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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 MacBook Air with M2 chip to go on sale in India today: Check price, specs, features

Apple, at its annual developer conference, the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2022, launched the new MacBook Air with M2 chipset. Now, nearly a month later, the device will be up for pre-orders in India and globally later today. Apple has announced that the new MacBook Air will be available for pre-orders in India starting 5:30PM today and that it will go on sale in the country starting July 15.

Interested buyers can head over to Apple’s e-shop in India to pre-book the laptop in the country.

Apple MacBook Air with M2 chip price

As far as the pricing is concerned, the MacBook Air M2 starts at Rs 1,19,900 in India. This variant comes with an 8-Core CPU, 8-Core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD Storage. On the other hand, the variant with 8-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD version costs Rs 1,49,900 in India. The top of the line model with 24GB of RAM and 2TB of storage space costs Rs 2,49,990 in India.

Apple MacBook Air with M2 chip specifications

Coming to the specifications, the new MacBook Air laptop comes with a 13.6-inch LED display with a resolution of 2,560×1,664 pixels, 500 nits of brightness and True Tone technology. The display also houses a 1080p FaceTime HD camera.

The laptop, as mentioned before, is powered by Apple’s M2 chipset with 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. Apple says that its new M2 chip is 18 percent faster in terms of the CPU and 35 percent faster in terms of GPU performance. It also offers up to 18 hours of battery life, which is a marked improvement over last year’ M1 chipset. Users can pick up to 24GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage space.

In terms of audio, the laptop has a four-speaker sound system with wide stereo sound and support for support for spatial audio, a three-mic array with directional beamforming and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. As far as connectivity is concerned, the the new MacBook Air features support for WiFi 6, and Bluetooth 5.0. It will be available in India in Silver, Starlight Space, Grey and Midnight colour variants.

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