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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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Threads new Twitter rival sees 5 million sign-ups in four hours of launch

Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, is now available for download on Android and iOS in 100 countries, and crossed five million sign-ups in just four hours after it was launched. The new Twitter rival is being touted as the most effective contender for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform that recently imposed a series of new restrictions.

“Threads is a new app, built by the Instagram team, for sharing text updates and joining public conversations,” Meta said in a blog post on Wednesday. “You log in using your Instagram account and posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes in length.”

The company is also planning to integrate the ActivityPub protocol — the open social networking protocol — on the new platform. “This would make Threads interoperable with other apps that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress, allowing new types of connections that are simply not possible on most social apps today.”

Similar to Instagram, with Threads users can follow and connect with friends and creators who share their interests, including the people they follow on Instagram. Moreover, users under 16 (or under 18 in certain countries) will default to a private profile when they join the app. Users can also control who can mention them or reply to them within Threads.

Like on Instagram, users can add hidden words to filter out replies to their threads that contain specific words. They can also unfollow, block, restrict or report a profile on Threads by tapping the three-dot menu, and any accounts they have blocked on Instagram will automatically be blocked on Threads.

In an announcement on his Threads account on Thursday, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “Threads just passed 2 million sign-ups in the first two hours.” A few hours later, he posted, “Just passed 5 million sign ups in the first four hours…” In a separate Instagram post, he said: “Our vision is to take the best parts of Instagram and create a new experience for text, ideas, and discussing what’s on your mind. I think the world needs this kind of friendly community, and I’m grateful to all of you who are part of Threads from day one.”

— Written with inputs from IANS

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