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HT Media Ltd — AGM Information 2024
Sep 4, 2024
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04[th] September, 2024
BSE Limited Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Dalal Street Mumbai - 400 001
National Stock Exchange of India Limited Exchange Plaza, 5[th] Floor, Plot No. C-1, Block G, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai - 400 051
Scrip Code: 532662
Trading Symbol: HTMEDIA
Sub: - Newspaper Advertisement Regulation 30 and 47 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (‘SEBI LODR’)
Re: 22[nd] (Twenty second) Annual General Meeting (‘AGM’) of the Company via video conferencing/ other audio-visual means(‘VC/OAVM’)
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find enclosed herewith copy of relevant page of "Mint" (English) and "Hindustan" (Hindi) newspapers published on 04[th] September, 2024, giving details, inter-alia, about the:
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Completion of dispatch of Annual Report for the Financial Year 2023-24 and Notice convening the 22[nd] AGM of the Company to be held on Friday, 27[th] September, 2024 via VC/OAVM; and
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Other relevant information as required to be given to Members in terms of Companies Act, 2013 and SEBI LODR including Circular(s) issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Securities and Exchange Board of India.
This is for your information and record.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully, For HT Media Limited
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(Manhar Kapoor) Group General Counsel & Company Secretary
Encl: As above
Corp. office : 5[th] Floor, Lotus Tower, A Block, Community Centre, New Friends Colony, New Delhi- 110025 Ph.: 011-66561234
Wednesday, 4 September 2024 10 New Delhi
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Microsoft rolled out AI PCs that can’t play top games—and there’s no quick fix
Chips inside the laptops are incompatible with many leading titles, resulting in bugs, glitches or games simply not working
Yang Jie glitches or games simply not [email protected] ing. The problem is widespread. he latest Windows perAbout 1,300 PC games have been sonal computers with independently tested to see if they artificial-intelligence work on Microsoft’s new Armfeatures have “the best powered PCs and only about half T specs” on “all the benchran smoothly, said James marks,” Microsoft Chief Executive McWhirter, an analyst with Satya Nadella recently said. There research firm Omdia. He cited an is one problem: The chips inside independent website recomcurrent models are incompatible mended by Microsoft to check with many leading videogames. compatibility. Many other lessMicrosoft and its partners this popular games haven’t been spring rolled out Copilot+ PCs that tested. include functions such as creating Gamers are power users of PCs, AI-generated pictures and video. accounting for about 15% of laptop Under the hood of the new lapusers and tens of billions of dollars tops is a hardware change. Instead in business each year, said Henry of the Intel Chang, an anachips that have lyst with Taipowered Micw a n - b a s e d rosoft Windows research firm PCs for nearly four decades, the Digitimes. initial Copilot+ PCs to hit the marMicrosoft confirmed that some ket use Qualcomm chips, which in games may not play on Copilot+ turn rely on designs from PCs, including certain titles with U.K.-based Arm. demanding graphics requireMost PC games, including popuments. It said it was “committed to lar multiplayer games such as making a quality gaming experi“League of Legends” and “Fortence” on the PCs but for now, nite,” are made to work with Intel’s “players who want a high-perx86, a chip architecture that has formance native gaming experibeen the standard for many perence may choose an alternate PC sonal computers for decades. optimized for gaming.” To make some of these proQualcomm had a similar comgrams function on the Qualcommment, saying the type of chip powArm system, they must be run ering the new AI PCs “is not curthrough a layer of software that rently considered a gaming plattranslates Intel-speak into Armform” but that it was working with speak. partners to improve the situation. Chip experts say the approach The companies said many isn’t perfect and can result in bugs, games already work with Copilot+
say, but it will take some time. bility issues with Arm-based chips Intel aims to introduce its own aren’t new. chips for PCs with Copilot+ AI In 2012, Microsoft released functions in September, and comWindows RT, a version of the puter makers expect widespread operating system designed for sales of those Intel-powered modArm-based processors. It never els next year. At that point, gamers caught on because it could run could purchase one of the Intel only software specifically built for devices and avoid the QualcommArm, leaving behind decades of Arm issue. existing Windows software. MicLarry Xie, a 39-year-old gamer rosoft gave up after several years. in Shanghai, said he would wait for Apple’s Mac series of computers Intel. He said he doubted serious is built on Arm chip designs and gamers would consider PCs powhas also long struggled to win over ered by Arm because they mainly game developers, though Macs want a powerful graphics-processenjoy a loyal following among ing unit, “an area non-gamers. where Arm has no About 1,300 PC Games are just one advantage at all.” games have been part of the bigger Jesse Zmick, a tested to see if struggle to control the 34-year-old cybersethey work on the insides of Windows curity professional in PCs, with the upstart new PCs and only Charlottesville, Va., Qualcomm-Arm team about half ran said he wouldn’t buy squaring off against an Arm-powered smoothly more experienced device because he was Intel. Digitimes’s concerned he Chang said he wouldn’t be able to play some of expected the coming Intel chips his favorite games such as “Dead for Windows AI PCs to take the Gamers are power users of PCs, accounting for 15% of laptop users & billions of dollars in business per year. BLOOMBERG by Daylight,” a survival-horror lion’s share of the global market in title, and “Rising Storm 2,” a the near term, in part because of PCs without requiring a translagames to prevent cheating—an said it was discussing the antishooter game. their compatibility advantage. tion layer. Speaking at an industry essential feature added to titles cheating software issue with QualZmick said friends have gotten Nonetheless, he said that based event in June, Qualcomm Chief such as “Fortnite” and “League of comm. kicked out of online matches when on current tests and reviews, the Executive Cristiano Amon menLegends.” Even if the game itself Analysts said the problem can’t they tried to use additional softnew AI PCs running Windows on tioned titles such as “Baldur’s Gate can be translated to run on Arm, be fixed with a quick software ware to play on Arm computers. Qualcomm-Arm chips offer longer 3,” a fantasy role-playing game. the anti-cheating software may be patch because of the fundamental In addition to games, some users battery life and faster processing in However, Amon spent less than incompatible. structure of the current Arm-Qualhave reported compatibility probmany cases. Qualcomm said its two minutes speaking about videQualcomm said it was working comm chips. lems with other types of software chips delivered “exceptional perogames near the end of his hourwith makers of anti-cheating softVideogame players who want to on the new Windows PCs, and formance” and allowed PC makers long speech. ware to optimize their code for enjoy the AI features of Microsoft’s Microsoft offers a compatibility to build thinner and lighter One frequent cause of problems better compatibility, and Epic latest PCs are likely to get satisfactester . machines. is the software built into some Games, the publisher of “Fortnite,” tion eventually, industry analysts The performance and compati- ©2024 DOW JONES & CO. INC.
HT Media Limited CIN: L22121DL2002PLC117874 Registered Office: Hindustan Times House, 18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi- 110 001 Ph.: +91-11-66561355; Fax: +91-11-66561270 E-mail: [email protected]; website: www.htmedia.in Corporate Office: 5[th] Floor, Lotus Tower, A Block, Community Centre, New Friends Colony, New Delhi-110025 Ph.: +91-11-6656 1234 NOTICE OF 22[nd] ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF HT MEDIA LIMITED In furtherance to our Notice published in the newspapers viz. Mint (All editions) and Hindustan (Delhi NCR edition) on August 23[rd] , 2024 regarding the 22[nd] Annual General Meeting (‘AGM’) of HT Media Limited (‘Company’) to be held on Friday, September 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM (IST) through Video Conferencing/ Other Audio Visual Means (‘VC/OAVM’) , the Members of Company are hereby informed that the Notice convening the AGM, procedure & instructions for dk;kZy; vf/k'kk"kh vfHk;Urk] jkt- jkT; Ñf"k foi.ku cksMZ] fdlku Hkou ykydksBh [k.M&VfeZuy ekdsZV]t;iqj e-votingFY-24 have(remotebeen sente-votingon Septemberand e-voting03,at2024the AGM)to thoseandMembersthe AnnualwhoseReporte-mailfor Øekad % 10233598vYidkyhu fcM vkeU=.k lwpuk la[;k 03@2024&fnukad25 % 03-09-2024 id’s are registered with the Company/Depository Participants (‘DP’) /Registrar izxfr eSnku ubZ fnYyh esa izn'kZuh yxkus gsrq vLFkkbZ<kapkxr@lajpukRed O;oLFkk,sa and Transfer Agent( ‘RTA’ ). fnukad 19 ls 22 flrEcj 2024 dk;Z jkf'k :- 15-00 yk[k dh vkWu&ykbZu fcM bZ&izksD;wjesUV Members may download the Notice of AGM, Annual Report for FY-24 (www.eproc.rajasthan.gov.in) ds ek/;e ls mi;qDr Js.kh esa iathdr fcMlZ ls vkeaf=r and other relevant documents from the website of the Company viz dh tkrh gSA fcM ls lacaf/kr foLrr fooj.k cksMZ dh osclkbZV www.agriculture. https://www.htmedia.in/ ; stock exchanges where shares of the Company are rajasthan.gov.in/rsamb ,oa www.sppp.rajasthan.gov.in ij ns[kk tk ldrk gSA listed viz. BSE Limited at www.bseindia.com ; National Stock Exchange of India ftldk UBN NoAGM2425SLOB00230 gSA Limited viz. www.nseindia.com and National Securities Depository Limited jkt-laokn@lh@24@4671 vf/k'kk"kh vfHk;ark (NSDL) viz. www.evoting.nsdl.com . The venue of the AGM shall be deemed to be the Registered Office of the Company. The detailed procedure for attending AGM, e-voting (remote e-voting and e-voting at the AGM) etc. is set forth in the Notice of AGM, on the following lines: 1. The Company is providing facility to its Members to exercise their right to vote on the business set forth in the Notice of AGM through remote e-voting and e-voting at the AGM. Procedure for e-voting and attending the AGM for Members are provided in Notice of AGM. NSDL has been engaged by the Company for providing VC/OAVM platform and e-voting facility. 2. The remote e-voting facility will be available during the following period: Commencement of remote e-voting From 9.00 a.m. (Server time) on September 23, 2024 (Monday) End of remote e-voting Up to 5.00 p.m. (Server time) on September 26, 2024 (Thursday) The remote e-voting facility will be forthwith disabled by NSDL and Members will not be allowed to vote through remote e-voting, beyond the said date and time. 3. Members of the Company whose names are recorded in the Register of Members of the Company or in the Register of Beneficial Owners maintained by the Depositories as on the Cut-off date i.e. Friday, September 20, 2024 only, are entitled for e-voting and to attend the AGM. Once the vote on a resolution is cast by the Member, they shall not be allowed to change it subsequently. Voting rights of the Members shall be in proportion to their holding in the paid-up share capital of the Company as on the Cut-off date. 4. Members who have exercised their right to vote through remote e-voting may attend the AGM, but shall not be allowed to cast their vote again thereat. 5. In case a person has become a Member of the Company after dispatch of the Notice but on or before the Cut-off date i.e. Friday, September 20, 2024 or has registered the e-mail address after dispatch of the Notice, such Member may obtain the User ID and Password in the manner outlined in the Notice of AGM. 6. Manner of registering/updating KYC details including email address: • Members holding shares in physical form and who have not registered/ updated their KYC details including e-mail id with the Company or RTA, may register/update such details by downloading the relevant forms from the said link https://ris.kfntech.com/clientservices/isc/isrforms.aspx and sending the same physically along with the request letter duly filled with the details therein and attaching such documents as required in the forms to KFin Technologies Limited, Unit: HT Media Limited, Ramky Selenium Building, Tower B, Plot No. 31 & 32, Financial District, Nanakramguda, Serilingampally, Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Telangana, India – 500032. • Members holding shares in dematerialized mode and have not registered/ updated their e-mail address, can register/update their email address with the Depository Participants where they maintain their demat accounts. 7. The result will be declared by the Chairman or any other person authorized by him on or before Sunday, September 29, 2024 . The result along with the Scrutinizer’s report will be hosted on the Company’s website viz. https://www.htmedia.in/ and on NSDL’s website viz. www.evoting.nsdl.com . The result shall also be intimated to the Stock Exchanges viz. BSE Limited and National Stock Exchange of India Limited, NSDL and Central Depository Services (India) Limited. The Company will also display the result at its Registered Office and Corporate Office. 8. In case of any query regarding e-voting facility, please refer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and e-voting user manual for Shareholders available at the Download section at www.evoting.nsdl.com or send a request to Ms. Pallavi Mhatre, Senior Manager (NSDL) at [email protected] or can write at NSDL, 301, 3[rd] Floor, Naman Chambers, G Block, Plot No. C-32, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai- 400051 or call at 022 - 4886 7000.
Nvidia takes an added role amid AI craze: Data-center designer
Asa Fitch
tech giants such as Meta [email protected] forms and Microsoft to a wider swath of businesses vidia dominates the with less expertise. chips at the center of “Enterprises typically go N the artificial-intelliwith the turnkey solution,” gence boom. It wants to consaid Srini Pajjuri , an analyst at quer almost everything else investment firm Raymond that makes those chips tick, James. “They don’t have the too. resources, they don’t have the Chief Executive Jensen technology or know-how” to Huang is increasingly broadcobble together the equipening his company’s focus— ment themselves, he said. and seeking to widen its Risks in the strategy advantage over competitors— There are some risks in the by offering software, datastrategy, Pajjuri said. As AI center design services and computing becomes more networking technology in Nvidia is building on effectiveness of its proprietary software competitive and the rush to addition to its powerful siliCUDA, which enables programmers to use its chips. AFP set up AI factories subsides, con brains. customers might explore He is trying to build Nvidia More recently, Huang has make it so users can actually alternatives to many of the into more than a supplier of a been pushing resources into a deploy it.” proprietary technologies that valuable hardware composuperfast networking proto- Competition is growing Nvidia has built up around its nent: a one-stop shop for all col called InfiniBand, after Nvidia’s competitors are AI chips. the key elements in the data acquiring the technology’s responding. The Advanced “Right now, time to market centers where tools like main equipment maker , MelMicro Devices deal to buy ZT is the most important thing, OpenAI’s ChatGPT are crelanox Technologies, five years Systems is fundamentally so they’re adopting solutions ated and deployed, or what he ago for nearly $7 billion. Anaabout gaining skills in how from Nvidia, but as the techcalls “AI factories.” lysts estidata cennology matures, Nvidia might Huang emphasized mate that ters are not be able to capture more of Nvidia’s growing prowess at InfiniBand built. AMD the pie,” he said. data-center design following is used in plans to sell Nvidia also could confront an earnings report Wednesmost AI-training deployZT’s manufacturing operaregulatory hurdles that have day that exceeded Wall Street ments. tions and retain its design sprung up for many compaforecasts. Nvidia is also building a experts to mount a more fornies in the past that have The report came days after business that supplies AI-opmidable challenge to Nvidia. come to dominate a market rival Advanced Micro Devices timized Ethernet, a form of AMD has made other and extend their influence in agreed to pay nearly $5 billion networking widely used in acquisitions to bolster its it. to buy data-center design and traditional data centers. The data-center offerings in The company is under manufacturing company ZT Ethernet business is expected recent years, including of proscrutiny for its market pracSystems to try to gain ground to generate billions of dollars grammable-chip company tices in Europe, and its offices on Nvidia. in revenue within a year, Xilinx and data-center netin France were raided this “We have the ability fairly Chief Financial Officer working company Pensando past year, although no charuniquely to integrate to Colette Kress said Wednesin 2022. ges have been brought against design an AI factory because day. Other chip suppliers, from the company there. we have all the parts,” Huang More broadly, Nvidia sells Intel to AI-chip startups such On Wednesday, Huang said in a call with analysts. products including central as Cerebras Systems and Samdescribed Nvidia’s role as one “It’s not possible to come up processors and baNova Systems , of a coordinator and designer with a new AI factory every networking chips Beyond its chips, are offering serthat could give guidance on year unless you have all the for a range of the firm is playing vices and systems how to set up complex AI parts.” other data-center a growing role in that do a large infrastructure, but he emphaIt is a strategy designed to equipment that is shaping server share of the work sized that Nvidia isn’t going to extend the business success fine-tuned to for customers do everything. farms where AI is that has made Nvidia one of work seamlessly who want to With its next-generation the world’s most valuable together. And it produced and build and operate Blackwell AI chips, set to ship companies—and to insulate it offers software deployed AI tools. out late this year or early next from rivals eager to eat into its and hardware Analysts and year, it is offering a design for AI-chip market share, estisetups catered to industry execuan entire rack of computing mated at more than 80%. the needs of specific industives say the trend partly equipment for the first time— Gobbling up more of the tries such as healthcare and reflects a customer prefera cabinet about 2 feet wide value in AI data centers both robotics. ence for plug-and-play AI and 6 feet high. But Nvidia adds revenue and makes its “He has verticalized the computing infrastructure that itself won’t make them. offerings stickier for customcompany,” Raul Martynek , helps them move quickly “We know how to design ers. CEO of data-center operator amid an AI boom where speed the AI infrastructure, provide Nvidia is building on the DataBank said of Huang’s is paramount. it the way that customers effectiveness of its 17-year-old strategy. “They have a vision Doing more of the heavy would like it and let the ecoproprietary software, called around what AI should be, lifting may help chip-makers system integrate it,” Huang CUDA , which enables prowhat software and hardware better compete as AI investsaid. grammers to use its chips. components are needed to ment shifts from experienced ©2024 DOW JONES & CO. INC.
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For HT Media Limited Sd/Date: September 03, 2024 Manhar Kapoor Place: New Delhi (Group General Counsel & Company Secretary)