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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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Google to soon show information on vaccination centres in India

Google has been taking steps to provide people with the right COVID-19 information for the past one year. In addition to its efforts, the company has now revealed what it is doing to keep people updated with the right information on the Coronavirus vaccination.

This is mainly to ease out the ongoing vaccination drive. which has reached its phase 2 in India. Here’s a look at Google’s efforts to bring about credible COVID-19 information.

Google’s effort to provide vaccination facts to people

Google, via a press note, has suggested that it has worked closely with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide people with science-based information on the vaccination drive.

Google is also working with MoHFW’s Rapid Risk Response team to detect misinformation on the same with the help of social media tools across various regions, in different languages.

Knowledge panels on Google Search made their entry when phase 1 of the vaccination drive introduced in India. With this, Google aims to provide true information on the COVID-19 vaccine in English, as well, as eight Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, and Hindi).

In addition to this, Google has optimised the MoHFW website for better page load time and more so that people access the information easily. YouTube also has information panels to show up accurate search results on COVID-19, along with a homepage banner for Coronavirus-related queries.

Google to soon tell about vaccination centres in India

For the near future, Google has revealed that it will soon introduce details on vaccination centres in India, which will be accessible via Google Search, Maps, and Google Assistant. This will be with the help of the MoHFW and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will roll out in the coming weeks.

Google also provides regular Google Trends reports on COVID vaccine queries for easy working of the government officials.

As COVID-19 is still prevalent, Google aims to come up with more ways in the future to help people for more help on the same.



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