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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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iPhone 12 series helped Apple beat Samsung to become the top smartphone player in Q4 2020

Apple for the very first time has beaten the South Korean smartphone Samsung to become the top smartphone player in Q4 2020. According to a report coming from Gartner, the US-based tech giant has sold more smartphones than Samsung in the fourth quarter of last year. However, the report suggested that smartphone sales in the fourth quarter declined to 5.4 percent.

Gartner noted that Apple is selling more iPhones and also generating higher profits when compared to the South Korean smartphone manufacturer. It suggested that Apple has sold 79.9 million iPhone units while Samsung sold 62.1 million smartphones in the final three months of 2020.

The market researcher agency revealed that the Cupertino tech giant had a 20.8 percent market share during the fourth quarter of 2020. Samsung, in comparison, had a 16.2 percent market share.  Notably, the South Korean smartphone manufacturer was the number one smartphone manufacturer for the entire 2020, the sales dropped by 14.6 percent. Apple witnessed a year-on-year growth of 14.9 percent.

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iPhone 12 series helped

Apple’s incredible sales numbers are the result of the well-received iPhone 12 series that launched in the global market last year. As per the report, consumers are choosing iPhones over Android smartphones from manufacturers like Samsung and OnePlus.

This year, the US based tech giant is expected to enter the 5G smartphone with the launch of the iPhone 13 series. Under the series, the company is expected to launch four models including the iPhone 13, the iPhone 13 Pro, the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the iPhone 13 mini.

The company is also expected to announce the follow up device of the iPhone SE (2020). Rumours suggest that the successor device could be called the iPhone SE (2021) or iPhone 12S.



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