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Controls $ 20+ billion revenue

John Byrne an ex Advanced 3D, ATI, AMD executive has just got promoted again at Dell. He is now president of the Dell and EMC global channel. Mike Magee and Fudo have known John Byrne for close to two decades, but now is not the time for kiss and tell.

This is a huge success for Byrne who started at Dell as global vice president of Sales Strategy and Operations in July 2015, then got promoted to be global vice president of Sales Strategy, Operations and Channels at Dell in October.

Now the sales veteran runs the $ 20 billion business unit for the joint venture. Byrne was brought in by Rory Read who is famous for aligning  separate teams and division to function as one. Dell is still in the middle of a $ 62 billion merger with EMC Corp and once this is over, the joint venture will be called Dell Technologies.

Byrne has a great perspective as he lived through AMD’s acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006 for $ 5.4 billion. This was one tough merger, as it included two different teams of engineering and sales staff, all of which had to be united in one company.

This will be part of what Byrne will be doing for Michael Dell and they both believe that they can grow its channel business  aggressively. 

Dell and EMC will continue to maintain separate deal registration and partner programs for 2016.  Effective February 1, 2017, the company will move to a unified partner and deal registration program.

To protect partner accounts and deals, the company plans for its teams to cross check all existing deal registrations to ensure that they are aligned correcrly.  If multiple partners have the same opportunity, the company will have rules of engagement in place to mitigate any possible adverse impact to partners and customers.

So partners won’t face any changes in 2016 as it works out how to dot and cross the Ts and Cs. 

“It’s going to be fun”, said John Byrne and we believe him. 

Has Metallized Rubber for Note 7

A company which is famous for its Flexguard Case has one ready for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. This would not be news if Samsung publicly announced this phone, but as you know, it didn’t. 

The PATCHWORKS FlexGuard for Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be available in July and it complies to a military standard drop protection (MIL-STD-810). The case has special corner impact protection with extreme impact absorbers and it sells for sub $ 20.

Since Flexguard is a Korean company, it should be well informed and the case looks nice too. From what we know so far the Note 7 will come with an iris scanner, IP68 water resistance, 5.7 inch QHD SAMOLED screen, 64GB /128GB / 256GB with SD card, 6GB RAM, dual edge screen and of course the pen.  

We also expect that Qualcomm 821 Kyro quad core CPU with 2.4GHz will also find its place in this flagship phone. It has been rumored that Samsung might have an event in New York on  August 2nd, so we will know the final details soon. Samsung always tries to launch its Note phone a few weeks before Apple comes with the latest generation of iPhone, or iPhone 7 in this round. 

Highend Vega GPU coming in 2017

A set of new slides leaked online has confirmed most of the specifications for the upcoming Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards while the newest roadmap shows that high-end Vega GPU won’t be coming before next year.

Posted at Videocardz.com, the slides include details for the Radeon RX 470, which will be based on the same Polaris 10 GPU, codename Ellesmere, as the RX 480 as well as the entry-level Radeon RX 460, which will be based on a smaller Polaris 11 GPU, codenamed Baffin, after the island.

The Radeon RX 470 will feature 32 Compute Units (CUs), which adds up to 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. It also comes with 4GB of GDDR5 memory, paired up with a 256-bit memory interface and draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector.

Earlier rumors suggested that the Radeon RX 470 could launch with a price of under US $ 150, but that is yet to be confirmed, as some of our sources suggested US $ 179 price tag, but that one could be for custom versions.

While the Radeon RX 470 will target 1080p gaming, the Radeon RX 460 will target casual and MOBA gamers and could end up with a sub-$ 100 price. It will be based on the 14nm Polaris 11 Baffin GPU and features 14 Compute Units (CUs) for a total of 896 Stream Processors. It will come with 2GB of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit memory interface and won’t need any additional power other than 75W from the PCIe slot.

The same set of slides also includes a new roadmap which confirms that we won’t see the Vega GPU with HBM2 before next year. The roadmap details the Vega GPU as “a high-end architecture for high-end gamers.”

The Vega GPU 2017 launch schedule is in line with what we’ve written about before, and although there were some earlier rumors we are quite sure that there will be no HMB2-equipped graphics cards this year, other than a few Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU accelerators.

A few rumors suggest that AMD might also make a dual-GPU graphics card which will probably be based on two Polaris 10 GPUs, which should keep AMD in the high-end graphics card game but until then, Nvidia’s Pascal-based GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards should reign in the high-end market.