Acer has a wide portfolio of gaming products and among them its Nitro 5 gaming laptop are insanely popular among gamers. Also, in India, the Taiwanese OEM has a strong presence, especially in the gaming category with the Acer Nitro 5.
So, unsurprisingly, like they were the first ones to launch the new Ryzen 5000U powered laptop in India, they are most likely to become the first laptop brand to launch gaming laptops with the powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060.
We already spotted the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and RTX 30-series GPUs, so most likely Acer is ready to launch the new AMD Ryzen 5000H & RTX 30-series powered laptop in India.
The banner also confirms the specs we have seen earlier, like a 144Hz refresh rate screen, Ray tracing support and Acer Coolboost technology. It’s now only a matter of time that we will see these new gaming laptops sold exclusively on Amazon India.
According to recent reports, the Disney Plus streaming service has officially surpassed 100 million subscribers. It is a big accomplishment considering that the service was just launched less than a year and a half ago.
The report was announced during the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Just earlier in February, the company has announced that it had a little over 94 million subscribers as of January 2nd, 2021.
It is estimated that shows like WandaVision and Raya the Last Dragon helped the platform score high. The next big series for Disney Plus is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, out on March 19th.
“The enormous success of Disney Plus … has inspired us to be even more ambitious and to significantly increase our investment in the development of high-quality content. We set a target of [more than] 100 new titles per year, and this includes Disney Animation, Disney Live-Action, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.”
Originally, the company’s executives believed that the service would eventually amass between 60 and 90 million subscribers by 2024. But, now seeing the platform’s performance and impressed by its success, Disney executives state that now the target is between 300 and 350 million subscribers across all of its streaming platforms (Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus, Star Plus, HotStar) by 2024.
To continue the growth of its subscriber base, Disney’s “direct-to-consumer business is the company’s top priority, and our robust pipeline of content will continue to fuel its growth” is in the works. The platform will bring several series from every major franchise and brand in development, and it seems likely more mid-tier films (movies that aren’t on the same level as Star Wars, Marvel, or Frozen) will migrate to Disney Plus.
The Milan Court of Appeal confirmed a nine-year sentence for former AC Milan and Real Madrid forward Robinho. The Brazilian has been found guilty of “belittling” and “brutally humiliating” a 23-year-old woman whom he raped in 2013.
The former footballer was found guilty of the accused crimes in 2017, and now has 45 days to appeal to the court regarding their judgment. Robinho has been sentenced alongside his friend, Ricardo Falco.
The court has ruled that Falco was trying to mislead the investigation by providing the investigators with a false version of the events that took place. The incident took place at a well-known Milan pub, and the victim was celebrating her 23rd birthday.
Robinho, in October of 2020, rejoined his boyhood club Santos. However, the player had his contract terminated with the club only four days after the deal’s announcement due to mass public outcry regarding Santos’s decision. Moreover, one of their sponsors also decided to end their deal with the club due to Robinho’s signing out of “respect for women” and his pathetic attitude towards them.
Earlier, the crucial evidence used to convict the Brazilian in the year 2020 consisted of intercepted phone calls and messages between Robinho and those allegedly involved in the alleged gang rape in which the footballer allegedly said ‘the woman was completely drunk.’
Erling Haaland managed to fire Borussia Dortmund into the quarter-finals of the 20-21 Champions League. The Black and Yellow club drew the second leg but won the fixture over the two meetings.
The officiating caused Erling Haaland to score the second goal of the match after three attempts. The first was ruled out, and the subsequent check caused the on-field referee to check a foul against Haaland, resulting in the hosts being given a penalty.
Erling Haaland on shouting at the keeper:
"The goalkeeper shouted at me when he saved the penalty and I thought; 'Oh, I hope I can score another goal for you.' And I did. I have no idea [what he shouted], I said the same thing he said to me. I don't know what it means."
Haaland replaced Reus as the penalty taker due to him losing out on the goal he just scored. Bono saved the first attempt from Haaland, but the keeper stepped off his line to stop the shot. It hence had to be retaken, and the Norwegian made no mistake the second time around.
Ronaldo took 56 games to score 20 Champions League goals.
The 20-year-old is now the youngest player in the sport’s history to have scored 20 Champions League goals. For the sake of comparison, it took the top scorers in the competition, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, 40 & 56 games to reach the same figure. On the other hand, Robert Lewandowski achieved the same feat in 36 games. Haaland took fourteen games across two seasons to do so.
Erling Haaland has overtaken Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to become the highest scoring Norwegian in UCL history 🇳🇴 pic.twitter.com/bWM1wOdFcM
Stats show that Haaland scores every 52 minutes, and considering the form that he has been showing ever since bursting onto the scene with RB Salzburg, there seems to be no stopping him at all. While it is still very early in his career, he has all the tools to potentially go down as the best striker in the sport’s history.
The launch of Apple’s M1 has rattled the Silicon industry, and most analysts predict that the company could very well turn out to become one of the biggest rivals of AMD and Intel. Earlier, we heard that Qualcomm was testing its SC8280, which would power future Windows 10 notebooks. The rumored SC8280 is reported to be the competitor of Apple’s M1.
Earlier, not much was made public about the chip, but now reports indicate that the chipset could be the first where Qualcomm moves away from a combination of high-performing and energy-efficient cores. Sources claim that Qualcomm might be aiming at high-performance cores running at different clock speeds. Source also reports that the Snapdragon SC8280 is currently being tested with four Gold+ and four Gold cores.
Qualcomm’s earlier released Snapdragon 8cx lost to M1 with a huge margin. Even though M1 was running Windows in virtualization mode, its performance gets reduced by quite a margin; it’s pretty shameful for Qualcomm. With its new chip, Qualcomm needs to match M1 in performance to save some face. The Gold+ cores are reported to be running at 2.70GHz, while the Gold cores are operating at 2.43GHz.
Qualcomm’s new upcoming competitor for M1 has an integrated NPU. It will be able to work up to 15 TOPs. We can confirm that the machines used by Qualcomm for testing feature 32GB of RAM and 14-inch displays, suggesting portable notebooks will be running this silicon.
So, let’s hope we get to see something exciting from Qualcomm, and it will be interesting to see the chip battle it out with Apple’s M1. We also know that Apple is working on M1’s successor and that chip is expected to make its way to the market by the end of 2021.
Apple Inc. said it’s planning to establish a new European semiconductor design center in Munich, Germany, as part of a 1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) investment push over the next three years to expand its team there and develop custom chips for 5G mobile and other wireless technologies.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Apple said it plans to move into the 30,000-square-meter (98,400-square-foot) facility near central Munich in late 2022. It will be Apple’s largest R&D site for mobile wireless semiconductors and software and it plans to hire hundreds of people. Like all of the company’s offices globally, the Munich design center will run entirely on 100 percent renewable energy.
A rendering of Apple Inc.’s new semiconductor design center in Munich. Source: Apple Inc.
“I couldn’t be more excited for everything our Munich engineering teams will discover — from exploring the new frontiers of 5G technology to a new generation of technologies that bring power, speed, and connectivity to the world,” Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said in a statement according to Apple Insider. “Munich has been a home to Apple for four decades, and we’re grateful to this community and to Germany for being a part of our journey,” he added.
The area around the Bavarian capital is a hub for chip development, with one of Europe’s major semiconductor-based technology research institutes, the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics present there and also] longtime Apple partner Infineon Technologies AG located in the region.
The company has been developing its own semiconductors so it does not have to outsource the technology that runs its smartphones, laptops, and tablets. According to a report by Bloomberg, “Last year, it said it will develop its own cellular modem, potentially displacing supplier Qualcomm Inc. for the technology that lets iPhones connect to the web, access apps and make phone calls.”
Last year, due to the pandemic, companies underestimated consumer demand, which created a shortage of semiconductors. These supply chains are difficult to adjust quickly and several industries have been hit.
The European Union outlined the digital goals for the bloc and kicked off a program this week to produce its own advanced semiconductors by 2030. Its aim is to account for at least 20% of the world’s chips by value and to create technology more advanced than those made by leaders of the chipmaking industry like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics Co.
Xiaomi has finally launched the Mi 10S handset in China with Snapdragon 870 platform and it looks similar to the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra. So, without wasting much time, let’s get into the specifications.
Mi 10S runs on Android 11 OS and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset. Regarding the display, this phone offers a 6.67-inch FHD+ (1080 x 2340 pixels) AMOLED punch-hole panel with curved edges supported by a refresh rate of 90Hz, 180Hz touch sampling rate, 1120nits brightness, 5000000:1 contrast ratio, 100 percent DCI-P3 color gamut, and above all, the screen is protected by Gorilla Glass 5. This phone has an in-display fingerprint scanner.
The SoC of this phone is paired with 8GB/12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB/256GB of UFS 3.0 storage. Coming to the camera section, this phone offers a quad rear camera setup that includes a 108P primary sensor with OIS, a 13MP ultra-wide lens (123-degree FOV), a 2MP macro, and a 2MP depth sensor. You can record 8K video at 30fps by this camera module. For selfies, this phone has a 20MP selfie snapper at the front.
The Mi 10S is fueled up by a 4,780mAh battery supported by 33W of fast wired charging (charges fully in 56 minutes) as well as 30W of wireless charging (charges fully in 69 minutes). This phone also supports 10W of wireless reverse charging and for heat dissipation, it is equipped with vapor chamber liquid cooling technology.
In terms of connectivity, this phone has everything, such as dual SIM support, 5G, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, dual-frequency GPS, NFC, IR blaster, X-axis linear motor, and USB-C. For the best multimedia sound experience, it is equipped with Harman Kardon tuned dual linear stereo speakers capable to offer a 360-degree surround sound experience. Regarding dimension, it measures 162.6 x 74.8 x 8.96mm and weighs around 208 grams. This phone comes in three different color options: Black, Blue, and White.
Coming to its availability, the Mi 10S is already up for pre-orders whereas it first sale will take place in China on March 12 at 10 AM.
Moreover, if you pre-order this phone, you’ll get a 30W wireless charger among other purchase benefits.
In the market for handheld gaming devices, it is completely evident that Nintendo is the undisputed champion amongst all. Though we have seen startups like Aya, launching their Neo product with success, and also we have heard that Microsoft is working on a portable machine.
But, the fact remains that Nintendo is the undisputed champion in the market. We have long heard the reports that Nintendo submitted a revised Switch model to the FCC. But, recently, we have started hearing rumors about Nintendo working on a more powerful version of its Switch.
According to sources, NVIDIA will soon stop producing the Tegra X1 ‘Mariko’, which Nintendo uses in the Switch and the Switch Lite. So, if the recent reports are to be believed, Nintendo plans to equip a new Switch to a 7-inch OLED display, which would be quite the upgrade from the 6.2-inch IPS displays found in the current Switch and Switch Lite.
The unavailability of the Tegra X1 ‘Mariko’ implies that Nintendo would need to revise both the Switch and the Switch Lite. The new Switch might also be equipped with an OLED display to run at 720p, not 1080p.
According to the rumors going around, the new Switch will be a more powerful version of the current console rather than a next-generation model. If a Switch Pro or Super Switch comes to market this year, then we doubt that Nintendo will release a next-generation console for at least another couple of years.
Earlier reports were making rounds over the internet that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is planning to construct a 3-nanometer (nm) chip fabrication facility in Baoshan, Hsinchu. The company has outright denied such reports and rumors, and also stated that it is currently building a 3nm production facility in Tainan city.
The report which previously indicated construction in Hsinchu stated that owing to strong demand for 3nm products from American companies such as Apple Inc and Intel Corporation, TSMC was adding production capabilities in the province.
TSMC also stated that, while there are no plans to manufacture 3nm products in Hsinchu, the company will nevertheless research the process node in the city. The Tainan plant will enter trial production later this year and scale up operations in the second half of next year.
While the world is suffering from a shortage of semi-conductor supply, tech giants around the world are looking at TSMC for the solution to their problem. It is also rumored that Intel Corporation will contract TSMC for its next-generation processors.
Earlier we have also heard the rumors that Apple Inc is working with TSMC to research the 2nm node in Baoshan, and the pair will be involved in mass-producing the process node in the city. If this little rumor turned out to be true then we will have truly next-gen processors soon in the market.
However, as of now, we don’t know much information about the rumored 2nm process nodes, but the market has started to adapt to the 5nm nodes. With the latest products coming out from AMD and Apple, 5nm is slowly being adopted in the market. So it’s still quite a while before the market is ready for 2nm.
As reported earlier, TSMC will set-up its R&D center for the 3nm process nodes, and it will start its operations once the company hires 8,000 specialists for the facility.
Foreign spectators may have been prohibited in Tokyo Olympics.
As per the report by Japanese news agency Kyodo, the Japanese government has decided to exclude overseas spectators from attending this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics following the outbreak of the Corona Virus pandemic.
Though nothing is official till now, the government and the Japanese organizing committee of the Summer Games are expected to hold a meeting regarding this matter. Hopefully, the decision will be confirmed by next week.
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The Olympic Rings adorn an event square which opens at Tokyo’s Nihonbashi to mark just one year to the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Tokyo Olympic Games One Year to Go, Japan – 24 Jul 2019
However, if this news proved to be true, then it can cause a great loss for Japan financially as well. Already the one-year postponement of the games has caused the cost to balloon to at least $15 billion. At first, the organizing committee was expecting to make 90 billion yen from ticket sales. But if the foreign spectators are not allowed to enter then, the committee has to re-think to minimize the deficit.
Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Japanese committee told the reporters last week, “We would really like people from around the world to come to a full stadium, but unless we are prepared to accept them and the medical situation in Japan is perfect, it will cause a great deal of trouble also to visitors from overseas.”
The Olympic is scheduled to start on July 23. It will continue till 8th August. Whereas, Paralympics is between August 24 to September 5.
