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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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Apple quietly increases price of MacBook Air M1 after launching MacBook Air M2

Apple, at Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) 2022 last night, announced its new M2 chipset. In addition to that, the also launched M2-powered MacBook Air that costs Rs 1,19,900 in India. After the launch of a new MacBook Air, you would expect the company to drop the prices for its older M1-powered MacBook Air. Instead, Apple has done something expected. It has silently increased the starting price of MacBook Air M1 that was launched back in 2020 to Rs 99,900.

Earlier, the M1-powered MacBook Air 8-core CPU, 7-core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage was available in India at a starting price of Rs 92,900. But now, the same model costs Rs 99,900. It is worth noting that while the pricing of M1-powered MacBook Air laptop has changed in the Apple Store, it remains the same on other e-retail platforms such as Amazon India and Flipkart.

It remains uncertain why Apple has increased the price of its older MacBook Air model as there could be a number of reasons at play here such as global chip shortage and inflation to name a few. Apple on its part has offered no explanation as of now.

MacBook Air M2 price

As far as the pricing of the new MacBook Air M2 is concerned, the laptop starts at Rs 1,19,900 in India for the variant with 8-Core CPU, 8-Core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD Storage. The other model with 8-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage costs Rs 1,49,900. Interested buyers can opt to expand the RAM to 24GB and storage to 2TB SSD for Rs 40,000 and Rs 60,000 extra respectively.

MacBook Air M2 specifications

Coming to the specifications, the new M2-powered MacBook Air features a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 nits of peak brightness and a resolution of 2560 x 1664 pixels. It comes with an 8-core CPU, up to 10-core GPU, up to 24GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage space. Apple says that its new MacBook Air provides a battery life of up to 18 hours and it has a 1080p FaceTime HD camera in the front. Additionally, it comes with a Magic Keyboard along with wide stereo sound and support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos.

For connectivity it has a 3.5mm jack, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports and for security it has TouchID.

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