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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...

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale sold more iPhones on day one than last year’s sale

The Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale is underway and there are some notable deals in the smartphone category. In the past few days, Amazon has hosted some massive discounts on popular phones across various prices. While the company is yet to release the actual numbers, it has reached out to the media, stating higher sales numbers for Apple’s iPhone models. Along with the iPhone models, many brands launched new products during the sale period.

Out of all the products, it is the iPhone that sold in high numbers in the first few days. In fact, Amazon has sold more iPhones on the first day of the Great Indian Festival Sale than the entire sale period during last year’s sale. Amazon has not listed the names of the models that made the high sales possible. However, it seems that the high discounts on the iPhone 11 could have pushed the sales.

Ahead of the Great Indian Festival Sale, Amazon detailed the discounts on some of the newest iPhone models. The iPhone 11 sold at Rs 47,999 for the base 64GB variant during the sale. Currently, the price has increased to Rs 49,999 for the base variant. The iPhone 11 was one of Apple’s flagship until a month ago and kept selling at Rs 68,300 for its base variant. The high discount on the iPhone 11 made it an appealing deal on Amazon.

Amazon hosted new launches too

During the Great Indian Festival sale, Amazon hosted a few product launches during the period. The biggest of them all is the OnePlus 8T that launched at a starting price of Rs 43,999. The OnePlus 8T is the flagship offering from the company with updated specifications over the OnePlus 8 5G.

Additionally, the Amazon sale also saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, Samsung Galaxy M31 Prime Edition, Oppo F17 Pro Diwali Edition and more. Amazon has also listed Xiaomi’s Redmi Note series devices, Redmi 9A, OnePlus 8T, OnePlus Nord, and Samsung M31 as its top-selling phones during the sale period. When it comes to smart TVs, the OnePlus 43-inch and 32-inch TVs, along with Samsung’s 32-inch TVs, have sold the highest.



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