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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 Drive may stop giving unlimited space to WhatsApp users

WhatsApp’s Android users so far have enjoyed unlimited space when it comes to chat backups on Google Drive. But this may change soon as Google is reportedly planning to put a cap on the storage space that it provides for chat backs on Google Drive.

WhatsApp’s chats for iOS users are backed up on iCloud, which provides a limited 5GB of free storage space. On the other hand, Google Drive, where chat backups of WhatsApp’s Android app users are stored, has offered unlimited storage space to users until now. This means that their WhatsApp chat backups don’t count against their free Google Drive storage space, which is 15GB for all Google account holders.

Now, WABetaInfo reports that Google Drive might put a limit to the free storage space that it offers to Android users for storing their WhatsApp chat backups. The blog site has found strings in WhatsApp’s code which suggest that ‘Google Drive backup is changing’. The screenshot shared by the blog site also suggests that WhatsApp will warn users when their chat backup space is full or when the limit is approaching.

There is no word on the total amount of storage space that Google will offer to WhatsApp users for their chat backups. Details regarding the timeline of implementation for this change also remains unknown for now.

That said, it’s not surprising that Google is planning to put a cap on the unlimited storage space that it offered for WhatsApp chat backups on Google Drive. Last year, the company implemented a similar change for Google Photos as well.

Additionally, this change explains another feature that is in the making at WhatsApp. The blog site back in October last year had reported that the Meta-owned messaging app was planning to offer a new set of controls to its users for managing their chat backups. The new settings included separate toggle buttons for audio messages, video files, images and other files among other things. In light of recent developments, these controls will help WhatsApp’s Android users manage their chat backups more efficiently.

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