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Samsung begins working on 6G tech

While the whole world is just beginning to adapt to 5G technology, Samsung is already going one step ahead by beginning its research on 6G technology.

Samsung has continued to showcase its innovation around 5G technology. The company expects completion of the 6G standard and expects its earliest commercialization by as early as 2028. Samsung will hold its ‘Samsung Networks: Redefined’ virtual event on Tuesday to unleash the full potential of 5G.

The company in a release stated.”You will discover how technologies, especially chips and software, can ultimately maximize the performance of networks. You will also get to know more about Samsung’s industry-leading solutions including our virtualized solutions, radios, and private networks.”

Samsung recently came out with a white paper titled, “The Next-Hyper Connected Experience for All”. It summarizes how 6G will be characterized by the provision of advanced services such as truly immersive extended reality (XR), high-fidelity mobile hologram, and digital replicas.

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To accelerate its research for 5G tech, the advanced R & D within Samsung Electronics, SET Business, founded its Advanced Communications Research Center in 2019.

Sungyun Choi, head of Advanced Communications Research Center believes that despite the 5G commercialization being in its early stages, it can never be too early to begin prepping for the future. Development of 6G technology may require a minimum of 10 years to develop from the research phase to the commercialization phase.

India alone estimates nearly 330 million 5G smartphone subscriptions in the next 5 years, it will amount to 26% of mobile subscriptions in the country.

Globally, 5G subscriptions are estimated to exceed 580 million by the end of 2021. The average traffic per smartphone user in India alone has increased from 13GB per month in 2019 to 14.6GB per month in 2020.

While 5G requirements mainly focus on performance aspects, Samsung defines three categories of requirements that need to be achieved to realize 6G services, performance, architectural, and trustworthiness requirements.

Examples of 6G performance requirements achieve a peak data of 1000 Gbps and air latency of fewer than 100 microseconds. That will be 50 times the peak data rate and one-tenth the latency of 5G.

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EURO 2020: Netherlands and Austria make it to the Round of 16 from Group C

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Netherlands and Austria have made it into the round of 16 from Group C, after winning their respective games against North Macedonia and Ukraine tonight. The Dutch won the group with a perfect record while Austria finish second, with 6 points from two games. 

The Dutch enjoyed a comfortable victory against North Macedonia. Memphis Depay opened the scoring for Netherlands in the first half, and later assisted Gini Wijnaldum in the 51st minute. The new PSG recruit surpassed Marco Van Basten’s goalscoring record with his second goal in the 58th minute to make it 3-0. He now has 25 goals for the national team. 

Austria, on the other hand, defeated Ukraine 1-0 to seal their spot in the last 16. The only goal of the game came from Christoph Baumgartner in the 21st minute, assisted by his captain, David Alaba. The Hoffenheim midfielder became the youngest goalscorer for Austria in the Euros, and also the youngest in Euro 2020 overall. 

That was enough to see them over the line, and onto the knockout stages of the tournament. However, they have a daunting task ahead of them in the form of Italy, whom they face in the Round of 16. The Azzurri have not conceded in 11 games consecutively, and are slowly emerging as one of the favourites to win the title after not being given much of a chance. 

The Netherlands will have to wait for the three groups D,E and F to wrap up to get to know their opponents in the knockout stages. 

Windows 11 might contain improvements to increase performance with the Alder Lake series

Many leaks are appearing online with regards to Windows 11. However, according to recent rumors, it’s reported that Windows 11 might have a lot in common with Windows 10. The developer preview ISO that leaked is a few months old and appears to be missing widgets, apps, or functionality that was expected to arrive with the new system. Windows 11 also supports WDDM 3.0, which was first introduced Win10 Insider Preview “Cobalt”.

The WDDM upgrade and Microsoft Store updates were expected with the newer OS, however, many tech experts were waiting for Microsoft to introduce changes and improvements for heterogenous CPU architectures, such as the upcoming 12th Gen Core Alder Lake series from Intel.

And according to the leaked images and reports regarding the new OS, the operating system provides a small improvement to so far the only hybrid-based Intel CPU series: Lakefield. Intel will soon be going for mass production and increasing the supply of its next-gen Alder Lake lineup when it gets a release, however, we expect Microsoft to add necessary functionalities to its OS.

However, coming back to the rumors which were indicated by HotHardware testing, Lakefield Core i7-L16G7 CPU appears to have higher performance in early Windows 11 build. The site claims a 5.8% boost in multi-threaded Geekbench 5 score and a 2% higher single-thread.

Cinebench R23’s modern synthetic benchmark showed that it has a nearly 8.2% of performance uplift which is considered a big improvement in single-core threaded tests. While testing on the PC Mark 10, which is considered to be closer to real-world testing, Windows 10 was better in the Digital Content Creation test.

Seeing how Lakefield had such performance improvement we can expect to see similar gains with Alder Lake as well. Alder Lake will also feature Intel’s Hybrid Technology based on high-performance and high-efficiency cores.

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Xiaomi files patent for Sound Charging technology

If you thought Xiaomi was done with releasing revolutionary charging tech after its Air Charge technology, think again. Xiaomi seems to be working on brand new charging technology, Sound Charging.

A new patent filing emerged on the Chinese National Intellectual Property Adminstration website.

According to the patent, the technology will apparently help to charge devices through sound. The setup will involve a sound charging device, an energy storage device, and an elctronic device. The sound charging device will consist of a sound collection device, multiple enrgy conversion devices and a main power conversion device.

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The sound collection device will seemingly convert the sound in the environment to mechanical vibration and conduct the mechanical vibration to the energy conversion device.

In addition to this, the energy conversion device will convert the mechanical vibration into Alternating Current. The power conversion device will then convert this AC input to Direct Current in order to charge the device.

Sound Charge’s patent claims that the users can charge the device without connecting it to a power socket.

It seems plausible as sound charging does aim to be a true wireless charging solution. The efficiency of this setup is yet to be proven and we will have to see it for ourselves once it is commercially available.

This is just a patent filing, there is no guarantee that Xiaomi will actually release a product integrated with this technology. It is, however, an interesting concept to be on the lookout for.

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AMD’s unreleased Radeon RX 6900 XT LC card appears in online retail stores in India

AMD recently stated on Social media that it would be making a limited number of its Radeon RX 6900 XT liquid-cooled reference graphics cards. It later announced that its AMD-designed liquid-cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card is a limited-edition product exclusively for select system integrators.

AMD will be making a limited number of Radeon RX 6900 XT liquid-cooled reference design graphics cards available to select system integrators. System integrators are a critical part of the gaming ecosystem and offering this model through their channels helps ensure that as many of these products as possible get into gamers’ hands.

However, by its social media announcements, AMD confirmed that its RX 6900 XT LC is a limited edition model and that the SKU will be exclusive to the system integrators. This states that purchasing the card will be impossible for anyone without the system unless someone is selling the card separately on a second-hand market or a system integrator is selling the card without the system. In both cases, it will have to be without the approval of AMD.

But there appear to be three Indian retailers selling the same card from AMD. All three stores list the same price of 223,020 rupees (3,007 USD). And the same price and similar physical store addresses suggest that they are sold by the same retailer/distributor operating through different domains. But AMD has never said that system integrators’ exclusivity applies only to certain regions.

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT LC is a part of the RDNA2 series. It features Navi 21 XTXH GPU with a 2435 MHz boot clock and is also the first RDNA2 model to ship with an 18 Gbps memory clock. AMD is yet to launch this card through the DIY channel, and there is no official SRP (suggested retail price) provided. But even if this card did cost 1500 USD, the listings above would still be twice as high. It will be interesting to see the actual truth behind this listing.

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Considering the Situation E3 2021 Was Much Better than It Was Expected

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Many large events regarding the gaming industry have been held digitally considering the current global pandemic. Besides ESA, the credit also goes to few companies who held their own live streams during this digital E3 period.

If you have followed the showcases at E3, you definitely know that a huge quantity of games has been announced during E3 2021. We can say that the announcement was balanced with the small and big games. Some Triple-A games also appeared such as, Halo Infinite’s multiplayer could make a return, and then there were the likes of Riders Republic.

Talking about the indies, there have appeared lots of attractive indie games, which made even more good impressions than the big-hitters. One game was Somerville, which seems to have few good talents behind it.

Similar to the other E3, this year also brings lots of games with birds, rocket ships, and Left 4 Dead vibes to name but a few. E3 2021 also shows the industry, in general, moving away from few things like loot boxes and, if we take Battlefield 2042, that is totally ignoring the push towards every FPS being a battle royale. Another good news is, Elden Ring is finally coming in the next January.

However, the live streams were so exciting; Bethesda and Microsoft’s showcase was an outstanding example. Along with Starfield, there was Psychonauts 2, Arkane’s next game Redfall, Forza Horizon 5, and more.

An important sign that E3 was a big success is the excitement it’s generated – did the Starfield trailer tease Elder Scrolls 6? Let’s see what comes out in the coming days. All in all, the E3 2021 has become much better than it was expected to be.

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The display manufacturing unit of Samsung shifted from China to Noida

South Korean smartphone manufacturer Samsung has announced that it has finished constructing its display manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh. The new hub for display production is now based in Noida. The display manufacturing unit has been shifted from China to Noida, said Samsung.

The reason behind the shift being stated is India’s better industrial environment and industrial-friendly policies. A delegation led by the company’s Southwest Asia President & CEO Ken Kang called upon Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday.

The delegation said that “owing to the better industrial environment and investor-friendly policies, Samsung decided to establish the Display Manufacturing Unit, which was located in China, in Noida, and the work of establishing it has been completed”, an official release said.

The Chief Minister mentioned that Samsung’s Noida factory is a classic example of the success of the ‘Make in India’ programme and will also help in employment generation in the state. The CM also assured Samsung that the state government would continue to extend help to the company in future as well.

In case you were not aware, Samsung already has its world’s biggest manufacturing plant in Noida. The facility not only make phones for India but also export them to order markets. The company had also said that it would ramp up the production to make IT display panels in the Noida facility.

The smartphone giant saw a 52 per cent year-on-year growth in India in Q1 2021. It has a 20 per cent market share in India, according to a Counterpoint Research report. The company also expanded its tablet portfolio in India to launch the Galaxy Tab S7 FE and Tab A7 Lite in India.

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OnePlus will be reduced to a sub-brand under Oppo

The news of OnePlus completely merging its operations with Oppo is well within the public domain now; however, a leaked memo has now shed more light on the details of the merger and how the arrangement will work. Though this merger will still have OnePlus producing their signature devices, it will be a sub-brand within the larger Oppo structure.

OnePlus merges with OPPO although OnePlus will operate independently in India

The news of the OnePlus merger with Oppo came as no surprise last week. Both the companies have the same parent company, BBK electronics. Apart from this, they have also shared components and design elements among their devices on multiple occasions.

When news of Oppo and OnePlus merging their R&D operations came out a few months back, rumors of the brands merging together had already begun to surface.

Reliable tipster Evan Blass has acquired a leaked internal memo that addresses how to answer inquiries about the recent announcement. One of the more fascinating points is speaking point 3, which puts forth the question of describing the relationship between Oppo and OnePlus post the merger. It advises employees to reply by stating that even though OnePlus is a brand within Oppo, it will continue to function as if it were an independent entity.

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One of the raging questions has been, What happens to OxygenOS now? OxygenOS is OnePlus’s own skinned version of Android 11 and is very popular amongst its users for those in the dark.

Oppo, on the other hand, uses its own version of Android, the ColorOS. The organizations have advised their employees to not respond to any queries regarding OS as it seems either the organization is still on the fence regarding the matter or the days of OxygenOS are over. If the latter happens, ColorOS will be the default operating system for OnePlus devices moving forward.

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PayPal announcing increased prices for some of its services used by merchants

PayPal Holdings Inc. recently warned its merchants that it will raise prices for some of its new products. According to sources, the company is planning to charge 3.49% of a transaction’s value plus 49 cents for merchants that use its proprietary services.

It means that the retailers will have to pay more to accept Venmo payments and even to use a product to let the consumers split their purchases into four installments.

“We are making changes to our published rates in the United States to better align our pricing with the value that our products and services provide.”

According to sources, the latest changes will take effect from Aug 2nd. After this PayPal climbed 1.9% to $283.38 in New York, which was the highest since February, and became the third-best performer in the 74-company S&P 500 Information Technology Index.

With its new changes, the firm believes that the merchants will pay more to use some of the proprietary products. It has confidence that the services it spent years developing and those services are beyond just processing credit- and debit card payments.

“PayPal has become more than just a button or payment processor to be a full commerce platform capable of driving growth for businesses. Consumers are nearly three times more likely to complete their purchase when PayPal is available at checkout.”

The company also stated that it will lower its fee to 2.29% of the transaction’s price plus 9 cents for in-store transactions. For online payments, rates will fall to 2.59% of the transaction’s price plus a 49-cent fee.

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Samsung smartphones to soon start featuring AMD’s mRDNA2 GPUs

AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su, recently confirmed at the Computex 2021 keynote that the company is planning to bring its Radeon graphics to Samsung smartphones. Though there is still no confirmation about the official launch date for the Samsung-AMD Exynos chip, we are already seeing some early prototypes making their way into the hands of a few testers.

According to recent sources, the AMD mRNA 2 GPU shows similar or slightly better peak performance compared to the next generation Mali GPU. However, the peak performance of the two remained the same. But it was revealed that the AMD mRNA 2 chip is reportedly better than the current Exynos implementation when it comes to throttling.

The first round of testing revealed that the performance of the mobile RDNA 2 GPU drops by about 20% from peak followed by another 10% drop in the second round for a total of 30%. However, despite the 30% loss in performance due to throttling, AMD’s mobile Radeon RDNA 2 GPU is still faster than the latest Mali GPU.

Since the test results prove that, the performance characteristics of the AMD GPUs are better than Samsung might soon decide to fully switch over to AMD GPUs for its Exynos SoCs. Recent reports have also suggested that the 5 nm Exynos chip with RDNA 2 graphics for both laptops and smartphones.

There are also speculations going around that Google is also showing interest in AMD’s mobile Radeon IP and has signed a contract with AMD for mRNA 2 GPUs. However, all these are just rumors and there is no official confirmation about the reports floating around. But we can expect many more performance leaks to come around.

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