05-Oct-06
Aspocomp Lines Up PCB Plant In Nokia SEZ
Aspocomp, a Finland-based manufacturer of high-density interconnection printed circuit boards (HDI-PCB), is planning to set up an HDI-PCB plant in the Nokia Telecom Park, Sriperumbudur, Chennai.
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05-Oct-06
Qualcomm ties up with IIT-M
Qualcomm, wireless chip developer, has established a chair in wireless technology at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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04-Oct-06
SanDisk Expands Channel Network In India
SanDisk Corporation has announced distribution relationships with Ingram Micro and Rashi Peripherals to sell SanDisk products throughout the country.
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04-Oct-06
Xilinx Opens Development Centre In India
Xilinx, Inc. has opened of its own development centre in India. Located in a 33,000-sq ft facility in CyberPearl, Hyderabad, the facility will work on full product development lifecycle of intellectual property (IP) cores in the high-growth areas of automotive electronics, embedded processing and high-speed serial I/O connectivity.
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04-Oct-06
INTERVIEW - SanDisk plans to double retail presence
SanDisk Corp., the world's top maker of flash memory storage cards, plans to more than double its global retail presence through distribution agreements as demand for its products rises, its co-founder said on Wednesday.
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04-Oct-06
High-end board design seen growing in India
The failure of many Indian pc-board makers has deterred new entrants, according to the India Semiconductor Association (ISA), but the establishment of several new board design centers and the prospect of new government incentives for volume manufacturing could spur an Indian board industry.
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04-Oct-06
Xilinx opens Indian development center
Market-leading programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc. has opened a development center at Hyderabad, in southern India.
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04-Oct-06
SanDisk to up R&D headcount
US based data storage cards manufacturer SanDisk plans to strengthen its flash memory design centre in Bangalore by increasing its headcount.
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04-Oct-06
Qualcomm Chair at IIT-Madras
Qualcomm, a US-based provider of wireless technologies, has established a Qualcomm Chair at IIT, Madras.
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04-Oct-06
Xilinx sets up R&D centre; to develop IP cores
Fabless semiconductor company Xilinx Inc on Wednesday announced the setting up of its research and development (R&D) centre here that would focus on developing intellectual property (IP) cores for global clients and more specifically the region.
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04-Oct-06
SanDisk to expand in India
SanDisk Corp, the world's leading maker of flash memory data storage cards, plans to distribute its products through 2,000 stores in India in coming weeks, a company statement said on Wednesday.
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04-Oct-06
Renesas sets up ODC at KPIT Cummins
Renesas, a leader in the manufacture of mobile, automotive and digital AV semiconductors, on Tuesday announced the setting up of a dedicated off-shore development centre (ODC) at KPIT Cummins in Bangalore and Pune to expand and enhance its global development and design operations.
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03-Oct-06
Renesas To Open ODC At KPIT Cummins India
Renesas is opening a dedicated off-shore development centre (ODC) at KPIT Cummins to strengthen its development and design capabilities.
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03-Oct-06
India's KPIT sets up R&D center for Renesas
India's KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. has set up a dedicated offshore development center (ODC) for Japan's Renesas Technology Corp. and will increase staff from 100 engineers to as many as 600 in the next three years.
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03-Oct-06
`Engg services promise $750-b opportunity'
Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman of Satyam Computer Services, has said that the engineering services promised an opportunity of $750 billion globally for Indian IT solutions and services companies.
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03-Oct-06
KPIT Cummins sets up centre for Renesas
KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd has set up a dedicated offshore development centre (ODC) to offer design and development services for Japanese semiconductor systems solutions firm, Renesas Technology Corp.
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03-Oct-06
Radio route to care for the aged
Imagine this scenario: You have to go work, leaving an aged parent at home.
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02-Oct-06
LSI Logic to boost Indian investment
LSI Logic will invest hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade in design centers here, in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
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01-Oct-06
India rides the innovation wave
Design engineering services in India have come a long way from coding and testing, to creating leading-edge chip designs, comprehensive product engineering and sophisticated IP development.
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01-Oct-06
Challenges and solutions for next-gen processor based system designs
Some challenges designers face during processor based system designs are design complexity, inadequate processor performance to meet increasing functional demands, choosing optimum memory hierarchy and system architecture, increasing power consumption and design scalability.
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01-Oct-06
Configurable silicon intellectual property
The electronic product design market has undergone deverticalization over the last decade with each activity�such as silicon intellectual property (SIP), VLSI design, hardware design, and embedded software development�being addressed by specialists in each area.
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01-Oct-06
System architecture for network media player
Today, the pc is the commonly used repository of multimedia content, while the entertainment center is the preferred location for enjoying this content.
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01-Oct-06
Post layout EDA platform addresses sub-100nm manufacturing challenge
In the era of sub-100nm, the manufacturing handoff challenge is emerging as one of the key aspects of silicon complexity, responsible for the increasing NRE cost of ICs.
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01-Oct-06
Empowering electronics design innovation
The evolution of India�s semiconductor industry has made the country one of the choice destinations for the design and manufacture of semiconductors.
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01-Oct-06
Cost-effective FPGAbased SDH multiplexers
Today�s carrier backbone networks are supported by synchronous optical network (SONET), and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) transmission technologies, which will continue to play a key role in the next generation of networks for many carriers.
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01-Oct-06
Full life cycle IP development
Controller area network (CAN) is one of the most important communications building blocks for today�s automotive networks.
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01-Oct-06
Traversing the scope of design innovation
Freescale�s India Design Center (IDC) is a center of excellence for IP development and SoC design, playing a key role in critical new product introduction (NPI) projects.
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01-Oct-06
Accelerated product development cycle with GSD
Design engineers use a variety of software design tools and hardware to test prototypes.
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01-Oct-06
SoC platforms: New drivers for the electronics industry
The global electronics market is witnessing continued accelerated growth fuelled by strong demand of converging applications on one side, and increasing consumption in emerging economies on the other.
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01-Oct-06
New opportunities opening up
Of the $3.25 billion design market in India in 2005, embedded software contributed 78 percent at $2.53 billion; VLSI, 18 percent at $0.58 billion; and hardware/board design, 4 percent at $0.14 billion. (Figures from Frost & Sullivan.)
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28-Sept-06
India's CDAC develops digital hearing aid
The hardware-design group at India's government-funded CDAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing), in Thiruvananthapuram has developed a low-cost DPHA (digital programmable hearing aid) that a user wears on his body.
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25-Sept-06
ESO : A $50 billion opportunity
It sounds like the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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25-Sept-06
China, India poised to dominate semiconductors, analysts say
The Asia-Pacific region will cement its status as the epicenter of the global semiconductor industry during the next five years, as manufacturing, consumption and intellectual property will be increasingly concentrated in China and India, analysts said Monday (Sept. 25).
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24-Sept-06
Panelists debate financial viability of fab units here
Providing historic data of the semiconductor companies globally, JP Morgan expert, Mr Bhavin Shah, today questioned the wisdom and feasibility of setting up the semiconductor facility in India.
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22-Sept-06
Study: Indian design firms prefer time and material model
Most independent semiconductor design firms in India have adopted the time and material-based model allocating specific tasks to be carried out within set time lines, according to a study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA). more...
22-Sept-06
Freescale partners with Indian design houses
nstead of waiting for the Indian semiconductor market to grow, Freescale Semiconductor is partnering with Indian design houses to create solutions around Freescale products for the regional and even global market.
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22-Sept-06
Nortel to up sourcing from India
Nortel Networks, the $10.5 billion global networking equipment provider, is in the process of increasing its sourcing from India.
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22-Sept-06
Wind River showcases safety critical solution
Wind River Systems, a leader in device software optimisation (DSO), showcased its safety critical solution, VxWorks 653, for the aerospace and defence sectors at a seminar here on Thursday.
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21-Sept-06
Report: Huawei reconsiders India plans
China's Huawei Technologies will abandon its application to India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to implement local manufacturing of CDMA-based terminals, according to a report from New Delhi in The Business Standard Thursday (Sept. 21).
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21-Sept-06
Analog Devices India MD
Analog Devices Inc announced that it has promoted Dr Reddy Penumalli to the new position of Managing Director, Analog Devices India.
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21-Sept-06
Synopsys, Nikon to collaborate
Synopsys Inc, leading semiconductor design software company, and Nikon Corporation, a supplier of lithography equipment for microelectronics manufacturing announced on Thursday that they would be collaborating on development and delivery of advanced lithography software models and DFM enabled lithography manufacturing solutions for 45 nanometer and below.
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20-Sept-06
Einfochips joins Tensilica program
Einfochips, provider of cutting edge ASIC design and verification services, embedded systems solutions and IP cores, announced that it has joined the Tensilica Xtensions Design Center Partner Program to offer system-on-chip (SOC) design services for customers using Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores.
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19-Sept-06
India's eInfochips joins Tensilica partner program
Design/verification services and intellectual property provider eInfochips Inc. has joined the Tensilica Xtensions Design Partner program and will offer SoC design services using Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores, the company said Tuesday (Sept. 19).
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19-Sept-06
India reportedly delaying Huawei expansion plans
China's Huawei Technologies is reportedly nervous about delays in gaining government approval of its investments here.
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19-Sept-06
Now, multiple lasers on a silicon slab
They have shrunk the light-amplifying laser and squeezed over two dozen of them on a stamp-sized slab of silicon!
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19-Sept-06
Huawei's concern over pending FDIs
Huawei Technologies is "concerned'' over the time taken by the Indian Government to clear two of its applications for foreign direct investment (FDI).
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18-Sept-06
Vignani gets $4 million funding
Value engineering services provider Vignani Technologies Pvt Ltd, will receive venture funding to the tune of $4 million from a group of VCs including Intel Capital, Jaffco, Nomura group and KT Ventures.
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18-Sept-06
Jabil's New Chennai Unit Coming Soon
Jabil, a global provider of electronic product solutions, has started the construction of a new manufacturing facility in Chennai which will come up at a total investment of more than $70 million.
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18-Sept-06
Jabil Circuit to set up facility in Sriperumbudur
Jabil Circuit Inc, a global leader in electronic product solutions, plans to invest more than $70 million in a new facility in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.
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15-Sept-06
Study: Indian design takes off
Design starts in India are growing in both number and complexity, according to a study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA).
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15-Sept-06
SEMI surveys India manufacturing
Executives from global semiconductor association SEMI visited India recently to survey and analyze the growth of semiconductor manufacturing here.
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14-Sept-06
India seeks bids to upgrade government fab
IBM and Atmel Corp. figure to be the main bidders for upgrading Semiconductor Complex Ltd.'s fab that produces chips for India's space program and military, according to reports here.
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14-Sept-06
`Good scope for silicon materials industry foray'
India has an opportunity to enter the silicon materials industry. "India may get into the materials process, especially with the rise of the solar cell industry here," said Mr Vinod K. Agarwal, Chairman of SemIndia, speaking to Business Line at the sidelines of a round table discussion on `Changes in Semiconductor: Industrial Landscape and implications for India' organised in the city recently.
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13-Sept-06
UWB, Zigbee chipsets revolutionize WPANs
The unprecedented increase in consumer demand for wireless connectivity is the prime driver of growth in the ultrawideband (UWB) and ZigBee chipset market.
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13-Sept-06
IBM, Atmel bid for SCL fab upgrade
IBM and Atmel Corporation figure among key bidders for upgrading the fab facility of Semiconductor Labs, it is reliably learnt.
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13-Sept-06
Solidworks plans to expand VAR network in India
Solidworks Corp., a 3D design software company, announced its plan to increase its value-added reseller (VAR) network strength into B class cities in India.
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12-Sept-06
Fight over Fab City project
The Fab city project of Hyderabad faces a hurdle as the Finance Ministry and Department of Information Technology (DIT) battle over standard operating procedures (sops) for the semiconductor industry and chip making facilities.
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12-Sept-06
Fab City faces hurdle
The tussle between finance ministry and information technology department over sops for the semiconductor industry and chip making facilities is upsetting calculations of the likes of Intel and AMD which is a partnering a group of NRIs promoting SemIndia.
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12-Sept-06
Spel to invest $250 mn
Spel Semiconductor, integrated chip (IC) assembly and testing company, has chalked out an investment budget of $250 million (about Rs 1,150 crore), spread over five years to increase its advance packaging capabilities, its existing capacities and to fund acquisition from 2-3 years from now.
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12-Sept-06
Cadence eyes India advantage for chip development
Global chip design major Cadence is joining hands with domestic educational institutions to create opportunities for the growth of the semiconductor industry.
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11-Sept-06
India's SPEL expands packaging capacity
IC assembly and tester SPEL Semiconductor Ltd. has opened a $5 million leadless molded package facility as part of a $250 million expansion plan.
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11-Sept-06
Cisco, IIT-Roorkee tie-up
Cisco Systems, has partnered with Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, for advanced research on mobile agent technology.
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11-Sept-06
Centre to announce hardware policy soon
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that the Central Government would soon announce a policy for the hardware industry.
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11-Sept-06
ISA, NXP Take Stock Of Semiconductors
India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the national body for the Indian semiconductor industry, organised a round table discussion on 'Changes in Semiconductor: Industrial Landscape and implications for India'.
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11-Sept-06
Huawei opens new facility in Bangalore
Huawei Technologies India, in next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators, has opened a new facility in Bangalore to develop optical network products and WLAN solutions for its worldwide customers.
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09-Sept-06
Indian researchers unveil processor test framework
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai and Intel's validation and test solutions center at Austin have teamed to unveil a unified framework for generating functional tests for processors, at the recent VLSI Design and Test 2006 conference in Goa in western India.
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09-Sept-06
Nortel to source more from India
Nortel has said that it will significantly enhance its procurement from India and China to serve the booming telecom market in Asia.
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08-Sept-06
Nortel to procure more from India, China
Telecom giant Nortel said Friday that it would increase its procurement from India and China with the Asian telecom market growing big.
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08-Sept-06
NVIDIA's products now in India
NVIDIA announced the availability of its latest seven series products in Indian markets.
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07-Sept-06
Chaos reigns at Intel India
A cloud of uncertainty seems to be over Intel India, two days after the world’s leading chipmaker announced its plans to restructure the organization, implying layoffs of about 10,500 employees globally at a managerial level by the end of this year.
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06-Sept-06
Electronics Design Industry Needs A `Spark Of Energy'
Saugat Sen, engineering group director, Cadence Design Systems India Ltd, has called upon electronics design industry players to come up with the `spark of energy' to connect various levels of ecosystems which would stand the domestic industry in good stead in the global scenario.
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06-Sept-06
Electronics Industry: India To Call The Shots
Pradeep Kumar, president, ST Microelectronics, predicted that the electronics industry is slated to grow above global GDP due to new Indian geographical markets.
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06-Sept-06
Intel plans entrepreneur program in India
Intel Corp. will build on its academic program here with a technology entrepreneurship initiative in partnership with the University of California at Berkeley.
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06-Sept-06
Intel remains committed to India
World's largest PC chipmaker Intel, which has announced layoff of 10,500 employees worldwide, on Wednesday said it remains committed to India and plans to invest over 1 billion dollars in the country.
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05-Sept-06
Sequence Holds Low-Power Design Seminar
Sequence has recently organized a low-power design seminar in Bangalore.
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05-Sept-06
Philips Semiconductors India Rechristened
Philips Semiconductors has unveiled the India chapter and introduced the new company -- NXP Semiconductors India – where the acronym `NXP’ stands for `Next Experience’.
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05-Sept-06
New opportunities opening up
Of the $3.25 billion design market in India in 2005, embedded software contributed 78 percent at $2.53 billion; VLSI, 18 percent at $0.58 billion; and hardware/board design, 4 percent at $0.14 billion.
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05-Sept-06
R&D outsourcing in the semiconductor industry
As the pressure increases for companies to ensure better returns on their R&D investment in order to remain competitive in a market that is getting extremely feature driven, many see outsourcing their R&D as a strategic move.
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05-Sept-06
NXP India plans $328 m R&D push
NXP Semiconductors India, earlier known as Philips Semiconductors India, announced it will invest close to $328 million in R&D over the next five years to capture a pie of the local semiconductor market — considered one of the fastest growing in the world.
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05-Sept-06
Lattice targets 15% market share
US-based Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, which launched its sales operations in India last week, is targeting a 15 per cent market share in the programmable logic devices (PLD) segment over the next five years.
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05-Sept-06
NXP Semiconductors' investment plans
NXP Semiconductors (India) Pvt. Ltd., formerly Philips Semiconductors (India) Pvt. Ltd., will invest Euro 255 million as it starts functioning as a new company, after moving out of the fold of Philips on being acquired globally by five private equity investors in August.
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04-Sept-06
Philips hives off Indian semiconductor biz to new entity
Following the move to sell-off its global semiconductor business, Philips said on Monday that it has hived off its semiconductor business and research in India into a new entity.
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04-Sept-06
Philips Semiconductors to be renamed NXP
Philips Electronics’ chip unit that was hived off from the parent company earlier this year would be christened NXP Semiconductors India.
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