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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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Amazon is reportedly working on a wall-mounted Echo device

Amazon is said to be working on a wall-mounted Echo device for its users, Bloomberg has reported. The upcoming device is touted to come with a large touchscreen that attaches to the walls or any vertical flat surface and houses a smart home control panel.

Dubbed the “smart home command center”, the smart device will also come with a 10-inch to 13-inch touchscreen display bundled with video chat support and the option to control smart home devices. You will also get a built-in camera and the hardware is said to include support for Amazon’s Alexa.

What’s on offer with Amazon’s upcoming device

Wall-mounted hardware gives users more options to place their hardware anywhere around the house rather than placing it on desks and tabletops. Amazon’s penchant for wall-mounted devices is not new as it has previously experimented with Amazon Echo wall clocks. Not only that, but it’s also possible to wall-mount existing Echo devices using third-party accessories.

The hardware is being designed by Amazon’s Lab126 and it may develop multiple screen sizes and variants. The product would be launched in direct competition to the likes of the Apple iPad framed into walls and even Control4 Corp’s smart home devices. It is also expected to be much slimmer than existing Echo devices in India.

Amazon wall-mounted device: Expected pricing

It is expected that these Amazon devices will be priced at around $200 to $250 (Rs 14,500 to Rs 18,200 approx) and will be released at the end of either 2021 or 2022. The launch dates are subjected to change or the device launch might even be cancelled depending on the company’s projections and growth for 2021.

Amazon’s rumored device joins another Alexa device that is also in development at the company. It comes equipped with a radar-equipped sleep tracker that you can place beside your bed and it will sense and analyse your breathing pattern.

We still don’t know a lot about what the design would look like but it is expected to borrow a lot of design elements from existing Echo products.



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