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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...

Apple MacBook Air 2013 and MacBook Pro 2014 labelled as ‘Vintage Products’

For professionals, both then and now, the MacBook lineup remains the ideal device for many. Unfortunately, sooner or later, everything comes to an end, including support for old devices. Even though Apple generally supports its devices for a very long time, when compared with competitors.

As part of a new update to its catalog, Apple has now labeled four products from its previous offering as vintage products. These include the MacBook Air models from 2013 and 2014, with the 2014’s MacBook Pro. And the fifth-generation iPod touch (discontinued by Apple in 2015).

The Cupertino company always uses this term to reclassify several of its models that have been old for five or more years. Thus, enlisting them in a new category called vintage products, to make way for its latest devices equipped with the new technology.

What could this mean

For users, this will not be a problem, because when Apple marks some devices as vintage products. It still means that these products could continue to receive all kinds of updates. Including those related to device security, so users can continue to enjoy them for several years.

However, this does imply a negative factor since these devices will no longer be able to enjoy technical service support. So users will not be able to report any failure in an Apple Store that offers the repairs. Refusing to support older electronic devices is Apple’s usual policy, so there’s absolutely nothing strange or surprising about this.

With this in light, now there’s no assurance whether these laptops will receive updates to the new macOS 10.16. That will be presented at the upcoming WWDC this summer. Finally, these products join the thousands of devices that come out of the market and give way to other, more innovative models. A strategy practiced by Apple for years, and that is part of its essence.



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