30-May-06
Intel plans to invests $1 billion for India in next five years
Paul Otellini, in his first visit to India as president and chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, described the pivotal role India plays in Intel’s World Ahead Program, which seeks to accelerate access to technology and education for people in the world’s developing communities.
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29-May-06
Chipping in, to counter China
Welcome to the second instalment of our chat with Norwest Venture Partner's Promod Haque.
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26-May-06
Chip leaders announce Power Forward initiative
Leading members of the global chip design and manufacturing industry came together on Monday to announce a `Power Forward' initiative.
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26-May-06
Synopsys acquires Virtio Corporation
Synopsys Inc., a leader in semiconductor design software, on Tuesday announced that it is expanding its presence in electronic system level (ESL) design by acquiring Virtio Corporation, creator of virtual platforms for embedded software development.
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25-May-06
CSR teams up with Freescale
Bluetooth chip maker CSR and embedded firm Freescale Semiconductor are collaborating to create Bluetooth reference designs.
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25-May-06
Cranes Soft to merge operations
Cranes Software has announced its decision to merge the operations of its wholly owned subsidiary, Engineering Mechanics Research India Ltd(EMRC India).
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25-May-06
India delaying 3G rollout, says report
India’s Dept. of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked the privately-owned wireless proposed data services based on EVDO (evolution data optimized) technology to delay rollout until the government comes out with its policy for third-generation (3G) services.
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25-May-06
Flextronics Launches Next Generation WiMax Signalling Solution
Flextronics Software Systems (formerly Hughes Software Systems) has launched SigASN, a signalling framework for developing the WiMax Forum defined ASN Gateway.
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25-May-06
Mistral Delivers Curtiss Wright's GLX4000
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has made available the new GLX4000 series physical layer switch, the latest addition to Curtiss-Wright's LinkXchange family of products.
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25-May-06
Report: Dell to set up India plant
Dell Inc., the world’s largest computer maker, is seeking a location in India to set up a manufacturing plant by the year’s end, according to a Press Trust of India Report from New Delhi.
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25-May-06
HP expands IP licensing program to Asia
HP announced the opening of an intellectual property (IP) licensing center to serve the fast-growing Asia Pacific market. more...
25-May-06
Blue Vector opens new India design and sales center
Blue Vector, growing provider of RFID management appliances, announced the opening of its India center in Bangalore.
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25-May-06
Go for a career in embedded systems
Why is it that a great many software professionals (in their mid-30 s) are being seduced by a career in embedded systems, the latest wave in technology?
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25-May-06
India preps policy to promote high-tech manufacturing
India’s IT ministry has prepared a draft policy that proposes a package of incentives for companies that establish cutting-edge manufacturing facilities for semiconductors, solar cells, flat-panel displays, storage devices and telecom gear.
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24-May-06
ATI chipsets for AMD processors
ATI Technologies, a $2.2-billion design and manufacturer of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions, has announced that its new chipset will power the new generation of AMD processor-based PC users.
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24-May-06
Suzhou Industrial to focus on software cos
China's Suzhou Industrial Park International Science Park (SIPIS), which developed office space for global IT, financial services and R&D companies, has decided to focus its fifth phase exclusively on software, IC (integrated circuit) design and animation companies.
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24-May-06
Intel set to chip in with much more in india
Chip maker Intel will boost its India story with new initiatives planned to accelerate technology accessibility, internet connectivity and effective education.
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23-May-06
India tries to get its fab groove going
Although India has a reputation as a desirable location for semiconductor design, it has had a difficult time attracting investors to build leading-edge chip plants.
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23-May-06
Freescale launches RS08-based 8-bit microcontrollers
Freescale Semiconductor is offering engineers easy entry to its expansive micro controller portfolio with an ultra-low-end, sub-50-cent 8-bit device small enough to fit in the head of an electric toothbrush.
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23-May-06
Intel set to chip in with much more in india
Chip maker Intel will boost its India story with new initiatives planned to accelerate technology accessibility, internet connectivity and effective education.
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23-May-06
Intel plans chip testing facility in India
Global chipmaker Intel Corporation plans to set un an assembly-cum-testing plant in India instead of a fab facility, a top company official said here Tuesday.
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23-May-06
Intel eyes assembly and test facility in India
Intel Corp. is negotiating with India about setting up an assembly and test facility there, but the microprocessor giant would not give details, according to its president and CEO, Paul Otellini.
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23-May-06
Infineon equipped 65-nm CMOS process technology cell phone chip in the market
Infineon Technologies AG announced that the first cell phone chips equipped with its advanced 65-nm CMOS process technology are now available.
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23-May-06
eInfochips join hands with US-based ARM Technology
"Our collaboration would enable eInfochips to be seen as a one-stop shop for customer requirements ranging from ARM processor-based silicon design and verification to board-design, embedded firmware and support for mass manufacturing," said Tapan Joshi, VP of marketing at eInfochips.
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22-May-06
Freescale Semi microcontroller
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced an 8-bit microcontroller for traditional electro-mechanical designs and portable applications ranging from motor control to use-and-toss health care products.
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20-May-06
AMD sets target of 30% market share by 2008
Sunnyvale, US-based chip major Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has set itself an ambitious company-wide target of garnering 30 per cent market share across all segments globally by 2008.
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20-May-06
Siemens division, Huawei-3Com tie-up
The Communications Enterprise Network (Com EN) division of Siemens has entered into a strategic alliance with Huawei-3Com, which is a joint venture of 3Com, U.S., and Huawei of China, to offer futuristic IP based voice, data and video network solutions, which optimise the total cost of ownership for Indian enterprises. more...

19-May-06
Xilinx launches device for semi-conductor designing
Xilinx, a player in the programmable logic devices (PLD) market, has unveiled the newest version of its Virtex family of domain-optimised field programmable gate array (FPGA), for designing of chips.
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19-May-06
Use of re-programmable chips gaining momentum
Customers of consumer electronics products are constantly demanding new features in the devices they are using. more...

19-May-06
HelloSoft solutions to power 15 dual-mode mobile handsets
HelloSoft, a supplier of signal processing technology and software defined radio solutions for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), WiFi, cellular and other converged markets, expects its solutions to be in 15 dual-mode mobile handset models by the end of this year.
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19-May-06
Xilinx unveils energy efficient chips
Xilinx unveiled faster, smaller FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays, basically re-configurable chips used in electronic devices) that consume 35 per cent less power than the previous ones.
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19-May-06
Siemens in pact with Huawei-3Com
Siemens Ltd has tied up with Huawei-3Com to offer Internet protocol-based voice, data, and video network solutions to enterprise customers in India.
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18-May-06
TSI to open development center in India
TSI Incorporated of the U.S., a leader in measurement systems and advanced diagnostic tools for aerospace, defense and environment requirements, plans to open a research and software development center in India. more...

18-May-06
Synplicity and Xilinx create Design Task Force
Synplicity Inc. and Xilinx Inc. today announced the formation of joint Ultra High-Capacity Timing Closure Task Force. more...

18-May-06
India revives materials center
The Indian Ministry of Information Technology has re-established the Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET), to develop viable technologies for use in electronics.
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18-May-06
AMD unveils energy efficient processors
AMD has unveiled energy-efficient desktop processors that would suit the consumers expectations of a smaller more elegant personal computers that deliver the same performance as larger systems.
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17-May-06
France's TES to expand Bangalore center
Electronic design and manufacturing services company TES Electronic Solutions said it would invest $5 to $10 million to expand its Bangalore center, acquired last year.
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17-May-06
Synplicity unveils visibility enhancement technology
EDA tool vendor Synplicity Inc. will launch a visibility enhancement technology code-named "TotalRecall" by the end of the year.
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17-May-06
Cisco deploys integrated communication network
Cisco Systems on Wednesday said Capgemini India, a leading provider of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services has deployed an integrated communication network comprising Cisco's switching and routing solutions and advanced technologies like IP Telephony.
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17-May-06
Capgemini to deploy Cisco's solutions
Communications and network infrastructure provider Cisco Systems announced that Capgemini India, an outsourcing services firm, would deploy Cisco's switching and routing solutions, IP telephony and security in its integrated communication network.
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16-May-06
Infineon preparing 65-nm chips
Semiconductor firm Infineon Technologies has successfully brought out 65- nm chips for cell phones. more...
15-May-06
Intel CEO to visit India this month
Paul Otellini, Intel Corporation's president and chief executive officer is visiting India on May 23rd and 24th this year. more...

15-May-06
Taiwan IT body opens offshore centre
The Taiwan-based Institute for Information Industry today opened its offshore development centre in Chennai, stated to be the first Taiwanese software venture in India. more...
15-May-06
Balancing act
Lee Chung looks like an unlikely candidate for vice-president at UMC, one of the top semiconductor foundries globally. more...

15-May-06
When the icon speaks...
What's common between Taipei 101 and Dr Morris Chang? more...

15-May-06
Creative drive
The SemiTech Taipei 2006 conference turned out just fine for the Indian delegation. more...

15-May-06
The stick for India
The Indian delegation that visited a few dedicated foundry manufacturers and fabless design companies in Taipei recently did not have it all smooth.
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13-May-06
Intel CEO to visit India on May 23
Intel's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul Otellini will arrive in India on a two-day visit on May 23.
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12-May-06
Intel CEO to visit India
World's largest chip maker Intel's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul Otellini will arrive in India on a two-day visit on May 23.
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12-May-06
Seminar series on embedded systems
Embedded solutions providers Freescale Semiconductor and Ammos Software Technologies will conduct a series of seminars on integrated solutions for PowerPC embedded systems.
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12-May-06
Taiwan sees synergy in working with Indian cos
"We have overlooked India for far too long. It is time to remedy our mistake," is the candid response from Dr G.J. Huang, Executive Vice-President, Institute for Information Industry (III), Taiwan, asked why Taiwan has recently increased its focus on India. more...

11-May-06
HP forms Asia-Pacific tech center in Bangalore
Hewlett-Packard has formed an advanced technology center here, which it claims is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region.
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11-May-06
AMD takes its battle to India
AMD, which is pulling out all stops to snatch away marketshare from Intel, has decided to engage its arch rival in a new way in India.
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11-May-06
Infinera to double headcount
Infinera India is doubling the headcount to 200 at its facility here, as part of its expansion plan to meet the growing demand for the Infinera DTN digital optical networking solution.
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11-May-06
New Altera products
Altera Corporation has announced two new products: Version 6.0 of the Nios II embedded processor and the Nios II Embedded Design Suite.
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11-May-06
AMD conducts first developer conference
Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) on Wednesday held its first developer conference in India with the aim of empowering developers, IT managers, techno-marketers and architects in organisations with the knowhow and tools needed to develop effective software solutions.
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10-May-06
Infineon demos 65-nm chip for mobile handsets
Infineon Technologies has demonstrated a 65-nm chip that targets the mobile handset market to provide GSM functionality. more...

10-May-06
Mistral to raise $10mn
Mistral Software Private Limited, a Rs 48-crore product realisation company operating in the embedded space, is planning to raise funds to the tune of $10 million.
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10-May-06
Huawei Tech changes logo
Huawei Technologies announced a change in its corporate logo, effective May 8, 2006.
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10-May-06
Chip demand gaining critical mass: AMD
Semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has said that multi-core processors, which have superior processing capabilities, are poised to make rapid inroads.
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10-May-06
Mistral Software opens design centre
Mistral Software, a CMMi level 3 appraised product realisation company, inaugurated its new design centre in Hyderabad on Tuesday and announced plans for an investment of about Rs. 8-10 crore in the new centre.
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09-May-06
Mistral sets up design centre in Hyderabad
Mistral Software, providers of embedded designs and development, launched its Hyderabad development centre on Tuesday.
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09-May-06
U.S. posts patent attorney in India
A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office attorney will reportedly be posted to the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi as an intellectual property rights attaché.
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09-May-06
Mistral to invest Rs 10 cr in Hyderabad centre
Mistral Software has inaugurated a new design centre in Hyderabad where it expects to invest about Rs 8-10 crore.
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09-May-06
Sasken to raise $50 m
Embedded telecom solutions firm Sasken Communication Technologies will raise $50 million through the issue of securities in the domestic or international markets to help fund acquisitions and other strategic initiatives.
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09-May-06
Mistral opens Hyderabad development center
Mistral Software Pvte. Ltd., a real-time software specialist with dual headquarters in Dallas and Bangalore has opened a new development center in Hyderabad, India.
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08-May-06
Sequence design India expands operations
Sequence Design, a Silicon Valley in EDA software used by chip designers to reduce power in portable and wireless devices, has added two executives and expanded its technical advisory board while broadening the scope of its research and product development activities in India.
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08-May-06
EDA startup sets up shop in India
EDA startup Sierra Design Automation Inc. Monday (May 8) said it has established offices in India to support what it termed the growing adoption of its products.
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08-May-06
India's Tata Group plans supercomputer venture
The Tata Group reportedly will invest about $140 million to float a company that will design and develop supercomputers.
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08-May-06
India's KPIT picks Cadence analog/mixed-signal methodology
Cadence Design Systems Inc. said KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. (Pune, India) has tapped the Cadence AMS Methodology Kit to help KPIT’s analog/mixed-signal (AMS) designers apply Cadence tools.
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06-May-06
Cranes Acquires Analytix Systems
Cranes Software, a global scientific and engineering software solutions provider, has announced the acquisition of the Bangalore-based analytical business solutions provider, Analytix Systems, for close to $2.5 million.
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06-May-06
Cranes buys Analytix for $2.5-m
Cranes Software International Ltd has announced the acquisition of the Bangalore-based analytical business solutions provider, Analytix Systems in a cash and stock deal.
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05-May-06
Sensor Market Getting Hotter: Frost & Sullivan
According to Frost & Sullivan, sensors and related technologies is an exploding market with developments occurring at a phenomenal rate.
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05-May-06
ATI, Nokia partner for mobile multimedia
ATI Technologies, the $2.2-billion 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions provider, and Nokia, the mobile communications major, have announced a strategic relationship to bring enhanced mobile multimedia experiences to Nokia customers. more...
05-May-06
India's Mindtree joins WiMAX forum
IT and R & D services company Mindtree Consulting has joined the WiMAX Forum.
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04-May-06
MindTree joins WiMAX Forum
MindTree Consulting said on Thursday that it has joined the WiMAX Forum.
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04-May-06
VIA Tech unveils ultra mobile PC
VIA Technologies, a chipset company, unveiled details of its new Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) on Tuesday.
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04-May-06
Apache opens branch office in India
Apache Design Solutions, in power integrity solutions for system-on-chip (SoC), announced their branch office in India to provide direct sales, engineering and additional applications for support personnel in India.
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03-May-06
Huawei plans to invest $100 M in India
Privately owned Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies will invest $100 million in India on its R&D center in Bangalore.
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03-May-06
Khare re-elected ISA Chairperson
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the industry representative body, announced that Mr Rajendra Khare, Managing Director, Broadcom India, has been re-elected Chairperson of ISA in the organisation's Executive Council elections 2006.
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02-May-06
VIA opens innovation centre in India
Developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions VIA Technologies on Tuesday said it has opened a new innovation centre in Mumbai and plans to set up a team in India to give a push to sub Rs 10,000 personal computer.
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02-May-06
eInfochips to design components for US firm
Ahmedabad-based, eInfochips tied up with US-based advanced verification specialist Eve to accelerate the functions of verification or testing of the design of the hardware.
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01-May-06
ATI to double Indian R&D facility
Canada-based ATI Technologies has expanded its research and development centre in Hyderabad, India.
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30-Apr-06
STPI plans incubation centres for small units
The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), which has 49 centres, has breached the magical Rs 1,00,000-crore IT exports mark this year recording Rs 1,00,809 crore, wherein Bangalore and Hyderabad account for about 50 per cent of overall exports. more...
29-Apr-06
Hyderabad aims Rs 18,000 cr software export
Hyderabad has set an ambitious target of Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion) software exports in the current financial year 2006-07. more...

28-Apr-06
Dell to set up hardware design center in Bangalore
Computing major Dell plans to set up hardware design center at its Bangalore R&D center and plans to double its engineering team from the current 300.
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28-Apr-06
eInfochips Is EVE's Design Services Partner
EVE has selected eInfochips, Inc. to expand and complement the internally-developed synthesisable transactor library for EVE's ZeBu emulation platform.
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28-Apr-06
Mistral tool
Mistral Solutions has announced the availability of a solution for the radar, software radio and signal intelligence markets.
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28-Apr-06
ATI expanding operations in India
The $2.2-billion communications and graphics chip solutions provider, ATI Technologies Inc, has embarked on an India expansion drive that would see it shifting to a new R&D centre and setting up a Digital TV Lab and an audio/acoustics lab.
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28-Apr-06
ATI Tech to go in for major expansion
ATI Technologies India, a leading 3D graphics and digital media solutions provider, has announced major expansion plans for its Indian operations involving investments in excess of $50 million in the next five years.
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27-Apr-06
KKR Buys FSS in India
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a US private equity firm, has agreed to buy Flextronics software solutions (FSS), in software business in India, for $900 million.
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27-Apr-06
ATI set to double Indian R&D staff size
Graphics chip firm ATI Technologies Inc. has readied a new center in Hyderabad in southern India, where it first set up shop less than a year ago.
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27-Apr-06
Taking staff along, Flextronics way
The name is the game.
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27-Apr-06
HP opens IP licensing centre
Hewlett-Packard announced the opening of an intellectual property (IP) licensing centre to serve the fast-growing Asia Pacific market.
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27-Apr-06
Chip firms opt for ARM's debug tool
Chip design firm ARM announced that more than 10 industry-leading semiconductor companies including Broadcom Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung are integrating ARM CoreSight debug and trace capabilities into their future chip designs.
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27-Apr-06
ATI Tech to invest $50 m in India
ATI Technologies, designer and manufacturer of 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions, plans to invest $50 million in research and development facility in India in the next five years.
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27-Apr-06
Next-generation Bluetooth finds a niche
Is Bluetooth dead in the water?
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27-Apr-06
EDN Asia's Seminar in Bangalore Provides Insight into India's Embedded Space
EDN Asia recently held in Bangalore the Embedded Systems & Software Seminar 2006 with the aim of providing insights into the Indian embedded industry.
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27-Apr-06
Cadence Partners for VLSI Training
The Indian arm of Cadence Design Systems Inc. has partnered with TTM Institute of Information Technology (TIIT) and the University of California, Santa Cruz to offer a certified program in VLSI design engineering to Indian engineers.
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26-Apr-06
HP to open IP licensing centre
HP has announced the opening of an Intellectual Property (IP) licensing centre to serve the fast-growing Asia Pacific market. more...