25-Dec-07
India set to become hub for ATMP
India is on course to become the hub of assembly-test-mark-pack (ATMP) facilities.
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24-Dec-07
Indian chip design firms acquiring for scale, R&D
Indian information technology companies, such as Wipro Ltd, Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd and MindTree Consulting Ltd, which offer chip-design services, are in an acquisitive mode to consolidate their position in the global market.
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24-Dec-07
Axiom sets up R&D facility in Manipal
Axiom Design Automation India - the semiconductor design solutions company - has set up a research and development facility at Manipal.
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20-Dec-07
Altera eyes higher sales from defence
US-based Altera Corporation, which provides programmable logic technology with software tools and embedded systems to various industries, is betting big on India for growth with telecommunications and defence sector opening up in the country.
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18-Dec-07
Three firms apply under India's fab policy
Three companies have so far formally applied, while more than a dozen other firms have made enquiries in order to take advantage of the India semiconductor and electronics manufacturing policy announced earlier this year, a top government official has said.
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17-Dec-07
Techfarm to fund IChip
Techfarm Ventures, a US-based company which incubates technology start-ups and provides venture capital funds, is set to fund IChip Technologies.
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15-Dec-07
Xilinx sees big potential here for nextgen innovation
Fabless semiconductor solutions provider Xilinx Inc has created a new software and application development arm at its research and development centre in Hyderabad to complement its ongoing product development business.
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14-Dec-07
Xilinx developing 60 IP cores
Xilinx, a $2-billion fabless semiconductor company, is developing 60 IP cores from its Hyderabad R&D centre, the biggest outside the U.S.
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14-Dec-07
Semiconductor ind not high priority for govt: AMD
2007 saw some of the biggest international names making an India stopover.
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14-Dec-07
IT sector gets investment plans worth $25 bn
India’s efforts to emerge as a hi-tech manufacturing hub has just got the much-needed leg up.
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13-Dec-07
Report: Fab delay forces SemIndia to make routers
The delay to SemIndia Inc.'s plans to have India's first major semiconductor manufacturing facility has forced it to start making early next year next-generation wireless routers and home-computer networking equipment, and later get into high-volume production of low-cost set-top boxes.
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12-Dec-07
Electronics buyers weigh pros and cons of India
India has grabbed a great deal of attention lately as a possible electronics center.
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12-Dec-07
SemIndia focuses on broadband gear as Fab City project delayed
Hyderabad-based SemIndia Systems Pvt. Ltd, a unit of a company with plans to make semiconductor chips, intends to start making next generation wireless routers and other home computer networking equipment by the first quarter of 2008 and follow it up with high volume production of low-cost direct-to-home and other television set top boxes two months later.
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11-Dec-07
Solar Semiconductor Introduces World-Class Photovoltaic Solutions Using a Fully Automated Manufacturing Process
Solar Semiconductor, the solar power industry's newly ISO 9001-certified high-quality photovoltaic (PV) module producer, today introduced its family of world-class PV modules.
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11-Dec-07
'We need people with research mindsets'
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker has lined up very ambitious plans for India, both from its R&D operations and the market.
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11-Dec-07
India playing lead role in new chip: AMD chief
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Thursday opened its third R&D facility in India.
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10-Dec-07
Beceem Leads the WiMAX Revolution Right Here in India
Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), the leading provider of terminal chipsets for Mobile WiMAX, today announced that more than 10 commercial Mobile WiMAX devices have been designed with Beceem’s industry leading BCS200 chipset, and will be shipping into Mobile WiMAX networks around the world in 2008.
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10-Dec-07
Vitesse to invest $21m in India centre
US-based Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, which provides semiconductor solutions for communications and storage networks worldwide, will be investing $21 million (about Rs 84 crore) in its India design centre at Hyderabad over the next three years.
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08-Dec-07
Vitesse Semiconductor expanding operations here
Semiconductor design services provider Vitesse today announced plans to expand its Indian operations based in Hyderabad where it plans to invest $3 million during the fiscal year.
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07-Dec-07
Vitesse Announces Strategic Investment in Hyderabad, India
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets: VTSS) today announced plans to significantly increase its presence in Hyderabad, India, where it currently manages a design-development center.
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07-Dec-07
Wipro-NewLogic to provide turnkey IC supply services to Leica
Wipro-NewLogic, the Austria-based IC design and semiconductor IP company of Wipro Ltd., is to provide turnkey IC supply services to spatial information products company Leica Geosystems AG, a part of the Hexagon Group of Sweden.
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07-Dec-07
SPEL Semiconductor achieves highest ever revenue in Nov`07
SPEL Semiconductor achieved highest ever revenue of USD 2 million in November 2007.
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06-Dec-07
11 Dec: Programmable Solutions India 2007
Xilinx, Inc. is hosting Programmable Solutions India 2007 with Xilinx India sales representative company CG-CoreEl on 11 December 2007 at Taj Residency Hotel, Bengaluru and on 13 December 2007 at Sheraton Hotel, Hyderabad.
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05-Dec-07
Xilinx Hosts Programmable Solutions India 2007
Xilinx, Inc. announced that it will host Programmable Solutions India 2007 with Xilinx India sales representative company CG-CoreEl on December 11, 2007 in Bangalore and December 13, 2007 in Hyderabad.
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04-Dec-07
Ruiz: AMD bent on bouncing back
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is focused on returning to profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said during a visit to India last week.
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03-Dec-07
Symphony to focus on embedded software biz
Product engineering outsourcing services provider Symphony Services is focusing on the embedded systems and software business, and expects this to contribute around 40 per cent of its revenue in a few years.
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03-Dec-07
10th TIDC opens with innovative products on display
Texas Instruments (India) today opened the 10th Texas Instruments Developer Conference (TIDC) with demonstrations of a wheelchair that is operated by neuro signal processing using TI’s MSP430 microcontroller and ‘Intelligent Sensors’ that use TI’s Da Vinci technology to reduce energy consumption in offices.
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03-Dec-07
eInfochips plans 9th offshore devt centre
Ahmedabad-based eInfochips, which specialises in providing outsourcing of electronic design solutions and services, intends to set up its ninth offshore development centre (ODC) in India shortly.
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03-Dec-07
Indian auto developer gains Spice certification
KPIT Cummins, a prominent Indian software company developing automotive electronics and semiconductor products, has been certified at a higher level for using an auto design language.
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03-Dec-07
World Eco Forum-India Eco Summit: What happened today?
On the second day at the World Economic Forum - India Economic Summit, there wasn’t much news on the policy front.
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02-Dec-07
Innovation to fore at Texas Instruments meet
India’s footprint now extends across the entire spectrum of tasks involved in the making of a compelling consumer or industrial electronics product - from concept to circuit design to chip and board realisation, all the way to the creation of a fully functional reference design that potential manufacturing customers can tweak to roll out the item in large numbers.
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01-Dec-07
Designers deliver great value
Despite the inexorable upward trend in employee compensation, companies with captive design operations, and those outsourcing to third-party providers in India are able to realize a cost advantage of 30 to 40 percent, observes Mayank Jain of market research firm InStat.
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