31-July-06
You win, from either end
Indian outsourced product development (OPD) companies are headed for good times. more...

31-July-06
Flextronics lines up India foray
Singapore-based contract manufacturing company Flextronics Corporation plans to test waters in India. more...

28-July-06
Chipping up India
For an industry body that has been in existence for a year, the Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) has achieved quite a lot.
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28-July-06
RFID to become $25 bn segment by 2025
“Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) market will grow by 800 per cent at $25 billion by 2025 from $3 billion in 2005,” said KS Raghunandan, director, ASEAN-SA, industrial sector, IBM Corporation. more...

27-July-06
STMicroelectronics adopts Magma solution
Magma Design Automation Inc., a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced that STMicroelectronics has successfully implemented a via-programmable embedded structured ASIC platform using Magma’s Blast Create SA. more...

27-July-06
New range of dual core chips from Intel
Intel has begun the `desktop' war for processors with its new range of dual core chips. more...

27-July-06
Intel unveils new Core 2 Duo processors
Intel on Thursday unveiled its new generation high power and energy-efficient processors for desktop and laptop computers as part of a global launch.
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27-July-06
Mistral launches hands-free car kit
The increased penetration of Bluetooth on mobile phones and stringent laws banning talking over cell-phone while driving have spurred vehicle manufacturers to provide hands-free mobile usage features.
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27-July-06
Sasken buys Botnia for Rs 210 cr
Sasken Communication Technologies, a software and support services provider for communications industry, has acquired 100 per cent stake in Finland-based Botnia Hightech for Rs 210 crore (Euro 35.5 million), in an all cash deal.
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27-July-06
Sasken buys Finland co for Rs 210 cr
Making its first overseas acquisitions, Sasken Communication Technologies, the Bangalore-headquartered provider of software services and products for telecom sector on Wednesday announced that it has acquired 100% of Finland-based Botnia Hightech for E35.5m (Rs 210.3 crore) in an all cash deal.
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27-July-06
Sasken buys Finnish firm
Sasken Communication Technologies has acquired the Finnish wireless R&D and testing services firm Botnia Hightech Oy in an all cash deal worth about Rs. 209 crore (Euro 35.5 million).
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26-July-06
Sasken buys Finnish firm for €35.5-m
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd has acquired Botnia Hightech Oy (Botnia), a provider of wireless R&D and testing services for € 35.5 million in an all cash deal.
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26-July-06
Sasken Acquires Botnia Hightech Oy
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd, a telecom R&D and support company, has acquired the Finland-based Botnia Hightech Oy, a provider of wireless R&D and testing services, in an all-cash deal worth €35.5 million.
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26-July-06
India's Sasken buys Finnish wireless firm
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd., a telecom R&D and support services firm based here, has bought Finland's Botnia Hightech Oy, a provider of wireless R&D and testing services, in an all-cash deal worth about $45 million.
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26-July-06
Sasken buys out Finnish firm for $45
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd, a leading software services and products firm, Wednesday announced the acquisition of Botnia Highteh Oy, a Finland-based leading provider of wireless services, for $45 mn (Euro 35.5 mn) in an all cash deal.
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26-July-06
Sasken to buy Botnia, two arms in all-cash deal
Sasken Communication Technologies said on Wednesday that it was acquiring the Finland-based Botnia Hightech Oy and its two subsidiaries for € 35.5 million (about Rs 200 crore) in an all cash deal.
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25-July-06
AMD'S Ramaratnam gets global responsibilities
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) India today announced that Mukund Ramaratnam, who was leading the marketing team for AMD India, will be moving to the AMD, Inc. headquarters in Sunnyvale, California to take on responsibilities in AMD's worldwide consumer sales and marketing team.
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25-July-06
Indian ASIC market to grow, but FPGAs gain traction
The domestic ASIC market could grow by more than 35 percent to $443 million in 2006, but growth will likely be slowed by rising use of FPGAs.
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25-July-06
AMD's Mukund moves to US
AMD India announced that Mr Mukund Ramaratnam, who was leading the marketing team for AMD India, will be moving to the AMD Inc headquarters in Sunnyvale, California to take on responsibilities in AMD's worldwide consumer sales & marketing team.
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23-July-06
Semiconductor industry trying new approach to development
The global semiconductor industry is poised for a shift in terms of its development.
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21-July-06
India boosts IP rights enforcement
The Ministry of Information Technology has amended its IP rights program to curtail patent infringement and adhere to international trade rules on intellectual property.
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21-July-06
Intel to focus on tier-four, five markets
Some economists would have us believe there are two Indias: the under-tapped, rural Bharat, and the urban and modern India.
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21-July-06
Rangu Salgame leaves Cisco India Operations
Cisco Systems today announced that Rangu Salgame will leave his position of president – Cisco Systems, India and SAARC.
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21-July-06
Rangu Salgame leaves Cisco India
Rangu Salgame, the president of Cisco India has left the company. more...

21-July-06
ISA unveils membership directory
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the national body for the Indian semiconductor industry, has released its first Member Directory.
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21-July-06
Cisco's India head Rangu Salgame quits
Cisco Systems' head of India and SAARC operations, Mr Rangu Salgame, has put in his papers. more...

21-July-06
eInfochips plans campuses in Ahmedabad, Pune
Electronic design services major eInfochips, based in Ahmedabad and Santa Clara, California (the US), is planning to set up two bigger corporate campuses simultaneously in Ahmedabad and Pune with an investment of $10 million over the next four years. more...

20-July-06
Infineon Tech designs UWB chip
Infineon Technologies has successfully designed an ultra-wide band (UWB) wireless chip. more...

19-July-06
India's MindTree expands design staff again
Seeing strong demand for design services, India's MindTree Consulting is expanding its 160-person IC design team to 300 by next April, after doubling in size from a year ago. more...

18-July-06
India's Mistral plans U.S. design center
After a seemingly unending list of U.S. companies announced design centers here, embedded software provider Mistral Software said it will open a design center in the U.S. this year and in the Asia-Pacific region in 2007.
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18-July-06
India design firms as product innovators
This spring ATI Technologies announced that it would invest an additional $50 million and increase the number of employees from 175 to 400 at its research facility in Hyderabad, India.
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18-July-06
TI's entry may push Chennai as global mobile phone hub
The announcement by Dallas (U.S.)-based semiconductor leader, Texas Instruments (TI), in Delhi last week, that it had decided to open its second Indian research and development centre in Chennai, merely confirms what analysts have been anticipating for some months now: The emergence of the Tamil Nadu capital as the next big international manufacturing hub — with a strong slant on the consumer communications industry.
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18-July-06
MosChip ships 2mn controller family PCI chips
Hyderabad-based MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd has announced that it has shipped over two million units of the MCS9800 family PCI (peripheral component interconnect) controller chips.
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17-July-06
MosChip ships over 2 m MCS9800 units
MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd, a Hyderabad-based fabless semiconductor company, has announced it has achieved a significant milestone of shipping over 2 million units of MCS9800 family of chips.
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15-July-06
Intel India downsizes managerial jobs
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has announced that it would cut 1,000 jobs worldwide at the managerial level.
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14-July-06
Cadence to host 'Technology on Tour'
Cadence Design Systems will be organizing "Technology on Tour," the annual developer conference in Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad from July 18 to 21.
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13-July-06
Report: India analog IC market to grow rapidly
The Indian market for analog ICs, worth $221 million in 2005, is set to grow 35 percent to nearly $300 million this year, more than half of this being accounted for by the communications industry.
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13-July-06
Texas Instruments plans R&D unit in Chennai
US-based Texas Instruments, the largest manufacturer of mobile phone chipsets, will set up a new research and development centre at Chennai.
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12-July-06
TI Targets India
Targeting opportunity in India, Texas Instruments Inc. today met with India government officials on open technologies for the mobile phone market and announced a new R&D center there. more...

12-July-06
Texas Instruments to open new research unit in India
Micro-chip giant Texas Instruments said on Wednesday it plans to expand its research and development presence in India by opening a new facility in Chennai, an upcoming technology hub. more...

12-July-06
TI to open second Indian R&D center
Texas Instruments Inc., a mainstay here for the past 20 years, said Wednesday (July 12) it will set up a second R&D center in Chennai.
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12-July-06
TI's new R&D center in Chennai
Texas Instruments today said it is increasing its wireless designs present in India with a new research and development center in Chennai, to enable India reach its goal of 500 million mobile phone subscribers by 2010.
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12-July-06
TI to strengthen presence here
US-based wireless semi-conductor company Texas Instruments on Wednesday announced setting up of a new R&D centre in Chennai in a bid to increase its presence in India.
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11-July-06
Freescale Launches Magnetic Memory Chip
Freescale Semiconductor has announced the mass production and availability of the first commercial Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) device.
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11-July-06
Kit claims 60% cut in post-layout tool development time
EDA software development services company SoftJin Tuesday (July 11) released an enhanced version of its Nirmaan software development toolkit for post-layout EDA development tools. more...

10-July-06
Chip industry seeks govt support for research
The highly competitive and technology intensive semiconductor industry in India is scaling up its efforts to encourage research in India.
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10-July-06
Chip makers will have to invest Rs 1,000 cr
Semiconductor majors, including Intel, will have to invest at least Rs 1,000 crore within three years to avail themselves of the liberal sops proposed by the Union Government to kick-start domestic manufacture of chips and other micro and nano-technology devices.
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10-July-06
SiNett chooses to provide testing and compliance of unified wired and wireless LAN access
Afila Inc., communications testing company, has bagged technologically strategic contract from SiNett Corp. to provide testing and compliance of unified wired and wireless LAN access features and capabilities available in SiNett's silicon devices and reference platforms.
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10-July-06
India launches photonics push
The Department of Information Technology has launched several programs to develop an indigenous photonics capability. more...

07-July-06
InSilica Raises Funds Worth $18 Million
InSilica, a supplier of high value, high volume ASIC and standard system-on-chip solutions, has raised $18 million in new financing from Intel Capital, Flextronics, Crossbow Ventures, Dow Ventures, and NewPath Ventures. more...

07-July-06
InSilica raises $18m through second round funding
Fabless semiconductor firm InSilica has raised $18 million in the second round funding from Intel Capital, Flextronics, Crossbow Ventures, Dow Ventures and NewPath Ventures.
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07-July-06
India's Ammos to ramp up ASIC business
Ammos Software, a two-year old ASIC implementation services firm based here, will open a marketing office in Sacramento, Calif. this month and apply for additional funding in a few months.
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07-July-06
InSilica garners $18 million in venture funding
ASIC and system-on-chip vendor InSilica Inc. garnered $18 million in its third round of funding from Intel Capital, Flextronics, Crossbow Ventures, Dow Ventures and NewPath Ventures. more...

06-July-06
Texas Instruments shows India not a chip of old block
You will probably watch the next cricket World Cup to be held in the Caribbeans live on the next-generation mobile phones. more...

05-July-06
Intel soon to launch dual-core processors
A new family of Intel Core 2 Duo processors is set to hit the market shortly. more...

04-July-06
Huwei to expand India R&D team
Chinese telecom major Huawei Technologies is expanding its largest overseas R&D center located here with a commitment to invest $100 million, but appears concerned over delay in its planned foray into the Indian telecom equipment market with New Delhi yet to give its approval.
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04-July-06
Electronic mfg services firms follow brands to India
India’s software success is now driving electronic manufacturing into the country to serve the fast growing domestic market and emerge as a new base for hardware production for the global market.
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04-July-06
SanDisk Appoints Manisha Sood As New Country Manager
Manisha Sood has been appointed country manager of India and SAARC for SanDisk Corporation. more...

04-July-06
Indian discretes market set to grow 23%, says report
The total market for discrete semiconductor components in India is set to be $290 million in 2006, up 23.4 percent above the $235 million of discretes sold in India in 2005, according to Frost & Sullivan, a market research company.
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04-July-06
Flextronics to shift mfg activities to Chennai
Flextronics, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider based out of Singapore, plans to move its manufacturing activities from Bangalore to its industrial park coming up near Chennai.
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03-July-06
Fab city still awaiting central policy
Will Hyderabad be home to the country’s first Fab plant? This is still a big question, even one year after the foundation stone for the first Fab was laid at the Rajiv Gandhi Nano-Technology Park. more...

02-July-06
Xenitis plans chip unit in Fab City
Xenitis Infotech Ltd, the Kolkata-based technology company, has come up with a proposal to establish a Rs 1,200-crore chip making facility in the Fab City near here.
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