25-Sept-06
China, India poised to dominate semiconductors, analysts say
The Asia-Pacific region will cement its status as the epicenter of the global semiconductor industry during the next five years, as manufacturing, consumption and intellectual property will be increasingly concentrated in China and India, analysts said Monday (Sept. 25).
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24-Sept-06
Panelists debate financial viability of fab units here
Providing historic data of the semiconductor companies globally, JP Morgan expert, Mr Bhavin Shah, today questioned the wisdom and feasibility of setting up the semiconductor facility in India.
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22-Sept-06
Study: Indian design firms prefer time and material model
Most independent semiconductor design firms in India have adopted the time and material-based model allocating specific tasks to be carried out within set time lines, according to a study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA). more...
22-Sept-06
Freescale partners with Indian design houses
nstead 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.
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22-Sept-06
Nortel to up sourcing from India
Nortel Networks, the $10.5 billion global networking equipment provider, is in the process of increasing its sourcing from India.
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22-Sept-06
Wind River showcases safety critical solution
Wind River Systems, a leader in device software optimisation (DSO), showcased its safety critical solution, VxWorks 653, for the aerospace and defence sectors at a seminar here on Thursday.
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21-Sept-06
Report: Huawei reconsiders India plans
China's Huawei Technologies will abandon its application to India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to implement local manufacturing of CDMA-based terminals, according to a report from New Delhi in The Business Standard Thursday (Sept. 21).
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21-Sept-06
Analog Devices India MD
Analog Devices Inc announced that it has promoted Dr Reddy Penumalli to the new position of Managing Director, Analog Devices India.
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21-Sept-06
Synopsys, Nikon to collaborate
Synopsys Inc, leading semiconductor design software company, and Nikon Corporation, a supplier of lithography equipment for microelectronics manufacturing announced on Thursday that they would be collaborating on development and delivery of advanced lithography software models and DFM enabled lithography manufacturing solutions for 45 nanometer and below.
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20-Sept-06
Einfochips joins Tensilica program
Einfochips, provider of cutting edge ASIC design and verification services, embedded systems solutions and IP cores, announced that it has joined the Tensilica Xtensions Design Center Partner Program to offer system-on-chip (SOC) design services for customers using Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores.
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19-Sept-06
India's eInfochips joins Tensilica partner program
Design/verification services and intellectual property provider eInfochips Inc. has joined the Tensilica Xtensions Design Partner program and will offer SoC design services using Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores, the company said Tuesday (Sept. 19).
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19-Sept-06
India reportedly delaying Huawei expansion plans
China's Huawei Technologies is reportedly nervous about delays in gaining government approval of its investments here.
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19-Sept-06
Now, multiple lasers on a silicon slab
They have shrunk the light-amplifying laser and squeezed over two dozen of them on a stamp-sized slab of silicon!
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19-Sept-06
Huawei's concern over pending FDIs
Huawei Technologies is "concerned'' over the time taken by the Indian Government to clear two of its applications for foreign direct investment (FDI).
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18-Sept-06
Vignani gets $4 million funding
Value engineering services provider Vignani Technologies Pvt Ltd, will receive venture funding to the tune of $4 million from a group of VCs including Intel Capital, Jaffco, Nomura group and KT Ventures.
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18-Sept-06
Jabil's New Chennai Unit Coming Soon
Jabil, a global provider of electronic product solutions, has started the construction of a new manufacturing facility in Chennai which will come up at a total investment of more than $70 million.
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18-Sept-06
Jabil Circuit to set up facility in Sriperumbudur
Jabil Circuit Inc, a global leader in electronic product solutions, plans to invest more than $70 million in a new facility in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.
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15-Sept-06
Study: Indian design takes off
Design starts in India are growing in both number and complexity, according to a study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA).
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15-Sept-06
SEMI surveys India manufacturing
Executives from global semiconductor association SEMI visited India recently to survey and analyze the growth of semiconductor manufacturing here.
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14-Sept-06
India seeks bids to upgrade government fab
IBM and Atmel Corp. figure to be the main bidders for upgrading Semiconductor Complex Ltd.'s fab that produces chips for India's space program and military, according to reports here.
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14-Sept-06
`Good scope for silicon materials industry foray'
India has an opportunity to enter the silicon materials industry. "India may get into the materials process, especially with the rise of the solar cell industry here," said Mr Vinod K. Agarwal, Chairman of SemIndia, speaking to Business Line at the sidelines of a round table discussion on `Changes in Semiconductor: Industrial Landscape and implications for India' organised in the city recently.
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13-Sept-06
UWB, Zigbee chipsets revolutionize WPANs
The unprecedented increase in consumer demand for wireless connectivity is the prime driver of growth in the ultrawideband (UWB) and ZigBee chipset market.
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13-Sept-06
IBM, Atmel bid for SCL fab upgrade
IBM and Atmel Corporation figure among key bidders for upgrading the fab facility of Semiconductor Labs, it is reliably learnt.
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13-Sept-06
Solidworks plans to expand VAR network in India
Solidworks Corp., a 3D design software company, announced its plan to increase its value-added reseller (VAR) network strength into B class cities in India.
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12-Sept-06
Fight over Fab City project
The Fab city project of Hyderabad faces a hurdle as the Finance Ministry and Department of Information Technology (DIT) battle over standard operating procedures (sops) for the semiconductor industry and chip making facilities.
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12-Sept-06
Fab City faces hurdle
The tussle between finance ministry and information technology department over sops for the semiconductor industry and chip making facilities is upsetting calculations of the likes of Intel and AMD which is a partnering a group of NRIs promoting SemIndia.
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12-Sept-06
Spel to invest $250 mn
Spel Semiconductor, integrated chip (IC) assembly and testing company, has chalked out an investment budget of $250 million (about Rs 1,150 crore), spread over five years to increase its advance packaging capabilities, its existing capacities and to fund acquisition from 2-3 years from now.
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12-Sept-06
Cadence eyes India advantage for chip development
Global chip design major Cadence is joining hands with domestic educational institutions to create opportunities for the growth of the semiconductor industry.
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11-Sept-06
India's SPEL expands packaging capacity
IC assembly and tester SPEL Semiconductor Ltd. has opened a $5 million leadless molded package facility as part of a $250 million expansion plan.
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11-Sept-06
Cisco, IIT-Roorkee tie-up
Cisco Systems, has partnered with Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, for advanced research on mobile agent technology.
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11-Sept-06
Centre to announce hardware policy soon
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that the Central Government would soon announce a policy for the hardware industry.
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11-Sept-06
ISA, NXP Take Stock Of Semiconductors
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the national body for the Indian semiconductor industry, organised a round table discussion on 'Changes in Semiconductor: Industrial Landscape and implications for India'.
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11-Sept-06
Huawei opens new facility in Bangalore
Huawei Technologies India, in next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators, has opened a new facility in Bangalore to develop optical network products and WLAN solutions for its worldwide customers.
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09-Sept-06
Indian researchers unveil processor test framework
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai and Intel's validation and test solutions center at Austin have teamed to unveil a unified framework for generating functional tests for processors, at the recent VLSI Design and Test 2006 conference in Goa in western India.
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09-Sept-06
Nortel to source more from India
Nortel has said that it will significantly enhance its procurement from India and China to serve the booming telecom market in Asia.
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08-Sept-06
Nortel to procure more from India, China
Telecom giant Nortel said Friday that it would increase its procurement from India and China with the Asian telecom market growing big.
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08-Sept-06
NVIDIA's products now in India
NVIDIA announced the availability of its latest seven series products in Indian markets.
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07-Sept-06
Chaos reigns at Intel India
A cloud of uncertainty seems to be over Intel India, two days after the world’s leading chipmaker announced its plans to restructure the organization, implying layoffs of about 10,500 employees globally at a managerial level by the end of this year.
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06-Sept-06
Electronics Design Industry Needs A `Spark Of Energy'
Saugat Sen, engineering group director, Cadence Design Systems India Ltd, has called upon electronics design industry players to come up with the `spark of energy' to connect various levels of ecosystems which would stand the domestic industry in good stead in the global scenario.
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06-Sept-06
Electronics Industry: India To Call The Shots
Pradeep Kumar, president, ST Microelectronics, predicted that the electronics industry is slated to grow above global GDP due to new Indian geographical markets.
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06-Sept-06
Intel plans entrepreneur program in India
Intel Corp. will build on its academic program here with a technology entrepreneurship initiative in partnership with the University of California at Berkeley.
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06-Sept-06
Intel remains committed to India
World's largest PC chipmaker Intel, which has announced layoff of 10,500 employees worldwide, on Wednesday said it remains committed to India and plans to invest over 1 billion dollars in the country.
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05-Sept-06
Sequence Holds Low-Power Design Seminar
Sequence has recently organized a low-power design seminar in Bangalore.
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05-Sept-06
Philips Semiconductors India Rechristened
Philips Semiconductors has unveiled the India chapter and introduced the new company -- NXP Semiconductors India – where the acronym `NXP’ stands for `Next Experience’.
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05-Sept-06
New opportunities opening up
Of the $3.25 billion design market in India in 2005, embedded software contributed 78 percent at $2.53 billion; VLSI, 18 percent at $0.58 billion; and hardware/board design, 4 percent at $0.14 billion.
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05-Sept-06
R&D outsourcing in the semiconductor industry
As the pressure increases for companies to ensure better returns on their R&D investment in order to remain competitive in a market that is getting extremely feature driven, many see outsourcing their R&D as a strategic move.
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05-Sept-06
NXP India plans $328 m R&D push
NXP Semiconductors India, earlier known as Philips Semiconductors India, announced it will invest close to $328 million in R&D over the next five years to capture a pie of the local semiconductor market — considered one of the fastest growing in the world.
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05-Sept-06
Lattice targets 15% market share
US-based Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, which launched its sales operations in India last week, is targeting a 15 per cent market share in the programmable logic devices (PLD) segment over the next five years.
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05-Sept-06
NXP Semiconductors' investment plans
NXP Semiconductors (India) Pvt. Ltd., formerly Philips Semiconductors (India) Pvt. Ltd., will invest Euro 255 million as it starts functioning as a new company, after moving out of the fold of Philips on being acquired globally by five private equity investors in August.
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04-Sept-06
Philips hives off Indian semiconductor biz to new entity
Following the move to sell-off its global semiconductor business, Philips said on Monday that it has hived off its semiconductor business and research in India into a new entity.
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04-Sept-06
Philips Semiconductors to be renamed NXP
Philips Electronics’ chip unit that was hived off from the parent company earlier this year would be christened NXP Semiconductors India.
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04-Sept-06
Big scope seen for offshoring engg services
A Booz Allen Hamilton study has estimated an additional $40 billion opportunity for the Indian IT industry by 2020 from offshoring of engineering services alone.
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04-Sept-06
Taiwan chipmakers turn to Chennai, Hyderabad
Bangalore too expensive for setting up manufacturing units.
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02-Sept-06
3000+; Flextronics to go on a hiring spree
Close on the heels of private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co (KKR) acquiring 85% stake in the company, Flextronics Software Systems on Wednesday outlined its expansion plans.
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01-Sept-06
Huawei Opens New Facility In India
Huawei Technologies India has opened a new facility in Bangalore to develop optical network products and wireless LAN solutions.
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01-Sept-06
Bosch Expands Bangalore Operations
In a bid to expand its operations in India, Robert Bosch India has launched its ‘Clean room’ at their headquarter in Bangalore.
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01-Sept-06
India, Taiwan meet to explore chip partnerships
A 19-member team from the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) visited India's silicon hub Bangalore to explore partnerships in chip design and embedded software with its counterparts in the sub-continent. more...

01-Sept-06
Huawei Tech opens new facility
Huawei Technologies India has opened a new facility in Bangalore to develop optical network products and wireless LAN solutions.
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01-Sept-06
SemIndia firms up funds for phase I
The promoters of SemIndia project, a $3 billion multi-phase semiconductor complex, slated to come up near Hyderabad, have got into the execution mode for the first part of the $1 billion project - a test and assembly line that would see an initial investment of $100 million.
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01-Sept-06
Consumer electronics fueling EMS industry growth in India
The growing Indian economy is fueling a massive consumer boom.
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31-Aug-06
ISA, TSIA Talk Collaboration
India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) recently organised a panel discussion in Bangalore on 'Opportunities and areas of cooperation between Taiwan and India'.
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31-Aug-06
MosChip approves warrants issue
MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd has informed the BSE that its board of directors on Thursday approved issue of 16.5 lakh convertible warrants on a preferential basis.
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