The whole world is suffering from a chip crisis, and it’s imminent that the country affected most is the United States, a pioneer in manufacturing silicon. However, all the efforts from the new Biden administration seem to be facing a lot of challenges whilst solving the crisis.
According to sources, Hyundai Motor’s new electric vehicle IONIQ 5, needs a new chip which is currently hard to procure for the automaker. As a result, it has to halt its production for a while with the loss of many jobs and loss of profits.
The problem arises because an American semiconductor manufacturing company designs the chip, and the main component is the camera image sensor.
The chip production and supply process are complex; the design of the chip is sent to a factory in Italy for production, then complex circuits are printed on the original silicon wafers, and then these silicon wafers are sent to Taiwan, China for packaging and testing, and then shipped to China for assembly to the camera.
After all this, they are then sent to Hyundai auto parts suppliers in South Korea and finally arrive at Hyundai Motor’s production plant.
And currently, Hyundai Motor’s South Korean plant is experiencing a shortage of image sensors. Thus it made Hyundai the latest industry in the market to enter a line of industries suffering from global supply shortage.
Since the production of supply and manufacturing of the chip is a complex process on a whole different level, it’s this complex process that affects the Biden administration’s efforts in solving the chip crisis.
Yesterday, the United States President convened semiconductor industry executives in Washington to discuss solutions to the current chip crisis. Also, the US administration has decided to allocate US$50 billion in US chip manufacturing and research and development, claiming that this will help the US win the global competition.
Samsung has been one of the top competitors in the market of foldable or flip smartphones for several years and reports are coming out saying that Samsung is about to launch the refreshed versions of its existing foldable devices. Apart from this, there is an interesting report has come out regarding the color options for upcoming Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip smartphones, saying that the next Galaxy Z Flip smartphone will be available in eight different color options: Purple, Green, Black, Beige, Gray, White, Dark Blue, and Pink.
However, the actual names of the color variants may be different, the hues will be the same eight. Apart from these, after the Galaxy Z Flip smartphone, the company may add some more color options as well, which can be specific to certain regions.
As per the ultimate smartphone, the design is expected to be similar compared to what we’ve seen in its predecessor model, but surely, this time we’ll get to see a more refined design in the Galaxy Z Flip. Regarding the battery capacity, it will not disappoint as it is likely to have two batteries together with a rated capacity of 3,200mAh, as a whole over 6,000mAH battery which is pretty awesome.
The exact launch date or the pricing is yet to be revealed from Samsung but expected to get launch somewhere in between July or August (around the same time as its predecessor). That’s all we’ve known yet as of now regarding the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Flip smartphone. We have to wait for more to know the further specs or features of this phone.
Marvel has introduced its new hero. The first teaser trailer has been released for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on 19th April. It has revealed the new look of the martial arts master of Simu Liu.
The latest superhero Marvel’s movie is the first film of Marvel which is based on an Asian superhero; in the first few minutes, the trailer gives the introduction to Shang-Chi, he is looking like a typical twenties living in San Francisco, he is working as a valet by fay and playing karaoke with his friends by night.
As the trailer proceeds, it reveals that Shang-Chi has a very complicated past; when he was a child, his father Wenwu (Tony Leung) had trained him to become one of the most skilled and efficient assassins in the world. After that, he tried to leave that life back, just only to get sucked back in his father’s villainous legacy.
The director of this film Destin Daniel Cretton said that there were many iterations of Shang-Chi in the comics. Still, there was always a primary connection between him and his very complicated father, and also, it had been something that he related to. He also reveals that it had been a big part of what he pitched.
This film explores the psychology of a kid who was trained to be a killer when he was at his young age. Now he is collapsed and tries to redefine himself in this world and also to find balance in the relationship with his father.
The storyline of Shang-Chi is following the Marvel Cinematic Universe from its very beginning; Wenwu has bound with the Ten Rings, which is a notorious terrorist organization suggested in 2008’s Iron Man. This film is featuring Michelle Yeoh and Ronny Chieng.
Release Date:
The film will release in theatres on 3rd September. It is expected that this movie will create a huge response among the audience.
Here is the trailer of the Marvel series Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings:
Xiaomi has finally made the Mi 11X series landing page live in Amazon India and the official website as well along with the Mi 11 Ultra. The launch is scheduled for 23rd April. Here is the first look at the device.
Basically the upcoming Mi 11X series in India is the rebranded version of the Redmi K40 series of China. This series will have two smartphones in India, most probably the Mi 11X and Mi 11X Pro which are the Redmi K40 and the Redmi K40 Pro+ respectively. The images shared by the company shows the exactly same images of the Redmi K40 and Redmi K40+.
The company has also revealed the processor featured in the Mi 11X 5G which is the Snapdragon 870in one of the current posters which you can see by pausing the above slideshow. The series is shown to have a 4,520mAh battery. So as per theory, the Redmi K40 Pro+ has a Snapdragon 888 chipset and so we can be sure that the pro model in the Mi 11X series will have the same chipset.
Reports are also claiming that the upcoming Snapdragon 870 powered smartphone from the Mi series will be priced under Rs.30,000 and around Rs.25,000 for the base variant.
The whole football world is in shock after the official announcement of the European Super League was made by the 12 founder clubs. 3 Spanish clubs – Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, 3 Italian clubs – Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan and 6 English clubs – Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have agreed on the formation of the European Super League.
The Premier League’s BIG SIX clubs have agreed on the formation of the ESL, which have caused anger in the fans and the players. So here we take a look at what the club legends had to say on the involvement of their clubs.
Arsenal’s Martin Keown, Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, Tottenham’s Alan Mullery, Liverpool’s Mark Lawrenson, Chelsea’s Pat Nevin and Manchester City’s Micah Richards have given their thoughts on the plan to Sportsmail, via DailyMail.
MARTIN KEOWN, ARSENAL, 449 APPEARANCES
On my first day at Arsenal, I was handed a little booklet which explained the conduct expected of me. Even now I remember flicking through it and seeing the club’s motto: ‘Remember who you are, what you are and who you represent.’
That was spelled out to me and everyone else who joined.
But in becoming one of the dirty dozen to sign up for this Super League, Arsenal are forgetting who they are, what they are and who they represent.
We have to hope this talk of breaking away is extreme posturing at the negotiation table. These club executives have always wanted to extract more money from UEFA, and news of this Super League comes as the 36-team Champions League is being approved.
If this was a game of poker, they’d be going all-in. Now we wait to see if they win or if it backfires. I hope it doesn’t go through and believe it won’t. To create a closed shop flies in the face of fair competition. When Arsene Wenger left Arsenal in 2018, he said, ‘Take care of the values of the club’. This doesn’t fit with that wish.
You never hear from these mega-rich owners. Now they’ve put their managers in awkward positions as they face questions about why they want to run away and form their own league. But it isn’t on them. It’s on the greedy owners who don’t seem to care about the values of football.
WAYNE ROONEY, MANCHESTER UNITED, 559 APPEARANCES
What Gary Neville is saying is right, but let’s see what comes from it. Whether it’s good news or bad news, we can all have a clearer opinion on the situation.
I completely understand the frustration from everyone. It’s strange timing and a strange situation to come out.
Football is working fine the way it is at the minute. Let’s see if they’re looking to improve that or it’s a backward step. What you have to look at is the history of English football. If this is something on top of what we’ve got, the competitions the teams are playing in, then that’s a decision for those clubs to take.
If they totally break away from the Premier League and the domestic cup competitions in England, I don’t think that would be a great look.
ALAN MULLERY, TOTTENHAM, 374 APPEARANCES
The whole idea is absolutely diabolical. I saw Gary Neville on the television and thought he spoke outstandingly well. It’s the principle of the matter.
You’re talking about getting rid of what we’ve called football for more than 100 years and now they want to change everything when there’s nothing wrong with our game here in England.
People always wanted to play here and to come and watch our football. We have always been able to attract top-class players. Now we find these clubs want to break all that up and change everything because it means they will get huge sums of money.
I don’t know about the finances behind it — it seems to be about money and nothing else. I find it quite sad.
MARK LAWRENSON, LIVERPOOL, 356 APPEARANCES
The more I think about it, the less I can fathom it. Yes, I know this is all about money — isn’t everything these days? — but it’s the willingness to turn your back on history and shut down the stories that have made our club what it is that is hardest to comprehend.
I’m one of the lucky ones. I got my hands on the European Cup in 1984. I’ll never be able to put into words the exhilarating feeling of winning it. What made it so special was how we used to have to go into the unknown and overcome the challenges that were placed in front of us.
Beating Panathinaikos in a European Cup semi-final, being told by Bob Paisley not to drink the local water in Tbilisi, silencing a baying crowd in Bucharest — that is the story of Liverpool and helped the club get its reputation. European tradition did not come by playing the same teams each year.
As a football supporter you love your club unconditionally, but these guys, Fenway Sports Group, just do not get it. They might own Liverpool but this shows me that they will never understand what they have got.
It’s the sheer arrogance of it all that bothers me. I’m surprised and disappointed that our club has gone down this road. In the middle of a global pandemic, the timing is awful. And for what? More cash and a bigger slice of the pie.
PAT NEVIN, CHELSEA, 242 APPEARANCES
I’m not convinced all of the clubs were desperately keen to be involved in such an extreme way. It seems like a game of poker and they’ve thrown in the biggest chip and gone almost all-in.
They must have known they would get some stick but they might be shocked because I don’t think anyone’s behind them. They’ve got the hackles up of absolutely everyone. I’ve yet to talk to anyone who thinks it’s a decent idea.
I’m old-fashioned enough to have not enjoyed the Premier League doing what it did. It was the same thing in a smaller way, cutting off those beneath and making sure vast sums of money went to an elite group.
I don’t particularly like it. That’s not my politics but that’s how the business world works. These clubs are coming from different points. Some will be trying to maximise the opportunity and others need to get out of schtuck, but they’re all businesses so there’s a fear of being left out.
I’d be amazed if Chelsea were one of the driving forces. But you miss the train and you’re left behind on the platform, and if you’re not in the original group you’re already at a massive disadvantage.
MICAH RICHARDS, MANCHESTER CITY, 246 APPEARANCES
We have seen everybody throwing stones at Manchester City over the years, since the new owners came in and transformed the club. Throughout that, the current owners have handled themselves impeccably. They have tried to keep that feel of a family club.
So when this news came out, it felt like a bit of a slap in the face for City supporters, as it did for fans of all the clubs involved.
This is a complicated situation for clubs, but I do not want this European Super League to go ahead and would be disappointed if it does and City are part it.
Perhaps the City hierarchy felt caught between a rock and a hard place. It’s fair to suspect that Sheikh Mansour would not have been amongst the instigators of the European Super League.
There are a few established European giants who will have been driving it. For the rest — and that includes City — you suspect they have that fear of missing out.
The beauty of the Champions League has been its unpredictability. Playing the same teams every single year doesn’t appeal to me. What good is that to anybody? Many will look at it as greed, and I would be in agreement.
I’m not sure it will happen, it feels there are many barriers. Regardless, whichever way this now goes, the ramifications will be significant.
The whole football world is in shock after the official announcement of the European Super League was made by the 12 founder clubs. 3 Spanish clubs – Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, 3 Italian clubs – Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan and 6 English clubs – Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have agreed on the formation of the European Super League.
However, German clubs, including Borussia Dortmund and now Bayern Munich, along with French club PSG, have rejected the chance of joining the European Super League.
Bundesliga clubs share a close relationship with their fans, and they own the majority stakes of the clubs which is something that RB Leipzig loopholed, and is the reason why they are so hated in the country.
FC Bayern Munich takes a closed position on the Super League. President Herbert Hainer says: “Our members and fans reject a Super League. It is our wish as FC Bayern and our goal that the European clubs live this wonderful and emotional Champions League competition and develop it together with UEFA. FC Bayern says no to the Super League. “
The chairman of the board, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, confirms: “On behalf of the board, I can expressly state that FC Bayern does not take part in the Super League. FC Bayern stands in solidarity with the Bundesliga. It was and is always a great pleasure for us to be able to play as the German representative in the Champions League. We all still fondly remember our Champions League victory in Lisbon in 2020, such a happy moment is never forgotten. For FC Bayern, the Champions League is the best club competition in the world. “
Audi has stepped further into the world of electric cars, with the release of its concept version of its all-electric A6 sedan. According to sources, the car will be debuted in all major global markets and will be built on a new EV platform the company is co-developing with Porsche.
The company also announced that it would launch its product version by the second half of 2022, and the German automaker is targeting around 700 kilometres (more than 400 miles) of range for the new car, which will be called the A6 E-Tron.
The A6 E-Tron concept Audi was shown off on Monday at Auto Shanghai 2021, and the concept covered most of the specifications, which are likely to translate closely to what will eventually go on sale.
Speaking about the new underlying platform, both the Audi and Porsche call it the Premium Platform Electric, or PPE. The two Volkswagen Group companies first started talking about it around a year ago, and it will be powering all the future vehicles from both partners. Audi has a history of adopting different EV platforms for its electric vehicles, and this is the fourth time the company will be adopting Porsche’s platform.
Volkswagen Group is one of the largest auto-makers globally and has lots of resources at its disposal. This will allow Audi to break Tesla’s early hold on the EV market — and Audi is trying to leverage the best of what’s being developed across the larger conglomerate to make a big mark with its electric vehicles.
With the announcement of its A6 E-Tron concept, Audi says it’s even going to squeeze an extra few miles out of the PPE’s battery pack that can reflect “a significant percentage of the thermal radiation in sunlight,” meaning drivers will have to rely less on the air conditioning system.
Audi will also be developing its “Digital Matrix LED” headlights, which are only available outside the US. These lights use a complex shutter system to sculpt the LED light into specific shapes and animations can now project an Audi-developed video game on a nearby wall or garage door.
There have been various rumours regarding the European Super League in recent hours. It has come to light that UEFA was planning a change in the Champions League format to counter the chances of the European Super League being formed.
However, it has been learned that 12 clubs have already agreed to form the European Super League. 3 Spanish clubs – Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, 3 Italian clubs – Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan and 6 English clubs – Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have agreed on the formation of the European Super League. Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is the first chairman of the European Suoer League.
However, it has now been officially confirmed by UEFA that they will take action against the clubs participating in the European Super League. The statement warns of potential legal action against teams creating a new European Super League. They’ve also warned players involved could be banned from representing their country.
Now, Premier League has released an official statement regarding the formation of the European Super League
An official statement read: “The 14 clubs at the meeting unanimously and vigorously rejected the plans for the competition.
“The Premier League is considering all actions available to prevent it from progressing, as well as holding those Shareholders involved to account under its rules.
“The League will continue to work with key stakeholders including fan groups, Government, UEFA, The FA, EFL, PFA and LMA to protect the best interests of the game and call on those clubs involved in the proposed competition to cease their involvement immediately.
“The reaction proves just how much our open pyramid and football community means to people.”
The European Super League has been announced officially, and 12 teams which include Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan have confirmed their participation in the breakaway competition.
Speaking on the topic, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin clearly mentioned that players of the clubs who choose to participate in the Super League would be banned from representing their countries in major tournaments like the World Cup or the European Championship. Moreover, the clubs would also be kicked out of their respective domestic leagues and the Champions League.
Keeping that in mind and if the players are actually ruled out of national team appearances by FIFA, considering they have the final decision over football in general, we could be missing out on Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo competing in what could potentially be their final World Cup.
Ronaldo isn’t getting any younger at 36, and neither is Lionel Messi at 33. They will be a year older in 2022, and the next time the World Cup comes around, Ronaldo will be 40 while Messi will be around 37. If Zlatan Ibrahimovic can do it at 39-going-on-40, there’s a very good chance Ronaldo could do it too. But considering the fast nature of the game, this could be the last time the two legends feature in the World Cup together to try and win the holy grail at the same time.
AMD has just announced its latest Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 update, and it brings a lot of features to test and having got it earlier, we did test it out and see how much performance improvement we can get.
Also, we have tested out the new AMD Link 4.0 and the improved capability of turning any screen into a gaming powerhouse from virtually anywhere. Here are some slides were given to us by AMD that will give a better understanding of the new update:
Already you enjoy exclusive benefits like AMD Smart Access Memory by pairing new AMD RX 6000 series GPUs with Ryzen processors, now, to make things easier for you, the Radeon Software will allow you to view both Radeon graphics and Ryzen processor performance metrics from a single location.
You can know everything about the new Adrenalin 21.4.1 update from the dedicated article. In contrast, here we have tested how much performance improvement you can get with Radeon Boost and SAM versus turning both of them off without applying the new update:
Assassian’s Creed Valhalla
Borderlands 3
Control
Far Cry New Dawn
NFS Heat
Shadow of The Tomb Raider
Watch Dogs Legion
As you see in some games you have significant performance improvement while in some you have minor but all in all with this new AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 along with AMD exclusive features like Radeon Boost and Smart Access Memory.
Also, we have used the improvement AMD Link 4.0 and tried to play on smartphone:
To be very honest, we tried out on different games, but the experience was really smooth with very low to almost negligible latency. You can easily pair any device with your gaming PC and play remotely on any device without any frame lags.
Overall, the new AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 is a great one, but we are also looking forward to the DLSS alternative from AMD promised to be available soon by this year.
