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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...

Google is bringing Windows apps to Chromebook

Google has just revealed that its Chrome OS-powered Chromebook laptops will soon be able to run Windows apps. As part of the announcement, the company revealed some important details regarding the upcoming feature. Taking a closer look, this new feature will only be available for the corporate versions of the Chrome OS. The Chrome OS development team shared some more details regarding the feature. Let’s check the new information regarding the Google Chrome OS here.

Windows apps to land on Google Chrome OS-powered Chromebook

According to Cyrus Mistry, the group product manager for Chrome OS, the company is teaming up with software virtualization company, Parallels. As part of the team-up, Parallels will be able to bring the power of a proper Windows desktop to Chrome OS. Google’s desktop operating system will also be able to redirect Windows supported file types to the Parallels Desktop instance. This same feature is already available on macOS natively as well as with the help of Parallels. Parallels allows its users to run Windows applications as if they were native to macOS. Now, it seems that Google will add this same function in a similar way.

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Mistry also noted that Google also experimented with Windows as a second OS on Chromebooks in dual boot. However, the company discarded this option due to security reasons related to the boot process. According to the product manager, Parallels offers “the best of both worlds”. In addition, it also “provides users with a seamless experience in which they can get in and out quickly.”

According to The Verge, partner companies can bundle Parallels Desktop with corporate Chromebooks. IT administrators can enable role access for Chromebooks enrolled in the Chrome Enterprise Upgrade. The product manager does not reveal the pricing or launch date for the feature. Beyond this, the report noted that users need to sport a relatively modern Chromebook to use this unreleased feature. It has also been confirmed that the system will be available for the companies later this year. Google has also created a page for interested parties to contact or provide feedback.



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