01-Jul-10
"For Us Even Small Customers Are Important, As We Believe That Large Customers Were Also Small At Some Point Of Time"
Texas Instruments (TI) is the world leader in analogue, microcontroller and digital signal processing technologies.
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17-Jun-10
Semiconductor mkt set to grow by 22%
India’s microchip market is set for a robust compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.1 per cent, according to a report released by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA).
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17-Jun-10
ISA to start chapters in Pune soon
Bobby Mitra, chairman, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA), on Wednesday said the association would soon start regional chapters in Pune to support local semiconductor industries for better industrial growth.
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17-Jun-10
India semiconductor revenue to cross $8 billion due to localization of manufacturing
The Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) has updated its India semiconductor market study report.
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01-Jun-10
India to become multi-billion USD PV manufacturing hub: Prasad
India is poised to become a multi-billion dollar manufacturing hub for photo voltaic (PV) value chain but the main challenge before the industries would be to reduce costs associated with PV manufacturing and installations, a top solar industry official said in Mumbai.
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01-Jun-10
Embedded Systems Conference announced
ESC India 2010 will be the largest embedded event in India and is aimed at those who are actively seeking to upgrade their design expertise, knowledge and skills.
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31-May-10
Cadence's Ahuja discusses EDA360 vision
Cadence Design Systems Inc. recently launched a global initiative called the EDA360 to counter the threat of profitability gap that faces the EDA industry.
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29-May-10
Karnataka: 'Tech address'ing the world
Karnataka is a formidable avatar when it comes to the tech front.
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25-May-10
At FPGA Camp it was not Xilinx v/s Altera v/s Lattice Semiconductor
At the recently held FPGA Camp in Bangalore, the 1,2,3 vendors of FPGA industry namely Xilinx, Altera and Lattice Semiconductor were not seen so much as competing to influence design engineers in using their products, but it was more of a joint effort to spread the use of FPGA in India.
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11-May-10
12 investment proposals cleared under semiconductor policy
The Centre has given an ‘in-principle’ approval to 12 of the 15 investment applications received for incentives under the existing semiconductor policy.
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10-May-10
India Semiconductor Association members elect Bobby Mitra as Chairman
India Semiconductor Association (ISA)'s members have elected Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, President & Managing Director, Texas Instruments India as the new Chairman and Dr. Pradip K Dutta, Corporate VP & Managing Director, Synopsis India as the Vice Chairman of ISA for the year 2010-11.
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10-May-10
Local biz bags opportunity for chipsets
Freescale Semiconductor, a manufacturer of microcontrollers, microprocessors and semiconductors, will start shipping eight core system-on-chip processors to India in this quarter, with an aim to tap the potential of the telecom infrastructure in the country.
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10-May-10
‘Low chip power is the top consideration for designers’
Semiconductors touch our lives at every level, and in the years to come, their impact will increase manifold.
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15-Apr-10
IIT Bombay, Applied Materials Collaborate On Renewable Energy
IIT Bombay, India’s highest rated university and a leader in education and research, and Applied Materials, Inc., the world’s largest supplier of equipment to the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries, announced today they will broaden the scope of their ongoing research collaboration to develop new energy-related initiatives.
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13-Apr-10
India based semicon tester Tessolve gets VC funding and merges its business with DTS
India based semiconductor chip tester Tessolve Services is gaining stronger foothold in the fast growing business of outsourced semiconductor test services.
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08-Apr-10
Tessolve gets Reliance Venture funding
Tessolve Services, an independent full-service semiconductor test and product engineering company operating out of India, has received funding from Reliance Venture Asset Management.
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01-Apr-10
Magma Design appoints Alok Mehrotra as MD, India operations
Magma Design, provider of chip design software, appoints Alok Mehrotra as Managing Director of the company’s India operations.
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29-Mar-10
De Core to soon produce white LEDs from its opto-semiconductor fab at Noida
De Core Science and Technologies with its expertise in designing optoelectronic application specific semiconductor devices using advanced material such as Aluminum Indium Gallium Nitride is soon to produce LEDs from its India's first advanced semiconductor fab (AlInGaN facility) at Noida Special Economic Zone, in the city of Noida.
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25-Mar-10
India’s first nanosemiconductor plant in Gujarat
India’s first Compound Nanosemiconductor Plant to manufacture semiconductor chips is coming up in Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
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23-Mar-10
'India is a good place to acquire talent'
Synopsys, a global provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software for semiconductor manufacturing, is gung-ho about the engineering talent available in India.
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22-Mar-10
Technology in the classroom
The Karnataka Education Department and chip-makers Intel are scouring the state to identify a taluk they would like to work with.
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17-Mar-10
Why a made-in-India chip remains chimeric
Nine months after the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) made public its intent to spearhead a national initiative on India Microprocessor, a public-private programme, forming a special purpose vehicle called Zerone Corporation, to design and develop a microprocessor at an initial investment of about $200 million (Rs908 crore) in collaboration with the ministry of information technology (IT), the latter remains non-committal about the project.
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17-Mar-10
Freescale seminars in Delhi Pune and Hyderabad
Freescale Semiconductor India has launched Designing With Freescale Market Solutions seminars, which will be held in Delhi (April 6-7), Pune (April 13-14), and Hyderabad (April 20-21).
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16-Mar-10
Magma Announces Agenda for MUSIC India Users Conference
Magma Design Automation Inc, a provider of chip design software, today announced the final agenda for the MUSIC India users conference in Bangalore on March 30.
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15-Mar-10
Flash memory market to grow for another 10 years
The storage technology concept used in flash memory is all about locking few electrons beyond a dielectric wall by applying little higher voltage.
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12-Mar-10
SanDisk to ramp up its R&D centre in India
SanDisk is ramping up its R&D centre in India for its worldwide IT operations so that over the next five years the centre will emerge as a Centre of Excellence.
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03-Mar-10
Laptops are old, future is of new class of devices
ARM is a leading provider of processors for mobile phones and other electronics devices.
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02-Mar-10
Budget reaction from Freescale Semiconductor India
Ganesh Guruswamy, Vice President and Country Manager, Freescale Semiconductor India:
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01-Mar-10
Solar Attraction
Having carved a niche in global software development and services outsourcing, India seemed all set to take on the rest of Asia in the chip manufacturing business.
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25-Feb-10
ISA budget recommendations for enhancing competitiveness
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) has submitted its budget recommendations to the government of India.
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25-Feb-10
Best consultants related to India's electronics and semiconductor industry
For private original design and manufacturing electronics companies based in India, it's tough walk in competing with well-established firms in US, EU and few Asian countries.
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25-Feb-10
India Semiconductor Association suggests extending India semiconductor policy to 2015
India Semiconductor Association (ISA) has requested the Government of India (GOI) to extend the benefits of semiconductor policy announced in 2007 to March 2015, where the present deadline is Mar 2010.
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24-Feb-10
Create More Electronic Mfg Clusters in India: ISA
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the trade body representing the semiconductor driven industry in India is requesting the government to consider promoting existing clusters and create new electronic manufacturing clusters in the country.
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24-Feb-10
India Semiconductor Association names best and brightest
The India Semiconductor Association (along with U.K. Trade and Investment) has conferred the TechnoVisionary award for 2010 on Kumar N Sivarajan, co-founder and chief technology officer, Tejas Networks.
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20-Jan-10
Automotive IC market will see 16% rise in 2010
Semicast Research Ltd, forecasts that the automotive semiconductors global market will rise 16 per cent in 2010 to reach Rs.86.152.90 crore ($18.4 billion).
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19-Jan-10
Chitkara Univ. collaborate with Seer Akademi in offering M.Tech in VLSI
Chitkara University of Punjab has announced a new Masters program (M.Tech/M.E.) in Microelectronic Systems to train highly qualified specialists in the field of very large scale integration (VLSI) design and embedded systems.
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19-Jan-10
India's hottest applications in 2010
Over the last decade, technology has changed our lives drastically.
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19-Jan-10
Storage and networking semiconductor specialist LSI increased its India's R&D strength
Storage and networking semiconductor device specialist LSI has expanded its R&D center in Pune, India to house more VLSI engineers.
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18-Jan-10
Texas Instruments now gears up to tap IT products & services market
Over two decades ago, semiconductor company Texas Instruments (TI) triggered the offshoring wave and the growth of Bangalore as the Silicon Valley of India when it set up a development centre.
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13-Jan-10
Designing for the next upturn
Escalating complexity has threatened to derail the IC industry from the extraordinary 35 per cent annual reduction in transistor pricing it has enjoyed the past 40 plus years.
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09-Jan-10
After digital makeover, tech chips now oil hot wheels
The difference between the car engine of your ancestors and the one you have is just one: the latter has a chip, or a few more, on the
old block.
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09-Jan-10
The 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design
The 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design along with the 9th International Conference on Embedded Systems was held at NIMHANS Convention centre , Bangalore from January 3rd to January 7th 2010.
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08-Jan-10
VLSI design conference pushes affordable tech

The 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design and the 9th International Conference on Embedded Systems was inaugurated at the NIMHANS convention centre in Bangalore by wirelessly lighting the traditional lamp.
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06-Jan-10
Semiconductor industry bullish on emerging markets
After facing tough times due to the economic slowdown, the semiconductor industry is set to grow in the coming months mainly fueled by the high demand in emerging markets.
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04-Jan-10
Xilinx to showcase its India team's design strength at VLSI Conference, Bangalore
The FPGA semiconductor vendor, Xilinx to display its products and solutions at the 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design between January 5 and 7, 2010, in Bangalore.
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02-Jan-10
Microchip designers to display smartware for cars at the expo
Auto shows may not be events traditionally associated with chipmakers, but microchip designers are expected to be out in full force at
the upcoming Auto Expo 2010, a testament to growing role of microelectronics in the world of autos.
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31-Dec-09
2010 offers challenges and opportunities

While the global economy is heading towards a recovery after the worst of recession that the world has witnessed in the recent times, 2010 offers greater challenges and opportunities for the semiconductor and EDA industries, said Jaswinder Ahuja, corporate vice president and managing director, Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd.
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30-Dec-09
More opportunities open for India electronics design
The most remarkable progress made in India in recent years has been the adoption of high technology products in a variety of environments.
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29-Dec-09
2010 signals recovery of new product designs
The electronics industry has survived the toughest recession period of 2008-2009 and thankfully, that period is coming to an end.
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28-Dec-09
Hardware: Riding out of downturn
The global downturn and weak buying sentiments dented sales of computers and IT products in the country during the first half of 2009, although renewed consumer confidence backed by domestic growth lifted flagging demand ahead of the festive season.
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21-Dec-09
ST Micro engages solidly with Indian power semiconductor market
In Indian semiconductor market, the share of power semiconductor ICs is slightly high compared to any other leading semiconductor-consuming regions.
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18-Dec-09
Chip makers betting big on security technology
Even in a country where the campuses of several technology firms are high-security areas, the revolving, turnstile door at the entrance to NXP Semiconductors bears testimony to the company’s claim that it takes security seriously.
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