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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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Steam Deck finally gets a delivery date after multiple delays

Valve Steam Deck has been one of the most awaited handheld gaming consoles of last year, since it was announced back in July 2021. The console was slated to be delivered by December 2021, however, due to supply chain delays, Valve pushed deliveries indefinitely. Now in an update, the company has revealed that it will start deliveries by the end of February.

In the update, Valve has also revealed that the Steam Deck verified program is currently ongoing, under which select game developers have already been provided with developer kits and the company plans to send out more in the coming weeks. Apart from this, the company has revealed that some of the first production units are currently being evaluated and it will start shipping to customers by the end of next month.

Steam Deck

Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer, using which gamers can play PC games on the go. It sports a 7-inch touch screen display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 1280×800 pixels resolution. The device is powered by an AMD Zen-based quad-core CPU paired with a GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture. It comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB of PCIe NVMe storage. The device runs the company’s own Steam OS 3.0 based on Arch Linux. The operating system comes with support for Windows games.

The Steam Deck is offered in three tiers: $400 (approximately Rs 29,625) for the base model with 64GB of eMMC storage, $530 (approximately Rs 39,254) for the 256GB NVMe SSD storage variant, and $649 (approximately Rs 48,075) for the flagship 512GB NVMe storage variant, which also comes with the premium anti-glare etched glass.

Currently, Valve is not accepting new orders for the Steam Deck and expects to open reservations for new orders for all three tiers after Q2 2022. Also note, the device is currently not available in India, however, the company has said that it will be expanding its availability regions with each order cycle.

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