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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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Xiaomi’s new design stores a pair of wireless earbuds in the phone itself

Xiaomi is looking to change the dynamics of smartphone design once again. Few years back, we saw the Mi Mix, 2 and 3, then we had the Mi Mix Alpha. Now the company is hoping to bring a new dimension to phone design. For this, Xiaomi has reportedly patented a new design format, which stores wireless earbuds at the top. The design renders show what is being tried out.

These buds double up as the built-in speakers for the phone mentioned in the patent filing. Xiaomi has applied for the design in China and the Netherlands. It further states the earbuds will slide into the gaps constructed to hold the earbuds. While the idea sounds ambitious, we’re not sure if the phone’s current dimensions can accommodate the earbuds.

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And if that has to be changed, then Xiaomi’s designers will have further questions to answer. Do they really believe that instead of fitting the earbuds, space couldn’t be utilized for something? Also, we heard about the need to remove the headphone jack to fit in a bigger battery a few years ago. Does that logic not fit in with the earbuds into the equation?

More importantly, if Xiaomi thinks the earbuds can double up as speakers, what about their hygiene? After all, you will be wearing them numerous times and taking them off to put it back. Won’t that affect the quality of the speakers? More importantly, earbuds will most likely charge using the built-in phone’s battery. Won’t this require Xiaomi to bump up the size of the battery to make this work?

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We’re hoping the company works through these points before going ahead with the final product, especially if the patent gets the green flag. Expect the phone to cost a premium, especially with the features on offer. But in most cases, patent designs don’t usually convert into an actual products. So we’ll take this development with a pinch of salt for now.



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