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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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Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G launched: Will power OnePlus, Xiaomi, iQOO smartphones

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G mobile platform has been announced by the company. The new mobile platform is a follow-on to the flagship Snapdragon 865 Plus. To recall, Snapdragon 865 Plus mobile platform was announced in July last year as a successor to Snapdragon 865 unveiled in December 2019. The Snapdragon 865 Plus comes with a clock speed of 3.1GHz and includes Adreno 650 GPU.

The Snapdragon 870 is aimed at offering a boosted performance as well as geared-up gaming as it comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Elite Gaming experiences. More features of the Snapdragon 870 5G are a truly global 5G sub-6 GHz and mmWave, and ultra-intuitive AI.

“Snapdragon 870 will power a selection of flagship devices from key customers including Motorola, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO, and Xiaomi,” said Kedar Kondap, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc in a press release.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G features an upgraded Qualcomm Kyro 585 CPU, which the company says can perform intense mobile computing at up to 3.2 GHz, as well as Adreno 650 GPU. It includes Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System and the Qualcomm FastConnect6800 Subsystem for faster 5G connectivity. It is said to offer peak speeds up to 7.5Gbps.

Thanks to Snapdragon Elite Gaming, the Snapdragon 870 includes HDR game rendering and updateable GPU drivers. It also offers Desktop Forward Rendering and Qualcomm Game Smoother apart from Qualcomm Game Color Plus v2.0.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 is built on a 7-nm architecture and it can be clocked at up to 3.2 GHz. The mobile platform comes with a host of features like support for Bluetooth 5.2, up to 200-megapixels single camera, Qualcomm Spectra 480 image signal processor, Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ technology, and Qualcomm 3D as well as 3D Sonic Max fingerprint sensor. There’s also dual-camera support with up to 25-megapixels @ 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag.

Vidoe capture features include 4K video capture with simultaneous 64MP photo capture, Rec. 2020 color gamut video capture, and up to 10-bit color depth video capture. Slow-motion 720p videos can be captured @ 960 FPS. The video capture formats that the mobile platform supports are Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG.

“Commercial devices based on Snapdragon 870 are expected to be announced in the first quarter of 2021,” according to Qualcomm.



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