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Computers, Gaming, News

Acer Launches the Nitro 5 with AMD Ryzen 9 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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PC gaming is not cheap. That is pretty much know though. Consider this, the latest gaming console like the Sony PlayStation 5 and the Microsoft Xbox Series X will set you back between MYR 2,500 to MYR 3,000. The latest entry level gaming PC with the latest hardware will set you back about the same amount of money to be fair if you get a desktop. The caveat is that you will not get the same 4K 120fps experience on the desktop compared to the console. If you want to talk about portable gaming, the prices are even higher.

Of course, there is more to a PC than just gaming though. When you get a gaming PC, your PC doubles as your productivity machine. It will be something that accompanies you into your work and your life. It browses the internet, it edits word documents, and it checks your emails. In the case of notebook PCs, there is more than productivity. Notebook PCs are about productivity on-the-go. Of course, gaming notebooks are about gaming and productivity on-the-go.

While gaming is not cheap, it does not have to be bank breaking though. You can get an entry level gaming notebook now from as low as MYR 3,699. Yes, we are talking about the AMD powered Acer Nitro 5 gaming notebook. Well, it is in the title.

The Nitro 5 for 2021 was technically announced in CES 2021 and is just making its way to Malaysia. The new gaming notebook comes with its own sets of cosmetic updates, as usual, and a few internal upgrades too from its previous iteration, as expected. Most of the upgrades are not really what we expected from an “entry-level” perspective though.

The base model is still pretty “entry-level” at MYR 3,699 (AN515-4S-R9RJ). You get an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 7nm processor with Zen 3 architecture which should unlock a lot more performance from its previous generation. You also get a respectable NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GPU for all kinds of gaming needs. If you have a 4K display, this could work too. Just do not expect Ultra graphic settings with super high refresh rates at that kind of resolution.

Still, if you just work with the 15.6-inch display on the notebook, you still get a nice Full HD resolution with 144Hz of refresh rate. With the kind of internals you get, you should hit 144fps easily. You also get 8GB of dual channel RAM too. If you want, you can up that to up to 32GB (16GB x 2). You are not trading off too much storage space either with 512GB of SSD storage. Of course, that is expandable as well.

Thing is, the Acer Nitro 5 is not just an “entry-level” gaming notebook anymore. While you do get the entry-level spec with entry-level pricing, you can spec it up to turn it into a beast too.

You can spec your Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-4S-R49W) with an all-powerful AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor. With that processor, you can also get a high-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU with 8GB of DDR6 memory on board to run games at QHD (2K) resolution at a native 165Hz in refresh rate on the 15.6-inch display. With 16GB of DDR 4 RAM included, the Acer Nitro 5 turns into a beast of a gaming PC. You also get 1TB of storage to ensure that you can keep all your favourite games and still have space to spare for other things as well. All of that for MYR 8,999.

Alongside the Acer Nitro 5 gaming notebook, Acer also launches the Nitro QG1241Y P gaming monitor. The Nitro QG1 is a 24-inch display boasting Full HD resolution at 165Hz refresh rate. The VA panel support up to 1ms of response time as well alongside HDR10 support. Of course, like any modern display, there is a BlueLightShield blue light filter and flicker reduction technology to ensure the display does not strain your eyes.

The Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-4S-R9RJ) is now available for pre-order to 16th April 2021 at Acer’s Official Store on Shopee at MYR 3,699. The other variants of the Acer Nitro 5 will be available for pre-order on a later date from 27th to the 29th April 2021 (AN515-4S-R7QR) and 10th-12th May 2021 (AN515-4S-R4KB, AN515-4S-R5C7, AN515-4SR8XM, AN515-4S-R49W). The Acer Nitro QG1 (QG141Y P) 24-inch Full HD display is now available on pre-order until 16th of April 2021 on Acer’s official store on Shopee and Lazada for MYR 699. It will retail at MYR 749 after the pre-order date. For more information on the Acer Nitro 5 and Nitro QG1 gaming notebook and peripheral, do visit Acer’s website.

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CFOs in Global Survey Reveal Pandemic Has Fundamentally Altered How They Hire and Manage Their Workforce

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– Sixty-five percent of Asia-Pacific respondents indicated that they expect to exceed goals and expectations for 2021, compared to 46% for UK and 47% for North America

– Almost all (94%) of respondents from Asia Pacific have a growth strategy involving expansion into countries where they do not currently operate

– Eighty-three percent of Asia-Pacific respondents said the global pandemic has altered their views on hiring and workforce management, and 89 percent altered their views on a remote work model

– Forty-eight percent of Asia-Pacific respondents said they will attract new talent confined to where they are based while 43 percent said they will attract new talent unbound by geographic restrictions

SINGAPORE and SYDNEY, April 14, 2021 — A large majority of CFOs around the world are planning to expand operations into new countries in 2021 to achieve their long-term growth strategies, according to a recent survey by CFO Research and Globalization Partners. The survey also uncovered changing perceptions about hiring and remote work because of their pandemic experiences, with respondents saying they want to attract talent that is unbound by the geographic restrictions of their company’s operating model.

The February 2021 survey of chief financial officers, chief executive officers and other senior finance executives also cites a common theme that they are prioritising the need to build resiliency and although optimistic, disclose that their businesses are still stabilising and in recovery.

Optimism towards organisational performance in 2021 varies across the regions. Asia-Pacific (APAC) CFOs are more optimistic about success in 2021 than their counterparts in the UK and North America. Sixty-five percent of APAC respondents indicated that they expect to exceed goals and expectations in 2021, compared to 46 percent for UK and 47 percent for North America.

"The ongoing rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, investments flowing into the region, and momentum gained as companies accelerated their digital investments during the pandemic – all these are contributing to positive sentiments toward business in 2021," said Charles Ferguson, General Manager, Asia Pacific, Globalization Partners. "With the ongoing shift in the global supply chain and a renewed focus of the US, UK and EU to grow alliances with APAC markets, there is an abundance of opportunity to expect from this region."

Key data from the survey found:

CFOs are taking a global view within their hiring approaches.
* Asked to describe their hiring strategy over the next 12 to 18 months as, 48 percent of APAC respondents say they will attract new talent where they are based while 43 percent say they want to attract new talent that is unbounded by the geographic restrictions of their company’s operating model.
* APAC CFOs have a high degree of interest in tapping into a more cost-effective, global talent pool—a concept favoured by half of those surveyed –and capturing market share through global expansion, which is favoured by 61 percent.

CFOs have altered workforce management strategies.
* Seventy-four percent of the survey respondents in APAC anticipate operating remote and/ or hybrid workforce models in the next 12 to 18 months.
* Eighty-three percent of executives also say the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the way they think about hiring and workforce management and 89 percent say it altered how they consider remote employees or the work-from-anywhere model.

CFOs are deeming global expansion as a top priority in the next 12 to 18 months.
* "Implementing a strategy for global expansion and presence" was deemed a top priority in the next 12 to 18 months for 52 percent of APAC executives, compared to 38 percent of the EMEA executives and 36% percent of the North American executives.
*  Fifty-five percent of the APAC CFOs that are expecting to achieve their goals in 2021 are already engaging a global PEO, while 25 percent plan to use a global PEO within one year to support their international business strategy and 17 percent plan to engage a global PEO within three years.

To download the 2021 eBook, with additional information and details of survey results across the globe, please click here: Report: CFOs See a Clear Pathway to Growth Through Global Expansion.  

Survey Methodology
The survey, conducted by CFO Research of Industry Dive, polled 215 senior finance executives at companies in North America, the United Kingdom, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Europe/Middle East/Africa region. Most of the companies represented had annual revenues of $1 billion or more.

About Globalization Partners  
Hire anyone, anywhere, quickly and easily. Use our AI-driven, automated, fully compliant global Employer of Record platform powered by our in-house worldwide HR experts. Leave the complexities of global employment to the named industry leader that consistently attains 97% customer satisfaction ratings. With Globalization Partners, you can succeed faster. 

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Algorand Enhances TEAL Smart Contract Language in Latest Upgrade

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Improved developer experiences empower the Algorand community as DeFi and application building expands

BOSTON, April 14, 2021 — Algorand, a leading blockchain technology company accelerating the convergence of decentralized and traditional finance, continues to deliver on its commitment to technical innovation with the availability of its latest upgrade to its Layer-1 Smart Contracts language (TEAL), the first in a series of such enhancements. Smart Contracts on Algorand are built into Layer-1 and thus benefit from the network’s speed, security, and scalability with reduced settlement risk through trustless execution, low transaction fees, and flexible implementations needed to power complex applications.

The latest upgrade is based on direct feedback from the Algorand developer community to address and remove obstacles for viable mainstream adoption, mainly by ensuring application development is faster and more efficient.  Algorand’s smart contract language, TEAL (Transaction Execution Approval Language), has been upgraded  for a more optimized developer experience, while maintaining a Layer-1 language and increasing access and convenience, without compromising performance or economic efficiencies.

New features are comprised of the following distinct functionality:

  1. Complete access to transactions in the Atomic Transfer capability
  2. Better application permissions in addressing user demand using CreatorAddress
  3. New opcodes addressing demands from TEAL users and TEAL compilers

º     A concise way to express requirements
º     The ability to manipulate the stack and data values in a more concise way
º     The ability to combine Atomic Transfers together

With these new features, the following are now available for developers:

  • Convenience functions for examining other assets and stateful smart contracts
  • Functions to support better stack manipulation
  • Support for manipulating data with bit and byte functions
  • Improved conditional logic capabilities

In expanding the possibilities to write more efficient smart contracts, compilers and high-level languages are empowered with this TEAL upgrade as new gateways for development. Reach, a development platform, is one such example of tooling available to Algorand developers that lowers the barrier to entry, while enabling blockchain developers to build more sophisticated applications.

"Algorand continues to deliver on innovation, and it is exciting to see TEAL opening new opportunities for the growing developer community.  As a partner of Algorand empowering developers to leverage their high performing blockchain, it is a major milestone that anything written on Reach can now work on Algorand," says Chris Swenor, Founder & CEO, Reach. 

Examples of applications that are now easier and more efficient to write on Algorand include:

This consensus protocol upgrade is the 5th for Algorand since inception, with no downtime or performance degradation— proving yet again that Algorand is built with the reliability, security, and evolving capabilities to continuously serve its developer community and pave the way for the future of finance (FutureFi).

Algorand always welcomes and values developers’ feedback as it directly impacts continued innovations. For more technical details, visit TEAL and the developer post here. For more general questions on building on Algorand, please visit our developer portal. Feedback can be submitted to: devsupport@algorand.com.

About Algorand
Algorand is building the technology to power the Future of Finance (FutureFi), the convergence of traditional and decentralized models into a unified system that is inclusive, frictionless, and secure. Founded by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand developed a blockchain infrastructure that offers the interoperability and capacity to handle the volume of transactions needed for defi, financial institutions and governments to smoothly transition into FutureFi. The technology of choice for more than 500 global organizations, Algorand is enabling the simple creation of next generation financial products, protocols and exchange of value. For more information, visit www.algorand.com.  

About the Algorand Foundation
The Algorand Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software, which was initially designed by Silvio Micali and a team of leading scientists. With core beliefs in the establishment of an open, public and permissionless blockchain, the Algorand Foundation has a vision for an inclusive ecosystem that provides an opportunity for everyone to harness the potential of an equitable and truly borderless economy. For more information, visit www.algorand.foundation.

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Skybox Security Delivers Industry’s Most Advanced Exposure Analysis

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Network model and risk-based prioritization provide greater visibility, insights, and speed to help enterprises prevent breaches

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 13, 2021 — Skybox Security today announced major enhancements to its Security Posture Management Platform. Skybox is the only platform that offers IT and security teams the ability to collectively visualize and analyze hybrid and multi-cloud networks, providing full context and understanding of their attack surfaces. Our latest release includes advanced analytics, optimized attack simulation, and increased dashboard customization – all of which increase the speed and accuracy of exposure analysis to improve overall security efficacy.

The Skybox Security Posture Management Platform is the only solution that analyzes and validates network, cloud, and security configurations together to proactively gain full context, understand the attack surface, and remediate threats faster.
The Skybox Security Posture Management Platform is the only solution that analyzes and validates network, cloud, and security configurations together to proactively gain full context, understand the attack surface, and remediate threats faster.

Skybox evolved its platform to support customers contending with expediated digital transformation initiatives such as cloud migration and IT/OT convergence. Customers will benefit from:

  • Increased agility with more granular insights delivered at a faster speed. To support bespoke organizational and operational workflow requirements, the Skybox platform includes new reporting capabilities with advanced dashboards, sophisticated data visualization features, and the ability to ingest and process more diverse datasets at higher rates.  
  • Greater visibility across hybrid networks. Skybox continues to grow its comprehensive list of 150+ technology partnerships with new connectors that combine rich data from leading SD-WAN and SASE vendors such as Versa Networks and Zscaler. This release also extends support for Check Point, Cisco, and Forcepoint.
  • Optimized attack simulation. Deeper insights into exposure and risk in near real-time allow customers to develop the ideal remediation strategy and reduce mean time to remediation (MTTR). Customers with highly complex network models will significantly benefit from these performance enhancements.

"Digital transformation demands a new approach to security posture management," said Haggai Polak, chief product officer, Skybox Security. "Through automating data collection, correlation and analysis, security and IT teams can together leverage a multidimensional dynamic network model to understand risk levels, simulate attacks, and remediate vulnerabilities where it’s needed most."

The industry’s most comprehensive exposure analysis 
Enterprises must optimize remediation strategies to focus quickly on the highest exposure risk to address the rise in vulnerabilities, expanding attack surface, sophisticated threat actors, and talent shortages. To calculate exposure, Skybox identifies exploitable vulnerabilities and uniquely correlates this data with network configurations and security controls to determine possible exposure.

Exposure analysis is only possible when disparate data repositories are normalized and brought together into a network model, including patch and asset management systems, vulnerability data, threat intelligence feeds, cloud and network device configurations. The network model provides a dynamic representation of hybrid environments across corporate networks, private cloud, public cloud, and OT.

Skybox uniquely enables multi-factor risk prioritization to conduct the most comprehensive exposure analysis available today through a combination of:

  • CVSS scoring: calculated by importing and merging data from multiple active scanners, web and application scans, EDR integrations, and Skybox’s own passive detection capabilities
  • Asset importance: identifies if assets are mission-critical or would expose sensitive data
  • Exploitability: determines if a vulnerability has been exploited in the wild, with Skybox Research Lab tracking tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities yearly on more than 8,000 products
  • Exposure analysis: determines which attack vectors can be exploited given the security controls and their configurations

"I look at data from scanners and say, so what? I need to understand what the true risk is that I’m carrying. I need to know what other controls I have in place and whether I should put in time and effort to apply a patch," said Dr. Rebecca Wynn, chief information security officer. "Failing to ask, ‘so what?’ is a critical failure. To make the data useful, I need to know what needs to be patched first and what the order of patches needs to be."

Accelerated platform adoption
A diverse list of new customers implemented Skybox in 2020, including Fortune 1000 companies, major financial institutions, energy and utility leaders, large retailers, healthcare organizations, numerous federal agencies, and local governments. Skybox also saw continued expansion of its Vulnerability and Threat Management Solution, particularly in highly regulated, complex industries, including financial services and critical infrastructure. Nearly 60% of sales came from existing satisfied customers expanding their deployments.

The latest release is available now. Schedule a demo.

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About Skybox Security
Over 500 of the largest and most security-conscious enterprises in the world rely on Skybox for the insights and assurance required to stay ahead of dynamically changing attack surfaces. Our Security Posture Management Platform delivers complete visibility, analytics and automation to quickly map, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities across your organization. The vendor-agnostic solution intelligently optimizes security policies, actions and change processes across all corporate networks and cloud environments. With Skybox, security teams can now focus on the most strategic business initiatives while ensuring enterprises remain protected.  

We are Skybox. Secure more, limit less. www.skyboxsecurity.com

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NVIDIA Grace CPU for Datacentres for Next Generation Super Computers

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NVIDIA’s GTC 2021 just happened last night. If you remembered 2020, you would remember that GTC 2020 was also the time where NVIDIA introduced their new A100 GPU chips for super computers. 2020 was also the yea NVIDIA launched their highly anticipated, and highly capable RTX 3000 series consumer grade GPUs.

GTC’s keynote is always a highly anticipated event. Not because the conference always brings a new GPU. Recent years of GTC has always been exciting because somehow GPU is able to push the limits of what is possible with computing and cloud. NVIDIA has made itself relevant not just in the graphics world, but also in the super computing world, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and even cybersecurity. NVIDIA’s own AI even composed its own song, and it is a good song mind you.

With GTC 2021, NVIDIA shows that they are not done innovating just yet. Now, they also want to give the likes of Intel a new sort of headache. NVIDIA has introduced Project Grace.

Source: NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang mentions that the name Grace refers to a particular pioneer in the computer science field, Grace Hopper. The project is NVIDIA’s first dip into the datacentre CPU industry. Fitting to the Grace Hopper namesake, project Grace is supposed to be 10x more powerful than the current NVIDIA GDX x86 supercomputer platform.

Why is this a problem for Intel? The world’s fastest supercomputer today is all powered by Intel’s x86 CPU platform. The x86 platform has also existed for about a decade now and the platform has approached its technological limits in 2021. Of course, NVIDIA took matters into their own hands and the Grace CPU is an ARM based chip for the fastest ever datacentre and servers in the world.

Just saying that the CPU will be the fastest ever server-based CPU though means nothing. What you want to know is numbers, and these are big numbers. The new Grace architecture allows the CPU and GPU to communicate at up to 900GB/s speed thanks to NVLink technology. According to NVIDIA, that is 30x faster than most servers today. Of course, paired to LPDDR5x memory modules, you get up to 10x the speed of today’s machines.

Before anyone can say that NVIDIA’s Grace dreams is just that; dreams, NVIDIA also announced that they will be installing their Grace based datacentre in the United States Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Labrotory and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). The two clients will feature their very own NVIDIA powered supercomputer soon.

Source: NVIDIA

In those two places though, the servers and supercomputers are not built just to push cloud storage to corporations. They are purpose built for AI training and implementations. They are built for neural and language programming and training. They are built to progress humanity and probably cure cancer one day.

Of course, because Grace is a giant processor made for datacentres and supercomputers, we will not be expecting to see NVIDIA dive into consumer level ARM-based processors for PCs anytime soon. NVIDIA is working with MediaTek to bring their GPU technology into the mobile space and even ARM based PCs though. In that case, us regular consumers can expect a Qualcomm Snapdragon notebook PC with NVIDIA GeForce graphics power soon, probably. Catch NVIDIA’s GTC 2021 keynote on their website.

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Wealth Dynamix Launches Cloud-based Client Lifecycle Management SaaS Solution for Wealth Management Firms

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LONDON, April 13, 2021 — Wealth Dynamix, a global leader in Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions, has extended its award-winning product suite with the launch of CLMi. Designed specifically to meet the requirements and budgets of mid-tier discretionary fund and investment managers CLMi helps relationship managers to prioritise daily work, meet regulatory obligations through industry tested business processes, and facilitate focus on profitable outcomes for clients and AuM growth for the firm.

CLMi helps wealth managers to prioritise daily work, meet regulatory obligations and facilitate focus on profitable outcomes for clients.
CLMi helps wealth managers to prioritise daily work, meet regulatory obligations and facilitate focus on profitable outcomes for clients.

A secure, cost-effective and highly scalable SaaS solution, CLMi offers plug-and-play CLM that puts the productivity of relationship managers and satisfaction of client journeys at the heart of their business. Underpinned by a robust and innovative rules and process engine, incorporating automated, best practice workflows, CLMi delivers actionable insights direct to the desktop of every relationship manager via easy-to-use and intuitive graphical dashboards. Relationship managers can use CLMi on any device, from any location.

Watch the introduction video here

CLMi’s lean and agile infrastructure eliminates the need for complex and time-consuming configuration and set-up, making it quick and easy to deploy out-of-the-box, across the business. Pre-built integrations with best-in-class FinTech and RegTech enable cross-firm collaboration and communication, enterprise-wide data sharing and complete end-to-end oversight – from acquisition and onboarding through to ongoing relationship management. Regular, automated updates ensure CLMi is always current and at the forefront of innovation, with no requirement for in-house maintenance.

According to Dominic Snell, Product Strategy Director at Wealth Dynamix: "User experience is central to our vision of empowering relationship managers with CLM tools that make their life easier and their work more effective. They have grown tired of difficult-to-use technology that requires multiple logins, fails to provide a complete client view and provides insufficient insights. Low adoption is detrimental to a wealth manager’s business and increasingly we have been asked for an easy-to-use CLM platform that relationship managers will want to use every day. CLMi is the answer. We have applied our wealth management industry expertise to develop a highly flexible solution that is both quick and easy to implement and satisfying to use, without compromising functionality. As a SaaS solution, CLMi combines powerful CRM capability with the versatility and intelligence required to manage complex rules and processes inherent in wealth management."

Gary Linieres, CEO and Co-founder at Wealth Dynamix, said: "Mid-tier discretionary fund and investment managers need more than a standard CRM to manage client journeys and complex compliance requirements effectively, but lack the resources and budgets to source and then integrate different stage-specific solutions. CLMi has been forged out of our ten years experience delivering large scale CRM and onboarding projects to some of the world’s largest wealth managers. We’ve taken all that knowledge and distilled it into an agile, modern SaaS solution that offers the kind of simple sophistication that relationship managers have been demanding for many years. CLMi will help them become truly client centric and provide a digital platform and toolkit for a cost that was previously only in reach for organisations prepared to spend millions."

Want to see CLMi in action? Wealth Dynamix are hosting a webinar on Thursday 29 April, 2021 to demonstrate how you can put your relationship managers in the driving seat, steer client relationships and achieving winning outcomes in the shortest time possible. Register here

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Gemini Earn is now available for Singapore Customers

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SINGAPORE, April 13, 2021 — Gemini, a crypto exchange and custodian, today announced the launch of its new interest-earning program Gemini Earn™ in Singapore. With Gemini Earn, customers can transfer existing crypto holdings, or easily purchase crypto to transfer into Gemini Earn and earn up to 7.4% interest on 28 cryptocurrencies available on Gemini. Gemini Earn customers can also redeem their crypto at any time.

"We’re excited to bring Gemini Earn to Singapore. Gemini Earn was specially designed to allow users to invest in the long term while still generating real returns on their crypto holdings. As Gemini grows in Asia, my team and I are glad to be introducing some of the best Gemini products and programmes to our customers in Singapore," says Jeremy Ng, Head of Asia Pacific at Gemini.

The launch of Gemini Earn in Singapore follows recent news that Gemini Earn has been launched in all 50 states in the US and that Gemini customers are now collectively earning interest on more than $1 billion in loans originated through Gemini Earn. Visit gemini.com/earn to learn more.

About Gemini in Singapore

Gemini Digital Payments Pte Ltd, an affiliate of Gemini Trust Company LLC, is a Digital Payment Token exchange and custodian business in Singapore, allowing customers to trade and store Digital Payment Tokens and to exchange such tokens with fiat currencies, including Singapore Dollars. Gemini Digital Payments operates under the supervision of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has applied for a Major Payment Institution License pursuant to the regulations set forth in the Payment Services Act 2019.

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Supermicro Expands NVIDIA Ampere Architecture-based GPU Product Line for Enterprise AI Including an Industry-First 5 petaFLOPS in a 4U Tier 1 AI Platform

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Featured at NVIDIA GTC21, the New Generation of Supermicro NVIDIA-Certified Systems Deliver up to 4.8 TB/sec GPU Interconnect, a 1:1 GPU to Network Card Ratio, and Support for Air or Liquid Cooling Solutions

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 13, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking, and green computing technology, extends its market leadership in the growing areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), High-Performance Computing (HPC), 3D-Graphics Visualization, and Desktop Virtualization. Supermicro has the broadest Tier 1 portfolio of systems that integrate state-of-the-art capabilities achieving 5 petaFLOPS of AI performance in a 4U form factor with the latest NVIDIA A100, NVIDIA A40, NVIDIA RTX A6000, and the new NVIDIA A30, NVIDIA A10, and NVIDIA A16 GPUs.

"Our collaboration with NVIDIA enables us to design a complete portfolio of GPU systems and platforms empowering maximum customer choice. Customers can exactly match their workload requirements to system architecture to achieve superior scale, performance, efficiency, and cost," said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. "Supermicro offers multi-GPU optimized systems that deliver advanced solutions to AI, Deep Learning, HPC, and video streaming applications. Leveraging our building block solutions and our time-to-market advantage, we continue developing and releasing application-optimized solutions. Our flexible 2U 2-node GPU system with PCIe 4.0 is tuned for cloud gaming and social media and leads the industry with support for up to three double-width or six single-width GPUs per node."  


The breadth of Supermicro’s systems includes the flagship Intel-based SYS-420GP-TNAR or the AMD-based AS -4124GO-NART(+), featuring the  4U Server powered by the NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU board, with the option of either 40GB (HBM2) or 80GB (HBM2e) of memory on each GPU. These systems are currently shipping worldwide.

"From AI-powered drug discovery to designing advanced, efficient factories, accelerated computing is essential to powering the most innovative work in the world today," said Justin Boitano, vice president and general manager, Enterprise and Edge Computing at NVIDIA. "Supermicro’s NVIDIA-Certified Systems provide customers with a broad range of servers built to deliver top performance for AI, graphics and simulation workloads across the data center, to the cloud, to the edge."

The new systems can run various advanced application workloads, including the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, which is optimized and certified by NVIDIA to run on VMware vSphere, and  NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise an end-to-end real-time simulation and collaboration platform bringing transformative 3D workflows to organizations of every scale. Supermicro is showcasing these performance-leading solutions at the NVIDIA GTC21 conference this week.

From the Edge to the Cloud, AI, ML, HPC, and 3D visualization are becoming critical technologies necessary for all organizations and industries to embrace. Developing systems and delivering platforms that incorporate the latest hardware and software allows a range of enterprises to quickly get productive and implement their latest solutions, with a range of form factors. Supermicro is a leading participant in the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, which validates the hardware and software configurations needed for maximum productivity. These systems can handle massive amounts of data with advanced networking, allowing for complex models to be developed and incorporate new AI and other advanced algorithms. 3D visualization enables better comprehension of physical reality, while graphics virtualization enables IT administrators to consolidate systems infrastructure and centralize and secure their data. NVIDIA-Certified Systems allow for easy and fast deployment in the data center. Supermicro also leads the industry with NEBS Level 3-certified GPU servers for 5G and telco customers.

Consistently first-to-market, Supermicro supports the latest hardware and software solutions from NVIDIA. The range of supported GPUs includes the NVIDIA A100 80GB, A100 40GB, A40, RTX A6000, A30, A10, and A16 GPUs, aiming at AI Inference and mainstream computing, mainstream graphics and video, and virtual desktops, all with AI technologies. All NVIDIA products are available across a wide range of Supermicro systems that use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors or 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs. With Supermicro’s design excellence, more GPUs are packaged into less space (higher density) than other system suppliers. All of these new GPU systems are NVIDIA-Certified or are currently undergoing certification.

Supermicro systems with NVIDIA HGX A100 modules (choice of 40GB HBM or 80GB HBMe memory) include:

  • AS -4124GO-NART/+ – Dual 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU
  • SYS-420GP-TNAR/+ – Dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU
  • AS -2124GQ-NART/+ – Dual 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU
  • Supermicro systems with PCIe 4.0, supporting NVIDIA A100/PCIe, A30, A16, A10, and RTX A6000 include:
  • AS -4124GS-TNR – Dual 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors supporting up to 8 double-width GPUs
  • SYS-420GP-TNR – Dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors supporting up to 10 double-width GPUs
  • Multi-node AS -2114GT-DNR – Single 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor supporting up to 6 single-width or 3 double-width GPUs per node
  • SuperBlade SBA-4119SG – Single 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor supporting 1 double-width GPU or 2 single-width GPUs per blade, with up to 20 blades in an 8U enclosure
  • Workstation class SYS-740GP-TNRT – Dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors supporting up to 4 double-width GPUs

Omniverse Enterprise will be available starting this summer from Supermicro.

To learn how the latest cutting-edge solutions from NVIDIA and Supermicro power new telco networks, data center AI clusters, and HPC, visit https://learn-more.supermicro.com/gtc-spring-2021

For more information about the Supermicro GPU product line, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/GPU and https://www.supermicro.com/ampere

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
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TCL Spearheads Carbon Neutrality Efforts with Sustainability Initiatives

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SHENZHEN, China, April 12, 2021 — TCL, a global leading intelligent technology company, today reiterated its commitment and determination to respond to climate change, achieve carbon neutrality and contribute to national green development goals with the release of the Group’s 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") report. Furthermore, TCL is spearheading the effort to produce green products, conduct energy-saving and emission-reduction projects to advance the United Nation’s ("UN") Sustainable Development Goals.

Chairman and CEO of TCL Li Dongsheng said, "TCL is carrying out a reconversion based on intelligent manufacturing, industrial internet and digitalization, which can result in more efficient energy-saving methods throughout the production process. Energy saving by companies represents an indirect contribution to the reduction of emissions."

Design sketch of TCL CSOT Project G11
Design sketch of TCL CSOT Project G11

TCL adheres to green manufacturing processes throughout the entire production and operation process cycles. TCL CSOT G11 panel project  has obtained the highest international standards in green buildings LEED Platinum ratings. At the same time, TCL CSOT has built a pure water recycling system to recycle the pure water used for production and cleaning. At present, the recycle rate of pure water through the system can reach more than 75%, and about 25.2 million cubic meters of pure water can be reused every year. TCL has also established Air Pollution Control Management Procedures, Noise Pollution Control Management Procedures, Solid Waste Management Procedures, and Energy Resource Consumption Management Procedures adhering to ISO50001 energy management and ISO14064 greenhouse gas management systems.

TCL always pays attention to product quality and actively supports the cause of green environmental protection. To this end, after a vigorous evaluation process, TCL’s TVs and drum washing machines successfully obtained the high-score green labels of 6.5 and 8.1 (a range between 1 and 10 points) in France from the world’s leading certification company, SGS. TCL CSOT 23.8" FHD display achieved the leading Es8.0 certification for its energy-saving design. TCL also strives to recycle electronics and recently received the first-ever Special Sustainability Leadership Award from the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA").

Moving forward, TCL will maintain its focus on environmental protection management and insist on green manufacturing to achieve its carbon neutrality goals. The Company’s innovative initiatives will reduce the adverse effects of products on the environment, and support the sustainable development of society.  

About TCL

TCL empowers customers to enjoy more. With a lineup of award-winning televisions, audio products, mobile devices, and appliances, TCL takes pride in delivering meaningful experiences by combining thoughtful design and latest technology. As one of the world’s largest consumer electronics brands, our extensive manufacturing expertise, a vertically integrated supply chain, and state-of-the-art panel factory helps TCL deliver innovation for all.

About TCL CSOT

TCL CSOT (TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd), is a company committed to innovation in semiconductor display. TCL CSOT has advanced display technologies such as Mini-LED, Micro-LED, OLED, and Ink Jet Printing. The products range from large, small & medium display panel and touch modules, interactive white board, video wall, automotive display, and gaming monitors, which further contributes to the core competence in the global panel industry.

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Marta Chen, chenxuejun@tcl.com
Megan Zheng, megan.zheng@hkstrategies.com  

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Diebold Nixdorf Wins Red Dot Product Design Award for its Retail Self-Service Solution

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EASY eXpress Max recognized for its combination of functionality, design and its user-friendly and convenient operation

BERLIN, April 12, 2021 — Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in driving connected commerce for the retail and banking industries, has been awarded the prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021 for its retail self-service solution, EASY eXpress Max. Internationally recognized as the authority for product design quality, The Red Dot Awards, presented by Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, are selected by 50 independent designers, design professors and trade journalists. Diebold Nixdorf’s system was honored by the expert panel for its exemplary combination of functionality and design and its user-friendly and convenient operation.

Diebold Nixdorf’s EASY eXpress Max is created for high-engagement retail environments. The platform-based approach ensures the solution is easily adaptable to changing business needs and consumer demands.
Diebold Nixdorf’s EASY eXpress Max is created for high-engagement retail environments. The platform-based approach ensures the solution is easily adaptable to changing business needs and consumer demands.

Diebold Nixdorf’s EASY eXpress Max, part of the DN SeriesTM EASY family of self-service solutions, is created for high-engagement environments. The platform-based approach ensures the solution is easily adaptable to changing business needs and consumer demands. The large, interactive touchscreen opens up new opportunities to attract and connect with consumers and is pivotal to delivering the best user experience. The highly engaging, self-service solution meets the needs of modern consumers and offers a modular approach to digital payment methods by providing an interchangeable cash rack and a security scale for greatest flexibility. 

Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Award, said: "The winners of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021 were particularly impressive this year. The design of their products is excellent, in terms of both the aesthetic and the functionality. It’s not easy to prevail in such a strong field of competitors and to win over our jury. Consequently, I want to congratulate the laureates very sincerely on their success."

Hermann Wimmer, senior vice president, Global Retail, at Diebold Nixdorf said: "We are honored to have been recognized with the Red Dot Award. We developed the DN Series EASY family of self-service solutions to offer customer-oriented systems with future-proof designs."

About the Red Dot Design Award:

In order to appraise the diversity in the field of design in a professional manner, the Red Dot Design Award breaks down into the three disciplines of Red Dot Award: Product Design, Red Dot Award: Communication Design and Red Dot Award: Design Concept. The Red Dot Award is one of the world’s largest design competitions. In 1955, a jury convened for the first time to assess the best designs of the day. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award. Ever since, the sought-after Red Dot award has been the revered international seal of outstanding design quality. Further information available at www.red-dot.de.

About Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is a world leader in enabling connected commerce. We automate, digitize and transform the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world’s top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers, our integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels conveniently, securely and efficiently for millions of consumers each day. The company has a presence in more than 100 countries with approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. Visit www.DieboldNixdorf.com for more information.

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