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...
Here’s a look at the PlayStation Plus free games for January 2021
Sony has announced that its gaming subscription service ‘PlayStation Plus’ users will get a new lineup of free games next month. This is a monthly offer that PlayStation offers to its ‘PlayStation Plus’ members.
“PlayStation Plus starts 2021 with a bang. PlayStation Plus members will receive two PS4 titles – action-adventure Shadow of the Tomb Raider and action RPG GreedFall on January 5,” the company said in a statement.
What to expect?
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was released in 2018 and developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix. The game continues the narrative from the 2015 title and features Lara Croft as the protagonist. In terms of gameplay, it is similar to the famous Uncharted series on the PlayStation.
Developed by ‘Spiders’ and published by Focus Home Interactive, Greedfall is a role-playing game set in the 17th century and brings more of fantasy-style gameplay to it. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 10, 2019.
You can download these game directly to your PlayStation for free from the PlayStation Store.
On the same day, PlayStation 5 owners with a PlayStation Plus membership can download Maneater which is an apex predator hunting RPG game in the open-world. In the game, players take control of a shark, which PlayStation Plus refers to as a SkaRkPG.
Maneater was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 22, 2020, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 in November 2020, and will be released for the Nintendo Switch in the first half of 2021.
PlayStation 5 India launch date announced
Also, good news for PlayStation gamers in India is that the PlayStation 5 released date has been announced and the flagship gaming console from Sony will be available from 2 February and pre-orders for the same will begin 12 PM on the January 12. If you are interested to buy PlayStation 5 in India, head over to Amazon, Flipkart, Croma, Reliance Digital, Games The Shop, Shop at Sony Center, Vijay Sales and select other authorized Retail partners.
Sony has not been able to confirm the number of units that will be made available in India, however, potential buyers are hopeful they’ll be able to get their hands on the PlayStation 5 without any delays and before stocks run out.
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