of expanding its AI offerings and investments SoftBank has been aiming to bolster its AI offerings for a while; the company was reportedly considering acquiring a minority stake in Ampere in 2021, according to Bloomberg, but no deal materialized. In 2016, it acquired Arm Holdings, a semiconductor design company …

Qualcomm’s Kedar Kondap on Bringing Low-Cost Snapdragon X CPUs to India and Snapdragon’s Retail Strategy

Qualcomm’s Kedar Kondap on Bringing Low-Cost Snapdragon X CPUs to India and Snapdragon’s Retail Strategy

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Qualcomm will unveil new Snapdragon X laptop CPUs next week to power low-cost AI-capable devices in India. The firm has targeted the midrange laptop segment in the country. The chipmaker’s OEM partners are expected to introduce new Copilot+ laptops priced around $600 (roughly Rs. 52,000) and offer support for on-device AI features. The company is also expanding via retail channels—it set up the first Snapdragon Experience Zone at a Croma outlet in Mumbai on Thursday. Ahead of the launch of the new Snapdragon X-powered laptop models, Gadgets 360 sat down with Kedar Kondap, Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President of Product Management, to discuss the chipmaker’s plans to expand in India and how its retail expansion fits into its strategy. ⁠On Qualcomm’s efforts to bring its Arm-based Snapdragon chips to laptops in India Kedar Kondap: Our journey on PCs started a few years ago — we launched a new CPU, which was the Qualcomm Oryon CPU, and our intent was to deliver the best performance, battery life, and AI performance. We did this across three different tiers – …

Broadcom and TSMC Consider Splitting Intel’s Design and Manufacturing Capabilities Between Them

Broadcom and TSMC Consider Splitting Intel’s Design and Manufacturing Capabilities Between Them

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Rumors are swirling about a possible takeover of Intel. Nothing has been inked, but Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) both are in the early stages of proposing potential deals, according to The Wall Street Journal. Broadcom could potentially seek a deal for Intel’s chip design assets, while TSMC eyes its manufacturing capabilities. More about Innovation Intel interim executive chairman allegedly met with buyers, government Broadcom and TSMC are not officially working together, and any plans either company has for deals with Intel are in preliminary stages, The Wall Street Journal said. However, Intel’s Interim Executive Chairman Frank Yeary has allegedly met with potential buyers and Trump administration officials. TSMC’s involvement in particular would need to take into account Intel’s U.S. national security relationships. Intel was the largest recipient of the U.S. Chips Act of 2022, which gave up to $7.9 billion in grants to U.S.-based factory projects. Reception of that money makes Intel subject to regulations that say the company must own a majority share of its factories if they are sold off …

Arm Shocks the Semiconductor Industry by Announcing It May Sell Its Own Chips

Arm Shocks the Semiconductor Industry by Announcing It May Sell Its Own Chips

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Semiconductor design firm Arm surprised the hardware industry on Feb. 13 with the announcement that it will make a server CPU as well as license its semiconductor designs to other organizations; Meta locked in as the first partner. The move turns Arm from a resource for companies like Qualcomm and NVIDIA into a potential competitor. According to the Financial Times, Arm Chief Executive Rene Haas could show the new chip by the summer. More about Innovation Arm plans to make a chip for servers in large data centers Specifically, Arm will develop and sell its own CPU intended to reside in servers for large data centers. The processor will have a base architecture customizable to different customers. More details about the chip’s capabilities were not available at the time of writing. Arm won’t do the manufacturing; like many major semiconductor producers, the chip will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Also, Arm has recruited personnel from its customers, according to Reuters. SEE: Data centers can reduce energy usage by changing just 30 lines …

Snapdragon X CPUs for Affordable PCs Set to Launch in India on February 24

Snapdragon X CPUs for Affordable PCs Set to Launch in India on February 24

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Snapdragon India on Wednesday announced that it will soon launch new Snapdragon X CPUs in India. First unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 last month, the chipsets aim to compete with affordable offerings from other companies such as Intel and AMD. Similar to their global counterparts, the Snapdragon X CPUs are likely to offer support for artificial intelligence (AI) features, leveraging a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU). The company expects its new platform to power laptops priced under $600 (roughly Rs. 51,400) globally, and a similar strategy could also be adopted for the Indian markets. Qualcomm Snapdragon X CPUs India Launch Date, Specifications (Expected) In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Snapdragon India announced that it will launch the Snapdragon X platform in the country on February 24. While the chipmaker is yet to reveal any specifics, the event has been labelled “AI PCs for Everyone”, which suggests that the new processors could be targeted towards offering AI performance at an affordable price tag. Snapdragon X is here for you all! 🚀Meet the …

Snapdragon X CPUs for Affordable PCs Set to Launch in India on February 24

Snapdragon X CPUs for Affordable PCs With Up to 45 TOPS of NPU Performance Launched at CES 2025

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Qualcomm on Monday unveiled its latest Snapdragon X platform for budget PCs at CES 2025. The company’s latest octa-core CPUs are designed to compete with affordable chips from Intel and AMD, while offering support for AI features via a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) and improved battery efficiency. The new Snapdragon X platform is expected to power computers that are priced under $600 (roughly Rs. 51,400), which should bring down the cost of Arm-based Windows laptops by a considerable amount. Snapdragon X Platform Specifications The newly announced Snapdragon X platform (X1-26-100) is designed for affordable computers, and features eight Oryon CPU cores with a peak clock speed of up to 3GHz. This is lower than the Snapdragon X Plus (up to 3.4GHz) and Snapdragon X Elite (up to 3.8GHz), for midrange and high-end laptops, respectively. The 4nm chipset supports up to 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM, with 135GB/s memory bandwidth. It features a Qualcomm Adreno GPU that supports up to three external displays at 4K/ 60Hz. It supports Windows 11 along with Copilot+ features that are …

Intel’s new flagship CPUs will run cooler and more efficiently for PC gaming

Intel’s new flagship CPUs will run cooler and more efficiently for PC gaming

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Intel is finally addressing how hot and power-hungry its desktop CPUs have become. Intel’s new flagship Core Ultra 200S series of processors, arriving on October 24th, are focused on performance per watt to run cooler and more efficiently than the previous 14th Gen chips. Codenamed Arrow Lake S, these are also Intel’s first enthusiast desktop CPUs with a built-in NPU, or a neural processing unit, for accelerating AI tasks. “Arrow Lake will deliver Intel’s best performance for enthusiasts in desktop and mobile,” says Josh Newman, general manager and VP of product marketing client computing. “It will deliver that performance at significantly lower power levels than previous generations of Intel enthusiast products, and Arrow Lake is also delivering the first Intel AI PC for enthusiasts in both the desktop and mobile performance space.” The full Core Ultra 200S lineup.Image: Intel At the heart of the Arrow Lake architecture is a big effort from Intel to reduce the power draw from its chips. Both the 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core CPU generations were power-hungry, often drawing far …

Intel is releasing another microcode update to protect crashing Raptor Lake CPUs

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While there’s still no fix for chips that are already crashing, the company is now releasing microcode update 0x12B to motherboard manufacturers to help prevent one of the root causes of damage. In this case, it prevents the Intel CPU from asking for too much power when it’s just sitting idle or performing light tasks. (Too much voltage can prematurely age a chip.) Intel says it may take several weeks for motherboard manufacturers to validate and roll out BIOS updates across their products — but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should wait. Previous BIOS updates contain two earlier Intel microcode fixes to help prevent damage, as well as new power settings that could also reduce the risk. Intel still hasn’t answered our questions about how many Raptor Lake chips have likely been affected by these and other possible instability issues, or identified batches of chips that were affected by an earlier oxidization issue, but we’re asking again now. Source link