Laptops/Tablets

Apple led the global tablet shipments with 29.2 percent market share in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20), according to research by International Data Corporation (IDC). Accord to the IDC report, Apple shipped 13.9 million units in 3Q20, and recorded 17.4 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth. However, this falls short of the overall market growth, and

Sony and OmniVision have been granted US licences to resume shipping some image sensors to China’s Huawei, Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter. US curbs on Huawei, which cite security concerns, have banned global suppliers from selling it chips, including image sensors, which use US technology, without a special licence since

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 series has proven to be a bit controversial thanks to extremely low availability and inflated prices. Despite a slick launch presentation and largely favourable reviews for the high-end GeForce RTX 3080 and ultra-premium GeForce RTX 3090 GPUs, buyers have been frustrated and upset. Many are now saying they’ll hold off till

HyperX Pulsefire Haste is the newest addition to the company’s peripheral portfolio. It is a lightweight symmetrically designed mouse targeted at gamers. It uses the high-resolution PixArt PAW 3335 sensor — a higher resolution makes the mouse more responsive, so you can move the cursor with lesser physical motion. The HyperX Pulsefire Haste has hexagonal-shaped

AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion (roughly Rs. 2,57,900 crores) in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers. The deal announced Tuesday puts AMD in a place it wants to be; competing more fiercely with Intel. Xilinx stockholders will receive 1.7234 shares of AMD stock for each Xilinx share they

The Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence on Thursday signed memorandums of understanding with IBM, Alibaba and Huawei in areas of artificial intelligence (AI) at a summit in the kingdom, state news agency SPA said. SDAIA and Alibaba Cloud announced an MoU to partner in supporting Saudi Arabia’s path to develop smart cities through

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia Corp will drive growth in computing power, in his first public comments since the $40 billion (roughly Rs. 2,94,799 crores) deal was announced in September. Son made the comments at a virtual summit about artificial intelligence hosted by Saudi Arabia, an

Western Digital has introduced the latest version of its compact portable solid state drive – the My Passport SSD – with read speeds up to 1050MBps. The latest product by Western Digital has a durable metal design and is powered by Nvme technology. My Passport SSD is available in capacities up to 2TB, and is

Microsoft is bringing a “Meet Now” icon to the taskbar of the latest Windows 10 version to let users quickly set up a video call and invite their friends and colleagues to discuss things virtually. The new development comes over six months after the Redmond company introduced the Meet Now feature on Skype to let

Apple has been lobbying the US government on tax breaks to support domestic chip production, suggesting the iPhone maker is keen to move more of its supply chain to the US. In second- and third-quarter disclosure reports, the company said it lobbied officials from the Treasury Department, Congress and the White House on tax topics

Xiaomi is one of very few new brands in the laptop space, but its huge footprint across the Indian smartphone and TV markets means that it isn’t a new name. Brand recognition and trust are important when spending large amounts of money. Of course, the Chinese giant is best known for offering excellent value in

Microsoft has confirmed that it has paused forced updates that brought Office web apps to the Start Menu without consent. The company has issued a statement saying that this behaviour of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) showing as tiles is a bug and it didn’t intend for that to happen. Microsoft wanted pinned websites to show

As our data consumption and capturing habits shift, there’s a growing need for reliable storage solutions in the new normal. From a powerful rugged external SSD to a highly reliable microSD card, SanDisk makes them all. The company has been in the storage business for a while now, and makes powerful and highly useful storage

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2020 and Flipkart Big Billion Days sales are currently underway with hundreds of deals and offers. Both Amazon and Flipkart sales are promising exciting discounts on a large selection of laptops, TVs, smart home devices, and other electronics. But not all of these deals are ideal for everyone, and we’ve scanned

Most gaming laptops today are built around either an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU, or perhaps an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU. AMD has not produced competitive discrete GPUs for laptops in quite some time, so finding an all-AMD solution is quite rare. The Dell G5 15 SE is one such laptop, but is quite

US-based Avita has launched the Liber V14 laptop in India just in time for the festive season. The laptop features the Intel Core i7 10th Gen processor paired with 16GB of RAM. It has a 14-inch full-HD IPS display with anti-glare technology and offers 1TB of SSD storage. The Avita Liber 14 comes in a

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing hiked its revenue outlook after logging record quarterly profit, and painted a bullish picture of demand picking up over the next two years as advanced technologies are adopted more widely. The chip sector has been one of the rare industries benefiting from the coronavirus pandemic with more people investing in premium devices as

Samsung Pro Plus and Evo Plus SD cards have been unveiled. The durable SD cards are aimed at content creators, photo enthusiasts, and general consumers. The Pro Plus cards offer sequential read and write speeds of up to 100MBps and 90MBps respectively, while the Evo Plus offers transfer speeds up to 100MBps. The SD cards

Surface Pro X 2020 with Microsoft SQ2 processor and a new Platinum finish is now available for purchase in India. Microsoft launched the new Surface Pro X as its latest Windows-based tablet earlier this month. It can deliver up to 15 hours of battery life on a single charge and offer an improved performance over

The British parliament’s defence committee said on Thursday that it had found clear evidence that telecoms giant Huawei had colluded with the Chinese state and said Britain may need to remove all Huawei equipment earlier than planned. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July ordered Huawei equipment to be purged from the nascent 5G network

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon has been launched as the latest model in the company’s Yoga series. The new laptop comes with a lightweight, 966 grams, chassis made of an aero-grade carbon fibre material that is touted to meet MIL-STD-810G standards and is designed to withstand knocks and bumps. The Yoga Slim 7i Carbon also

A year or two ago it was nearly impossible to find laptops with anything other than Intel’s processors in the market, primarily because of a lack of viable options from sole competitor AMD, and also Intel’s brand recognition. However, AMD’s Ryzen mobile processors are now appearing in more and more laptops from every major brand.

Software giant Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, US media reported on Friday, becoming the latest employer to expand work-from-home provisions prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. US tech news website The Verge said most Microsoft employees are still at home as the health crisis drags on, and the company

International Business Machines is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world’s first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing. IBM will list its IT infrastructure services unit, which provides technical support for 4,600 clients in 115 countries and has a backlog

Laptops come in all sizes and shapes these days, but the one you need to pick up depends on what you’re going to do with it. If you’re into gaming, a powerful gaming laptop can offer you great graphics, an immersive display, perfect audio, all inside a neat portable package. A great gaming laptop can

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to consider whether to protect Alphabet’s Google from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones. The shorthanded court, down one justice following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month, is

Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020 kicked off on October 5 and will continue through October 9. The virtual conference had CEO Jensen Huang present a keynote on some of the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements. There were a whole bunch of announcements during the virtual event including Nvidia Maxine – AI-powered tools that

Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing has undertaken “preliminary exchanges” with the US Bureau of Industry and Security regarding export restrictions, the company said on Sunday in a filing. “The Company is conducting assessments on the relevant impact of such export restrictions on the company’s production and operation activities,” the filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said.

Japan’s Sony and memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings have applied for US approval to continue supplying Huawei, Nikkei reported on Sunday. If confirmed, the move follows other tech companies such as Intel Corp that recently received licences from US authorities. With US-China ties at their worst in decades, Washington has been pushing governments around to world to

Gaming laptops are all the rage right now, but many people might still prefer the lower cost and greater flexibility of a desktop PC. After several years of neglect, with barely any branded options in the market, gaming desktops are making a comeback. Nearly every major brand now has a gaming line with powerful hardware