Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is the most powerful rival in the market of both MediaTek and Exynos, if we ignore Apple’s A-series chips as the company never shares the SoC with others and the story of Kirin is near to the end. To maintain the leading position, Qualcomm is continuously working to make a better processor will all the best facilities and innovate that technology, especially when the world is switching to 5G.
At the end of 2020, the chipmaker organizes the Tech Summit to discuss their work and impact on the industry in front of the world. Here are the details of what we are going to get or expect to get at the summit.
Confirmed & Expected Announcements
The launch of the new flagship chipset Snapdragon 875
Snapdragon 775G, the new upper mid-range processor will be showcased
Xiaomi is likely to officially announce about Mi 11 and Mi 11 Pro with Snapdragon processors.
Companies like Verizon, NTT DOCOMO, Sony Mobile, Hugging Face, and OnePlus will share their experiences with the Snapdragon chips that power their products.
Now, due to the global pandemic, the event will be broadcasted online. When and how? Here’s the answer.
When & How to watch in India
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2020 is an event of a couple of days, 1st and 2nd December. In Indian Standard Time, the event will start at 8:30 PM daily, and if you are abroad, the other standard timings are 7:00 AM PST/10:00 AM EST/2:00 PM GMT.
The entire event will be broadcasted live on qualcomm.com, Twitter, and YouTube. For your convenience, the YouTube link is given below –
From effective social distancing to fighting future pandemics to contactless use cases in everyday life & beyond
India, 1st December 2020 – NXP India one of the biggest R&D Centres for NXP Semiconductors, a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications organized the eighth edition of its flagship Mega tech event series, titled ‘Sensing and Ranging Week 2020’ from November 24-27. The flagship event comprised of four-day long exhilarating regime of keynotes and technical & thought leadership sessions by key industry and academia veterans around how sensing and ranging solutions will shape up a smarter world. The event saw engagement from leaders across the industry, discussing innovative tech that is helping drive a smarter ecosystem while developing use cases for the future world.
Highlight of the event was the panel discussion on ‘How Sense & Ranging technologies will shape up a smarter world’ which saw wide participation from some of the key voices. They expressed their thoughts about how various technologies are enabling smart devices to sense their surroundings to create a smarter environment. Broadly, the panel discussed about next generation smart sensing technologies using Radar, Vision, LiDAR and UWB based ranging technologies for both IoT devices as well as for Automobile applications.
The discussion was moderated by Sanjay Gupta, Vice President and India Country Manager, NXP. The panelists included Lars Reger, EVP and CTO, NXP Semiconductors, Dr. Aloknath De, Senior VP and CTO, Samsung India, Dr. Navakanta Bhat, Professor, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISC Bangalore, Jithendranadh Niruthambath, Founder and CEO, Atoll Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Anurag Seth, CTO, Tembusu ICT Partners.
These industry veterans pointed out that sensing and ranging technologies will enable the IoT ecosystem to pave the way for a contactless world. Sensing and ranging solutions will also cater to several sectors bringing automation in IoT, autonomous vehicles, edge computing, business operations, e-learning and smart city projects. Furthermore, the four-day long event emphasized on how the sensing technologies and sensors will be leveraged in the world for social welfare in post-COVID scenario and will equip governments across the world better to fight future pandemics.
Sanjay Gupta, Vice President and India Country Manager, NXP Semiconductors said “The world we now know has transformed rapidly due to the disruptions caused by the novel COVID-19. On the brighter side, it has unlocked a whole new world of opportunities for us to make our world smarter and secure. Sensing and ranging technologies can help us to do that. The transformative and cutting-edge tech enabled by advanced sensors, is expected to bring more relevant use cases into practice in the times to come.”
The panel discussion was followed by a session on ‘VC investments in Semiconductor Startups of India – Opportunities & Challenges’ by Sateesh Andra, MD Endiya Partners wherein he talked about the technological and infrastructure challenges in India, and the need to become a manufacturing hub of semiconductors.
On the last day, Gireesh Rajendran, Co-Founder and CEO, Steradian Semiconductor, talked about the many use cases of Imaging Radar technology, particularly in traffic management during his Special Talk on ‘Imaging Radar Technology Applications in non-automotive market’.
The completely digital Mega Tech Event kicked off on 24 November, with great interest and participation across all four sites – Noida, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. More than 1000 employees attended various technical session to their advantage, tuning into keynotes and tech tutorials, as well as wholeheartedly participating in Q&As and online quizzes designed to test employees’ knowledge.
The four-day long event witnessed multiple engaging keynotes by NXP Global leaders, starting off with like Jens Hinrichsen, EVP and GM, BL Advanced Analog, Torsten Lehmann, EVP & GM, BL RFP and Lars Reger, EVP and CTO .
The event also covered the Technical Tutorial sessions, giving deep insights on topics like Analog Sensors, Smart Sensing in Radar and Imaging, Sensor interfaces and Ranging based on Ultra Wideband technologies by the NXP experts. It concluded with a poster competition and award ceremony that saw some cutting-edge ideas to create a smarter ecosystem, leveraging sensing and ranging technologies.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy, and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has approximately 30,000 employees in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $9.41 billion in 2018. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
Prior to this, the WCC franchise has been featured in Google Editor’s Choice and Google’s Best of Games
December 1, 2020, Mumbai: World Cricket Championship 3 (WCC 3), the third edition of the award-winning cricket gaming franchise, by Next Wave Multimedia Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Nazara Technologies Ltd., today won the ‘Google Play Best of 2020 award’ in the ‘Users’ Choice’ category. Earlier this year, the second edition, WCC 2, won the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge conducted by the Government of India.
The ‘Google Play Best of 2020 Awards’ are bestowed upon the most voted apps in different categories on the Google Play Store. The voting process took place on Google Play Store between 10 to 23 November this year with WCC3 being declared a winner on 30 November 2020.
The WCC franchise crossed 143+ million downloads globally since its inception. As live cricket came to a grinding halt during the pandemic, this ‘Made in India’ game franchise gave players a taste of the sport and got more than 22 million downloads between February and August 2020. Alongside this, it also recently witnessed more than 100% growth in-app purchases between February to November 2020.
Commenting on the victory, Next Wave Multimedia Pvt. Ltd.’s Co-founder and CEO P.R. Rajendran said, “We are absolutely elated by this recognition and would like to credit the fans of WCC for this feat! Being a fan driven game, we plan to continue to innovate and usher more features and engage even more players. WCC is the longest running mobile cricket gaming franchise from India and we’re thrilled that the recently launched third edition of the game was the only cricket game to make it to the top 10 list of nominations in this category, this year. This award is dedicated to all the WCC fans out there!”
The recently launched third edition of WCC has been infused with a host of innovative and engaging features which aims to provide an immersive gaming experience to the players. The game also includes a comprehensive career mode set across 3 brackets, 25 series, and 400+ matches with a built-in challenging performance decision system which determines your rise in ranks starting from a local club to the national or international level. The much-awaited Women’s Cricket mode which is a tribute to the changing face of women’s cricket across the globe is also a part of the latest edition.
To add a dash of extra realism, the game has further been polished with the simulation of actual cricket, updated gameplay features like brand new controls, animations, real-time motions of athletes and professional cricketers, bilingual commentary by professional cricketers such as Aakash Chopra and Matthew Hayden and much more.
This latest award for the franchise will add to the list of previously garnered awards including Google Editor’s Choice (2016-2020). WCC2 has also been listed as Google’s Best of Games in 2015, 2016 & 2017 and Apple’s Best of Games 2016, 2017 & 2018.
Furthermore, the cricket game has also been featured among the Top 10 Games for Monthly Active Users by the App Annie Report for 3 years in a row (2016-2018) and was also listed under Top 10 games by time spent in Android & IOS by App Annie 2016 report.
Ajax always amaze football fans with their high-quality football. This season they also have gifted the same.
Ajax have set up a new record in Eredivisie. They have scored 42 goals in their opening 10 games in Eredivisie. They have beaten some opponents with big goal margins.
Ajax beat VVV Venlo by 13-0 at their home. Besides that, they beat Herceles and Emmen by 5-0 and Heerenveen by 5-1.
Ajax is now leading the table with 27 points from the first 10 games. They are ahead of Vitesse by 2 points.
Interestingly, no Ajax player is the top scorer of Eredivisie this season. Feyenoord’s Steven Berghuis, Twente’s Danilo, and Georgios Giakoumakis of VVV Venlo is the top scorer of the league with 9 goals. Ajax duo Lassina Traoré and Dušan Tadić both have 7 goals in their name.
Ajax has found out some great talents again this year. Brian Brobbey, Quincy Promes, Lassina Traoré, and Dušan Tadić are in excellent form this season.
Ajax recently completed scoring 250 goals in their first 82 games under Ajax manager Eric Tan Hag. This is only the second time an Eredivisie team has scored at least 250 goals in their first 82 games under a specific manager. The last time someone has done the same was Ajax under Johan Cruyff in 1987.
Ajax will face Liverpool next in the UEFA Champions League. With an in-form team, Eric Ten Hag is confident to beat a struggling Liverpool side.
With a quarter of the Premier League season in the history books, matchday 10 of the ‘World’s Greatest League’ played out to a conclusion last night, with spills all across the three days of action. Here is what went down in England this matchday:
Results
Brighton 1-1 Liverpool
Crystal Palace 0-2 Newcastle United
Manchester City 5-0 Burnley
Everton 0-1 Leeds United
West Brom 1-0 Sheffield United
Southampton 2-3 Manchester United
Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Arsenal 1-2 Wolves
Leicester City 1-2 Fulham
West Ham United 2-1 Aston Villa
Match of the Week
Southampton 2-3 Manchester United
The Saints took the lead in the first half, following another successful edition of the James Ward-Prowse show. The Southampton captain assisted the opener for Jan Bednarek, before eventually scoring another free-kick to put the hosts two in front.
4 & 8 – Manchester United are the first side in Premier League history to win four consecutive away games despite trailing in each tie, celebrating eight straight away top-flight victories for the very first time. Backbone. #SOUMNUpic.twitter.com/uOFPmbz2Iy
David De Gea and Mason Greenwood gave way to Dean Henderson and Edison Cavani at half-time respectively. The former Sheffield United man made his first Premier League appearance for Manchester United, and El Matador was the difference-maker for the Red Devils.
9 – Only eight players in @premierleague history have scored more direct free-kick goals than James Ward Prowse, who moves level with Jamie Redknapp, Nolberto Solano and Frank Lampard on nine such strikes. Department. #SOUMNUhttps://t.co/2nx2es3nGq
Bruno Fernandes pulled one back for United, netting home an inch-perfect cross from Cavani at the hour mark. The Uruguayan then scored not one, but two diving headers to give United all three points at St. Mary’s.
Honourable Mention: Everton 0-1 Leeds United
It was another outstanding game from Leeds, as the boys from Elland Road displayed 90 minutes of tireless football to snatch all three points at Goodison Park.
Summer arrival Raphinha managed to score the winner for the Yorkshire club late in the game and scored his debut Premier League goal in the process.
3 – Only Aston Villa (4) have scored more goals from outside the box in the Premier League this season than Leeds; Raphinha's strike was the 35th attempt overall in this game. Overdue. #EVELEE
The chances in the match could have shaped the scoreline to much higher figures. However, an excellent performance from both goalkeepers, Pickford and Meslier, made sure that the game was a very closely contested affair.
Player of the Week
Edinson Cavani: Manchester United
Coming on as a substitute for Mason Greenwood at half-time, Cavani was single-handedly responsible for United’s victory in their game against Southampton. His movement in the box was outstanding, and not to mention the cross that Bruno Fernandes tapped in to make it 2-1.
2002 – Edinson Cavani is only the second player to both score and assist a goal after coming on as a substitute in an away Premier League for Manchester United, after Ruud van Nistelrooy against Charlton in September 2002. Saviour. pic.twitter.com/c57Csq51pI
Cavani proved his worth in this game and showed his prowess as a true centre-forward to get the important goals no matter how late they came. A brilliant performance from the 33-year-old makes him our player of the week.
Who/What is in the Spotlight?
An angry Jurgen Klopp for his heated post match interview after the Brighton draw.
Riyad Mahrez for his hat-trick against Burnley.
2 – Riyad Mahrez is only the second African to score a Premier League hat-trick for Man City after Yaya Toure against Fulham in March 2014. Super. #MCIBURpic.twitter.com/H3UZukcpKy
Due to the pandemic, the world as we know it has changed drastically. With the world economy taking a major hit, the average consumer spending curve has been shifted to a great extent. Amidst all this, the digital platform industries, especially the gaming industries, have seen an increase in their profits.
Recently, Japan’s Universal Studios has announced its plan of opening a $580 million Nintendo attraction on Feb 4. The real-world theme park was delayed due to the pandemic, but now the attraction will finally be opened for visitors. According to sources, the Super Nintendo World is built on the existing Universal Studios Japan site. It is a life-sized replica of Nintendo Co.’s most popular games with rides, shops, and walk-through activities.
As everyone might have guessed, one of the first attractions will be a Mario Kart ride inside a recreation of Bowser’s Castle. Visitors can collect virtual coins by wearing a dedicated wristband as they go about exploring the area and interact with park features via a Switch console.
The theme park was originally slated for a summer opening, but it was postponed due to the pandemic. But there is still uncertainty with the opening of the theme park. According to recent reports, Japan is grappled with the recent Coronavirus outbreak. And the location of the theme park, Osaka, is one of the worst affected cities in the country.
During the pandemic, the company, even though making profits with its digital gaming, has been struggling to acquire revenue in its other sectors. Hence the opening of the Super Nintendo World is very crucial for the company. But the major hurdle is the ongoing debate as to whether to promote domestic tourism in Japan. According to recent sources, Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, the owner of the Osaka park, has suspended its plan of opening another Nintendo area in Orlando. Even Universal Studios Japan is operating only at half of its full capacity to help curb the spread of the virus.
The Red team is enjoying a good run in the CPU market, dominating for over a year or more, now, with the “best gaming processors” i.e. the Ryzen 5000 series, AMD is expected to ruin Intel totally. The reason why Intel was still preferred was due to gaming, because no one likes to upgrade their motherboard each generation.
The long term reliability of the AM4 platform is a major reason why AMD has made a big impact in the market in a short time period. Now, not only enthusiasts or professionals, but also gamers can happily join AMD’s platform without having to worry about the frame rates they get while playing games.
The tipster @TechEpiphany is always kind enough to get hold of the sales of Mindfactory, a German retail giant, and the new sales record during the much-hyped Black Friday and Cyber Monday shows what people actually prefer for their new PC builds:
🔥CPU Retail Sales Week 48 – Record Sales through Black Friday🔥#AMD: 12'215 units sold, 85.69%, ASP: 245.2#Intel: 2'040, 14.31%, ASP: 276.19
As we see the star of the show is obviously the Ryzen 5 3600XT along with a lot of Ryzen 3000 series processors. Interestingly, the older Ryzen 5 2600, 2600X along with Ryzen 7 2700X did actually get a handsome amount of sales as well. The new Ryzen 5000 series processors also have got few sales, which is likely to increase over time. Intel has got few sales of its 10th gen and 9th gen CPUs accounting to only 14.31% of the sales whereas AMD enjoys 85.69%.
🔥 Cyber Monday Sales: AMD continues to slaughter Intel with its B-Team 🔥
In the Cyber Monday sales, the picture doesn’t change, AMD once again leading the charts and we have the Ryzen 3000 series performing better. Intel managed to generate a meagre 12.91% revenue to that of AMD’s superior 87.09%. This picture could remain same in 2021 until Intel launches its next-gen CPUs, but cannot touch AMD’s flight unless and until any supernatural thing happens.
Sega has revealed its annual integrated report of this year, with the lifetime sales of its game series. The sale of the Yakuza series has reached now 14 million copies across all titles. In 2018, when the Yakuza 6 was released, it reached the milestone of 11 million and 12 million in 2019. This proves that Yakuza’s 20% of lifetime sales come from the last two years. Compared to the previous 15 years, the recent sale has increased immensely, though the proportion of the number of games released is the same.
The series was declining in the market relative to the growth of the industry, but it has turned around surprisingly. Now, Sega thinks that the credit for this kind of turnaround goes to the game’s niche appeal and dedication to draw a picture of Japanese culture. Specifically, the culture was considered too niche to concatenate with the Western audience, but it has now become the main selling point of the series. In the annual integrated report, it was specifically stated that “highly evaluated by overseas users”. It’s a great success for a “Made in Japan” content by finding a new home in foreign countries.
As per the report, Yakuza is targeting the niche market. It is rumoured that the game is going to release multiple platform support to grab the targeted niche across the world rather than just a handful of countries. There is specifically mentioned that PC will be the key factor for this strategy.
Despite having some flaws, PC Gamers are loving the Yakuza series for the last few years. Yakuza: Like a Dragon was a changeup, which was the latest game and Andy Kelly said, “doubles down on the series’ RPG elements”.
Samsung is already a pro player in the field of earphones along with others like smartphones, and television. With the flow of the market, the Korean giant is also updating its quality portfolio and as per the reports, a new Galaxy Buds is set to come out in January 2021.
Following the signature, Samsung, this time too, going to launch the new earphone with the Galaxy S21. In the earlier cases, the company showcased a new pair of earphones both with the S20 and Note 20.
The report by SamMobile claims the new Galaxy Buds will come with improved active noise cancellation (ANC) feature than the Galaxy Buds Live. Apart from that, there will be silicon in-ear tips applied.
The report also said Samsung worked on the Ambient Mode too along with the next-level sound quality. No doubt, the earlier Galaxy Buds are well capable of delivering great sound quality, but the new one will surely come with a sharper one.
It’s confirmed that lots of new techs are to launch in the new year that will help us to lead both of our essential work-life and casual life in a better and smoother way. Till then, enjoy the excitement.
It’s around a couple of months, officially Indians are away from the most popular mobile battle royale game PUBG. The Indian Government detected so many issues that can threaten national security.
Just after the announcement of the ban, a popular India’s leading mobile game-making firm, nCORE Games disclosed its running project Fearless And United Guards or FAU-G in short.
Currently, the game, FAU-G was in discussion for its launch and finally, it is live on Google Play Store for pre-registration. That clearly indicates the Android users are going to experience the game very soon, even that can be in this December.
Unfortunately, if you are an iPhone user and also excited to play FAU-G, there is still no news. It’s yet to list on the Apple App Store. Hopefully, the nCORE Games will disappoint them for a long time.
In case you don’t know, FAU-G is a tribute to the brave Indian Army, and the players’ role will be to fulfill the targets of being an Indian Army person. The initial map is inspired by the Galwan Valley area in Ladakh. Lastly, 20% of the net revenue from FAU-G will be donated to the Bharat Ke Veer trust.
For which game you are waiting for? It’s FAU-G or PUBG Mobile India? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to mention the reason.
