19-May-07
NXP eyes Indian e-passports order
The world's leading microchips maker NXP Semiconductors is pitching for a multi-million dollar order from the Indian government to supply chips for electronic passports (e-passport), according to official sources.
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19-May-07
Does India really need to chip in?
Former AMD founder and CEO Jerry Saunders once notoriously quipped, “Real men have fabs.”
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18-May-07
Intel India contributes 50 per cent to global revenues
The contribution of India to Intel’s global products is on the rise.
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15-May-07
CIPSA-RIC India to expand operations
CIPSA-RIC India Pvt. Ltd, an Indo-Spanish company based here and specialising in producing printed circuit boards (PCBs), is investing $10 million to expand its operations, including setting up of a second facility.
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14-May-07
Taiwanese chip firm wants to set up fab unit in India
A Taiwanese-based chip manufacturing company has expressed interest to set up a fab unit in India at an investment of $3billion.
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14-May-07
Bartronics commissions smartcard facility
Bartronics India Ltd has announced the commissioning of its new smartcards manufacturing facility — the first of its kind in India — set up about 40 km outside Hyderabad.
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14-May-07
CIPSA-RIC to invest $10 m
CIPSA-RIC, a manufacturer of printed circuit boards, plans to invest $10 million in expanding its production capacity by four times to 40,000 sq. per metre per month.
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09-May-07
LSI-Agere merger plans full-chip design in Bangalore
LSI Logic announced May 4 that it had completed its merger with Agere Systems effective April 2, and that it would rename the newly merged company LSI Corp.
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06-May-07
IBM copies pattern-creating process to build better chips
How are snowflakes, seashells and teeth enamel formed?
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04-May-07
LSI Logic, Agere complete merger
Chip solution firms LSI Logic and Agere Systems have completed their merger, effective from April 2.
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03-May-07
Indian firm sets out to be "the TSMC of design"
Rahul Sud, a veteran of the semiconductor industry having worked at Inmos, Lattice Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics, has helped create LogicFab Ltd., an Indian startup company that he would like to see become "the TSMC of design."
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01-May-07
SemIndia helps create supply chain for wafer fab
SemIndia is helping develop a complete ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in the Fab City region of Hyderabad.
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01-May-07
Designing the fastest Intel platform
T
he hardware design group at NVIDIA’s Bangalore facility has spent most part of the last 2 years huddled over design plans, and actual silicon.
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01-May-07
Cost-effective PSWIs
Pure sine-wave inverters (PSWIs) produce a clean AC output, for instance 230V/50Hz, when provided with a 12 or 24V DC source.
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01-May-07
Fast triple play service with complete GPON systems solutions
GPON (gigabit passive optical network) is a new technology allowing for Gigabit connectivity via optical cable to individuals houses, apartment buildings and offices.
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01-May-07
Next-generation storage interface technologies
As servers are pushed to meet advancing system and computing requirements, reducing total cost of storage ownership becomes increasingly critical.
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01-May-07
Designs “in” India “for” India
Just a few years ago, the hub for design, manufacturing, and consumption of electronics goods were the developed
regions of the US, Japan and Europe.
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01-May-07
Moving up the value chain
There was little surprise amongst the design community in India when Intel (www.intel.com) announced in late February that a 20-member team lead by Vasantha Erraguntla at its India Development Centre (IIDC) played a key role in creating the world’s first teraflop chip.
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