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Acer rolls out fiery Nitro GPUs for DIY gamers with a taste for power and polish
MUMBAI: Acer has fired up its DIY hardware game with a swanky new lineup of Nitro graphics cards, giving both Intel and AMD loyalists something to cheer about. The new entrants include two white-hot Intel Arc models and a pair of Radeon RX 9060 XT OC beasts, each ready to supercharge gaming rigs with eye-watering visuals and AI-savvy wizardry.
Topping the charts is the Nitro Intel Arc B580 OC 12GB, now strutting out in a crisp white finish—ideal for gamers who like their builds as clean as their killstreaks. It clocks in at a blistering 2,740 MHz, supports up to 8K resolution, and packs Intel’s Xe2 microarchitecture for silky smooth ray tracing and XeSS-powered frame boosts. The cherry on top? Acer’s FrostBlade cooling cuts noise by 8 per cent, so the only thing screaming is your gameplay.
Then there’s the Nitro Arc A380 LP 6GB, a low-profile dynamo armed with Intel XMX AI muscle and 3D acceleration. Its 2,000 MHz game clock and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate tech means buttery gameplay and creative workflows, even for 8K HDR video.
Flipping to Team Red, the Nitro Radeon RX 9060 XT OC cards—available in 16GB and 8GB variants—bring serious heat. These RDNA 4-driven monsters hit 3,320 MHz boost clocks and game clocks up to 2,780 MHz, with AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and HYPR-RX tech turbocharging performance and trimming latency.
Both Radeon cards run cool under pressure, thanks to dual axial fans with dual ball bearings and whisper-quiet oil-lubricated performance.
Gamers and creators alike will appreciate Acer Intelligence Space and ProCam smarts baked into all models—think AI-assisted app recommendations, gameplay highlights, and an aim assist system that’s legal but lethal.
Price check: The Nitro Intel Arc B580 OC 12GB starts at €329, while the Radeon RX 9060 XT OC 16GB and 8GB land in June in EMEA, priced at €649.99 and €599.99, respectively.
For a full spec check or to find out when they’re hitting shelves in your region, head over to acer.com. DIY never looked this slick—or this savage.
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
