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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...

Reliance AGM on June 24: Affordable JioPhone 5G, low-cost JioBook, Jio 5G rollout expected

Reliance Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2021 date has been officially announced. Reliance Industries will host the 44th AGM later this month on June 24 at 2PM IST. The online event is expected to stream on Reliance’s YouTube as well as social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Few biggest announcements expected from the AGM this year include – Jio-Google 5G smartphone, Jio laptop, Jio 5G rollout timeline, and other announcements around 5G related services by the telco. As always, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani could address the shareholders and others at the AGM 2021.

Reliance AGM 2021 expected announcements

At the annual meeting, Ambani is expected to announce the launch date / rollout date of Jio 5G. To recall, back in December 2020 the company announced that Jio 5G services will roll out by mid-2021, which is exactly when the telco will host the Reliance AGM 2021. Reliance Jio has already achieved speeds of over 1Gbps in its 5G trials.

JioPhone 4g, Reliance Jio, Reliance JioPhone

One of the biggest announcements at the AGM 2021 will be around the 5G smartphone designed in by Jio and Google together. Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently revealed in an interview with the media that the tech giant is working actively with Reliance Jio to develop the affordable 5G smartphone. The Jio-Google 5G smartphone was first announced at Reliance AGM 2020.

Reliance is also expected to launch an affordable laptop at its AGM this year. This affordable laptop is said to be called JioBook. Earlier this year, some details related to JioBook low-cost lapop surfaced online. JioBook is expected to run on a custom Android version and be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 chipset. Other features that the JioBook is tipped to include are: a 1366×768 resolution, 2GB RAM, and 32GB internal storage. It is likely that there will be two variants of the JioBook – one with 2GB RAM and second 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage.



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