Februrary 2006

28-Feb-06
Policy on semi-conductor manufacturing soon
With an objective of making India a preferred destination for the manufacturing of semi-conductors and other high technology IT products including Wafer; Assemble, Test and Manufacturing of semi-conductors; Flat LCD/OLED/Plasma Panel Displays; and Storage Devices, the ministry of IT will announce a policy shortly. more...

28-Feb-06
India readies high-tech manufacturing policy
The Indian government will soon announce a policy that will enable it take equity in and help boost the manufacture of high-technology products, such as semiconductors, wafers, storage devices, plasma and LCD panels. more...

28-Feb-06
Mohali chip plant to close down
India’s first and premier semiconductor chip-manufacturing plant—the public sector Semiconductor Complex Ltd—located at Mohali in Punjab is being wound up. more...

28-Feb-06
HCL pact with Cisco
HCL Technologies Ltd, on Monday, said it has tied up with US-based Cisco Systems Inc, a global leader in networking space, for its Royalty model. more...

28-Feb-06
HCL Tech and Cisco Systems announce royalty partnership
HCL Technologies and Cisco Systems have announced royalty model of partnership, where Cisco has licensed HCL the intellectual property (IP) for one of its network management products, and HCL will be responsible for enhancement of the product. more...

28-Feb-06
Tamil Nadu is favourite for Tessolve`s semiconductor plant
Tamil Nadu is one among three states in contention for Tessolve Services’ $ 200 million (about Rs 890 crore) assembly and testing plant for semiconductors.
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28-Feb-06
HCL, Cisco in revenue-sharing agreement
HCL Technologies has entered into a revenue-sharing agreement with Cisco Systems for the products the Indian software major develops or enhances for the latter. more...

27-Feb-06
Cisco, HCL Announce Royalty Model
HCL Technologies Ltd has announced a unique royalty model with Cisco Systems, Inc. more...

27-Feb-06
Tessolve Services plans facility in India
Tessolve Services, which provides solutions for test development, failure analysis and reliability tests for semi-conductor companies, plans to set up a testing, assembling, packaging and prototyping facility in India. more...

27-Feb-06
Tessolve to start semiconductor TAPP services in India
Tessolve Services Pvt. Ltd. plans to set up a test, assembly, packaging and prototyping (TAPP) facility at a cost of about $200 million in southern India by early next year. more...

27-Feb-06
Tessolve to invest $200mn for semi-conductor unit
Tessolve Services on Monday announced it would invest $200 million (about Rs 890 crore) in India over four years to build an assembly and testing plant for semi-conductors. more...


27-Feb-06
Tessolve unit: Maran's appeal to Jaya
Tessolve Services Pvt Ltd, a semiconductor related company, today said as part of its second phase of operations, it was planning to set up a unit in the country with a view to providing high-end, knowledge-based, high volume testing, assembling, packaging and prototyping facility. more...

27-Feb-06
Tessolve plans to start TAPP facility in India
Tessolve Services Pvt Ltd said on Monday as part of its second phase of operations it plans to set up a unit in the country with a view to provide 'high-end, knowledge based, high volume testing, assembling, packaging and prototyping (TAPP) facility.' more...

27-Feb-06
Tessolve Building Second Indian Facility
Backend services startup Tessolve Inc. confirmed on its Web site today that it was building a second test facility in India.' more...

27-Feb-06
India Gets Another Chip Plant
Tessolve Services, an American semiconductor manufacturer that does most of its development work in Bangalore, India, said Monday it would invest $200 million in India over four years to build an assembly and testing plant for semiconductors. more...

27-Feb-06
eInfochips to set up outfit in Japan
eInfochips, Ahmedabad-based semiconductor design services firm, is planning to set up a wholly-owned marketing subsidiary in Japan later this year. more...

27-Feb-06
HCL Tech ties up with Cisco
HCL Technologies Ltd on Monday said it has tied up with US-based Cisco Systems Inc, a global leader in networking space, for its Royalty model. more...

27-Feb-06
Ericsson plans to invest $100 million in India
Swedish telecom equipment vendor Ericsson opened an R&D center in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Saturday (Feb. 25) that will focus on creating value-added applications for the multimedia- and prepaid-phone segments of the wireless-phone market. more...

27-Feb-06
Ericsson opens R&D, GSDC facilities in India
Ericsson today announced the opening of its first R&D facility in India and Global Service Delivery Center (GSDC) here, one year after it set up its manufacturing unit for Radio Base stations in Jaipur. more...

26-Feb-06
Ericsson opens R&D facility in Chennai
Ericsson India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer, plans to have about 100 engineers in the research and development (R&D) facility and a global service delivery centre in Chennai by 2006 end. more...

25-Feb-06
eInfochips expand services to companies
Ahmedabad-based eInfochips announced its expansion to pre and post silicon validation, system validation and reference design services. more...

24-Feb-06
Chip sector seeks sops for mega projects
At a time when the virtually non-existent semiconductor manufacturing market in India is showing signs of taking off in a big way, the India Semiconductor Association has approached the Government with a set of recommendations to encourage the industry, including a proposal for tax breaks to investors in mega projects. more...

24-Feb-06
“We are focused on making total solutions”
Soma Sankaran is sales manager, semiconductor products group, South Asia-Pacific, Agilent Technologies. more...

24-Feb-06
India`s chip design revenues to rise 330%
India is fast emerging a popular place for designing cellphones, high-definition TVs, media players and other ‘smart’ devices for western and Far-Eastern companies, according to the latest survey by global market research firm Frost and Sullivan. more...

23-Feb-06
STMicroelectronics teams up with Freescale
Semiconductor suppliers to the automotive industry Freescale and STMicroelectronics are teaming up to establish a wide-ranging initiative to reinforce their respective strengths in automotive applications. more...

23-Feb-06
Chip maker Wolfson to enter India
Edinburgh-based chip designer Wolfson Microelectronics is opening a new office in India as part its move to enter one of the world's fastest-growing markets for high-tech consumer goods. more...

23-Feb-06
STMicroelectronics Opens New Design Campus in India
STMicroelectronics, semiconductor manufacturers, inaugurated its new design and development facility in Greater Noida, India. more...

22-Feb-06
Skinniest Microchip On Its Way: IBM
IBM has announced that its scientists have been able to etch circuits that are only 29.9 nanometres wide. more...

22-Feb-06
AMD to double growth in India this year
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), the world's second-largest microprocessor chip manufacturer, is planning to double its growth in India during the year 2006. more...

22-Feb-06
eInfochips offering silicon, system validation
Silicon and product design services firm eInfochips Inc. has begun offering pre- and post silicon validation, system validation and reference design services. more...

22-Feb-06
Ample launches full IC design in Bangalore
Fabless semiconductor company Ample Communications Inc., whose design center here has so far focused on verification, will now work on complete designs for next-generations ICs. more...

22-Feb-06
MindTree likely to raise $80 mn via IPO by next fiscal end
MindTree Consulting is likely to raise close to $80 million through a public offer by the end of the next fiscal. more...

21-Feb-06
ST to Hire 300 in India
STMicroelectronics has inaugurated its new design and development facility in Greater Noida, India, with plans to recruit 300 new engineers by the end of 2006 for the plant. more...

21-Feb-06
STMicroelectronics Opens Design Campus In India
STMicroelectronics has inaugurated its new design and development facility in Greater Noida, India. more...

21-Feb-06
Oracle to set up innovation lab in India
Oracle Corp. will set up an innovation lab for embedded technologies in India, but will decide whether it will be located here or in Hyderabad, both locations of existing Oracle development centers. more...

21-Feb-06
AMD expects to double growth in India this year
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), the world's second-largest microprocessor chip manufacturer, expects to double its growth in the country during the year 2006. more...

20-Feb-06
ST Microelectronics to invest $30M
ST Microelectronics (STM), will invest about $30 million in India over the next couple of years and hire another 300 people this year. more...

20-Feb-06
Freescale MXC processor receives award
The Freescale Semiconductor’s MXC91321 3G processor was awarded the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for Best Applications Processor for 2005. more...

20-Feb-06
Qualcomm to launch single chip solution — CDMA handsets at different price points possible
Betting on the success of the to-be-launched single chip handsets, US technology major Qualcomm is expecting CDMA handset sales numbers in India to match that of GSM-based handset sales numbers this year. more...

20-Feb-06
Driven by convergence
A mobile that doubles as a 5.2 mega pixel camera. Another invention that holds promise, the Samsung SPH-V7800 smart phone mechanically purrs at the touch of a button and reveals a high resolution digital camera. more...

20-Feb-06
`Now's the time'
IT is difficult for one person to be seen as mild and aggressive. Rajendra Khare manages to be both. more...

20-Feb-06
Drawing on software
BEAM me up, Scotty." Do those words ring a bell? more...

20-Feb-06
The die is cast
TO manufacture or not to manufacture semiconductors in India... more...

20-Feb-06
Flextronics Chennai park to be ready by Aug — In talks with about 25 suppliers for setting up units
Flextronics has said that the industrial park in Chennai, for which it had announced plans last year, will begin operations by August 2006. more...

19-Feb-06
EU chip maker to invest $30m in India
ST Microelectronics (STM), which is among the leading semiconductor chip manufacturers in the world, will invest about $30 million (around Rs 133 crore) in India over the next couple of years and hire another 300 people this year. more...

19-Feb-06
Flextronics SEZ to go on stream by August
Flextronics will start manufacturing operations at its 250-acre special economic zone at Sriperumbudur near Chennai by August this year. more...

17-Feb-06
SemIndia, AP ink pact for Fab City project
SemIndia, a consortium working towards establishing a $3-billion semiconductor manufacturing base, and the Andhra Pradesh Government today entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for an ambitious project that seeks to put India on the global semiconductor map. more...

17-Feb-06
SemIndia, Andhra to form SPV for Fab City
SemIndia CEO Vinod K Agarwal today said that his company and the Andhra Pradesh government would soon set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the proposed Fab City project. SemIndia would rope in other players in due course. more...

17-Feb-06
Pulsic and D'gipro Announce Distribution Deal in India
Pulsic Limited--the EDA company that delivers shape-based, IC physical design solutions for analog, mixed-signal and custom digital designs--announced a strategic distribution deal with D'gipro Design Automation & Marketing Pvt. Ltd. more...

17-Feb-06
SemIndia favours AP for Fab City project
It is no wonder that Semindia has favoured Andhra Pradesh for setting up the much talked about FAB City if one were to go by the whopping concessions offered by the State government. more...

17-Feb-06
SemIndia, AP sign Fab City MoU
SemIndia and the Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday inked the memorandum of understanding which brings big-time manufacturing into India and the $ 3 billion computer chip-making Fab City to Hyderabad. more...

17-Feb-06
Is VLSI the Next Forte for India
India has hitherto been projected as a software super source. more...

16-Feb-06
'Electronics growth to propel chip demand to $36.3 b, create 3.5 m jobs'
The consumption of electronic equipment in India is set to increase to $363 billion by 2015 from $28.2 billion in 2005, pushing the total market for semiconductors to a whopping $36.3 billion by 2015. more...

16-Feb-06
SemIndia, Infosys may sign MoUs with Andhra today
The Andhra Pradesh government and SemIndia Limited are going ahead with formalising the $3-billion Fab City project deal, effectively bringing down curtains on the neighbouring Karnataka government’s efforts to poach the prestigious project. more...

16-Feb-06
Tensilica opens R&D centre in Pune
Tensilica, a world leader in microprocessor technology, has set up its second global research and development (R&D) centre in Pune. more...

16-Feb-06
SanDisk Opens Flash Memory Design Center in Bangalore
SanDisk Corporation announced the opening of SanDisk India Device Design Center Pvt. Ltd. in the country's technology hub of Bangalore, where engineers will work on the core elements of the company's flash memory products. more...

16-Feb-06
We'll invest in state: Fab City promoters
After losing the $ 3-billion Fab City project, Karnataka is now banking on the project promoters for "alternative investments" by assuring infrastructure adequacies in future. more...

16-Feb-06
SemIndia may invest in other projects in K'taka
Karnataka's efforts to persuade the consortium of semiconductor players, SemIndia, to woo back the $3 billion fab city project to the state has met with little success. more...

16-Feb-06
As consolation prize K’taka fabricates a hardware park
The New Delhi trip was for a sales pitch to bag the silicon foundry hub status for Bangalore, but Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy returned empty handed. more...

16-Feb-06
Andhra seals Fab city deal
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the $3 billion Fab city in Hyderabad was signed here today between Andhra Pradesh government and SemIndia. more...

16-Feb-06
India takes new initiatives on semi production
The Indian government plans to take new initiatives to make India a hub for semiconductor manufacturing and bolster manufacturing of electronic and telecom hardware. more...

16-Feb-06
Pact signed for Fab City project in Hyderabad
The Andhra Pradesh government and SemIndia, a consortium of overseas Indians, signed a memorandum of understanding here Thursday for setting up FAB City, the country's first semiconductor chip making facility. more...

16-Feb-06
Andhra moved with lightning speed, says SemIndia
The "lightning speed" with which the Andhra Pradesh government moved to bag prestigious FAB City project impressed SemIndia, a consortium of overseas Indians promoting the $3 billion venture. more...

16-Feb-06
AP signs MOU with SemIndia
The Andhra Pradesh Government and the SemIndia today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for setting up a USD three billion project(about rs 13,500 crore) here to manufacture semiconductor devices. more...

16-Feb-06
Andhra govt to promote border districts
The Andhra Pradesh government is setting its sights beyond the state's borders. more...

15-Feb-06
Elpida Establishes Global DRAM Design Center in India
Elpida Memory Inc. (Elpida), Japan's supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced that Edison Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd. (Edison) will serve as Elpida's newest design center located in Bangalore, India. more...

15-Feb-06
Chip designer eInfochips expands to Japan
Chip designer eInfochips plans to set up a subsidiary company in Japan to tap what it says is a growing market there. more...

15-Feb-06
Karnataka has lost Fab City project: Kumaraswamy
Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy Wednesday admitted the state had lost out a $3-billion chip fabrication project, known as Fab City, to Andhra Pradesh. more...

15-Feb-06
Ktk trying to get SemIndia invest in the state
Having lost the race to Andhra Pradesh on the mega Fab City project, Karnataka is now making efforts to persuade SemIndia, an NRI group, to consider "alternative" investments in the state. more...

14-Feb-06
India urged to take advantage of semicon industry transition
Silicon Valley-based Dr Suhas Patil has played a key role in mentoring and fostering product start-ups in both India and the US. more...

14-Feb-06
B`lore set to host embedded tech conference
Bangalore will host a global conference on embedded technologies EMCIS 2006. more...

14-Feb-06
Rambus to expand design activity in India
Rambus Inc. plans to double its head count in India this year, to more than 100, and said it will continue to use Indian companies for outsourced logic design and verification, layout and other engineering tasks. more...

14-Feb-06
ISA’s Vision Summit Successfully Conclude
India Semiconductor Association (ISA) successfully concluded the 2-day Vision Summit, at The Leela Bangalore. more...

14-Feb-06
SemIndia closes the door on K'taka's pitch
Karnataka's decision to try to re-negotiate with SemIndia and convince the company to set up its silicon chip fabrication project in that state was put to rest on Sunday when SemIndia officials categorically stated that there was no going back on the decision to locate the $ 3 billion project in Hyderabad. more...

13-Feb-06
SanDisk sees big market for removable memory cards
Removable memory in the form of mobile media cards might replace CDs just as smart phones are replacing PCs. The handset market is also geared for a revolution in storage. more...

13-Feb-06
Sasken, Open-Plug tie-up
Sasken said that it has tied up with Open-Plug, a firm which creates and commercialises the open software framework designed for mass-market phones. more...

13-Feb-06
Equity aid holds up chip policy
More delays are likely before India can embark on its semiconductor chip manufacturing initiative. more...

13-Feb-06
Fab City on course: Rajasekhara Reddy
Setting at rest speculation over the possibility of the multi-million dollar 'Fab City' project being shifted to Bangalore, the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, on Monday asserted that it was on course and would soon be come a reality. more...

13-Feb-06
Embedded technology ind to touch $ 8-11 b mark
The embedded technology sector in India is all poised for a major growth with the industry expected to touch the $ 8-11 billion by 2008. more...

13-Feb-06
Centre to decide on equity infusion for Fab City: AP CM
The Central Government would soon decide on the quantum of equity infusion in the Fab City project, according to the State Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. more...

13-Feb-06
Study: global PCB test gear market to grow
Global PCB automatic test equipment (ATE) manufacturers are set to get a major share of their revenues from functional testing and the boundary scan segment the next five years, according to a study by Frost and Sullivan. more...

13-Feb-06
Tensilica Establishes R&D Subsidiary in Pune, India
Tensilica Inc. announced that it has set up an Indian subsidiary to conduct fundamental, research and development work for its configurable processor technology and to be closer to key customers in India. more...

13-Feb-06
Fab City on course: Reddy
Setting at rest speculation over the possibility of the multi-million dollar 'Fab City' project being shifted to Bangalore, the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, on Monday asserted that it was on course and would soon be come a reality. more...

13-Feb-06
'Karnataka still wants to house Fab City location' : CM
Not to be outdone with the decision of Sem India's decision to locate its fabrication unit at Hyderabad Karnataka today urged the Centre that it's claims as an alternative location for the I T hardware production unit should not be undermined. more...

13-Feb-06
Andhra to sign MoU with SemIndia for Fab City project
The MoU with SemIndia for the $3 billion Fab City project will be signed very soon, according to Andhra Pradesh CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy. more...

12-Feb-06
Centre may pick up 26% stake in Fab City
The government of India is likely to pick up close to 26% equity stake in the $3bn Fab City project, being promoted by SemIndia, near Hyderabad. more...

12-Feb-06
Centre may pick up 26 per cent stake in Fab City
The government of India is likely to pick up close to 26% equity stake in the $3bn Fab City project, being promoted by SemIndia, near Hyderabad. more...

11-Feb-06
Intel may ink pact with Nano-Tech Silicon for fab facility at Hyd
Global semiconductor major Intel Corporation is expected to sign a pact with June Min-promoted Nano-Tech Silicon India (NTSI) Limited this month for setting up a $600-million fab facility at Hyderabad. more...

11-Feb-06
Confident Karnataka to make a 'fab' offer
Karnataka will go all out and top Andhra Pradesh by offering additional facilities to woo back the $3-billion silicon wafer-manufacturing Fab City, that has opted to go to Hyderabad. more...

11-Feb-06
Sorry, you are late, says SemIndia
Karnataka government's decision to better Andhra Pradesh's offer for the $3-billion chip-manufacturing plant comes a bit too late. SemIndia Inc., the consortium of NRIs which wanted to set up an ecosystem for chip manufacturing in India, is in no mood to reverse its decision. more...

11-Feb-06
US chip-maker AMD to contribute to India venture
The three-billion-dollar project will be the first in India and is significant for the country as it still must import hardware computer components even though it is a major information technology player. more...

10-Feb-06
Hyderabad beats B'lore to $3-bn chip project
In a stunning coup, Hyderabad beat IT heavyweight Bangalore to bag the Fab City project, which will host India’s first major silicon chip manufacturing facility. more...

10-Feb-06
Single-chip RF circuits coming, says analyst
Researchers are using microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology to develop a single-chip RF circuit that integrates discrete functions to reduce weight and cost, according to a Frost & Sullivan report. more...

10-Feb-06
The story behind the 'fab'ulous deal
When SemIndia announced in September 2005 its plans to set up the first Fab facility in the country, many states including Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and even Haryana — jumped into the fray and started lobbying to secure the prestigious project. more...

10-Feb-06
B'lore loses Fab City project to Hy'bad
Karnataka, a front-runner in the race for a $3-billion silicon chip-manufacturing facility, has lost out to its arch rival, Andhra Pradesh. more...

10-Feb-06
Tensilica to set up R&D center in Pune
Tensilica Inc, a chip IP design firm announced the setting up of its Research and Development center in Pune with an investment of $40 million over five years. more...

10-Feb-06
India maps chip strategy, talks with Intel
India is fashioning chip-making strategy that draws on Asian and European models but will seek to leverage its strengths in other electronics sectors. more...

10-Feb-06
Ruiz' AMD Teams Up For India Manufacturing
After half a year of lobbying, Hyderabad--the city of the Nizam princes--pipped Chennai and Bangalore to the post for India's first microprocessor and silicon chip manufacturing facility for the IT industry. more...

10-Feb-06
SemIndia Indian chip plant to be set up in Hyderabad
SemIndia has decided to set up its semiconductor chip-making facility in Hyderabad, its chief executive officer Vinod Agarwal said on Thursday. more...

10-Feb-06
Policy soon to promote making of semiconductors
The Union Government is expected to come out with a policy framework shortly to kick-start the nascent semiconductor manufacturing industry in the country on a public-private-partnership basis. more...

09-Feb-06
Wind River starts development centre in B`lore
Wind River Systems, a US-headquarterd firm that works in device software optimisation space, has announced the opening of its development centre in Bangalore. more...

09-Feb-06
India well set to be next semiconductor powerhouse
India is fast emerging as the next semiconductor powerhouse and the growth has to be mentored and developed in a cohesive manner, said Suhas Patil, founder and chairman emeritus of Cirrus Logic and noted technologist and venture capitalist. more...

09-Feb-06
Supercomputer in your pocket soon!
The semiconductor and electronics industries are seeking to put a supercomputer in your pocket, probably in the shape of a clam shell cell phone. more...

09-Feb-06
Cost, performance key topics at India semi summit
Configurability is key to the viability of the semiconductor industry, while platform development helps cut costs, speakers said here the final day of the Vision Summit of the India Semiconductor Association. more...

09-Feb-06
India maps chip strategy, continues talks with Intel
India is fashioning chip-making strategy that draws on Asian and European models but will seek to leverage its strengths in other electronics sectors. more...

09-Feb-06
Tensilica plans chip research centre in Pune
Chip IP design firm Tensilica Inc announced the setting up of its Indian subsidiary at Pune. Investment in the research and development (R&D) centre is $40 million over five years. more...

09-Feb-06
Talks with Intel on Feb 15: Maran
The Government is wooing Intel to set up a chip manufacturing facility in the country close on the heels of AMD-SemIndia planned facility. more...

09-Feb-06
$3-billion project to manufacture semiconductors — SemIndia zeroes in on Hyderabad
SemIndia and the Andhra Pradesh Government on Thursday said a $3-billion (about Rs 13,500 crore) project to manufacture semiconductors that go into computers, mobile phones and other digital devices would come up near the upcoming Hyderabad international airport. more...

09-Feb-06
MosChip poised for turnaround — Launches bridge chips
Moschip Semiconductor Technology Ltd, a fabless technology company, has announced the launch of two new bridge chips for computing and network connectivity applications, and maintained that it is on course to achieving a turnaround. more...

09-Feb-06
India now a semiconductor design destination'
With the Indian semiconductor market crossing the $1 billion mark according to the first-ever industry report, India is poised to become a major player in this domain. more...

09-Feb-06
India's first Fab City at Hyderabad: Maran at ISA
India's first Fab City with $2 billion investment for manufacturing silicon chips will shortly come up in Hyderabad, Union Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran announced today. more...

09-Feb-06
India Revs Up Fab City Plans
India on Thursday picked the southern state of Andhra Pradesh as the location for a $3-billion “Fab City” semiconductor plant to be developed by SemIndia and AMD, ensuring that neighboring Karnataka state, which counts Bangalore as its crown jewel, doesn’t get all the tech glory. more...

09-Feb-06
Tensilica Aims $40M at India
Processor designer Tensilica said Thursday it has set up an Indian subsidiary to do fundamental, innovative R&D work for its configurable processor technology, with an investment of $40 million over five years. more...

09-Feb-06
Fab city: AP pips Karnataka
Karnataka, a front runner in the hot race for the $3-billion silicon chip manufacturing facility, has lost out to its arch rival, Andhra Pradesh. more...

08-Feb-06
`India needs flexible chip unit'
India needs a flexible chip manufacturing facility, according to Mr Suhas Patil, semiconductor visionary, who was speaking at a summit organised by India Semiconductor Association (ISA). more...

08-Feb-06
Ericsson plans to invest $100 mn in India every year
Company to offer platform for triple play to operators on a single line. Swedish telecom equipment major Ericsson said that the company would invest $100 million in the country every year. more...

08-Feb-06
Wind River expands in India
Wind River Systems will reportedly expand its Indian operations by setting up a development center here to focus on innovations to its product line. more...

08-Feb-06
Execs say multinationals still need to mesh with global tech industry
Multinational technology companies have yet to mesh their operations with the $1.1 trillion global electronics industry, according to executives at a chip summit here. more...

08-Feb-06
India set to be next semiconductor powerhouse
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the apex body of Indian semiconductor industry organized two days seminar - “Vision Summit” - to showcase the triple play paradigm that will place India on the global map. more...

07-Feb-06
`Country to lead paradigm shift in semiconductors`
India Semiconductor Association’s Vision Summit to be held on February 8-9, 2006 in Bangalore, will focus on ‘The Triple Play of Design, Software and Manufacturing — India leads the way for a new paradigm in semiconductors’. more...

07-Feb-06
SanDisk opens centre in Bangalore
SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, announced on Tuesday the opening of a research and development facility in Bangalore, where engineers will work on the core elements of the company's flash memory products. more...

07-Feb-06
India stages its first semiconductor summit
The first semiconductor industry summit to be staged in India will seek to raise the domestic chip industry's profile beyond IC design and embedded software development. more...

07-Feb-06
Fabs in India bank on $1.5B state fund
The emergence of semiconductor manufacturing plants in India will hinge on whether the federal government accepts a demand by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) for a $1.5 billion fund. more...

07-Feb-06
SanDisk to expand Indian design center
Sunnyvale, US-based SanDisk, a maker of flash memory products today announced that it would ramp up the headcount of its R&D center in Bangalore. more...

06-Feb-06
Chip making plan hangs on Rs 6,750 cr central fund
The country’s fledgling semiconductor manufacturing initiative may now depend on the government accepting a demand for a funding mechanism of around Rs 6,750 crore ($1.5 billion). more...

06-Feb-06
Fabs in India bank on $1.5 billion state fund
The emergence of semiconductor manufacturing plants in India will hinge on whether the federal government accepts a demand by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) for a $1.5 billion fund. more...

06-Feb-06
Elpida Memory Goes to India
Elpida Memory said Monday it’s establishing its first design center in India, joining dozens of semiconductor firms that have set up shop there. more...

03-Feb-06
Indian Semiconductor Industry Is Growing
India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and the global growth consulting company, Frost & Sullivan, have released two comprehensive reports on the Indian semiconductor industry. more...

03-Feb-06
Electronics growth to propel chip demand to US$ 36.3 billion
The Consumption of electronic equipment in India is set to increase to US$ 363 billion by 2015 from US$ 28.2 billion in 2005, pushing the total market for semiconductors to a whopping US$ 36.3 billion by 2015. more...

03-Feb-06
‘Semiconductor market in India to cross $36 bn’
The market for semiconductors in India is pegged to cross $36.3 billion by 2015 said the Indian Semiconductor Alliance (ISA) and global consulting company Frost & Sullivan in a report on Thursday. more...

02-Feb-06
`Electronics growth to propel chip demand to $36.3 b, create 3.5 m jobs'
The consumption of electronic equipment in India is set to increase to $363 billion by 2015 from $28.2 billion in 2005, pushing the total market for semiconductors to a whopping $36.3 billion by 2015. more...

02-Feb-06
Semiconductor industry to create 35 lakh jobs
The Indian semiconductor and embedded design industry is estimated to grow at 30 per cent annually to generate revenues of over $43 billion and create more than 35 lakh jobs in the country by 2015, according to two research reports released today. more...

02-Feb-06
Reports forecast Indian design, manufacturing growth
India’s growing appetite for electronic equipment is fuelling demand for semiconductors and creating a market for the local design and manufacture of chips according to two research studies commissioned by the India Semiconductor Association. more...

02-Feb-06
ISA, Frost & Sullivan holds study on Indian semiconductor industry
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the premier representative body of the semiconductor industry in India and Frost & Sullivan, global growth consulting company, on Thursday launched the first ever comprehensive market research reports on the Indian semiconductor industry. more...

02-Feb-06
Indian Chips to Grow to $43B
The India Semiconductor Association released a study Thursday predicting the semiconductor and embedded design market in India will grow from $3.25 billion today to $14.42 billion in 2010 and $43.07 billion by 2015. more...

01-Feb-06
PortalPlayer to expand Indian center
PortalPlayer Inc., a fabless semiconductor house focusing on portable multimedia, said it plans to expand its Indian center at Hyderabad, adding 100 engineers and investing a further $10 million. more...

31-Jan-06
SiNett switch in top 100
SiNett Corporation, a developer of silicon and software for network infrastructures, has announced that its OneEdge Switch Processor for unified wired and wireless networks was selected as one of EDN magazine’s 100 Hot Products for 2005. more...

30-Jan-06
Nascent fab industry looks to budget for sops
The domestic semiconductor industry is keeping its fingers crossed amidst expectations that the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, may come up with a policy pronouncement in the forthcoming Union Budget to help the nascent industry set up wafer fabrication plants commonly known as `fabs' and enable India to compete with heavyweights such as Taiwan and China to grab a slice of the global $220 billion silicon chip pie. more...

30-Jan-06
Study on semiconductor industry, a first for India
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), premier representative body of the semiconductor industry in India and Frost & Sullivan, global growth consulting company, announced the launch of its first comprehensive market research reports on the Indian semiconductor industry. more...

30-Jan-06
Indian semiconductor market study to be unveiled on Feb 2
The first ever comprehensive market research report on the Indian Semiconductor industry will be launched on February 2. more...

30-Jan-06
Magma Adds Five New IP Vendors
Magma Design Automation Inc. has roped in five new IP vendors in its MagmaTies program to develop the 'Magma-Ready’ IP. more...

29-Jan-06
5 IP vendors join MagmaTies programme
The US-based Magma Design Automation Inc, a provider of semiconductor design software, has announced that five new intellectual property vendors have joined its MagmaTies programme to develop "Magma-Ready'' IP. more...

28-Jan-06
IBM Acquires ARGUS Semiconductor Software From INFICON
IBM has acquired INFICON's ARGUS semiconductor software and related intellectual property, a leading system for lithography advanced process control for semiconductor manufacturing. more...

27-Jan-06
Synopsys to continue Indian expansion
EDA company Synopsys Inc., which has development centers in India at Bangalore and Hyderabad, plans to add another 100 engineers this year and expand its global support service team here. more...

27-Jan-06
First Indian semi study out next week
A gap in the Indian semiconductor industry-- the lack of any official statistics on the industry here-- will be filled next week with the release of a market research study. more...

27-Jan-06
India plans mobile TV satellite
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is finalizing the design of a specially-loaded satellite having a big antenna that can be unfurled to provide mobile television signals. more...

26-Jan-06
India `closer than ever` to getting fabrication unit
Never has India been this close to manufacturing semiconductors, the link that will complete the chain of semiconductor activity here, said a senior official associated with industry. more...

25-Jan-06
SiRF acquires ImpulseSoft for Rs 67.5 cr — Launches product combining GPS and Bluetooth tech
SIRF Technology Holdings, Inc, a Nasdaq-listed company that provides GPS chips, has acquired ImpulseSoft in a cash-and-stock deal worth Rs 67.5 crore. more...

25-Jan-06
SiRF chip integrates GPS, Bluetooth
Chipset vendor SiRF Technology has launched SiRFLinkI, a single-chip solution integrating GPS and Bluetooth functions the company said reduces size, cost, and power requirements. more...

25-Jan-06
PMC-Sierra Opens Technology Centre In Bangalore
PMC-Sierra, Inc., a provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors, has established a new technology centre in Bangalore. more...

24-Jan-06
SPEL Semiconductor net rises
SPEL Semiconductor Ltd has reported a net profit of Rs 69.70 lakh on revenues of Rs 11.3 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2005 compared with a net profit of Rs 27.70 lakh on revenues of Rs 8.59 crore for the corresponding quarter last year. more...

24-Jan-06
Microsoft India to file for 70 patents
Microsoft India is set to file for 70 patents this fiscal, as the software major is making innovation part of its overall growth strategy in the country. more...

24-Jan-06
Networking startup gets $2.5 million angel investment
India — Verismo Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has said it has received $2.5 million from angel investor and serial entrepreneur Prakash Bhalerao, who has also taken over as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer. more...

23-Jan-06
VIA Technologies to set up new centre in Mumbai
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, on Monday announced that the first VIA technology innovation centre will be set up in Mumbai. more...

23-Jan-06
Strength in Custom Chips
Jack Harding has learned not to fall for the charms of sneaky venture capitalists. more...

19-Jan-06
Jabil Acquires India's Celectronix
Florida-based Jabil Circuit Inc. said earlier this week that it is acquiring an India-based electronics manufacturing firm, Celetronix International Ltd. more...

19-Jan-06
Nvidia graphic processors
Graphic card maker Nvidia Corporation has announced two new graphic processors - nForce4 SLI XE and nForce4 Ultra. more...

19-Jan-06
Intel Capital to invest in HelloSoft equity
Hellosoft Inc, a provider of software for convergence applications, today announced Intel Capital would make an equity investment in the company towards the Series B funding announced earlier. more...

18-Jan-06
eInfochips click DaVinci tech
DaVinci technology that was announced by Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) found support from eInfochips for streaming media applications. more...

18-Jan-06
Elpida, FTD create DRAM development group
Singapore-based FTD Technology Pte Ltd., a distributor of EDA tools that has diversified into design services and intellectual property cores, has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Bangalore to focus on the research, design and development of application-specific DRAMs for consumer electronics applications. more...

17-Jan-06
Semiconductor companies home in on south
The recent reports on Advanced Micro Devices Inc and SemIndia’s plan to zero in on the southern states for setting up India’s first advanced fabrication facility should not have come as a surprise. more...

17-Jan-06
Indian space agency enters chip making
Federally-owned Semiconductor Complex Ltd. (SCL, Chandigarh, India), expects to manufacture 0.35-micron chips over the next 18 months. more...

16-Jan-06
Flextronics Software Systems Offers IPv6-Ready Switching Solution, Powered by Broadcom’s Ethernet Switching Technology
Flextronics Software Systems (FSS), a global end-to-end communication solutions provider, announced the availability of Intelligent Switching Solution-IPv6, for Ethernet switching equipment based on Broadcom’s industry-leading StrataXGS® III family of highly integrated Ethernet switch silicon solutions. more...

16-Jan-06
India outshines China in VLSI design talent
Touted to be a leader in fabless semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and digital home, $720 million-Conexant Systems Inc is investing over $250 million in India over the next few years. more...

13-Jan-06
US chip design firm sets up centre in B`lore
PMC-Sierra, a US-based fabless semiconductor company, has set up a development centre with an investment of $7 million and will eventually be looking for opportunities to make equity investments in Indian chip design companies. more...

13-Jan-06
ATI Tech to focus on non-PC markets
ATI, a $2-billion company and a leader in the graphics cards business, plans to increase its focus on the non-PC markets. more...

12-Jan-06
PMC-Sierra Opens Indian Technology Center
Broadband communications and storage semiconductor supplier PMC-Sierra Inc. said today it has established a new technology center in Bangalore, India, and has appointed Arun Bellary as managing director for India, responsible for overall operations and the development of this center. more...

12-Jan-06
Intel comes up with new wishlist for India plant
Seeks 100% IT exemption for 15 yrs; free land; Rs 200 cr unsecured loan from the government. more...

12-Jan-06
Cisco ties up with Bharti, VSNL for joint marketing
Networking major Cisco Systems has tied up with Bharti Tele-Ventures and Tatas-managed Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd to undertake joint marketing initiatives and offer customised solutions for enterprise customers. more...

12-Jan-06
India looks to migrate to next-gen networks
While technology advances now enable unification of networks and convergence of services, various telecom services in India are provided through disparate networks. more...

12-Jan-06
Report: Intel again looks to set up test plant in India
Semiconductor supplier Intel Corp. has revived its earlier plan to set up a $700 million wafer testing facility in the country, but has asked for additional incentives to do so, according to a report in Business Standard from New Delhi Thursday (Jan. 12). more...

12-Jan-06
8 Feb: ISA's First Annual Vision Summit
India Semiconductor Association is organising its first annual two-day Vision Summit on 8 - 9 February 2006 at The Leela Palace, Bangalore. more...

12-Jan-06
PMC-Sierra Establishes Technology Centre in India
At the heart of Bangalore’s Electronic City, comes up a new technology centre of PMC Sierra, promising new avenues in the semiconductor industry. more...

11-Jan-06
SoftJin's new facility
The Bangalore-based SoftJin Technologies, an electronic design automation software development company, is setting up a facility for tool development and contract R&D services divisions. more...

11-Jan-06
ISA summit next month
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) is organising an annual two-day Vision Summit on February 8-9. more...

11-Jan-06
eInfochips clicks Synopsys
Ahmedabad based eInfochips announced tie-up with California based firm Synopsys to provide SystemVerilog Catalyst Program, a VeriSuite which offers chip verification service. more...

11-Jan-06
Telsima to manufacture telecom gear in India
Converged network solutions company Telsima Corp. will manufacture broadband access products using contract manufacturers in India. more...

11-Jan-06
PMC-Sierra opens Indian development center
PMC-Sierra has opened its development center in India, expected to house staff working on WiMax and storage technologies. more...

11-Jan-06
Chipping in: Intel plans cheap PC
Semiconductor major Intel is following in the footsteps of its arch-rival AMD and wants to introduce a low-priced computer for the Indian market. more...

10-Jan-06
Booming semiconductor industry begins talent hunt
The Indian semiconductor industry is ready to boom, believe industry representatives. While the number of semiconductor companies setting up shop in India is on the rise, so is the demand for human resources. more...

10-Jan-06
Chip maker launches India-designed Centrino product — We'll go the extra mile, Govt tells Intel
The Government will go the extra mile if Intel Corp is ready to set up a semi-conductor manufacturing facility in India, according to the Union Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Mr Dayanidhi Maran. more...

10-Jan-06
Fab City decision by this month
The "chosen destination" for Fab City, the country's first semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be known within the month. more...

10-Jan-06
Maran asks Intel to set up Indian unit
Communication and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Tuesday invited world's largest chip maker Intel Corporation to set up a semiconductor manufacturing base in the country and benefit from its strengths in Research and Development. more...

10-Jan-06
Indian team of 500 helped Intel design Yonah
Starting work in June 2004 about 500 technical staff based at Intel’s Bangalore office designed parts of Intel’s Centrino Duo processor, formerly known as Yonah. more...

10-Jan-06
India Semiconductor Association to hold vision summit
The India Semiconductor Association is organizing its first annual two-day "Vision Summit" on February 8-9 at The Leela Palace in Bangalore. more...

10-Jan-06
SemIndia Builds Chip Plant
In a first step toward building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in India, SemIndia said Tuesday it would set up the country’s maiden semiconductor Assembly-Test-Mark-Pack (ATMP) plant. more...

10-Jan-06
SemIndia Builds Chip Plant
In a first step toward building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in India, SemIndia said Tuesday it would set up the country’s maiden semiconductor Assembly-Test-Mark-Pack (ATMP) plant. more...

09-Jan-06
Augmentum to Design and Develop User Interface for Intel's Digital Media Infrastructure
Augmentum—provider of software development services with facilities in Shanghai, China, Foster City, California, and Bangalore, India—announced that they will design and develop the user interface for Intel's Digital Media Infrastructure. more...

09-Jan-06
GDA techno to triple headcount
GDA Technologies Inc, a California based leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solutions provider, on Monday announced to invest about $3 to 5 million to increase its headcount from the present 200 people in India to 600 in the next two to three years. more...

09-Jan-06
TI bullish on semiconductors
Texas Instruments India (TI India) is bullish on the growing Indian market for semiconductors driven by areas of digital entertainment, broadband, mobile phones, telecom sector along with other technology applications. more...

09-Jan-06
GDA techno to invest $5 mn in India
GDA Technologies Inc, a California based leading Electronic Design Services and Silicon Intellectual Property solutions provider, on Monday announced that the company would invest about $3 to 5 million to increase its headcount from the present 200 people in India to 600 in the next two to three years. more...

09-Jan-06
SemIndia Takes A Giant Leap
SemIndia will be taking the first step toward semiconductor manufacturing in India by establishing the country's maiden semiconductor Assembly-Test-Mark-Pack (ATMP) plant. more...

08-Jan-06
Conexant to make India design base
Conexant Systems Inc, a Nasdaq-listed fabless semiconductor company, has announced plans $250-million expansion that would make India its design base. more...

08-Jan-06
MobiApps may start toll manufacture of wireless devices
MobiApps India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MobiApps Inc. US, is likely to kick-off contract manufacturing of M Track and other wireless communication devices through an Indian toll manufacturer. more...

07-Jan-06
SemIndia plans $3 billion chips facility in south
SemIndia, a consortium of non-resident Indians, is scouting for a location in south India to set up a semiconductor manufacturing facility with an investment of $3 billion. more...

07-Jan-06
SemIndia Plans Semiconductor Facility In South India SemIndia is contemplating setting up a chip manufacturing facility in South India. more...

06-Jan-06
Consumer market to drive semiconductor industry
As we move towards the fourth generation of digital revolution, the consumer market would trigger the growth for the semiconductor industry as compared to the government sector earlier, according to David E Orton, president and chief executive officer of ATI Technologies Inc, a $2-billion company in visualisation technologies. more...

06-Jan-06
Conexant to invest $250 mn in five years
Conexant Systems Inc, a provider of semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and digital home, will be investing more than $250 million in India over the next five years. more...

06-Jan-06
SDS Expands Sales Channels in Europe, Central U.S. and India
Silicon Design Systems (SDS), the physical design tools supplier of next-generation routing solutions, announced expansion of its sales and support presence in Europe, the central United States, and India to service increased local interest in its breakthrough K-Route routing solution. more...

05-Jan-06
Intel, AMD join entertainment race
Chipmakers Intel and AMD have announced their entry into your living room with Viiv and Live home entertainment PCs. more...

05-Jan-06
Xilinx centre develops 20 IP cores
Xilinx, a $1.6-billion semiconductor company, has developed 20 intellectual property (IP) cores from its India development centre based out of CMC in Hyderabad. more...

05-Jan-06
Conexant to hire 1,200 by 2010
Conexant Systems Inc., a maker of components used in broadband network gear, plans to invest $250 million in India over five years, its chief executive said on Thursday. more...

04-Jan-06
Cisco ships 100,000 IP phones to India
Cisco Systems on Wednesday announced that it has shipped 100,000 IP (Internet Protocol) phones in India by the end of December 2005. more...

30-Dec-05
SLT Upgrades Network with Juniper¡¯s Routing Platforms
Juniper Networks Inc. announced that Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has deployed Juniper Networks M-series multiservice routers to enhance its network and to provide advanced IP services to SLT's premium and corporate customers. more...

29-Dec-05
Spintronics generating excitement in tech world
Spintronics — the new technology wherein both the charge and spin of an electron is used to carry information — is generating much excitement in the technology world for its potential in a wide range of applications. more...

29-Dec-05
Honeywell's India Plans
Honeywell, a leading provider of technology and manufacturing solutions, is all set to become half a billion Dollar company in India by 2006. more...

28-Dec-05
Price drives Bluetooth adoption in India
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is a trade association comprised leaders in the telecommunications, computing, automotive, industrial automation and network industries that is driving the development of Bluetooth wireless technology and bringing them to market. more...

27-Dec-05
HelloSoft VoIP solution
HelloSoft, a convergence technology solutions company, on Monday announced it is providing NeoMagic Corporation, a VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) based solution for multimedia-rich mobile phones and other mobile devices. more...

27-Dec-05
India firm offers terminal reference design
Dexcel Electronics, a five-year old design services house based here, has developed a reference design for portable electronic terminals powered by Intel’s X-Scale processors. more...

26-Dec-05
QualCore plans to offer embedded software services
Qualcore Logic Ltd, a fabless semiconductor company, today announced its plans to expand its Indian design team from 200 to 300 by next year and add embedded software services to its portfolio. more...

23-Dec-05
Chip makers to get free power, land
The government is in the process of drafting a national semi-conductor policy as more and more proposals are pouring in for setting up semi-conductor facilities across India. more...

23-Dec-05
Motorola unveils new mobile
Motorola on Thursday launched a sub Rs. 2,000 mobile phone in order to spread its business to the hinterlands of the country and among the middle-income category people in the cities. more...

23-Dec-05
Sasken loses arbitration case against 3G.com
The Bangalore-based Sasken Communication Technologies has lost the arbitration in its dispute with US-based 3G.com. more...

22-Dec-05
Cisco plans to buy small, medium cos in India
Networking major Cisco Systems on Tuesday said it is open to acquiring companies operating in the small-medium business (SMB) segments in India. more...

22-Dec-05
`Made in India' mobile launched — Maran asks Motorola to make sub-Rs 1000 handset for masses
The world's second largest maker of mobile phones, Motorola, on Thursday launched its `Made in India' handset — the C 115 — billed as a common man's mobile at a price tag of Rs 1,700. more...

22-Dec-05
ISA to organize two-day conclave in February
The Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) is the leading voice of the semiconductor industry in India. more...

21-Dec-05
NewLogic will help us expand in Europe: Senapaty
Wipro CFO, Mr Suresh Senapaty believes that the acquisition of NewLogic in Austria will double its strength in Germany and France. more...

21-Dec-05
Honeywell eyes tech aided growth
Says 'sky is the limit' with technology, looks to up engineers in India. How much can we advance with the help of technology? “Sky is the limit,” says Honeywell. more...

21-Dec-05
Flextronics increases its stake in Indian subsidiary to 94.3%
Flextronics, a Singapore-based multinational, has acquired more than six per cent stake in its Indian subsidiary - Flextronics Software Systems (FSS) - from the open market. more...

21-Dec-05
Sasken to set up centre in Mexico
Telecom product company Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd will set up an international development and support centre in Mexico. more...

20-Dec-05
Flextronics seen in deal to Unlock software value
A mega deal could be brewing in the IT sector. more...

20-Dec-05
Honeywell India targets $1-b revenue
Honeywell India is targeting $1-billion in revenues by 2010. more...

20-Dec-05
SoftJin claims 400 downloads of Oasis translator
EDA software development services firm, SoftJin, based here, has said there have more than 400 downloads from 40 countries of the free source code for Anuvad, a free suite of GDSII and Oasis libraries and its GDSII-to-Oasis translator, during the last 12 months. more...

20-Dec-05
Indian government urged to adopt IPv6
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued its draft recommendations on Tuesday (Dec. 20) for India's transition to IPv6. more...

20-Dec-05
Will India be the Next Growth Region for Chip Production?
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.¡¯s (AMD¡¯s) announcement last month that it would supply technology for a multibillion-dollar fab project in India spurred speculation over whether the nation is on track to emerge as the next major region for semiconductor production, after China. more...

19-Dec-05
The road ahead
India is increasingly being seen as the next powerhouse in semiconductor manufacturing. more...

19-Dec-05
Wipro buys Austrian co for 47 m euros
WIPRO Technologies has acquired Austrian chip design firm NewLogic for euro 47 million (Rs 253.4 crore) in an all cash deal. more...

19-Dec-05
AMD-SemIndia’s $3 billion gamble
To SemIndia and AMD’s plans of setting up an Indian fab, Intel responded with an investment plan but unlike its rival, has not committed to setting up a manufacturing plant in India. more...

17-Dec-05
Sasken ties up with IXI Mobile
Bangalore-based Sasken Communication Technologies has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with IXI Mobile to use the IXI-Connect OS Technology. more...

16-Dec-05
Trendy phones incorporate sophisticated engineering
With their ultraslim form factors and cool looks, Motorola's Razr and Rokr mobile phones have helped transform Motorola's image from an engineering-focused company to a hip, trend-setting, marketing company. more...

16-Dec-05
Cypress; FE Global Extend Distribution Agreement into India
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and FE Global Electronics have extended their distribution agreement allowing FE Global to sell Cypress's products into India—a market that is projected to reach S$40 billion by 2010. more...

15-Dec-05
Ittiam to offer solutions based on DaVinci tech
Ittiam Systems has announced it will provide software solutions based on DaVinci technology from Texas Instruments (TI). more...

15-Dec-05
Sasken aims for more product realisations
Sasken Communication which presently derives 15 per cent of its revenues from products business, has said that it aims to move a greater product realisation and product ownership with all its customers. more...

15-Dec-05
Sequence Will Showcase Low-Power Design Expertise at India's VLSI Design Conference
Sequence Design—in EDA technology for low-power design, said that it will participate as an exhibitor for January 2006's VLSI Design Conference in Hyderabad, India. more...

14-Dec-05
ECI Opens R&D Center in India
ECI Telecom, provider of telecommunication solutions to leading carriers and service providers, announced the opening of a new Research and Development center in India. more...

14-Dec-05
Cadence unveils radio frequency design kit
The wireless IC consumption worldwide stands at $43.8 billion in 2005. It is all set to rise with gadgets such as MP3 players and digicams going wireless. more...

14-Dec-05
India`s fab dance
For the last few days, Vinod K Aggarwal has been keeping a strenuous schedule — dashing in and out of meetings with technology bigwigs — hardly any time to catch up on his sleep. more...

14-Dec-05
Ecosystem gap, attitude of firms mar R&D in semiconductors
The semiconductor industry is growing rapidly in India but the lack of a complete ecosystem for the industry and the attitude of firms in India may be affecting research and development work in the area. more...

14-Dec-05
MindTree licenses Bluetooth IP to NEC
IT and R&D services company MindTree Consulting has helped NEC Corporation to integrate Bluetooth wireless technology into its GSM phones. more...

14-Dec-05
MindTree chip for Korean firm
MindTree Consulting said on Wednesday that it has developed an analogue integrated circuit (IC), that enhances the life of batteries used in handheld devices, for a Korean semiconductor and wireless products company. more...

14-Dec-05
Encore gets CSIR funds
Encore Software, which made headlines with its Simputer (a low-cost hand held information device) on Tuesday said that it has got a Rs 5.3 crore loan under the New Millennium Initiative for Technology Leadership (NMITLI) under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research umbrella. more...

13-Dec-05
Intel in chip designing deal with 4 Indian firms
Intel has signed agreements with Wipro, Mistral, Sasken Technology and eInfochips for chip physical designing in India. more...

13-Dec-05
Flextronics Software Systems launches Wi-Fi Products
Flextronics Software Systems (FSS), a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication software solutions, today announced the release of its Wi-Fi WLAN security & mobility software products that are critical towards the development of unified wire-line and Wi-Fi wireless LAN switching products. more...

12-Dec-05
Cypress and FE Global Electronics Sign Agreement to Extend Distribution Into India
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) and FE Global Electronics have extended their distribution agreement allowing FE Global to sell Cypress's products into India -- a market that is projected to reach US$40 billion by 2010. more...

12-Dec-05
Nevis Network develops chip-cum-security tool
With an investment of $40 million, a chip that can work 100 times faster than the Pentium chip and lock down the local area network (LAN) from security threats has been developed at the research and development centre of Nevis Network in Pune. more...

11-Dec-05
Now, a waiting list for mobile phones!
Cellular uptake in the country is picking up so rapidly that operators now have a waiting list, something which consumers used to dread when fixed line telephones were popular. more...

08-Dec-05
Intel sets up Intel India Technology Fund
Chip maker Intel has formed a $250-million Intel India Technology Fund that would be used for venture capital investment in technology start-ups in India, according to R.K. Amar Babu, Director Sales & Marketing Group, Intel South Asia. more...

08-Dec-05
Indian design services company 'ready for IBM technology'
India’s HCL Technologies Ltd. has become the first design house based in this country to be certified to design chips for IBM foundry services. more...

08-Dec-05
Sasken develops modem for broadband DSL
Sasken Communication Technologies has developed a modem for broadband DSL, which is being tested by the country's leading telecom operator at various locations. more...

08-Dec-05
Honeywell may assemble products in India
Sensing a big market opportunity in India for its security products, Honeywell is toying with the idea of setting up assembly lines for a few of its products at its existing locations within the country. more...

08-Dec-05
Karnataka Govt approves `Fab City' project
The Karnataka Government on Thursday approved SEM India's `Fab City' project in the State, indicating that it is keen to attract investments in the semi-conductor manufacturing sector. more...

07-Dec-05
Mentor Inaugurates R&D facility in Noida, India
Greg Hinckley, president, Mentor Graphics inaugurated Mentor Graphics¡¯ new Research and Development (R&D) facility at Noida, India. more...

07-Dec-05
Wipro Inaugurates Next Generation GCC for Remote Infrastructure Management Services
Wipro Technologies unveiled its Next Generation Global Command Centre (GCC), the remote managed services hub at Bangalore. more...

07-Dec-05
austriamicrosystems¡¯ ICs Offer SoC Solution for LCD Based Meter Applications
Austriamicrosystems announced that its AS8218 and AS8228 ICs offer an integrated system-on-chip (SoC)solution for LCD based, single-phase meter applications and are specifically tailored to fulfill Indian utility anti-tamper requirements. more...

07-Dec-05
Intel designs computer for e-governance
World renowned chipmaker, Intel, has developed community based computer which would be used by the Union government for e-governance purposes, company's South Asia Director R K Amarbabu said today. more...

07-Dec-05
Intel sets up $250-m fund for start-ups in India
Chip maker Intel has formed a $250-million Intel India Technology Fund that would be used for venture capital investment in technology start-ups in India, according to Mr R.K. Amar Babu, Director Sales & Marketing Group, Intel South Asia. more...

06-Dec-05
Intel unveils over $1 b investment plan
Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett on Monday unveiled a multi-year investment plan for India, totalling over $1 billion (about Rs. 5,000 crore) at a news conference here. more...

06-Dec-05
Xilinx plans independent R&D center in India
Xilinx Inc., which has an engineering team at CMC Ltd. at Hyderabad, plans to shift the staff to an independent Indian R&D subsidiary in 2006. more...

06-Dec-05
Mitsubishi Signs Contract with ISRO for Li-ion Battery for INSAT
Tamotsu Nomakuchi, president and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, announced that Mitsubishi has signed a contract with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to develop and manufacture a Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery for the INSAT satellite series, the Indian Space Agency's latest satellite platform. more...

06-Dec-05
Xilinx plans for R&D, investment in India
Xilinx Inc., which has an engineering team of more than 50 people working for it at CMC Ltd. at Hyderabad in southern India, plans to take the staff and set up an R & D subsidiary company in 2006. more...

05-Dec-05
Intel Boosts Indian Innovation with $250M Venture Fund
To help stimulate technological innovation in India and drive continued growth of the country’s information technology (IT) industry, Intel Corp. said today it has created a $250 million venture capital fund. more...

05-Dec-05
Intel very keen on India, says Maran
The Chairman of Intel Corporation, Craig Barrett, met the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran, at the latter's residence in Chennai on Sunday. more...

05-Dec-05
What is a fab or fabrication plant ?
A fabrication plant (or fab) is a term used to describe a factory where microchips, more popularly called chips on silicon wafers, are manufactured. more...

05-Dec-05
Tessolve sets up Singapore office
Tessolve Inc. announced the setting up of its new office in Singapore, making it the first Indian semiconductor company to be operating in Singapore. more...

05-Dec-05
IIT Kanpur develops software for rail safety
In what is perceived as a major breakthrough for rail and road safety, an IIT-led consortium of academic institutions, companies, and R&D outfits have developed the satellite imaging for rail navigation system. more...

05-Dec-05
Bell Labs to rapidly expand research centre in B`lore
Bell Labs, the legendary research house, is set to expand rapidly in India. The year-old centre expects to raise its headcount of high-profile researchers beyond hundred over the next 2-3 years. more...

05-Dec-05
Intel inside India with $1B investment
On the first day of a visit to India that started Monday Barrett said that the four focus areas -- which he called "four areas of advancement" -- of the Intel investment roadmap would be business expansion, venture-capital funding efforts, the company's research and development unit in Bangalore and its education initiatives in the country. more...

03-Dec-05
eInfochips floats sea navigation software
The Ahmedabad-based company eInfochips has developed GP-7000 Marine Navigation System for Italy based company, Navionics. more...

03-Dec-05
We want to be part of Indian economy: AMD chief
Seeing a window of opportunity in India, which may translate into a gateway to millions of users of AMD microprocessors, the global chip maker is betting big on the local market. more...

03-Dec-05
Intel plans $500 mn investment in India
Intel Corp, the world's largest chip maker, is likely to announce an investment of $500 million in its Indian operations when a top company official visits the country. more...

03-Dec-05
Tech the fast-changing route
Successful product companies in the software space are difficult to find. more...

02-Dec-05
AMD ties up with agri spot exchange
Microprocessor company AMD has tied up with National Spot Exchange for Agricultural Produce to provide the latter its Personal Internet Communicators to help connect over 7,500 agricultural produce marketing committees. more...

02-Dec-05
Broadcom ups engineering presence in India
Broadcom Corporation, the $2 billion US-based global player in semiconductors, is expanding scope of its engineering operations in India. more...

02-Dec-05
IIT Madras to Setup $22mn Research Park
M S Ananth, director of The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, said that the institution is setting up a Research Park, with an investment of $22.27 million, in Tamil Nadu. more...

02-Dec-05
Geodesic Likely to Acquire PicoPeta Simputers
Geodesic Information Systems, a Mumbai-based IT services company, has decided to acquire PicoPeta Simputers, the inventors of the handheld computer known as Simputer. more...

02-Dec-05
Report: India may take 26 percent equity in fab
The Indian federal government is likely to take a 26 percent equity stake in the new company being floated for the wafer fab project proposed by SemIndia with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). more...

01-Dec-05
Govt may pick up stake in SemIndia-AMD unit
The Communications and IT Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, said he would approach the Finance Ministry for approval to pick up equity in the semiconductor manufacturing facility being set up by SemIndia along with Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), after the details of the project are chalked out. more...

01-Dec-05
SemIndia to invest $3 b to set up chip plant
SemIndia, a consortium of non-resident Indians, announced plans to invest $3 billion to set up a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the country in collaboration with chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD). more...

01-Dec-05
Anzac in pact with Crisp Systems
Anzac Solutions Pvt Ltd, a five-year-old overseas education facilitator and a corporate trainer, has entered into a strategic partnership with a Coimbatore-based embedded software solutions provider, Crisp Systems, to foray into IT services. more...

01-Dec-05
Vandrevala is new Motorola India head
Former Tata Teleservices chairman Firdose Vandrevala today joined telecom multinational Motorola as head of Indian operations. more...

01-Dec-05
Broadcom eyes buys in India
Broadband communications semiconductor major, Broadcom, said on Thursday that it was actively looking at acquiring companies in India. more...

01-Dec-05
US' Broadcom keen for acquisitions in India
Broadcom Corporation, US-based global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, today said Indian companies were on its "radar screen" for possible acquisition. more...

01-Dec-05
Broadcom, SemIndia in foundry supply talks
Leading fabless communications semiconductor company Broadcom Corp. is in talks with SemIndia Inc. regarding the latter’s proposed $3 billion wafer fab project, announced Wednesday (Nov. 30). more...

01-Dec-05
AMD to help India develop chip industry
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD has signed a memorandum of understanding to allow SemIndia to license, process, manufacture and test AMD technologies for a fabrication facility it intends to build. more...

30-Nov-05
AMD Inks India Semi Manufacturing Partnership
To meet the growing demand for x86-based computers in India, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc. has inked a manufacturing, licensing and business development agreement with SemIndia in New Delhi, India today. more...

30-Nov-05
SemIndia signs AMD to India wafer fab project
SemIndia Inc., a consortium of Indian technologists, has agreed to lead the investment of $3 billion in a wafer fab in India to make chips using technology licensed from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. more...

30-Nov-05
Samsung to make wireless handsets in India
Samsung has become the latest to join the bandwagon of global handset makers that have recently announced either manufacturing or assembly operations in India. more...

30-Nov-05
Any insight inside?
Intel is a brand synonymous with microprocessors, the little chips that give computers the power to process data. more...

30-Nov-05
Indian mkt nearing inflection point: TI
Though India presently accounts for an insignificant part of Texas Instruments’ global market, the semiconductor major is viewing the country as an emerging market poised for an inflection point in the near future. more...

30-Nov-05
AMD Helps India Build Chip Plant
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday signed a “milestone” agreement with SemIndia to bring semiconductor-manufacturing capabilities to India. more...

29-Nov-05
AMD CEO to visit India
AMD Inc.'s President and CEO Hector de J Ruiz will visit India from November 30. more...

29-Nov-05
Tejas Networks plans IPO
Tejas Networks, the $25 million Bangalore-based firm building next-generation optical networking products, plans to go for an initial public offer over the next 6-8 quarters. more...

29-Nov-05
Foxcon plans $1 bn investment in India
After Nokia, a top Taiwanese telecom component and accessories manufacturing company, Foxcon, is planning to invest close to $1 billion in India. more...

29-Nov-05
Texas Instruments plans big in India
US-based DSP (digital signal processor) and analog technologies leader Texas Instruments is upbeat on the Indian market and says it's set to capitalise on boom times in communication and entertainment sectors in this country. more...

29-Nov-05
TI to highlight 'Da Vinci technology'
Chip major Texas Instruments (TI) will highlight its range of imaging and digital video applications called “Da Vinci technology” at its eighth annual TI developer conference to be held on November 30 and December 1 in Bangalore. more...

28-Nov-05
Bluetooth devices 'to ride high on mobile boom'
The mobile telephony boom currently witnessed in India will drive the usage of Bluetooth devices in the country, said Mr Eric Schneider, Marketing Director, Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) Inc. more...

28-Nov-05
NetDevices banking on e-Governance segment
NetDevices Networks, a networking technology products company, is targeting the e-Governance, banking, finance and insurance sectors in the country. more...

25-Nov-05
Innovative Semi to outsource design to India
Innovative Semiconductors Inc., a supplier of serial interface technology for ICs and chipsets, is to outsource parts of its design work to Indian companies. more...

25-Nov-05
India plans FabCity to boost chip production
Though it does not have a location in mind, the ISA is discussing the subsidies and tax incentives needed to attract $50bn of global investment and create an electronic industry in excess of $100bn in the next 10 years. more...

24-Nov-05
Juniper sets eye on Indian telecom market
After Cisco systems’ $50 million investment in Bangalore facility with a capacity to take 3,000 people, it is now the turn of its rival Juniper Network Inc., to act. more...

24-Nov-05
Indian chip agency preps 'FabCity' plan
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) is drawing up plans for a semiconductor fabrication complex it is calling “FabCity”. The wafer fab facility is expected to cost between $3 billion and $4 billion. more...

24-Nov-05
Nokia says wins $141 mn network deal in India
Finnish mobile equipment maker Nokia has won a $141 million mobile network expansion deal in North India with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, it said in a statement on Thursday. more...

23-Nov-05
Denali plans hardware team in Indian center
Denali Software plans to increase its size and scope of development at an R & D subsidiary set up here two years ago. more...

23-Nov-05
Mindtree to expand in Chennai and Hyderabad
Bangalore based IT and R&D services provider, Mindtree Consulting, which is on an expansion spree at its Bangalore campus, is also eyeing growth beyond Bangalore. more...

22-Nov-05
Juniper to buy Funk Soft
Juniper Networks has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Funk Software, a provider of standards-based network access security solutions, in a cash transaction of about $122 million. more...

22-Nov-05
Magma Automation in pact with Anna University
Magma Design Automation India, a provider of semiconductor design software, said that it has entered into a pact with Anna University, as part of its initiative to increase the number of professionals trained on state-of-the-art IC implementation tools. more...

22-Nov-05
Advanced vehicle tracking solution launched
Citadel Research & Solutions, a GPS-GIS solutions company, has announced the launch of its advanced vehicle tracking solution which integrates vehicle-tracking systems and third generation communication system with maps of various cities in India. more...

22-Nov-05
India Gains in Role of Designing Chips
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced an agreement establishing an Indian outsourcing company, HCL Technologies, as the first design center outside IBM's own walls for its Power Architecture chips. more...

21-Nov-05
Mistral to vend Curtiss tool
Embedded software and service provider Mistral Solutions Pvt Ltd has announced the availability of Rapid Replay, a product by Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. more...

21-Nov-05
eInfochips adopts Magma IC implementation
Magma Design Automation, Inc., a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced that chip and product design services firm eInfochips, Inc., has strengthened its integrated circuit (IC) design and verification capabilities. more...

21-Nov-05
Global Designer: Imagers pose complex design challenges
Mobile-phone cameras are beginning to rival stand-alone digital cameras in resolution, and it won't be long before they will be able to shoot MPEG-4 videos and incorporate advanced algorithms for sophisticated manipulation of images. more...

20-Nov-05
KPIT Cummins in expansion mode
KPIT Cummins Ltd, technology provider, is in the process of expansion and expects to log revenues of about $100 million next year. more...

19-Nov-05
Motorola team comes scouting for location
A high-level team from the Motorola company, which is on the lookout for a suitable place to locate the company’s proposed handset assembly plant in India, met chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today. more...

18-Nov-05
Motorola looking to invest upto $ 300 m
A team from Motorola, the mobile handset and telecom equipment manufacturer, was in Chennai on Thursday as part of the company's efforts to identify a location to assemble mobile handsets. more...

18-Nov-05
Spice to manufacture GSM handsets
Cellular service provider Spice plans to manufacture GSM handsets at its Baddi plant in Himachal Pradesh. more...

18-Nov-05
Bob Hoekstra to exit Philips
Bob Hoekstra, the outspoken CEO of Philips’ software operations in India, is leaving Philips after a 38-year stint. more...

18-Nov-05
QuickLogic plans to help India build systems
Indian applications software teams are providing programmable chip vendor QuickLogic Corp. with a way to penetrate the Indian market. more...

17-Nov-05
Ittiam developing digital IFE systems
The DSP(digital signal processing) IP licensing company, Ittiam, which has designed i-Pod-like portable media players for OEM customers, is now developing digital on-demand inflight entertainment (IFE) systems for a new generation of aircraft. more...

17-Nov-05
India's HCL Tech to set up PowerPC design center
HCL Technologies Ltd. has acquired the right to use and sub-license IBM Corp.'s PowerPC and PowerPC 440 embedded microprocessor cores and some specific peripheral cores. more...

16-Nov-05
Motorola to assemble handsets in India by Dec
Motorola Inc, the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday that it would start assembling handsets in India by December in a bid to increase its market share in the booming sector. more...

16-Nov-05
India's Persistent acquires ASIC design firm
Persistent Systems, an outsourced product developer, has acquired ASIC and embedded systems design services company, ControlNet India Ltd. for about $2 million. more...

15-Nov-05
Hyderabad to host meet on VLSI design
The design of the chip used in iPod was done at Hyderabad, Naresh Reddy Mallipeddi, COO (India operations), Conexant Systems India said. more...

15-Nov-05
Philips eys innovations for bottom of the pyramid
Reaffirming India's status as an engine of growth in Philips? endeavour to meet consumer demand in both mature and emerging markets, Gerard Kleisterlee, president & CEO, Royal Philips Electronics said that the firm’s Indian operations are targetting a topline of Rs 5,000 crore by 2008. more...

15-Nov-05
Tensilica forges design center agreement with Indian firm
Tensilica Inc. has signed an agreement with Bangalore, India-based embedded design service company Tata Elxsi Ltd., Tensilica said. more...

14-Nov-05
TCS rules out merger with CMC for now
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) managing director and chief executive officer S Ramadorai on Saturday said the company had no immediate plans to merge CMC Ltd with itself. more...

14-Nov-05
Cisco networking product for small units
Data and communications equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc on Monday said it will release a version of its Linksys home networking system for small business enterprises (SBE), a key area in the company's growth strategy. more...

14-Nov-05
Good scope seen for VLSI design
Given the advantages India provides for technology development and large human resource base, developers of embedded software, particularly for mobile applications and very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, are bullish on India. more...

14-Nov-05
AMD CEO to visit India this month-end
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD )'s chairman, chief executive and president, Hector Ruiz will be visiting India towards the end of this month, said senior AMD India officials. more...

14-Nov-05
Cadence CEO emphasizes collaboration, cooperation
With semiconductors forming the backbone of telecom, computers and consumer electronics, chip makers need to be fast and flexible to meet market demand and expectations for features and costs, according to Michael Fister, Chief Executive Officer and President, Cadence Design Systems Inc. more...

12-Nov-05
HelloSoft to expand operations
HelloSoft India Pvt. Ltd, a high-end technology based products solutions company, has announced plans for expanding its operations by investing more in R&D and marketing segments for meeting the demand for its wireless local area network (WLAN). more...

12-Nov-05
HelloSoft to focus on VoIP, WLAN
HelloSoft India Private Limited, a high-end technology based products and solutions company working on VoIP-based low-cost solutions for telecom and other voiceover services, today announced that it is making headway towards enabling mass deployment of next-generation communication devices for the converged wireless markets. more...

11-Nov-05
UK's ARM to double headcount in India
The UK-based semiconductor IT licensing company ARM is looking to double the engineering headcount at its Bangalore design centre, its Chairman Sir Robin Saxby said on Friday. more...

11-Nov-05
IEE to expand presence in India
Recognising India's growing strength in engineering and technology, Institution of Electrical Engineers, the largest professional engineering society in Europe, on Friday said it would increase its presence in the country by opening new offices here and in New Delhi early next year. more...

11-Nov-05
Premji receives prestigious Faraday Medal
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji today became the first Indian to receive the prestigious Faraday Medal from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), the largest professional engineering society in Europe. more...

10-Nov-05
NI to expand product platform
There is an increasing pressure on manufacturers and engineers to meet market requirements quickly and efficiently as the time to market decreases and products are increasingly run by computers within them. more...

10-Nov-05
eInfochips Strengthens RTL-to-GDSII Design Service Capabilities, Adopts Magma IC Implementation Flow, Advanced Technology and Expert Designers Provide Rapid Time to Market and Lower Development Costs
Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software has announced that eInfochips, Inc., a leading chip and product design services firm with silicon-to-system capabilities, has strengthened its integrated circuit (IC) design and verification capabilities. more...

10-Nov-05
Processors driving changes in embedded design
Distributed computing, which involves the use of two or more processors to solve an application, is a new technology trend in the field of embedded design. more...

10-Nov-05
IC design industry flourishes in India
At the rate that semiconductor suppliers and fabless design houses are opening design centers in India, it is not surprising to know that the IC design industry has mushroomed in India. more...

09-Nov-05
Siemens India unit MD
Siemens Public Communication Networks India on Tuesday announced the appointment of Mr Michael Kuehner as its Managing Director. more...

09-Nov-05
National Instruments launches Labview 8
National Instruments, a global leader in virtual instrumentation, today announced the launch of Labview 8, a major upgrade to Labview graphical development platform that improved the productivity of engineers and scientists in design, control and test. more...

09-Nov-05
ARM to expand in India, board meets there
Processor technology licensor ARM, which has a 120-member team in India plus 25 contract engineers, has said it will grow in headcount faster in the country than anywhere else. more...

09-Nov-05
Indian design activity on fast track, says iSuppli
India’s semiconductor design industry will nearly triple by 2010, as overseas and domestic suppliers rush to establish or expand their chip development efforts there, according to market research company iSuppli Corp more...

08-Nov-05
Freescale launches integrated chip
Freescale Semiconductor, a US-based designer and manufacturer of embedded semiconductors, has launched an integrated chip (IC) that has ultra-low power consumption. more...

08-Nov-05
TCS to bid for two major Israeli projects
Indian IT major, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is to bid for two major Israel government tenders to make smart ID cards and health cards, including comprehensive medical file, of all the citizens of the country. more...

08-Nov-05
Need to Develop Global Standards for Smart Card ID Applications
In the wake of increasing security concerns, the incorporation of secure identity management systems is assuming top priority for enterprises and governments worldwide. more...

07-Nov-05
Nokia’s 10th Manufacturing Unit in Chennai, India
Nokia announced that it will set up a manufacturing facility for mobile devices at Chennai, India. The manufacturing unit in Chennai will be Nokia’s 10th mobile device production facility globally. Nokia anticipates investing an estimated $100 to $150 million in the Indian production plant. more...

07-Nov-05
SNIA India Completes SMI-S Developers Training The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced the completion of its first international storage networking developers program for the SNIA Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S) in Bangalore, India. more...

07-Nov-05
US IT cos look to ride on boom in chip design here
The growing number of chip design companies in the country is fuelling the growth of US-based software firms that provide specialised services to this sector. more...

06-Nov-05
Agilent Technologies Closes $14.5 Million OSS Order With Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., Tata
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced a $14.5 million order with India's primary communications service providers Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) and Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL). more...

05-Nov-05
BSNL junks Huawei's contract
Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has run into rough weather in India. more...

05-Nov-05
Nortel talks with BSNL could cut deal size
Nortel Networks Corp. said on Friday it is in talks with Indian mobile phone company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. that could reduce the size of a money-losing contract, initially estimated at $500 million. more...

04-Nov-05
ATI Tech develops faster graphics processors
ATI Technologies Inc, the $2-billion supplier of graphics, video and multimedia silicon for PCs and the entertainment industry, has taken graphics to the next level with its range of processors that have breached the 1 Giga Hertz speed. more...

04-Nov-05
Synplicity India upgrades to development center
Synplicity Inc.’s five-year old development center here has moved from being an extension of R&D teams in the U.S. to take on autonomous development projects, some of which are already in progress. more...

03-Nov-05
Programmable logic outpacing MPU industry, Altera exec claims
Programmable logic developers are a decade ahead of the microprocessor industry, and use of the chip technology continues to rise, an Altera Corp. executive told a conference here. more...

03-Nov-05
AMD's India design center to work on 65 nm server chip
With the semi-conductor industry making the transition from 90 nanometer (nm) to 65 nanometer, chip major Advanced Micronic Devices (AMD) Corporation, is ramping up design activities in India, focused on these shrinking chip geometries. more...

03-Nov-05
NASSCOM inks MoU with ITAC to Information Exchange
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), the trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT software and services industry in India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC). more...

03-Nov-05
Customized EDA tools – New business model for EDA The current breed of commercial EDA vendors is composed of a mix of a large number of small to mid-sized point tool providers and a small number of large full RTL to GDSII (and beyond) tool suite providers. more...

03-Nov-05
SOC Design Strategy
In order to deal with shortened product life cycles in a competitive market, STMicroelectronics has been emphasizing reducing design cycle time. more...

03-Nov-05
Designing Products to meet International Regulatory Requirements
As Indian product houses gear up to design and manufacture products for international markets, a key requirement that product designers need to be aware of are the regulatory standards that the products need to comply to, to be able to legally ship to those markets. more...

03-Nov-05
Hitachi Establishes GSC in India
Hitachi Ltd. announced the formation the Hitachi Global Solutions Center (GSC) in India. more...

02-Nov-05
Mobile retail startup raises $10 million
July Systems Inc., a provider of mobile retailing technology with its product development center here, has announced a third round of funding of $10 million led by Motorola Ventures and with additional investments from WestBridge Capital, Silicon Valley Bancshares Financial Group, NeoCarta Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Jumpstartup. more...

02-Nov-05
Tessolve Purchases First Agilent Technologies 93000 Pin Scale System in India
Agilent Technologies announced that Tessolve, an independent semiconductor-test engineering service provider in Bangalore, India, has purchased the first Agilent 93000 Pin Scale system sold in that country. more...

01-Nov-05
Ittiam offers next generation IP video phones
A second internet age is coming after the false start that led to the tech bubble bursting in 2000 and Bangalore based Ittiam Systems is at the global forefront with its solution for what it calls the next generation internet protocol video phone (IPVP). more...

28-Oct-05
India to take stake in fab project
The Indian government will take an equity stake in its proposed "Fab City" project, with its Department of Information Technology (DIT) expected to be the shareholder. more...

28-Oct-05
Indian Semiconductor Industry potential 40 billion dollars:ISA
The Indian Semiconductor Industry had a potential to grow to a 40 billion dollar industry by 2007 and have a huge impact on the Gross Domestic Product of the country, Indian Semiconductor Association Vice Chairman Anand Anandkumar said today. more...

27-Oct-05
SPEL Semiconductor stages further progress
SPEL Semiconductor has increased its sales by 28.6 per cent to Rs. 11.12 crore in the second quarter ended September 30, 2005 from Rs. 8.65 crore in the year-ago period. more...

27-Oct-05
Mistral to use Xilinx logic
Mistral Software, an embedded solutions provider, is now an alliance member of global chip design firm Xilinx. more...

27-Oct-05
Global Designer: Digital TV comes with "India inside"
As HDTV in the United States and Europe gains traction, demand from consumer-electronics manufacturers for tuner and set-top-box chip sets is growing. Among the key suppliers to this industry is Broadcom. more...

27-Oct-05
Intel abandons plans to design Xeon chip in India
India’s ambitions of emerging a global chip design and development hub has suffered a big setback as Intel has abandoned Project Whitefield to develop Xeon processors for servers with more than four processors, a paper reported. more...

27-Oct-05
Decision on Chip manufacturing facility in India by the end of this year : IT and Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran
The government today said that a consortium of overseas Indians is expected to take a final decision on whether to set up a semiconductor chip manufacturing facility in India or not by the end of this year. more...

26-Oct-05
Low power chip by FPGA vendor
With the rise in the need for superior signal integrity and low power consumption, Altera Semiconductor India, a player in the System On Programmable Chip solutions (SOPC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) segment, has come up with third generation FPGA with embedded serial transceiver. more...

26-Oct-05
Tanner EDA signs on TechForce
The California-based Tanner EDA has signed on TechForce as the Indian distributor for its electronic design automation tools. more...

25-Oct-05
Huawei Tech allots $ 100 m for expansion in B'lore
Chinese telecom equipment and software major, Huawei Technologies is expanding its Bangalore centre with a new R&D campus investing $100 million in the next three years, a top company official said. more...

25-Oct-05
Intel shifts plans for server chips
Facing strong competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip-maker Intel Corp. on Monday modified its plans for upcoming server microprocessors, starting in 2007. more...

25-Oct-05
Ericsson to make base stations, switches in India
The Swedish telecommunications major Ericsson will be setting up an R&D facility in Chennai as well as a Global Services Delivery Center (GSDC) in Gurgaon as part of its expansion plan in India that will run into a “hundreds of millions of dollars.” more...

25-Oct-05
Comba Telecom starts India office
Chinese wireless solutions provider Comba Telecom Limited on Tuesday deepened its engagement with India with launch of its local office and said if the growth here allows it would consider setting up research centre and manufacturing facility. more...

25-Oct-05
Synplicity to expand Indian subsidiary
US-based Synplicity, a provider of software tools for design and verification of chips, is keen to increase the scope of work as well as headcount at its R&D center in Bangalore. more...

24-Oct-05
Ericsson bets on hot India
Swedish telecoms equipment giant Ericsson said on Monday it plans big investment in India as it increases its presence in Asia's third-largest economy. more...

24-Oct-05
Researchers propose approach to cut design validation time
Five Indian researchers from the have proposed a new approach to formal property verification. more...

23-Oct-05
Indian chips for Airbus Super Jumbo, Boeing Dreamliner
When the world's largest passenger jet, Airbus A 380, takes to the skies in 2007, it would rely on an Indian chip to communicate with ground controllers. more...

22-Oct-05
Sony plans to tap Indian skills
Struggling electronics and entertainment group Sony plans to tap India's skills to develop more software for products and use its popular content to expand its Indian market share, its Chief Executive Howard Stringer said on Friday. more...

21-Oct-05
Cisco lays foundation for $ 50 m campus in B’lore
Cisco Systems on Friday said it broke ground on a $50 million, 1-million-square-foot campus in Bangalore that will host as many as 3,000 staff in research and development, IT, sales and customer support. more...

21-Oct-05
Huawei gets showcause notice from BSNL
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has issued a showcause notice to Huawei Technologies, asking the Chinese telecom vendor to explain why it should not be banned from having any business dealings with the public sector major. This can affect Huawei's India plans. more...

21-Oct-05
Israel's Surf secures more funding
Israel’s Surf Communication Solutions, a developer of multimedia processing software and boards for telecoms infrastructure, has secured a fourth round of funding from several companies including Texas Instruments, Giza Venture Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital. more...

21-Oct-05
Cisco and the secrets of Chambers
When the Rajah of routers comes calling, can acquisitions be far behind? more...

20-Oct-05
Cisco to invest $1 bn over 3 yrs
Cisco Systems Inc, the world’s largest Internet equipment vendor, today announced an investment of $1.1 billion in India over three years, making it the company’s largest investment outside the US. more...

20-Oct-05
Opto Circuits to acquire European co
Opto Circuits India Ltd has informed BSE that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire a Medical Equipment Company in Europe. more...

20-Oct-05
GDA Tech opens offshore design centre in Kochi
GDA Technologies Inc, a California-based electronic design services company, has set up an offshore design centre here, and announced that it would be developed into a global facility in future. more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco plans to invest up to $1-b in India
Cisco Systems Inc, the world's largest maker of Internet equipment, plans to invest between $500 million and $1 billion in Asia's third largest economy, a leading daily reported on Wednesday. more...

19-Oct-05
Qualcomm to hold developers meet
The California-based Qualcomm, provider of digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other technologies, on Tuesday announced that the BREW 2005 Developers Conference-India will be held on October 26-27 in Mumbai. more...

19-Oct-05
SPIC raises stake in SPEL Semiconductor
SPIC increased its stake in SPEL Semiconductor to 55.62 per cent during the quarter ended September 2005, from 34.97 per cent in the previous quarter. more...

19-Oct-05
forward to be in regular touch with your company
The US-based Juniper Networks, provider of networking and security solutions, has announced a new category for its channel partners — J-Partner Application Acceleration Specialization. more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco banks on innovative technology to shape future of internet
Cisco Systems Inc, the US-based market leader in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies, is credited with transforming the way internet functions today. more...

19-Oct-05
Cellphone TV: The next revolution
At a seminar on content protection, a presentation by Dutch company Irdeto suddenly brought into focus how near we are to mobile TV. more...

19-Oct-05
Flextronics Announces Changes to Board of Directors
Flextronics (NASDAQ:FLEX) , a global leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider, today announced that it has made changes to its Board of Directors. more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco Systems to triple Indian staff
U.S.-based Cisco Systems Inc, the largest maker of Internet equipment, plans to triple its staff in India in three years, President John Chambers said on Wednesday. more...

19-Oct-05
Flextronics Software Q2 net up 26.5%
Flextronics Software Systems Ltd has announced the following results for the quarter & half year ended September 30, 2005: more...

19-Oct-05
Cranes Software approves stock split
Cranes Software International Ltd has informed BSE that the members at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company held on September 27, 2005, inter alia, have accorded to the following: more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco Systems to invest $1 b in India
THE US-based communications networking major Cisco Systems Inc today announced an investment of over $1 billion in India. more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco to triple Indian staff, grow 30%
US-based Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of Internet equipment, plans to triple its staff in India in three years, President John Chambers said on Wednesday. more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco banks on innovative technology to shape future of internet
Cisco Systems Inc, the US-based market leader in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies, is credited with transforming the way internet functions today. more...

19-Oct-05
Cisco CEO on the future of Internet
Cisco Systems Inc, the US-based market leader in the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, is credited with transforming the way Internet functions today. more...

19-Oct-05
IBM unveils global centre in Bangalore
Global giant IBM on Wednesday announced the opening of a global service delivery centre (GSDC) in Bangalore, India, significantly expanding its existing operations to meet the growing market demand for IT outsourcing and management services. more...

19-Oct-05
R&D services on rise: Wipro
Wipro officials today said that R&D outsourcing was on the rise. These high-end services now account for around 36 percent of Wipro's overall revenues. more...

19-Oct-05
Nanoland Ahoy!
Big gates, small gates. Fort gates, logic gates. Open gates, fuzzy gates. While Chinese youth are busy reading Bill at the speed of thought, Indian youth are busy pooling diverse inputs to give India the “nanobuzz” of a generation. more...

18-Oct-05
Research Services Sector in India Grows 35%
R&D and outsourced product development from India accounts for $ 2.3 billion in annual revenues--representing 1.3 percent of the overall global marketplace. But, this number is projected to quadruple in three years, as demand for outsourced embedded software and product development by overseas companies gains momentum. more...

18-Oct-05
Cranes Software Licenses Equbits’ Predictive Modeling Framework
Cranes Software International Ltd., a leading provider of specialized scientific software products & services, today announced a strategic alliance between its wholly owned subsidiary Systat Software, Inc. (“Systat”) and Equbits LLC, the leading provider of SVM based predictive modeling software. more...

18-Oct-05
RFID Makes Headway In India
Historically, RFID is said to be a technology around since World War II, when the British put IFF transponders in planes to identify returning aircraft. more...

18-Oct-05
SPEL Designs Its Way To Enter SC Design
SPEL, Semiconductor Ltd. an integrated circuit (IC) assembly and test company plans to enter into semiconductor design in the coming years more...

17-Oct-05
Designing Dream Machines -- In India
Few folks are surprised to learn that their PC or cell phone was designed by a no-name Asian electronics contractor. more...

17-Oct-05
Tieups key to facing growing complexity in chip design
The semiconductor value chain is evolving as a result of pressures on both demand and supply side. more...

17-Oct-05
Cisco to focus on intelligent network
The President and CEO of Cisco Systems, Mr John Chambers, will be visiting India from October 19-21. He will be meeting with Ministers, senior Government officials, and leaders of Indian industry in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. more...

17-Oct-05
SPEL Semiconductor plans design foray
SPEL Semiconductor Ltd, integrated circuit (IC) assembly and test company, plans to enter into semiconductor design in the next couple of years, according to its Vice-Chairman, Mr Ar. Rm. Arun. more...

14-Oct-05
Microchip tool industry may consolidate’
Companies that make software for microchip design are likely to consolidate to boost efficiency in serving semiconductor makers, according to Silicon Valley-based Cadence Design Systems Inc. more...

14-Oct-05
Sony Ericsson may move R&D to India
In a bid to strengthen its localisation initiative, handset maker Sony Ericsson is planning to move some of its research and development (R&D) work from China to India. more...

14-Oct-05
Keeping Pace with Complex PCB Designs Essential to Drive Growth In SMT Inspection Markets
Surface mount technology (SMT) inspection equipment that meet end-user requirements for improvements in quality, performance and production efficiency are expected to offer a competitive edge to vendors in this market. more...

13-Oct-05
Global Designer: Low-cost handsets gain traction in India
Burgeoning demand from mobile-service operators for ultralow-cost handsets to service price-sensitive emerging markets, such as India, is motivating semiconductor vendors to develop single-chip-handset offerings. more...

13-Oct-05
Buy one, get one free?
Dual cores on a single processor, combined with a shift to 64 bit registers, are poised to launch a new computing era more...

12-Oct-05
ST plans chip manufacturing in India, says report
European chipmaker STMicrolectronics is planning a “fully-fledged” chip manufacturing facility in Greater Noida near New Delhi and has put down about $35 million to acquire a 25-acre plot of land to house the facility, according to a report on Wednesday (Oct. 12) in The Economic Times from New Delhi. more...

12-Oct-05
Delphi's Indian operations will not be affected
Delphi Automotive Systems, the Indian subsidiary of automotive component manufacturing giant Delphi Corp, today said that filing of bankruptcy proceedings in the US by the parent company will not affect Indian operations. more...

10-Oct-05
India's SCL turns to ASIC design services
Semiconductor Complex Ltd. (SCL), a government-owned fabrication facility, has turned to ASIC design services in recent times, and has formed a business relationship with an undisclosed U.S. fabless semiconductor company. more...

10-Oct-05
HID India Private Limited Established to Deliver Contactless Smart Card Products to The Access Control Market
HID Corporation, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, today announced the company has established HID India Private Limited to serve the access control market in India. more...

07-Oct-05
Microsoft's new facility inaugurated
Union communication minister Dayanidhi Maran on Friday inaugurated the new research facility of Microsoft here. more...

07-Oct-05
Broadcom Spends $21.6M on DVB-H Player
Broadcom Corp. will pay $21.6 million for Athena Semiconductors Inc., a DVB-H mobile digital television tuner and low-power Wi-Fi technology player. more...

07-Oct-05
Intel plans Net over power lines
With most of the technical problems in delivering internet connectivity over the electric power lines addressed, Intel Corporation is planning to start the user trials of the technology in India in next few months. more...

06-Oct-05
Sarnoff H.264 Silicon IP Now on ARM Processors for High-Quality Video on Mobile Devices
Sarnoff Corporation and ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY) today announced that the latest H.264 silicon IP codecs which enable video on mobile devices, are now available on ARM(R) processors. more...

06-Oct-05
Flextronics to Expand Presence in India and Build Industrial Park in Chennai
Flextronics (NASDAQ:FLEX) , a global leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India to build an industrial park in Chennai, thereby expanding its existing operations in the country. more...

06-Oct-05
2nd Intel dev centre launched
World's largest chip maker Intel Corporation has rolled out the second phase of its India Development Centre and said the first product designed exclusively for the domestic market would be launched by the year end. more...

06-Oct-05
Now, India eyes semiconductors
India is ready to move beyond software into the very heart of computing and make microchips more...

05-Oct-05
India ready for hardware crown
India is ready to move beyond software into the very heart of computing... and make microchips. more...

05-Oct-05
Big opportunity for Indian software industry in RFID
There is a big opportunity in the development and implementation of RFID (radio frequency identification) based software solutions for the Indian software industry, according to Ravi Mathur, CEO, EPC Global India. more...

05-Oct-05
From Bangalore with chips: India eyes semiconductors
India is ready to move beyond software into the very heart of computing ... and make microchips. more...

05-Oct-05
"Freescale is doubling its patent filing in the next two years"
EDN Asia recently spoke to Sumit Sadana, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Freescale Semconductor, Inc., which was spun out of Motorola two years ago and is charting out its independent path. more...

05-Oct-05
Reference design supports multiple video, audio formats
Ittiam Systems Ltd’s PMPR (portable media player andrecorder), also known as MuV-PaMPR, is a form-factor reference design with nearproduction- ready hardware and software. more...

05-Oct-05
Indian chips are red hot
India is ready to move beyond software into the very heart of computing ... and make microchips. more...

05-Oct-05
India ready to be microchip king
India is ready to move beyond software into the very heart of computing and make microchips more...

04-Oct-05
Cranes ties up with MapuSoft
Cranes Software International Ltd has partnered with MapuSoft Technologies to bring the OSChanger and OS Abstractor software tools to the Indian embedded industry. more...

04-Oct-05
Applied Materials set to extend Indian academic links
Applied Materials said it is planning to work with Indian universities on advanced materials research, device characterization and reliability and nanoelectronics as a means of preparing the sub-continent for a role in semiconductor manufacturing. more...

04-Oct-05
Philips Inaugurates PIC in Bangalore to Develop Latest Technologies
Philips inaugurated a 500,000 square feet Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) in Bangalore to develop latest technologies including chips for healthcare, digital television and mobile handsets. Frans van Houten, CEO, Philips Semiconductors, stated, "Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) is elementary to Philips technology strategy and will become its global competence center to fuel growth and create value in the business areas of Healthcare, Lifestyle & Technology. more...

04-Oct-05
Xilinx, Nu Horizons Expand Relationship
Programmable logic company Xilinx Inc. has expanded its 18-year North American partnership agreement with distributor Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. to include distribution rights in Asia Pacific, including China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and India. more...

03-Oct-05
Intel India appoints new President
Intel Technology India Private Limited today announced the appointment of Franklin Jones as its new President. more...

01-Oct-05
Waiting for ex-pats
In 2005 India's technology sector is still overwhelmingly dominated by its software companies, which generate billions of dollars in revenue and claim a community of about 650,000 software engineers. more...

01-Oct-05
For Cisco’s Chambers, India’s music to the ears
The man in the driver’s seat at the world’s largest networking company firmly believes that India has the potential to be a bigger market than China for his company in the next three to five years. more...

01-Oct-05
India takes aim at nanotechnology research
The promise of new and potentially huge markets has started a gold rush of sorts. Egged by the early success of a few nanotechnology products, such as special coatings for electronics products and fabric, both companies and governments are investing in this virgin territory. more...

30-Sep-05
Jataayu joins Mobilinux platform
Jataayu Software, a vendor of mobile device solutions, said on Thursday that it has joined the MontaVista's Mobilinux Open Framework Partner Programme. more...

30-Sep-05
India, China most favoured by global majors as R&D locations
Developing countries are fast becoming favoured research and development destinations for transnational corporations with China and India being ranked among the top three most attractive R&D locations, according to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2005. more...

30-Sep-05
Philips Semiconductors to make sub-Rs 1,000 mobile
A handset for less than Rs 1,000 might soon be a reality for Indian consumers. Philips Semiconductors has assured the Indian market of a "relevant low cost mobile." more...

30-Sep-05
Bird mulls handset manufacture in India
China’s largest mobile handset manufacturer, Bird, is considering setting up a handset manufacturing plant in India but will decide after talks with supplier and software developers back in China. more...

30-Sep-05
Philips CEO expects slow growth in 2006
The global semiconductor market may have seen a slowdown the first half of this year, but the third and fourth quarters are likely to experience 5 to 6 percent growth, according to Philips Semiconductors chief executive Frans van Houten. more...

30-Sep-05
Philips Opens New Innovation Campus In India
Philips has opened its new Campus in Bangalore, heralding a stage-wise migration from its current location in Ulsoor to this upcoming 500,000 square feet state-of-the-art facility spread over 12.5 acres. more...

29-Sep-05
TCS sets up research lab in Delhi
Country's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has set up its fourth research lab in Delhi to work on emerging technologies like grid computing, collaborative software development to meet the current and future business needs of its customers. more...

29-Sep-05
`Model-based design tools in demand'
The Indian electronics, semiconductors and wireless industries will adopt model-based designing to save time on designs during research and development (R&D). more...

29-Sep-05
MOSFET research growing, says report
Manufacturers are pouring millions of dollars in research to continued refining the metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), which remains the most popular technology at 300 volts and below, according to a report by market research firm Frost and Sullivan. more...

29-Sep-05
Wipro demos video transfer over UWB
Wipro Technologies, the design services arm of Wipro Ltd., demonstrated video transfer between two laptops using ultrawideband (UWB) technology. more...

29-Sep-05
India's TCS launches R&D lab for emerging technologies
India’s largest software services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has opened "iLab," an R&D facility in New Delhi. iLab will focus on emerging technologies that could drive disruptive change in the global technology industry and develop re-usable frameworks using these. more...

29-Sep-05
3G mobile phones on a postage stamp
Freescale's Indian R&D centres had contributed to developing the advanced architecture more...

28-Sep-05
Infotech opens design centre for Alstom Transport
Infotech Enterprises Ltd today inaugurated its second design facility in Bangalore, which will exclusively work for Alstom Transport. more...

28-Sep-05
Mistral offers NMS platforms
Mistral Solutions has announced the availability of Internet Protocol (IP) media processing platforms — CG 6565 and CG 6060, by its partner NMS Communications. The platforms will enable deployment of instant messaging services as well as voice and video services, said a press release issued by the company. more...

28-Sep-05
Analysis: Indian Bluetooth takes a big bite
Indian technology companies view Bluetooth technology with mixed feelings, with some having dropped out of the development race while others continue to bet on its future. more...

28-Sep-05
Infosys plans development centre in Kolkata
Software major Infosys Technologies Ltd today said it seeks to set up a development centre in the city. more...

27-Sep-05
Synopsys Inc partners with ARM
California-based Synopsys Inc, provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software, has announced that it has partnered with ARM for a book - the Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) for SystemVerilog. more...

27-Sep-05
`Increasing design complexity creates need for verification tools
As designs get more and more complex in the fast evolving electronic design industry, verification and testing of design is getting even more tedious, expensive and time consuming. This is increasing the need for electronic design automation (EDA) tools for design verification. more...

27-Sep-05
Indian startup ventures into analog IP
In an unusual move for an Indian high-tech venture, Cosmic Circuits, a six month-old startup here, has ventured into developing analog circuits as intellectual property (IP). more...

26-Sep-05
India gearing for outsourced ESL design
India’s software skill base, growing hardware design skills and the increasing software content in electronics is making the country a likely source of Electronic System Level (ESL) design. more...

26-Sep-05
Swedish firm launches on-air mobile handset servicing
Sweden’s SmartTrust has launched its SmartManage firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) that helps cut operators’ costs of servicing subscriber handsets, by identifying the necessary firmware upgrades and delivering them over-the-air, directly to the handset. more...

26-Sep-05
Ciena to set up research center in India
Telecom equipment maker Ciena Corp. (Linthicum, Md.) will set up a research center at Gurgaon near New Delhi, its first R&D center outside North America. more...

25-Sep-05
Indium Expands Sales and Tech Services in Malaysia, India, and Philippines
Indium Corporation enhances customer service resources in Malaysia, India, and the Philippines with the promotion of Sehar Samiappan to the position of Senior Technical Engineer and the hiring of David Vetharudge as Area Sales Manager. more...

23-Sep-05
Tata readying medical, consumer products
The embedded systems division of Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software services company, said it will unveil products aimed at the consumer and medical electronics and security markets over the next several months. more...

22-Sep-05
SoftJin offering GDSII file compression technology
India’s SoftJin has announced a GDSII compression technology, GDSIIZIP, that it claims compresses the files by up to 20 times, about four to five times better than the commonly-used gzip utility available on Unix. more...

22-Sep-05
Microsoft to push broadband access in India
Microsoft Corp. said it will join forces with telecommunications service providers, PC companies and banks here to offer a broadband and PC package at affordable rates. more...

22-Sep-05
Freescale partners with Indian design houses
Instead of waiting for the Indian semiconductor market to grow, Freescale Semiconductor is partnering with Indian design houses to create solutions around Freescale products for the regional and even global market. more...

22-Sep-05
Evolution of networking in vehicles emerging trend
A growing awareness for the connected vehicle, the evolution of networking in vehicles, conversion of mechanics to electronic systems, more computing power requirements, and semiconductors replacing electromechanical parts, are among the emerging regional trends in automotive electronics, according to Paul Chu, senior executive, Transport and Standard Products Group (TSPG), Freescale Semiconductor. more...

22-Sep-05
Designing chips
Chip Design promises to be the next chapter in the unfolding saga of India’s global ascendance. more...

21-Sep-05
Intel fires 250 employees in India
Faking bills to claim your allowances like conveyance, drivers’ salaries and LTA? more...

21-Sep-05
What's Driving India's Rise as an R&D Hub?
Motorola's two research and development facilities in India helped produce a sub-$40 cellular phone for emerging markets. more...

21-Sep-05
India sets up committee to study innovation, funding
India’s Planning Commission has set up a Committee on Technological Innovation and venture capital that will scan the country’s policy environment for venture capital and examine technological innovation. more...

21-Sep-05
France's TES acquires Indian design firm Purple Vision
France’s TES Electronic Solutions, an independent electronic design and manufacturing company, will acquire Purple Vision, a five-year old provider of design services company based here. more...

21-Sep-05
ENI to strengthen its Indian R&D
Nasdaq-listed Extreme Networks Inc (ENI), which opened its first R&D unit outside the US in Chennai recently, on Wednesday said its Indian centre would be the fastest growing facility globally in the coming years and the headcount here would be doubled by June 30, 2006 to 80 people. more...

20-Sep-05
Cypress Semiconductor plans India campus
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said it planned to set up a new $10 million campus in India to design new products and expected to triple its staff strength in the country for this purpose. more...

20-Sep-05
Infineon to hire 250 pros in India
Munich-based semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies plans to hire 250 professionals in India in the next 18 months, a senior company executive said. more...

20-Sep-05
Conexant Expands India Management Team; Industry Veterans Fill President and Chief Operating Officer Positions
Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home, today announced that Shiva Gowni has joined the company as president of India Operations, and that Naresh Malipeddi, managing director of Conexant Systems India, has been promoted to chief operating officer of India Operations. more...

20-Sep-05
Infineon looks to reduce mobile phone reference platform cost
GSM-based mobile handsets using Infineon Technologies' low-cost chip platform will hit the market in the first quarter of 2006, the company claimed, adding that a tie-up with handset makers will be announced in a matter of weeks. more...

20-Sep-05
India to launch a dozen satellites over 5 years
India plans to launch as many as a dozen communications satellites in the next five years at an overall cost of about $750 million to meet growing demand from providers for direct-to-home broadcast services and very smalll aperture terminal-based services. more...

20-Sep-05
Infineon launches $20 mobile chip platform
Munich based semiconductor company Infineon Technologies has launched its ultra low cost chip platform for sub 420 mobile handsets. more...

19-Sep-05
Indian firm seeks U.S. design partner
D’Gipro Systems, an 18-year-old design house based here, is talking to an unidentified U.S. firm in an attempt to capitalize on the growing need for design services from India. more...

19-Sep-05
Cypress boosts India investment, delays solar decision
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. will invest $10 million here to build a center for strategic product design, and will triple its workforce in India to 600 by 2008. more...

16-Sep-05
NRIs plan $4 bn IT unit in India
A consortium of US-based Indians was in talks with the government to set up a $3-4 billion semiconductor fabrication facility in India, Communications and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran said in Chennai today. more...

16-Sep-05
More technology companies to invest in India
Technology companies like Cisco, Flextronics and Kyocera are keen at tapping the growing Indian technology and telecom market and will invest more to localize productions. more...

16-Sep-05
India's ISRO, Boeing put joint plans on hold
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Boeing Satellite Systems have put on hold plans to jointly manufacture and market two-ton class communications satellites, because of a change in the business plans of the U.S. entity, according to a report by the Press Trust of India.. more...

16-Sep-05
Lack of analog skills cramping Indian design services
India lacks experienced chip designers to meet the needs of its growing design services business, and the outlook is bleaker for analog chip design skills. more...

15-Sep-05
Global Designer: Indian semiconductor companies upgrade engineering skills
Experienced chip designers are becoming an increasingly scarce commodity, as vendors outsource more work to the Indian semiconductor industry. more...

15-Sep-05
Aylus Networks plans R&D center in Bangalore
Aylus Networks Inc. will set up a global R&D center in Bangalore, to work in tandem with the company’s center in Westford, Mass., to build mobility management solutions, enabling service providers deliver mobile broadcast TV/video and multimedia services across multiple access networks. more...

15-Sep-05
U.S. consortium interested in India fab
A consortium of Indian equipment companies in the U.S. has expressed interest in putting up a wafer fab in India, with the Indian government agreeing to the proposal in principle. more...

15-Sep-05
Alcatel, CDOT Form, Joint Venture
French telecommunications company Alcatel and C-DOT (the Center for the Development of Telematics), the Indian government's telecom technology development center, has announced a joint venture in Chennai, India, to design and develop products related to broadband wireless. more...

15-Sep-05
India takes first steps in electronics
In some ways, India is like China was 10 years ago. Back then, many electronics companies began to set up operations in China to take advantage of low-cost labor and to gain access to a huge market. more...

15-Sep-05
Wipro Becomes the First Indian IT Service Provider to Be Awarded Gold-Level Status in Microsoft's Windows Embedded Partner Program
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that it has been awarded Gold-level membership in the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner (WEP) Program as a System Integrator and Independent Software Vendor. more...

15-Sep-05
Alcatel, CDOT Form, Joint Venture
French telecommunications company Alcatel and C-DOT (the Center for the Development of Telematics), the Indian government's telecom technology development center, has announced a joint venture in Chennai, India, to design and develop products related to broadband wireless. more...

15-Sep-05
India takes first steps in electronics
In some ways, India is like China was 10 years ago. more...

14-Sept-05
Flextronics Mulls 2nd India Plant, Report Says
EMS giant Flextronics International Ltd. is planning to spend between $30 million to $50 million to build a second factory in India, and plans to continue to expand its investment in the country beyond that second operation. more...

14-Sep-05
Cypress opening design center in Shanghai
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Wednesday (Sept. 14) said it will establish a regional chip design center in Shanghai, China, to provide IC design and sales support to customers in the Asia. more...

14-Sep-05
Flextronics to set up Rs 450-cr facility
Flextronics is all set to invest about Rs 450 crore in a manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. more...

14-Sep-05
AGEIA Tech chooses nSys verification suite
Verification IP and services provider nSys Inc. said the nSys Verification Suite (nVS) for PCI Express verification has been selected by semiconductor IP company AGEIA Technologies Inc. more...

14-Sep-05
Cranes, MathWorks new offering
Cranes Software International Ltd Wednesday said the company along with MathWorks Inc, makers of 'Matlab' and Simulink Technical Computing & Simulation software, will offer 'Aerospace Blockset 2' in India. more...

14-Sep-05
India should improve on innovation
Is Indian industry too services-oriented and culturally lack the spirit of innovation, or is it on its way to becoming a hub for innovation? more...

14-Sep-05
Study says xDSL test gear vendors must keep up
Fast advancing applications are causing xDSL test equipment vendors-- who had a global market of $358 million in 2004-- to try and match pace with xDSL application development. more...

12-Sep-05
Moschip allots shares to employees
Moschip Semiconductor Technology Ltd Monday said it has allotted 72,401 equity shares to its employees. more...

12-Sep-05
Indian researchers propose new SoC test method
With efficient test access architecture of much interest to the SoC design and test community, two researchers at an Indian technical institute have proposed a design-for-test method for digital SoC designs using a Test Access Mechanism (TAM) switch. more...

12-Sep-05
Intel reportedly puts plans for India plant on hold
Intel Corp. has decided to put off its plans to have an assembly test facility in India, as the Indian government has declined to grant the company the various concessions it had asked for, according to a report in Business Standard Monday (Sept. 12). more...

12-Sep-05
Cypress Names New India Managing Director
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced the appointment of Govardhan Ramachandra as India managing director and country manager, replacing Shiva Prasad Gowni, who is leaving Cypress to pursue another opportunity. more...

12-Sep-05
Intel puts off plans for India chip-testing facility - report
Intel Corp has put off plans to set up a Chip-testing facility in India after the government expressed its inability to grant tax concessions to the company for a 15-year period, Business Standard reported, citing an unidentified government official. more...

10-Sep-05
Sasken lists at 54% premium on BSE
The shares of Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd made a debut listing on Friday on the Bombay Stock Exchange at Rs 400 a share, a 54 per cent premium to its initial public offer price of Rs 260 a share. more...

09-Sep-05
Sasken Communication shares jump on debut
Shares in telecoms software service firm Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd. leapt as much as 121 per cent on their stock market debut on Friday. more...

09-Sep-05
RF semi makers face tradeoffs, says report
Manufacturers of radiofrequency (RF) semiconductors are in a quandary over the strong, continuing demand for compact, economical and power efficient solutions and remain hard-pressed to develop and deliver high-performance devices to stay afloat. more...

09-Sep-05
Low-cost computing, wireless dominate Indian R & D
The annual report of India’s ministry of information technology for 2004 to 2005 has disclosed research and development programs not in the public eye, focusing largely on affordable computing and next-generation wireless communications. more...

09-Sep-05
LG Signs MoU to Expand Greenfield Facility in India; Sets Up Asia's Second-Largest DVD Writer Plant
K.R. Kim-president LG Electronics (LGE) South West Asia and MD, LG Electronics India Limited (LGEIL)-informed that LGEIL has signed an MoU with the Maharashtra Government for expanding its second Greenfield facility at Ranjangaon, Pune. more...

09-Sep-05
LG Signs MoU to Expand Greenfield Facility in India; Sets Up Asia's Second-Largest DVD Writer Plant
K.R. Kim-president LG Electronics (LGE) South West Asia and MD, LG Electronics India Limited (LGEIL)-informed that LGEIL has signed an MoU with the Maharashtra Government for expanding its second Greenfield facility at Ranjangaon, Pune. more...

08-Sep-05
Non-global industry
Contrary to popular belief, the semiconductor industry has never been a global phenomenon. more...

07-Sep-05
Indian VLSI group cites dearth of design skills
Though hundreds of thousands of engineers graduate from over 1,300 technical institutions in India, the numbers of those with VLSI design skills is meager, according to Indian industry group VLSI Society. more...

07-Sep-05
India rushes to the frontline
India has long remained in the shadows of the global economy, but this year, the rigid nation's economic growth rate is one the fastest in the world. more...

06-Sep-05
MindTree launches UWB program for licensable cores
MindTree Consulting has launched a Ultrawideband (UWB) program to create licensable cores of the digital MAC and PHY layers of the UWB technology stack. more...

06-Sep-05
India's Mistral seeks funding by year end
Mistral Software, an eight-year old Indian embedded software and hardware development firm, will decide either a merger, acquisition or infusion of venture funds by the year-end. more...

06-Sep-05
SOC DESIGN IN INDIA
Advances in VLSI manufacturing have enabled designers to place tens of millions of gates on a single die at a reasonable cost and create Systems-on-Chip (SOCs). more...

06-Sep-05
Designing Products to meet International Regulatory Requirements
As Indian product houses gear up to design and manufacture products for international markets, a key requirement that product designers need to be aware of are the regulatory standards that the products need to comply to, to be able to legally ship to those markets. more...

06-Sep-05
Off-shoring EDA software development – Opportunities and Challenges
Off-shoring of Electronic Design Automation [EDA] software development is still largely an unexplored opportunity for EDA companies and EDA groups within semiconductor companies worldwide. more...

06-Sep-05
Customized EDA tools – New business model for EDA The current breed of commercial EDA vendors is composed of a mix of a large number of small to mid-sized point tool providers and a small number of large full RTL to GDSII (and beyond) tool suite providers. more...

06-Sep-05
Power Key To IC Design Success
As the sophistication of the IC design community in India grows, so too do the challenges it faces. more...

06-Sep-05
Emerging Trends in Communications Test
Communications technologies and the devices incorporating them are developing at a frantic pace. more...

06-Sep-05
IPTV – Ready to Takeoff
Ten years after the initial hype of TV services over broadband networks, IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is poised to takeoff in a big way. more...

06-Sep-05
CAD for chip and package co-design
In the modern electronics world, there is an ever-increasing demand for high speed, compact and low cost systems. more...

06-Sep-05
Indians make the world’s tiniest transistor
Two non-resident Indian scientists have created history by making the world's tiniest transistor entirely from carbon nanotubes. more...

05-Sep-05
VIA launches chipset for Pentium 4
Chip maker VIA Technologies Monday announced the launch of VIA P4M800 Pro chipset in order to provide affordable Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) solutions equipped with multimedia and connectivity features. more...

05-Sep-05
New ventures ahead
A chip design and product development culture is rapidly developing in India, Vinod Dham, founding partner of Newpath Ventures, told an audience of about 100 people at a panel discussion hosted by the US-India Venture Capital Association here recently. more...

05-Sep-05
India plans for fab, nanotech in 2005-06
India’s ministry of information technology has charted out its plan for 2005-2006, which, for the first time in several years, includes the allocation of ‘seed money’ to create a special purpose vehicle (a holding company) to establish a fabrication facility through government-private partnership. more...

05-Sep-05
Alcatel Dials Up Major Deal in India
Paris-based telecom provider Alcatel got the nod from the Indian government’s Union Cabinet to set up the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) Alcatel Research Center in India’s southern region of Chennai. more...

05-Sep-05
Interrupt-driven keyboard for MCS-51 uses few components
Designers of micro-controller based products that require a keypad for user data entry can select from dedicating an input line for each key, continuously polling the keypad’s x and y lines, or generating an interrupt whenever a user presses a key. more...

02-Sep-05
Study: India to be handset manufacturing hub by 2006
India has emerged as the second largest mobile handset market in the world and is poised to become a global hub for mobile handset manufacturers by early 2006, say industry observers. more...

02-Sep-05
India, U.S. expected to sign science and technology deal
The U.S. and India will sign an Indo-US Science and Technology Umbrella Agreement that is expected to resolved lingering intellectual property issues, according to India’s minister for science and technology. more...

01-Sep-05
Global Designer: Ecosystem supports collaborative product development
ADI's (Analog Devices Inc's) India development center is focusing on DSP design and application engineering and helping Indian companies develop products for domestic and international markets. more...

01-Sep-05
SIA, FSA in talks over Indian chip industry
The India Semiconductor Agency (ISA) has entered into tie-ups with overseas bodies, and is in talks with the Fabless Semiconductor Association and the Semiconductor Industry Association, as part of a rapid expansion of efforts to establish a semiconductor industry in India. more...

01-Sep-05
Intel’s Rugged PC : No Problem with Dust, Bugs, Intermittent Electricity or No Phone Lines
Intel Corporation has showcased a rugged PC designed for developing countries that can better handle harsh climates, intermittent electricity, dust and bugs while accessing the Internet without wires. more...

01-Sep-05
New `Vistas' of Viivacity
Previews provided of the shape of things to come, will both excite and disappoint lay users more...

01-Sep-05
Elcoteq takes telecom manufacturing services to India
Elcoteq Network Corp., a Finland-based EMS company focused solely on the communications technology segment, has established assembly operations in Bangalore, India. more...