09-May-08
Global semiconductor industry: India to buck the trend
A sharp drop in US consumer spending, driven by high energy prices and the subprime turmoil, has started hitting the global semiconductor industry.
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08-May-08
'Chip designers should collaborate'
With technology and economics becoming inseparable in the present-day consumer-driven market, the movers-and-shakers of the semiconductor ecosystem have begun to speak loud of recasting the industry by giving thrust to `collaborations'.
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07-May-08
AMD discloses 12-core server chip
Advanced Micro Devices disclosed a conservative road map for 45nm server processors using six and twelve cores through 2010.
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07-May-08
Indian semiconductor ecosystem changing, panelists say
Top executives from the Indian and global chip industry think the semiconductor ecosystem in the country is poised for takeoff.
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01-May-08
3G chipmakers line-up to enter India
Even though India is yet to issue licences for mobile telecom services based on third-generation (3G) technology, major semiconductor makers are projecting that sales of 3G-enabled chips for handsets will soar globally.
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28-Apr-08
Tax exemption expiry worries Indian IT firms
The uncertainty about extending the 10-year tax holiday for IT companies have left Indian chip design houses in a quandary.
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28-Apr-08
Indian semiconductor industry to face heat of US recession
It is the turn of Indian semiconductor industry to feel the heat of US recession and dollar depreciation after its big brother - the software industry was jolted by the tightening of IT spending by US-based firms.
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24-Apr-08
Silence on tax exemptions hurting Indian startups
Uncertainty about extending a 10-year tax holiday for IT companies have left Indian chip design houses in a quandary.
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24-Apr-08
Embedded green design contest
The challenge is for engineering students and professional developers to ‘go green’ using a range of advanced Freescale technologies to build environmentally beneficial embedded systems.
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23-Apr-08
Chip design services market seen at $7.4 b
The Indian semiconductor and embedded design services industry is expected to cross $7.37 billion in 2008, said a report published by the Indian Semiconductor Association and IDC (India) Ltd.
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23-Apr-08
Chip design services to grow at 22%
The Indian semiconductor design services industry is projected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.7 per cent, to $10.96 billion by 2010, from the present level of $6 billion.
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23-Apr-08
India semicon design industry to grow 21.7 %
Indian semiconductor and embedded design service industry is estimated to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 21.7 per cent between 2007-2010, according to a report unveiled by The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and IDC (India) today.
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22-Apr-08
Indian design services clock US$ 6bn in 2007
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the trade body representing the Indian semiconductor driven industry and IDC (India) Ltd, launched the "India semiconductor and embedded design service industry (2007-2010): Market, technology and ecosystem analysis".
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22-Apr-08
Indian design market to cross $7.37-bn in 2008
The Indian design market is expected to cross $7.37 billion in 2008, according to a joint report by India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and IDC India.
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21-Apr-08
RIL, Ballard Power in fuel-cell parleys
Reliance Industries and Ballard Power Systems, a Vancouver-headquartered pioneer in fuel cell technology, are in talks for a partnership in India.
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17-Apr-08
Fab City: Solar units rule the roost
The much-hyped Fab City has run out of land, without any other fab unit save one.
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16-Apr-08
Qualcomm to invest in Indian start-up cos
San Diego-based, global patent holder for CDMA chip, Qualcomm Inc said on Tuesday that it would be investing in Indian start-up Companies offering innovative technologies and services that enhance wireless communications and semiconductor ecosystems.
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16-Apr-08
The coming of age of India's embedded industry
The electronics industry in India is undergoing a gradual—but inexorable—transition from a software-driven outsourcing model to one increasingly focused on the growth and development of the domestic market.
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15-Apr-08
Freescale opens embedded green design contest
Elevating the environmental potential of embedded systems design, Freescale Semiconductor announced that it is accepting entries for the company's green design contest.
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15-Apr-08
Investments Come to Growing Indian Tech Companies
Indian companies, which offer innovative technologies and services to enhance the wireless communications and semiconductor ecosystems, may benefit from the investment offer from Qualcomm.
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15-Apr-08
Qualcomm ups VC stake in India
Qualcomm Incorporated has said it would invest in Indian wireless and semiconductor start-up firms.
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12-Apr-08
Hyderabad's Fab City bags $4 bn investment
The much-hyped Fab City in Hyderabad got the boot as the semiconductor hub of India, but now it's been reenergised attracting almost USD 4 billion in investments.
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09-Apr-08
TI, India in pact to develop medical electronics
Texas Instruments has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur's School of Medical Science and Technology to develop semiconductor technologies for cheaper medical electronics.
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09-Apr-08
Global semiconductor industry: India to buck the trend
A sharp drop in US consumer spending, driven by high energy prices and the subprime turmoil, has started hitting the global semiconductor industry.
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09-Apr-08
Tandberg opens R&D centre
Norwegian company, Tandberg, a provider of telepresence and high-definition video conferencing solutions has set up its R&D centre in Bangalore, with an aim of tapping the engineering talents available in the country.
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08-Apr-08
Analog design alive and growing in India
A decade ago, Anand Valavi had an idea for starting an analog design group at his company, Wipro Technologies, where he worked as an ASIC engineer.
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08-Apr-08
AMD says no job cut in India operations
Global chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which has decided to lay off about 1,600 employees worldwide due to business slowdown and losses, said it would not lead to any job loss in its India operations.
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08-Apr-08
TI ready to shift gear
Semiconductor maker Texas Instruments (TI) will shift its focus from research and development (R&D) to new business opportunities in India.
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08-Apr-08
Tandberg Inaugurates First R&D Facility In India
Tandberg, a global provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing and mobile video solutions, has built its first research and development (R&D) technology centre in India.
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08-Apr-08
Telepresence Firm Opens R&D Center in Bangalore
The recently inaugurated first Indian R&D center of Tandberg in Bangalore will create new intellectual properties for the company.
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08-Apr-08
Bangalore to house TANDBERG's R&D Technology Centre
TANDBERG has inaugurated its research and development (R&D) technology centre in Bangalore, India.
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05-Apr-08
SanDisk aims at booming memory chip mkt
Riding high in number of electronic devices using extended memory cards, SanDisk Corp. a $3.9 billion company announced to extend its operations in India.
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05-Apr-08
Climbing the Offshoring Value Chain
The Indian brand in outsourced offshore services has become a scooping up 70% of the global business, and now it may be time to move beyond brawn to brain clambering up the value chain by offering not just business process services but knowledge-based research and development.
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05-Apr-08
Chipset makers join local cos for cheaper mobiles
In a bid to drive down mobile handset price to under $20 (approximately Rs 800), chipset manufacturers are now partnering with companies other than the top 5 vendors.
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04-Apr-08
Reliance, 5 others commit Rs 65,000 cr for fab units
Six companies, including Reliance Industries (RIL), Videocon, Moser Baer and Signet Solar, have committed investments worth Rs 65,000 crore to set up semiconductor and other micro-technology units in the country.
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04-Apr-08
Indian chip policy nets $16 billion in manufacturing proposals
Electronics and semiconductor manufacturers here are looking to work with the Indian government to pull together proposals for establishing a chip fab, an LCD plant and solar manufacturing facilities.
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04-Apr-08
RIL to invest Rs 30K cr in fab plants
Govt's incentives for the semi-conductor industry draw seven proposals worth Rs 65,000 crore.
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03-Apr-08
Indian government gets proposals worth 650 bln rupees for semiconductor plants
The Indian government said it has received seven proposals envisaging an investment of 650 billion rupees in response to its special incentive scheme for semiconductor fabrication and other micro and nano technology manufacturing industries.
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03-Apr-08
Reliance to enter semiconductor business
Mukesh Ambani has decided to take his company into cutting edge manufacturing. He is venturing into the complex and capital-intensive business of making semiconductors, the chip that run computers.
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03-Apr-08
RIL to set up semiconductor fab, solar photovoltaic units
Marking the largest-ever project under the new semiconductor policy, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has approached the Government with plans to set up a semiconductor wafer fabrication plant and solar PV module unit, at a total outlay of over Rs 30,000 crore.
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03-Apr-08
Reliance mulls $7.55 bln chips projects
Indian petrochemical maker and oil refiner Reliance Industries Ltd has submitted two proposals totalling $7.55 billion to build semiconductor and micro-processor making units, the government said on Thursday.
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02-Apr-08
TI, IIT-Kgp in medical tech pact
Texas Instruments (TI), the global information technology company, has signed a four-year collaborative agreement with the School of Medical Science and Technology of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), to develop semiconductor technologies that will help improve the quality, comfort and accessibility of healthcare in India.
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02-Apr-08
Texas Instruments eyes Indian entertainment industry
With hundreds of theatre screens coming up across India in 2009, Texas Instruments (TI) — a leading semiconductor technology company — is eyeing the Indian cinema market with its digital light processing (DLP) technology.
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02-Apr-08
IIT foray in medical device research
Research in medical technology in the country has received a boost, with IIT Kharagpur joining hands with Texas Instruments for a four-year programme.
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01-Apr-08
Texas Instruments pact with IIT
Texas Instruments Inc (TI) has signed a first of its kind collaborative agreement with IIT Kharagpur's School of Medical Science and Technology, to develop research projects devoted to medical electronics innovation.
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01-Apr-08
Pricing Optimism Boosts SanDisk
Investors are betting that stabilizing chip prices and expansion in India will improve fortunes for SanDisk.
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01-Apr-08
Texas Instrument, IIT Kharagpur Ink Collaborative Research Agreement [TXN]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) signed a collaborative agreement with the School of Medical Science and Technology or SMST, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur or IIT KGP, to develop semiconductor technologies for quality healthcare, according to an announcement made by Biswadip Mitra, managing director of Texas Instruments India, and Ajoy Ray, head of SMST, IIT KGP.
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01-Apr-08
Texas Instruments and IIT Kharagpur to collaborate on breakthrough medical technology research
Texas Instruments Incorporated has signed a collaborative agreement with the School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, to develop semiconductor technologies that will help improve the quality, comfort and accessibility of health care.
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31-Mar-08
India unveils more incentives for solar power
India's renewable energy ministry has announced a new program designed to expand solar power generating projects up to a maximum capacity of 50 megawatts.
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31-Mar-08
`India is not yet ready'
Sir, This is with reference to the article, `To fab or not to fab.' written by M. Ramesh, which appeared in eWorld dated March 10, 2008.
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28-Mar-08
India's people power is also its problem
One of India's biggest challenges is managing its biggest strength: its deep well of young and talented people.
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26-Mar-08
Bhagyanagar India JV allotted 25 acres land in Fab City
Bhagyanagar India Ltd has announced that M/s. Fab city SPV (India) Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of APIIC has made an allotment of 25 Acers of land (initially 10 Acres and has reserved 15 Acres for future use) on lease in the Fab City, Hyderabad to the Joint Venture Company "M/s. Surana Ventures Ltd", jointly promoted by the Company & M/s. Surana Telecom and Power Ltd for setting up the Solar Photo Voltaic Cell and Module Project.
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26-Mar-08
Innovative Semi CEO hatches incubator fund for Asia, eastern Europe
Nabil Takla, founder and chief executive of Innovative Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), is teaming with a few like-minded semiconductor industry executives to start a tech incubator fund that will assist companies in Asia and eastern Europe.
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24-Mar-08
Plenty of companies vie for design services in India
Electronics companies are embracing the philosophy that they must find partners to help conceive and design new products as quickly as possible.
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19-Mar-08
Kolkata to have chip design facility by mid-2009
West Bengal will have an India Design Centre (IDC), the first-of-its kind in the country, at the Salt Lake Sector V.
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19-Mar-08
Kolkata IT hardware design arm flagged off
The dream project of the West Bengal information technology (IT) department, The Indian Design Centre (IDC) to house semiconductor design and fabrication units and relevant infrastructure, was flagged off today at Salt Lake Sector V.
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19-Mar-08
Semiconductor research centre soon in Kolkata
India’s first semiconductor research and chip designing hub is being set up in public private partnership mode in Kolkata at an estimated investment of Rs 100 crore.
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18-Mar-08
TI high-performance analog team meets in India
The core growth engine for Texas Instruments could be high-performance analog, in the opinion of its president and CEO, Rich Templeton.
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18-Mar-08
Indian researchers propose hybrid approach to embedded software evaluation
Simulation-based performance evaluation of software on a customized processor is accurate but can be very slow, according to researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IITK), who have instead proposed a new hybrid approach for software performance evaluation.
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18-Mar-08
One-stop VLSI shop in WB soon
West Bengal will soon have a one-stop VLSI (very large-scale integration) shop in the form of India Design Centre, the first of its kind in India.
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18-Mar-08
Signet Solar to invest Rs 2,000 cr to make photovoltaic modules
The US-based Signet Solar today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu to put up a Rs 2,000-crore project to manufacture ‘thin film photovoltaic modules’ at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.
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18-Mar-08
Signet to set up Rs 2K cr photovoltaic unit in India
It will be the California-based firm's largest global facility.
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18-Mar-08
NRIs setting up manufacturing unit
U.S.-based firm Signet Solar Inc. on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the State government to set up a Rs.2000-crore manufacturing facility near Chennai.
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18-Mar-08
SSI to invest Rs 2,000 cr for solar PV facility near Chennai
US-based manufacturer of silicon thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, Signet Solar Inc (SSI), will be setting up its first manufacturing facility in India at Sriperumbudur near Chennai.
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18-Mar-08
ARM fortifies design operations in India
ARM has opened larger offices in India to house expanded operations.
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17-Mar-08
Signet Solar to invest Rs 2,000 cr to make photovoltaic modules

The US-based Signet Solar today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu to put up a Rs 2,000-crore project to manufacture ‘thin film photovoltaic modules’ at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.
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17-Mar-08
Signet signs MOU with TN to set up manufacturing unit
Signet Solar Inc, manufacturers of silicon thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, will set up its first manufacturing plant at Sriperumbudur at an investment of Rs 2,000 crore and has signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu government in this regard on Monday.
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17-Mar-08
Signet signs MoU with TN for Rs 2k cr project
Signet Solar Inc, manufacturer of silicon thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government on Monday to set up a Rs 2,000-crore facility at the Sriperumbudur special economic zone.
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16-Mar-08
Hynix Plans Business Expansion in India
Hynix Semiconductor, the world’s second-biggest computer chipmaker after Samsung Electronics, is expanding its business in India, apart from China and Taiwan.
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14-Mar-08
Indian designers seek to ride out U.S. downturn
Indian designer companies maintain they are better prepared than earlier in the decade to ride out a U.S. economic downturn, saying they have spread their risks.
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13-Mar-08
Chip makers may curb hiring on US slump
With recessionary trends in the US economy appearing imminent, semiconductor firms – particularly the global companies operating captive design centres in India – are expected to hire fewer engineers in the next financial year.
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13-Mar-08
ARM Extends Design Center In India
ARM today announced the opening of larger offices in India to house expanded operations that will lead to its becoming the second largest design center for the company outside its Cambridge, UK headquarters.
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13-Mar-08
India may soon house ARM's largest chip design center
Chip designer ARM has extended its design center in Bangalore, India, adding room to double the number of staff there to 700 from the 350 it currently employs.
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13-Mar-08
ARM's India design centre to be world's second largest
World's leading chip designer firm ARM is expanding its India design centre to make it the largest outside Britain, a top company official said here Thursday.
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13-Mar-08
India study recommends more university chip R&D
A study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) concludes that India needs a network of dedicated research centers focusing on chip technology research.
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13-Mar-08
Study moots public-private partnership for chip R&D
Semiconductor-related research activities in technical institutions are still largely supported by the Government (contributing 85-90 per cent to overall funding), and the top seven institutes in India account for bulk of the semiconductor research work undertaken in the academic institutes.
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13-Mar-08
B`lore-based chip makers tailoring products for local market
From designed in India to designed for India.
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11-Mar-08
Study On Semiconductor-Related Research In India!
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) has released 'A study on the status of semiconductor related research in Indian universities'.
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10-Mar-08
Three sub-segments
For the uninitiated, semiconductors is all about etching infinitesimally thin lines of circuits on extremely thin wafers of silicon and packing layers of such wafers into tiny, black cuboids — chips.
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10-Mar-08
Domestic market will drive future growth
Product engineering industry in India is growing fast and expanding beyond the telecom and computing domains to automotive, medical devices, industrial electronics, consumer electronics and of course, mobile devices.
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10-Mar-08
To fab or not to fab...
The debate splits the industry right down the middle.
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10-Mar-08
Fewer captive R&D projects coming to India
In offshore software product development, India has been on the radar of tech firms aiming to trim costs and gain efficiency of operations for nearly a decade.
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