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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...
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Finale of Nodwin Gaming’s ESL India Premiership Summer Season today

The fifth edition of the summer season of Nodwin Gaming’s event, ESL India Premiership went live on June 1, 2020. And it is finally in its last leg. The grand finale of the esports event is live on Disney+Hotstar from July 16-19, 2020. The tournament will feature games like CS:GO, Clash of Clans, PUBG Mobile, and FIFA 20. The winner/winning team will be awarded a grand prize from a pool of Rs 38 lakhs.

The ESL premiership has been a popular event for the esports community since its inception in 2016. This year, Nodwin Gaming has tweaked the format to introduce the concept of Grand Final Playoffs. As part of this change, teams will now get a second chance to qualify for the finals of the ESL premiership which will grab a lot eyeballs. This year additionally as a part of the broadcast special, celebrity gamer Naman Mathur aka Mortal will be co-hosting the PUBG Mobile finals alongside Team 8bit’s owner and a well-known caster Animesh Agarwal aka 8bit_Thug.

The finalists from the playoffs who will be given another opportunity to compete in the finals are:

– CSGO: Team Wolf, Phoenix Esports, Blaze Esports, Global Esports

– PUBG Mobile: Fnatic, Forceone Esports, Havoc Esports, Initiative Esports, Megastars, Off Guard, Optimum Esports, Orange Rock, Rising Falcon Esports, U Mumba Esports, SWAT Offical, SynerGE, Team Namma Bengaluru, NoRules Xtreme, Team Xhibit, and vsgCrawlers

– COC Indian Tribe, Indian Clashers, THE BEAST, Team 8bit

– FIFA20: Charanjot, yRUS_Krusher, M10_Jenasid, saranshjain7

ESL India Premiership 2020 registers a 300 percent hike in registrations

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ESL India Premiership 2020 registers a 300 percent hike in registrations

“Our flagship tournament has been received exceptionally well this year both by our players and the audience. The player registrations increased by 1866% percent and our viewership grew three times from last year! We received over 55,000 registrations that by itself, exceeds all expectations. What these amazing numbers tell us is that esports is set to create history in India — both in terms of its growth and the interest it is rapidly garnering among India’s youth. Professionally competitive esports events like the ESL premiership are setting the bar very high and propelling the industry to great heights,” said Akshat Rathee, Co-Founder and MD, Nodwin Gaming



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