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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 working on Apple’s AirTag like tracker: Report

In the world of smartphone ecosystems, Apple’s devices and accessories are often compared with that of Google and Samsung. The three companies offer premium smartphones along with accessories such as truly wireless (TWS) earbuds and smartwatches. But there is one thing that not all of these companies offer — trackers. Apple has AirTags and Samsung has Galaxy SmartTag. Google, so far, has none. But that might change soon as the company is reportedly working on an AirTag-like tracker.

As per a report by the tipster Kuba Wojciechowsk, Google is working on a smart-tracker codenamed ‘grogu’ that is similar to Apple’s AirTag. The tipster says that ‘Grogu’, also called ‘groguaudio or ‘GR10″ is currently in development by the company’s Nest team and that it has a speaker on-board that is similar to the AirTag. This speaker will most likely be used for beaming the beeping sound that will help in locating the tracker when it is close by.

Furthermore, the tipster says that Google’s tracker will be available in multiple colour variants and that it will feature support for both Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) and Bluetooth Low Energy BLE) both. This report corroborates with another report by Esper founder Mishaal Rahman who spotted a ‘locator tag’ as a ‘device type’ in Fast Pair’s code. “‘Locator tag’ likely refers to Bluetooth trackers (think AirTag, Tile) that in this context support Google Fast Pair,” Rahman wrote in his tweet.

If these reports are true, having both UWB and BLE will give an edge to Google’s tracker as UWB will make tracking incredibly precise, compared to Bluetooth technology. This, in turn, will enable users to track the tracker accurately. Wojciechowsk says that it will also feature support for showing directions to the tag or any other UWB-enabled device. On the other hand, availability of BLE means that Google’s tracker will not be dependent on a ‘Finder Network’, which makes it flexible to use.

As far as availability is concerned, the tipster says that Google is expected to announce its ‘Grogu’ tracker at its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2023, that will be held in May this year and make it available later this year when it launches its next-gen Pixel devices.

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