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Bharti will invest an additional $500 million (over Rs 3,700 crore) into OneWeb, to become the largest shareholder in the satellite communications company that billionaire Sunil Mittal-run Bharti Group along with the UK government had rescued from bankruptcy last year.
We are thrilled to announce that OneWeb has secured a new $500m investment from Bharti Global, @bhartinews. On completion, OneWeb will have secured $2.4bn of equity investment.
Read the full press release: https://t.co/twL9ZLITCg#OneWeb #satcom #satellitecommunications pic.twitter.com/Q2snc96hf4
— OneWeb (@OneWeb) June 29, 2021
The investment is a result of exercise of a 'call option' by Bharti. On completion of the transaction and with Eutelsat's $550 million investment, Bharti will hold 38.6 percent. The UK government, Eutelsat and SoftBank will each own 19.3 per cent, OneWeb said in a statement.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021, subject to regulatory nod.
The announcement comes as OneWeb gears up for its eighth launch on 1 July, delivering much-anticipated and strategically valuable Arctic region coverage down to 50 degrees latitude.
Save the date - on 1st July at 8:48AM (ET) / 1:48PM (BST), we’ll be launching our 8th set of satellites. Taking our constellation to a total of 254 satellites, this launch will allow us to provide complete coverage north of 50 degrees latitude by the end of the 2021 🌍 pic.twitter.com/8BrUsTWwgt
— OneWeb (@OneWeb) June 23, 2021
"OneWeb, the global low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, has secured further fundraising on the anniversary of the successful bid by the UK government and Bharti Global (Bharti) to purchase OneWeb from US Chapter 11 to bring its total funding to USD 2.4 billion," OneWeb informed.
"The completion of our funding puts OneWeb in a powerful position. We have significantly lower entry cost of any LEO. We benefit from $3.4bn of pre-Chapter 11 investment by the original shareholders, making new OneWeb a three-times lower cost Constellation. With the forthcoming launch we will have completed 40 percent of our Network. We are intently focused on execution and just ten more launches will enable us to deliver global coverage. Investors have backed the extraordinary efforts of the OneWeb team to deliver more of the global connectivity the World needs," said Neil Masterson, CEO of OneWeb.
Some stunning shots from Vostochny as our #OneWebLaunch8 rocket is rolled out onto the launch pad. Loaded with 36 satellites, final preparations are being made for launch on 1st July at 8:48AM (ET) / 1:48PM (BST) 🚀#OneWebLaunch #OneWeb #satcom pic.twitter.com/NTu737NPaI
— OneWeb (@OneWeb) June 28, 2021
OneWeb has completed its transformation with the exercise of a call option by Bharti to invest an additional $500 million into the company.
The statement said that the final shareholding structure could alter to the extent a member of the shareholders' group chooses to exercise a part of the call option.
On completion, OneWeb will have secured $2.4 billion of equity investment, with no issued debt.
OneWeb's Executive Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal noted: “OneWeb represents a unique opportunity for investors at a key moment in the commercialisation of Space. With its Global ITU LEO Spectrum priority, Telco partnerships, successful launch momentum and reliable satellites, OneWeb is ready to serve the vital needs of high-speed broadband connectivity for those who have been left behind. Nation states can accelerate their universal service obligations, Telcos, their backhaul and Enterprise and Governments can serve remote installations.”
With inputs from PTI
In a post on Twitter on Tuesday, Nothing has confirmed that it will be hosting its first-ever launch event on 27 July, where it will unveil its first-ever product – Ear 1.
Firsts are always special. Our first product. Our first launch event. The first real chance for us to show the world what Nothing is about. #SoundOfChange arrives on 27 July. https://t.co/0vD6qpGqR9 #ear1 pic.twitter.com/LjSqlzNMTA
— Nothing (@nothing) June 29, 2021
In a teaser shared last week, Nothing has also revealed that the Ear 1 wireless earbuds will exclusively sell on Flipkart in India. “For the upcoming launch of ear (1), we are excited to partner with Flipkart as we mark Nothing’s entry in India. Flipkart’s pan-India supply chain will be instrumental in reaching Nothing customers and delivering a superior end-to-end product experience, which is very important to us,” said Manu Sharma, Vice President and General Manager, Nothing India.
Nothing Ear 1 was first officially teased in May this year.
Nothing co-founder Carl Pei dropped a hint that the earbuds are likely to come with AirPods-like long stem.
In March 2021, Nothing had also revealed the concept behind their first product. Called the 'Concept 1', the earbuds featured a transparent design.
Separately, Nothing has also confirmed that it plans to launch "an ecosystem of smart devices" in the future.
Revealing a bit about design, Carl Pei had said, "Ear 1 combines notes of transparency, iconic form, and refined functionality. It is the starting point that will define the artistry, confidence and craftsmanship that will carry our products and services for years to come."
In February, Nothing also announced its partnership with Teenage Engineering, a Swedish consumer electronics manufacturer.
Realme recently launched Realme Narzo 30 4G, Realme Narzo 30 5G, Realme Buds Q2 and Realme smart TV FHD in India. Today, Realme Narzo 30 5G will be available for purchase in India at 12 pm. The highlights of the smartphone include MediaTek Dimensity 700 chipset, a 5,000 mAh battery and a 48 MP triple rear camera setup.
The Realme Narzo 30 5G comes in a sole 6 GB RAM variant, which has been announced at Rs 15,999.
The phone's first sale will be today (30 June) at 12 pm on Flipkart and realme.com. On the first day of the sale, the Narzo 30 5G can be purchased at Rs 15,499.
Bring home the #realmeNarzo305G & #UnleashPeakPerformance with Introductory Offer, ₹500 Off along with an additional Bank Offer.#FeelThePower
Priced at ₹15,999.
1st sale starts at 12 PM on 30th June on https://t.co/HrgDJTHBFX & @Flipkart.
*T&C Applyhttps://t.co/s2Vft3DWE8 pic.twitter.com/G8jwJNlTEm— realme (@realmeIndia) June 29, 2021
Realme Narzo 30 5G runs on Android 11-based Realme UI 2.0. It comes with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. It sports a 6.5-inch display with a 90 Hz refresh rate and 1080p resolution. Fuelling the Narzo 30 is a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 18 W Dart Charge.
For photography, the Narzo 30 offers a 48 MP triple camera setup at the back and a 16 MP front camera for selfies.
Realme Narzo 30 5G mostly has the same specifications as the Narzo 30, except it is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G chipset, it comes in a sole 6 GB RAM variant.
Intel’s finally lifted the veil off its next-gen, high-performance laptop processors. Dubbed Tiger Lake-H-series, these chips feature a modern architecture (Willow Cove), new manufacturing process (10-nanometer SuperFin process technology), and more importantly, potential double-digit performance gains in gaming as well as productivity workloads.
The 45 in the name indicates the TDP or Thermal Design Power of the processors. It’s a number that indicates the amount of heat that needs to be dissipated when under load for the processor to perform as specified. Generally speaking, mainstream laptops and Ultrabooks will operate in the 7-15 W range, with more powerful workstations and gaming laptops sticking to the 15-25 W range. Anything above that, like Tiger Lake-H-series 35-65 W range, is in the high-end laptop category. The crème de la crème of the laptop world, so to speak.
Interestingly, with processors like those of the more powerful 11th Generation Intel® Core™ H-series, gaming laptops don’t have to be inch-thick behemoths. These processors can be configured to raise or lower performance based on the thermal headroom available to them, giving manufacturers more leeway with their designs. You can have no-holds-barred, power hungry beasts, or you can have svelte designs that you can slip into a tote.
While thicker laptops will indeed be faster when pushed to the limit, Tiger Lake-H-series’ support for 20 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, faster RAM, and a larger cache more than make up for any performance shortfall resulting from slimmer designs.
For gamers, this translates to desktop-class performance from devices as slim as 20 mm or less. And, in a world that’s turned almost universally mobile, there is, quite simply, a greater need for slim, portable devices that don’t compromise on performance.
What’s all the buzz around Tiger-Lake H-series about?
The two biggest updates to Intel’s Tiger Lake-H-series processors are the massive 24 MB of L3 cache, and support for the latest PCIe Gen 4 standard for connectivity with GPUs and peripherals like SSDs and WiFi modules. Additionally, it enables faster, lower latency data bandwidth to dGPU cards and storage.
Higher multi-core clocks, integrated Thunderbolt 4 support that extends I/O leadership to your peripherals including — more screens, faster external storage, fewer cables, and better compatibility.
Stellar Gaming and Productivity Performance
Overall, the changes together promise one of the largest gen-on-gen bumps to gaming and productivity performance we’ve seen in several generations. Intel®, in fact, claims a 19% improvement to multi-threaded performance and that 11th Gen is the world’s fastest single-threaded mobile processor. If that wasn’t enough, some SKUs can be overclocked.
While today’s games are increasingly optimized for multi-core processors, single-threaded performance is still king, and Tiger Lake’s ability to identify the best cores and boost them individually helps here. Power users can, of course, take advantage of utilities like Intel® XTU (Xtreme Tuning Utility) to further tune performance.
With native support for 20 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, GPUs get nearly double the bandwidth they did previously. Features like resizable BAR — giving processors complete access to a GPUs VRAM cache, greatly benefit from this. The same applies to your PCIe-based SSD storage, where you now get support for devices hitting 5,000 MBps speeds.
Blazing Fast Speed
Features like Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (RST) are fully supported and accelerate boot times, reduce latencies and help improve system responsiveness. If, for some reason, you find the 5,000 MB/s of Gen 4 SSDs inadequate, RST lets you boot off a RAID mode. You’ll also find support for Intel® Optane™ H20 memory.
Unlocked SKUs like the i9-11980HK support per core voltage control, base clock tweaks, and more. Hell, apps like Intel® Speed Optimizer can overclock your system for you and features like Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 identifies the best cores and boosts them automatically.
When it comes to connectivity, the ridiculously high bandwidth of Thunderbolt™ 4 supports external GPUs and daisy-chained RAID arrays, not to mention high-refresh rate 4K monitors. For wireless networks, Intel® Killer™ Wi-Fi 6/6E (Gig+) support offers you up to 75% lower latency — great for multiplayer gaming — and nearly 3x higher speeds owing to support for the less cluttered, higher-bandwidth 6 GHz frequency band.
Whether you’re a gamer or a content creator, Tiger Lake H-series has something for everyone
Games like Warzone and Valorant will not only run faster, but also run more efficiently and with reduced latency when playing competitively online. Content creators also stand to benefit from the faster multi-threaded performance and the increased bandwidth to peripherals.
Tiger Lake isn’t just a faster processor, it’s a new, redesigned processor architecture built on a new, more efficient manufacturing process with support for next-gen connectivity technology and features. It’s not just the processor that’s fast, it’s the platform as a whole that’s benefitting.
By the end of June, Acer and Asus unleash their 11th Gen Intel® Core™ H-series processors in the Indian market. Acer will launch the Predator Helios 300 powered by an 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7, and the Nitro 5, which is also powered by a Core™ i7 processor. Meanwhile, Asus plans to release a couple of laptops. This includes the Intel® Core™ i9-powered Asus TUF F15 and the Core™ i5 powered Asus TUF F17. Over the next few months, we should see other OEMs like Dell, HP and Lenovo release gaming devices based on the new processor architecture.
For more information on Intel’s Tiger Lake-H-series architecture, click here.
*For details, visit: www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex . Results may vary.
Disclaimer: The article has been created by the Studio18 team on behalf of Intel.
Noida: The police in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district have lodged an FIR against two senior officials of Twitter India over the social media platform putting up a distorted map of India.
The FIR was lodged at the Khurja Nagar police station on Monday evening on the basis of a complaint by an office-bearer of right wing Bajrang Dal.
The map, which showed the Union Territories of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir outside India, was noticed on Monday, leading to an uproar by netizens.
Twitter had removed that map on Monday evening.
"The world map does not show Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir as parts of India. This is not a coincidence. This act has hurt the sentiments of Indians, including me," Bajrang Dal's western UP convenor Praveen Bhati said in the complaint.
The FIR names Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari and News Partnerships Head Amrita Tripathi as accused who have been booked under Indian Penal Code section 505 (2) (public mischief).
Charges under Information Technology Act section 74 (publication for fraudulent purpose) have also been invoked in the case, according to the FIR, seen by PTI.
The map's glaring distortion, which appeared on the career section of Twitter website under the header 'Tweep Life', had triggered a heavy backlash from netizens on Monday as they demanded strict action against the microblogging platform that has flouted various rules on multiple occasions in the past.
Earlier, Twitter had shown Leh as part of China.
Xiaomi has teased the launch of the new Redmi 10 series in India.
A Twitter video posted on Redmi India teased a "Redmi Revolution" and some "#10on10 action".
Brace yourselves for the #RedmiRevolution! 💫
Hitting your screens soon! ☄️
Watch this space for more #10on10 action. 🎥 pic.twitter.com/uFY6ri5SU2
— Redmi India - #RedmiNote10 Series (@RedmiIndia) June 28, 2021
While the teaser doesn't specifically mention it, but it all but confirms that Xiaomi will soon be launching the Redmi 10 series in India.
The Redmi 10 series, will succeed the Redmi 9 series, which includes Redmi 9, Redmi 9 Prime, Redmi 9 Power, Redmi 9A, and Redmi 9i. However, it's unclear how many phones will Xiaomi be launching under the Redmi 10 series.
Xiaomi has not yet revealed a date of launch, but the same is expected sometime next month.
The Redmi 9 series includes smartphones priced in the affordable sub-20k segment, and the same can be expected from the Redmi 10 series.
Redmi India's most recent launch in the market was the Redmi Note 10s, which comes with a 64 MP quad rear camera setup, a 5,000 mAh battery that supports 33 W fast charging, and MediaTek Helio G95 chipset.
Intel’s finally lifted the veil off its next-gen, high-performance laptop processors. Dubbed Tiger Lake-H-series, these chips feature a modern architecture (Willow Cove), new manufacturing process (10-nanometer SuperFin process technology), and more importantly, potential double-digit performance gains in gaming as well as productivity workloads.
The 45 in the name indicates the TDP or Thermal Design Power of the processors. It’s a number that indicates the amount of heat that needs to be dissipated when under load for the processor to perform as specified. Generally speaking, mainstream laptops and Ultrabooks will operate in the 7-15 W range, with more powerful workstations and gaming laptops sticking to the 15-25 W range. Anything above that, like Tiger Lake-H-series 35-65 W range, is in the high-end laptop category. The crème de la crème of the laptop world, so to speak.
Interestingly, with processors like those of the more powerful 11th Generation Intel® Core™ H-series, gaming laptops don’t have to be inch-thick behemoths. These processors can be configured to raise or lower performance based on the thermal headroom available to them, giving manufacturers more leeway with their designs. You can have no-holds-barred, power hungry beasts, or you can have svelte designs that you can slip into a tote.
While thicker laptops will indeed be faster when pushed to the limit, Tiger Lake-H-series’ support for 20 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, faster RAM, and a larger cache more than make up for any performance shortfall resulting from slimmer designs.
For gamers, this translates to desktop-class performance from devices as slim as 20 mm or less. And, in a world that’s turned almost universally mobile, there is, quite simply, a greater need for slim, portable devices that don’t compromise on performance.
What’s all the buzz around Tiger-Lake H-series about?
The two biggest updates to Intel’s Tiger Lake-H-series processors are the massive 24 MB of L3 cache, and support for the latest PCIe Gen 4 standard for connectivity with GPUs and peripherals like SSDs and WiFi modules. Additionally, it enables faster, lower latency data bandwidth to dGPU cards and storage.
Higher multi-core clocks, integrated Thunderbolt 4 support that extends I/O leadership to your peripherals including — more screens, faster external storage, fewer cables, and better compatibility.
Stellar Gaming and Productivity Performance
Overall, the changes together promise one of the largest gen-on-gen bumps to gaming and productivity performance we’ve seen in several generations. Intel®, in fact, claims a 19% improvement to multi-threaded performance and that 11th Gen is the world’s fastest single-threaded mobile processor. If that wasn’t enough, some SKUs can be overclocked.
While today’s games are increasingly optimized for multi-core processors, single-threaded performance is still king, and Tiger Lake’s ability to identify the best cores and boost them individually helps here. Power users can, of course, take advantage of utilities like Intel® XTU (Xtreme Tuning Utility) to further tune performance.
With native support for 20 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, GPUs get nearly double the bandwidth they did previously. Features like resizable BAR — giving processors complete access to a GPUs VRAM cache, greatly benefit from this. The same applies to your PCIe-based SSD storage, where you now get support for devices hitting 5,000 MBps speeds.
Blazing Fast Speed
Features like Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (RST) are fully supported and accelerate boot times, reduce latencies and help improve system responsiveness. If, for some reason, you find the 5,000 MB/s of Gen 4 SSDs inadequate, RST lets you boot off a RAID mode. You’ll also find support for Intel® Optane™ H20 memory.
Unlocked SKUs like the i9-11980HK support per core voltage control, base clock tweaks, and more. Hell, apps like Intel® Speed Optimizer can overclock your system for you and features like Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 identifies the best cores and boosts them automatically.
When it comes to connectivity, the ridiculously high bandwidth of Thunderbolt™ 4 supports external GPUs and daisy-chained RAID arrays, not to mention high-refresh rate 4K monitors. For wireless networks, Intel® Killer™ Wi-Fi 6/6E (Gig+) support offers you up to 75% lower latency — great for multiplayer gaming — and nearly 3x higher speeds owing to support for the less cluttered, higher-bandwidth 6 GHz frequency band.
Whether you’re a gamer or a content creator, Tiger Lake H-series has something for everyone
Games like Warzone and Valorant will not only run faster, but also run more efficiently and with reduced latency when playing competitively online. Content creators also stand to benefit from the faster multi-threaded performance and the increased bandwidth to peripherals.
Tiger Lake isn’t just a faster processor, it’s a new, redesigned processor architecture built on a new, more efficient manufacturing process with support for next-gen connectivity technology and features. It’s not just the processor that’s fast, it’s the platform as a whole that’s benefitting.
By the end of June, Acer and Asus unleash their 11th Gen Intel® Core™ H-series processors in the Indian market. Acer will launch the Predator Helios 300 powered by an 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7, and the Nitro 5, which is also powered by a Core™ i7 processor. Meanwhile, Asus plans to release a couple of laptops. This includes the Intel® Core™ i9-powered Asus TUF F15 and the Core™ i5 powered Asus TUF F17. Over the next few months, we should see other OEMs like Dell, HP and Lenovo release gaming devices based on the new processor architecture.
For more information on Intel’s Tiger Lake-H-series architecture, click here.
*For details, visit: www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex . Results may vary.
Disclaimer: The article has been created by the Studio18 team on behalf of Intel.