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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07-Dec-09
Interaction with Xilinx-India CTO on FPGA design issues and trends
The role of FPGAs in embedded systems is only increasing, asking every embedded system developer to get more familiarity with programmable silicon along with ASICs.
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02-Dec-09
India's new solar mission opening a floodgate of opportunities
Clean energy, soul satisfying mission, and lots of money; all these objectives can be achieved if you are a solar energy expert or entrepreneur.
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18-Nov-09
'Indian ESO to touch $50 bn by 2020'
Consulting firm Booz & Company on Tuesday said the Indian engineering services outsourcing (ESO) industry will achieve $50 billion in
revenues by 2020, and generate employment for 25-30 million professionals for delivering these services.
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17-Nov-09
Global conference series makes a pit stop at India
Aiming to gather design engineers and industry experts to help solve design challenges, Cadence's CDNLive! is a global series of technical conferences for the company's technology and service users.
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16-Nov-09
Global IP and patents are the gold reserves of the semiconductor industry
Whether it's a multi-billion dollar fab or a small 10-member semiconductor design team, the IP and patents are the real assets of semiconductor companies.
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12-Nov-09
Solar cos out to tap $42 billion bounty
Several multinationals and scores of Indian companies, many of them start-ups, are following the sun in India for an opportunity the World Bank estimates at over $42 billion over the next 10 years.
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12-Nov-09
Technovation awards declared

India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the trade body representing the Indian semiconductor and electronics systems, announced the winners of Technovation Awards 2009.
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11-Nov-09
Indian startup tips SDR-based TV demodulation

Saankhya Labs, a fabless chip startup based here, has announced its Universal TV demodulator IC based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) architecture, and targeted at World TV and PC-TV receiver markets.
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11-Nov-09
Marvell's semiconductor innovations in India targets broadband connected smart gadgets

Fables semiconductor device maker Marvell has started its operations in India on May 2006 with corporate office in Bangalore and additional offices in Pune and Hyderabad.
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09-Nov-09
SOLARCON India 2009 gets going in Hyderabad

The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) the premier trade body representing the semiconductor industry in the country, in collaboration with SEMI and Fabcity commenced the three-day solar PV conference today at International Convention Centre, Hyderabad.
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09-Nov-09
BV Naidu to quit Matrix Enport

BV Naidu, vice chairman, Matrix Enport, an infrastructure company promoted by former Matrix Labs founder N Prasad, is set to quit the company.
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05-Nov-09
Indian, British entities sign semiconductor deal

The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and Britain's UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) signed an agreement for promoting business ties and technology exchange in the semiconductor sector.
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04-Nov-09
On Semi buys EMI firm, enters India design front

Continuing on its buying spree, On Semiconductor Corp. has completed the acquisition of PulseCore Holdings (Cayman) Inc. in an all cash transaction for initial consideration of approximately $17 million.
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03-Nov-09
Aldec opens new office in Bangalore, India

Aldec has announced that it has opened a new Aldec-South Asia regional office at Bangalore, India. The new India-office to provide better service to its design and verification-engineering customers in India and South Asia.
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02-Nov-09
The Alchemy of Semiconductors

There was a time when handsets were used only for saving phone numbers and receiving messages.
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01-Nov-09
Intel looks to India for greater growth push

Paul S Otellini, the fifth chief executive of Intel, is not a chip off the old block. The 59-year-old describes his immediate predecessor Craig
Barrett as the ‘‘manufacturing guru’’ of the tech bellwether, while Andy Grove before him was the ‘‘management guru’’.
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28-Oct-09
Intel, HCL join hands for WiMax devices
Intel, the world's largest computer chip maker, has tied up with HCL Infosystems to announce the launch of the first of WiMax-enabled net tops and laptops in the country.
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28-Oct-09
India to be test-bed for Qualcomm PC
Last November, US-headquartered Qualcomm announced it was working on a low-cost personal computer (PC) alternative project, codenamed ‘Kayak’ — a sleek, simple yet very fast boat used by American Indians.
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27-Oct-09
India is great place for chip design, says Intel
“We have a chip design centre in Bangalore. Our server microprocessors are designed here... India is an important design centre and we hope to expand here over time... But we do not need any capacity addition.
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23-Oct-09
India Chip Dreams Replaced by PV Solar
Unlike the hyped goals a couple of years ago about establishing frontend semiconductor fabrication, India's PV plans are ramping up noticeably and seem likely to prosper.
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12-Oct-09
Premier Farnell ups focus on India electronics design
At a recent media briefing in Singapore, Harriet Green, the Premier Farnell CEO, along with David Shen, senior VP of Global eCommerce and Technical Marketing, presented market trends and their company's focus on the web, including a new community web site called "element14."
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12-Oct-09
New geographies open for the Indian chip design industry
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) the premier trade body representing the semiconductor industry in the country, recently led a delegation to the United Kingdom in association with the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).
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10-Oct-09
Incap plans to extend its design unit in India
Incap plans to extend its design operations in India, where it is currently designing customer products such as UPS products, inverters and power supplies.
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05-Oct-09
Innovating through tough times
The semiconductor industry has been battling through the economic downturn, and EDA vendors large and small are adjusting to a world where customers' design-tool budgets face greater scrutiny.
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01-Oct-09
Vivek Tyagi is Freescale's new country manager
Freescale Semiconductor today announced the appointment of Vivek Tyagi as country manager - Sales for its India operations.
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29-Sept-09
Kyocera is strategically investing in sales and divesting its Indian R&D resources
Japan based Kyocera, a typical electronics company with its presence in passive-components and semiconductors to telecom and wireless is looking at India in little different prospect than the other similar companies.
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29-Sept-09
MindTree buys Kyocera Wireless India
MindTree Ltd said on Tuesday it agreed to buy Bangalore-based Kyocera Wireless India Pvt Ltd and make an upfront payment of $6 million, while further payments will be linked to revenue in FY11 and FY12.
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24-Sept-09
Workshop Wipro May Be Trimming Its IP Licensing Business
Indian outsourcer Wipro is considering exiting its business of creation and licensing of intellectual property (IP) in the area of connectivity, a company executive said on Thursday.
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24-Sept-09
Workshop on Chip Design conducted at DTU
Freescale Semiconductor, a global leading company in microchip and VLSI design conducted a day long workshop on Wednesday at the Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), as a part of its 'Campus-Connect' initiative.
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24-Sept-09
PSoC aides Indian designers to become efficient
Rajeev Mehtani, senior vice president, Cypress Semiconductor, India Operations in conversation with Abhigna of CIOL, reveals about how Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) could help designers to future-proof their design as well as save costs and get to market quickly.
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24-Sept-09
Wipro weighing options on design centre in France
Wipro Technologies said it would decide on the future of the Sophia Antipolis design centre in France only after the ongoing talks with Works Council and the employee representatives are concluded.
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24-Sept-09
Wipro looks to sell French unit as employee protests mount
Wipro plans to explore options to sell its development centre at Sophia Antipolis, France, because of extensive employee protests against shutting it down.
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23-Sept-09
'Replicate software success in hardware too'
After seeing slowdown weather, Union IT Secretary R Chandrashekhar is optimistic that it is time when there can be room for increase in hardware manufacturing in India.
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23-Sept-09
ISA Delegation to Visit UK to Further Ties in the Semicon Industry
India Semiconductor Association (ISA) the premier trade body representing the semiconductor industry in the country, is organizing a business delegation visit to the UK from September 28 to October 2, 2009.
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17-Sept-09
Wipro ranked as number-one semiconductor global R&D service provider
Consultancy company Zinnov has done the ranking of global R&D service providers based in India, China and Eastern Europe.
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16-Sept-09
Cypress embed ARM cores in new version of PSoC devices
In recent times Embedded System design engineers showing more interest towards Cypress Semiconductor's Programmable System on Chip (PsoC) devices. PSoC is gearing up to become another long living EE keyword.
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16-Sept-09
Firms logging into networking sites to connect with customers
Diwakar Kaushik, 25, is an active tweeter, putting out short messages on everything from the weather in Gurgaon, where he resides, to cricket on the microblogging site Twitter.
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16-Sept-09
SOLARCON® India 2009 to be held in Hyderabad on November 9 to 11, 2009
Dr Farooq Abdullah, Honorable Minister for New and Renewable Energy, today launched SOLARCON India 2009 the global exhibition-cum-conference which is to be held in Hyderabad from November 9-11 2009.
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15-Sept-09
India technology centre gets Synopsys grant
Synopsys Inc. has identified IIT-Kharagpur as the recipient of the company's Charles Babbage Grant.
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15-Sept-09
Wipro may shut France unit
Wipro may shut its unit in France which does semiconductor design work.
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14-Sept-09
EDA embrace software, chip designing to go cheap
There is a general perception in the semiconductor industry that as the industry attains new growth, the cost of chip designing will also go up.
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14-Sept-09
Indian R&D centres design power chip of global standard
A demand slump in the global semiconductor industry notwithstanding, Indian R&D centres of global chip majors are playing an
increasingly crucial role in designing products for global rollouts.
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11-Sept-09
Mentor CEO sees full fab capacity by year end
Based on recent market data, leading edge fabs may have little or no excess capacity by the end of 2009, a sign that the semiconductor industry is recovering, according to the CEO of Mentor Graphics.
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10-Sept-09
India becomes second largest R&D hub for Synopsys Inc
India is now the second largest R&D hub for $1.3-billion Synopsys Inc, the California-based global leader in software and IP for
semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing.
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09-Sept-09
Freescale's Beyer: Recession is over
Freescale Semiconductor CEO Rich Beyer declared the recession over and said the global semiconductor industry has reached the upside of its cycle entering 2H 09.
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03-Sept-09
Moser Baer to develop one mega watt solar project
Moser Baer India Ltd, the global technology company, is developing a one megawatt solar project in Chandrapur, Maharashtra.
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03-Sept-09
Cadence keeps faith in instalment payments
Electronic design automation (EDA) company Cadence Design Systems is looking to realise a greater portion of revenue in instalments rather than clients having to make an upfront investment.
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03-Sept-09
'We see an uptick in auto demand'
Freescale Semiconductor, the world’s biggest supplier of computer chips to the auto industry, is undergoing a massive transformation after deciding to sell off its mobile phone processor business and renew its focus on existing customers, such as GM and Ford, apart from the communication sector clients.
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03-Sept-09
Freescale unveils smartbook developed by India’s Smartlink
Adding one more device to the cornucopia of low-cost computing and communication gadgets, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a smartbook powered by its microprocessor and developed by Mumbai-based networking company Smartlink Networks Systems Ltd. more...

02-Sept-09
Indian semi agency links up with U.K. body
The India Semiconductor Association (ISA), representing the country’s semiconductor, systems and solar photovoltaic industries, has signed an agreement with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) to encourage business ties between companies in these sectors in the two nations. more...

02-Sept-09
Freescale sees great potential in Indian market
The Freescale Technology forum is really about the excitement associated with the future we are seeing globally as well as in Freescale. more...

02-Sept-09
Intersolar Expands Into India
Intersolar, the world's largest trade show for solar technology, is expanding into India. more...
18-August-09
Kyocera opens sales office in Gurgaon, India
Kyocera has opened a new Indian branch company named KYOCERA Asia Pacific India Private Limited at Gurgaon to handle the growing Indian semiconductors and components market. more...

15-August-09
Texas Instruments increases India focus, eyes smaller cities
With the Indian market poised to grow despite a slump in the global semiconductor industry, Texas Instruments (TI) has redoubled its
India marketing moves, becoming one of the first chip majors to mark direct sales presence in tier II cities. more...

14-August-09
Solar Semiconductor To Raise $30 Mn; Eyes PE Route
Solar Semiconductor, a Hyderabad-based photovoltaic (PV) modules manufacturer, plans to raise $30 million by the end of this year. more...
13-August-09
NXP joins hands with Tata BP Solar
NXP Semiconductors, an independent company founded by Philips, on Wednesday announced a development partnership with Tata BP Solar India, under which Tata BP would use various electronic solutions for solar applications developed by NXP. more...

11-August-09
Magma announces MUSIC India winners
Magma Design Automation, a chip design software provider has announced the 'Best Paper' winners list for Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits (MUSIC) India, which was held on April 16, 2009. more...
10-August-09
Centre banks on volumes to bring down solar power costs
Driven by volume production, solar power generation costs could break the viability barrier. more...

10-August-09
Spire Solar Establishes Spire Solar India
Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules, turnkey manufacturing lines and solar PV systems today announced the expansion of its international presence by establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary, Spire Solar India, LLC (Spire Solar India), a Delaware limited liability company formed to take advantage of the growing market for the Company and it’s distribution of products in India. more...