31-Aug-07
KarMic celebrates its anniversary
The Karnataka Microelectronic Design Centre (KarMic) organised Srishti to commemorate its eighth anniversary celebrations recently, said a press release from the KarMic.
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31-Aug-07
Fab companies now drive PC designs
The PC market in India has taken the unconventional route with major chipmakers like Intel and AMD coming out with new designs for computers that appeal to masses both in terms of price and value.
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31-Aug-07
Kolkata to have a Rs 100 crore ‘India Design Centre’
Kolkata will soon have a dedicated semiconductor facility conforming to international standards.
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31-Aug-07
NXP bringing global back-end design to India
NXP, the E5-billion semiconductor giant, is expanding the scope of its activity in India, which includes alliances with leading academic institutes.
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31-Aug-07
Semiconductor mkt to touch $5.49 bn in 2009
Global chip majors may not be rushing to India but the Indian semiconductor segment is showing potential with the total market revenues expected to reach $5.49 billion in 2009 driven by telecom, IT, power and broadcasting equipment.
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30-Aug-07
NXP Works with Indian Academia to Foster Research, to Invest $1.5mln
NXP Semiconductors announced that it has signed an agreement with IIT Delhi to fund research activities in India.
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28-Aug-07
Synopsys Lowers the Cost of Semiconductor Testing at Tessolve
Synopsys, Inc. , a world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced that Tessolve has adopted Synopsys' DFT MAX scan compression solution to reduce the costs of semiconductor testing and diagnostics.
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27-Aug-07
Q-Cells wins $170 million order from India
Solar Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has said it has signed a supply contract with Q-Cells AG (Thalheim, Germany) worth $170 million.
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24-Aug-07
Chip design testing lab delayed by a year
Semiconductor chip designers may have to wait for some more time to get exclusive rights for their new chip designs.
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23-Aug-07
Hindustan Semiconductor plans $2 bn fab in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh is on course to become the fab capital of India.
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21-Aug-07
TI bets big on Indian electronics
Almost two decades after Texas Instruments (TI) set up its R&D base in Bangalore, it is eyeing the Indian market in a big way, thanks to the buoyancy in the local electronics products market, notably cellular handsets.
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21-Aug-07
‘Blank optical discs have huge potential'
The semiconductor policy gave a boost to chip making in India.
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19-Aug-07
InSilica Steps Up High-End R&D in Bangalore Center
Fabless US semiconductor company InSilica Inc is positioning itself to grab a slice of the ASIC and mobile imaging ASSP market by ramping up its largest design center, in Bangalore, India.
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16-Aug-07
Chip Design Services Set Sail Offshore
After years of working for tech companies like California Micro Devices and Motorola, Gerald Smith wanted to spend the rest of his analog engineering career involved in independent, hands-on tinkering.
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16-Aug-07
India facing hurdles in luring chip investment
The semiconductor policy that sought to boost chip making in India was announced with much delay and lot of fanfare in March this year.
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13-Aug-07
SoftJin Adopts Hybrid Business Model – Announces New Offerings And Customer Wins
SoftJin Technologies, a customized EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool development company, announced that it is adopting a hybrid model composed of outsourced R&D services and EDA Products.
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10-Aug-07
Freescale opens MCU contest for designers in India
Freescale Semiconductor is offering engineering students and embedded developers in India the opportunity to enter their 8-bit microcontroller-based projects in a design contest.
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09-Aug-07
ISA spots six states to push investments
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the apex body representing semiconductor firms in the country, has identified six markets as potential destinations.
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09-Aug-07
4 October: Embedded Systems Conference India
Supported by Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA), CMP Technology has launched Embedded Systems Conference India (ESC India) that will be held at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru, from 4 to 6 October 2007.
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09-Aug-07
CMP Technology to organise embedded systems conference
US-based marketing solutions provider CMP Technology will organise the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India in collaboration with the Indian Semiconductor Association in Bangalore.
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07-Aug-07
Virage Logic acquires Ingot Systems
Virage Logic Corp. has acquired Ingot Systems Inc., a provider of intellectual-property (IP) and design services to the semiconductor industry.
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07-Aug-07
Chip design automation - the next big thing
The Indian product market, worth $110 million in 2004, is expected to be $1 billion by 2015.
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07-Aug-07
Freescale Launches Embedded Design Contest in India
Freescale Semiconductor has launched its embedded design contest in India that offers engineering students and embedded developers the opportunity to turn great designs into 8-bit innovations.
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03-Aug-07
Wipro makes a quality pitch
“In just five years, Wipro has gone from millions to billions, rewriting the rules of global competition and becoming one of the world’s leading IT service companies,” writes Steve Hamm in his 2006 book “Bangalore Tiger”, which chronicles the growth of the company.
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03-Aug-07
TCS rides high on innovation
With operations in 50 countries, global revenues of US$4.3 billion and almost 89,000 employees of 67 nationalities on its payroll, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has come a long way from its modest beginnings in 1968.
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03-Aug-07
HCL soars
When you need software for mission critical applications like controlling airplanes or computer networks, HCL Technologies is a sound bet. At least, Cisco and Airbus seem to think so.
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01-Aug-07
Govt proposes Rs 1,000cr polysilicon facility
In an effort to boost solar cell and semiconductor manufacturing in the country, a proposal to set up a 2,500 tonne polysilicon facility, has been proposed under the 11th Five Year Plan by the office of the principal scientific advisor to the government.
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01-Aug-07
ISA, VSI Announce Winners Of Technovation Awards 2007
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and the VLSI Society of India (VSI) recently announced the first Technovation Awards 2007.
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01-Aug-07
India-born Stanford academic wins top ISA award
Krishna C Saraswat, an India-born engineering professor at the Stanford University in the US, has become the first recipient of the Techno Visionary award of the Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) for lifetime achievement in the field of electronics.
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01-Aug-07
Nvidia to expand in India
Nvidia, a fabless semiconductor and graphics solutions company, has commissioned its Hyderabad development centre and plans to significantly step up its India presence.
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01-Aug-07
‘Time for thrust on chip design, manufacture’
“India is already leading in high-level chip design. Now what we need is manufacturing,” said Prof Krishna Saraswat, Stanford University, who was in the city to receive a lifetime award by trade bodies – India Semiconductor Association and VLSI Society of India – on Tuesday.
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31-July-07
India Semiconductor Association creates first honors list
A joint initiative of the India Semiconductor Association (ISA), & the VLSI Society of India (VSI) have created the first ‘Technovation Awards' in India to boost awareness of the semiconductor and related tech industries developing in the country and to encourage the academic fraternity to participate in its development.
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