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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 may launch 16-inch iPad Ultra, its biggest tablet, next year

Apple recently refreshed its iPad Pro line-up with a new model. The new iPad Pro uses the Apple M2 chip, which makes it the most powerful iPad by far. Next year, Apple may be planning to go even further and launch a larger 16-inch display model. Reportedly, the iPhone maker is working on a model, which could easily be called the iPad Ultra, with the biggest screen on an iPad, and planning to release it in 2023.

According to a report from The Information, the upcoming iPad model “would further blur the line between the iPad and MacBook,” since the tablet would have a screen the same size as the company’s largest laptop. While there is no name as such for the iPad in development, it will be safe to call it the iPad Ultra based on Apple’s latest naming convention for large devices. The report said Apple may release this iPad in the fourth quarter of next year, but this timeline may change.

iPad or MacBook?

Rumours around a large-screen iPad have been rife for some time now. Last year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Apple was developing an iPad with a 14- to15-inch and that it could arrive in the next year or two. Another insider, Ross Young, a supply chain analyst who has often been correct about Apple-related development, corroborated Gurman’s claim and said Apple could launch a 14.1-inch iPad Pro with a Mini LED panel and ProMotion technology as early as next year.

But this is the first time we are hearing about a 16-inch iPad model, which basically would be a keyboard-less MacBook unless you add the Magic Keyboard. The largest iPad in Apple’s lineup is the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which recently got an upgrade to feature Apple’s M2 processor. Apple also introduced iPadOS 16, which brings features such as Stage Manager to make multitasking more streamlined and easier.

In a way, Apple is gradually turning the iPad into a laptop that should work like a MacBook, and this is also what the users have been demanding. An earlier report suggested Apple could be working on a version of macOS that would exclusively run on the iPadOS. So, for what it’s worth, it could be a silver lining for iPad users.

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