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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...

Apple’s 3nm M2 Pro chipset to go into mass production later this year

A day back, Apple wrapped up its WWDC event for this year by releasing the M2-powered MacBooks. While the new M2 chip offers 18% faster CPU power, it still is based on the 5nm node as the predecessor M1. The better 3nm node M-series chip is yet to hit the market, previous reports claimed a 2023 release. Now, Jeff Pu (via 9to5Mac ) has revealed the existence of the M2 Pro chip that is reported to go into mass production later this year.

Apple M2 Pro chipset will be used by new Mac Mini

As per Jeff Pu, there will be a significantly better Silicon chip named “M2 Pro” for Apple Macs. Interestingly, this chip will be based on the 3nm fabrication process. Something that we expected on this year’s M2 chipset, but it turned out to be based on the older 5nm node. TSMC will start the mass production of the M2 Pro chipset later this year, and we expect it to see next year.

The more powerful M2 Pro chipset will be present in the new Mac Mini, as per Pu. It will probably debut next year. It will have eight performance cores and four efficiency cores making it a 12-core CPU as opposed to the 10-core CPU of the current M1 Pro. As for the new M2, it has the same 10-core CPU.

As of now, there’s no detail as to what performance difference will we be getting. It will indeed have a superior CPU performance and graphics performance, but it remains to be seen how much will it be a step up from the just-released M2 chipset.

The new Apple M2 chip is claimed to be 18% faster than M1 if CPU performance is considered. It has a 35% better GPU than the M1. Also, the M2 now supports up to 24GB of RAM, whereas, the M1 supports up to 16GB of RAM. It is worth noting that this difference comes even though the M1 and M2 share the same 5nm node. This gives us an idea of what the M2 Pro would be like, given that the fabrication process will be better i.e. 3nm.

 

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