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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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Microsoft Teams gets new features: End-to-end encryption, channel-sharing and more

Microsoft has rolled out multiple new features to its video conferencing Teams app including end-to-end encryption for calls, webinar support for up to 1,000 attendees, channel-sharing, support for intelligent speakers, a new presenter mode and support for Microsoft PowerPoint Live. All of these new features were announced at the company’s ongoing Ignite 2021 developers conference.

Microsoft Teams new features

Microsoft Teams will now support up to 1,000 attendees during webinars, and if a webinar gains over 1,000 attendees, Teams will scale the meeting into a view-only broadcast experience that will accommodate 10,000 participants. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the company has announced that the limit will be increased to up to 20,000 people to facilitate remote work until the end of 2021. These new event capabilities are included with several Microsoft Office and other plans.

Another major feature introduced is end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support for one-to-one Teams calls. The company has stated that a company’s IT department will have full discretion over who can use E2EE in the organisation.

Microsoft has also announced the launch of Teams Connect, which will let a firm to collaborate with multiple organisations internally or externally. Using this feature, organisations can share channels with anyone, which will appear within a person’s primary Microsoft Teams account alongside other teams and channels. This feature is currently available in private preview and will roll out to everyone later this year.

Teams is also getting new gallery views for its Rooms, which according to the company will make it “easier to see everyone in the meeting.”

Microsoft Teams Intelligent speakers is a hardware product that will be able to identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people talking in a Microsoft Teams Room. The company has developed this speaker in partnership with EPOS and Yealink. The speaker also comes with a transcript feature that will automatically generate a transcript during a meeting. According to a report by The Verge, the speaker will also come with support for live translation.

Lastly, the company has announced support for PowerPoint Live in Teams, which will let users present meetings with slides, notes, chat and participants all in a single view. The company will also be adding a new Presenter Mode that will show the presenter’s video feed alongside their content as they present.



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