21-June-07
India's appeal to electronics industry gets hotter
In more ways than one, India is a hot spot for the electronics industry. First, its blistering economic growth of 9% is having a positive impact on the electronics industry as demand for mobile phones, digital cameras, flat-panel TVs, and PCs is up across the board.
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15-June-07
Cap on units availing fab sops may go
The cap on the number of semiconductor and other high-tech fabrication (fab) units that can avail of fiscal incentives may be relaxed.
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15-June-07
Multi-core chips are the way forward: Intel
Betting big on its multi-core processors, Intel on Thursday said the era of single processors was almost coming to an end and that dual and multi-core processors were the way forward.
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19-May-07
NXP eyes Indian e-passports order
The world's leading microchips maker NXP Semiconductors is pitching for a multi-million dollar order from the Indian government to supply chips for electronic passports (e-passport), according to official sources.
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19-May-07
Does India really need to chip in?
Former AMD founder and CEO Jerry Saunders once notoriously quipped, “Real men have fabs.”
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18-May-07
Intel India contributes 50 per cent to global revenues
The contribution of India to Intel’s global products is on the rise.
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15-May-07
CIPSA-RIC India to expand operations
CIPSA-RIC India Pvt. Ltd, an Indo-Spanish company based here and specialising in producing printed circuit boards (PCBs), is investing $10 million to expand its operations, including setting up of a second facility.
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14-May-07
Taiwanese chip firm wants to set up fab unit in India
A Taiwanese-based chip manufacturing company has expressed interest to set up a fab unit in India at an investment of $3billion.
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14-May-07
Bartronics commissions smartcard facility
Bartronics India Ltd has announced the commissioning of its new smartcards manufacturing facility — the first of its kind in India — set up about 40 km outside Hyderabad.
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14-May-07
CIPSA-RIC to invest $10 m
CIPSA-RIC, a manufacturer of printed circuit boards, plans to invest $10 million in expanding its production capacity by four times to 40,000 sq. per metre per month.
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09-May-07
LSI-Agere merger plans full-chip design in Bangalore
LSI Logic announced May 4 that it had completed its merger with Agere Systems effective April 2, and that it would rename the newly merged company LSI Corp.
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06-May-07
IBM copies pattern-creating process to build better chips
How are snowflakes, seashells and teeth enamel formed?
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04-May-07
LSI Logic, Agere complete merger
Chip solution firms LSI Logic and Agere Systems have completed their merger, effective from April 2.
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03-May-07
Indian firm sets out to be "the TSMC of design"
Rahul Sud, a veteran of the semiconductor industry having worked at Inmos, Lattice Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics, has helped create LogicFab Ltd., an Indian startup company that he would like to see become "the TSMC of design."
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01-May-07
SemIndia helps create supply chain for wafer fab
SemIndia is helping develop a complete ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in the Fab City region of Hyderabad.
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01-May-07
Designing the fastest Intel platform
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he hardware design group at NVIDIA’s Bangalore facility has spent most part of the last 2 years huddled over design plans, and actual silicon.
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01-May-07
Cost-effective PSWIs
Pure sine-wave inverters (PSWIs) produce a clean AC output, for instance 230V/50Hz, when provided with a 12 or 24V DC source.
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01-May-07
Fast triple play service with complete GPON systems solutions
GPON (gigabit passive optical network) is a new technology allowing for Gigabit connectivity via optical cable to individuals houses, apartment buildings and offices.
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01-May-07
Next-generation storage interface technologies
As servers are pushed to meet advancing system and computing requirements, reducing total cost of storage ownership becomes increasingly critical.
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01-May-07
Designs “in” India “for” India
Just a few years ago, the hub for design, manufacturing, and consumption of electronics goods were the developed
regions of the US, Japan and Europe.
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01-May-07
Moving up the value chain
There was little surprise amongst the design community in India when Intel (www.intel.com) announced in late February that a 20-member team lead by Vasantha Erraguntla at its India Development Centre (IIDC) played a key role in creating the world’s first teraflop chip.
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26-Apr-07
Two more companies show interest in Fab City project
Two more semiconductor fab companies were knocking at Andhra Pradesh to be part of the Rs 13,000-crore Fab City project coming up near Hyderabad.
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14-Apr-07
Videocon to set up chip unit
Apart from a slew of projects and two IT and biotech SEZs in West Bengal, Videocon Industries is considering to set up a fabrication laboratory for semiconductors near Kolkata.
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13-Apr-07
Actel sees FPGA comback in 2008
Actel Corp. said it expects strong growth in the FPGA market by the end of the year.
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12-Apr-07
India to launch prototyping fab
Construction will begin within the next 12 months on a prototype fab which will be part of the India Design Center in Kolkata.
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08-Apr-07
NeST setting up electronic hardware park
The Kerala-based NeST group will set up a world-class electronic hardware park at nearby Kalamassery in association with Kinfra with Special Economic Zone status.
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04-Apr-07
Freescale ramping up headcount
Freescale Semiconductor, the $6.4-billion embedded technology solutions provider, is bullish on India as it expands its research and development mandate.
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02-Apr-07
TI rules out India fab
Despite the country's new incentives for high-tech investments, Texas Instruments has ruled out building a chip fab in India.
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02-Apr-07
TI's Templeton backs R&D in India, rules out fab
Although the prospect of setting up a manufacturing facility is far from his plans in India, Texas Instruments CEO Rich Templeton is certainly excited about the Indian semiconductor policy that was announced a few weeks ago.
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02-Apr-07
TI CEO: Medical field may drive India's future chips
The medical field could turn out to be one of the next big growth areas for India's semiconductor industry in the coming decade or so, according to the CEO of Texas Instruments, Inc.
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02-Apr-07
IISc joins hands with Texas Instruments
The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has become the first university outside US to join Texas Instruments' premier research network of the top four leadership universities in the world.
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02-Apr-07
Chip policy: Support is at the `threshold point'
The semiconductor policy, recently notified, is a fairly good start, says Mr Raj Singh, founder and Director of Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HSMC), the company that recently announced a $4.5-billion investment for chip manufacturing in India.
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29-Mar-07
Hindustan Semiconductor to chip in $4 b for Indian fabs
Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HSMC), a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor company on Wednesday announced its plans to invest over $4 billion in chip foundries in India, with Germany-based Infineon as its technology partner.
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29-Mar-07
Satyam in $200 mn 5-yr deal
Satyam Computer Services, a leading global IT services company, today signed an estimated $200 million (around Rs 900 crore) five-year contract with California-based Applied Materials, a global leader in manufacturing microchips.
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29-Mar-07
Satyam signs contract with Applied Materials
Satyam Computer Services has signed a five-year contract with Applied Materials Inc, a leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions.
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29-Mar-07
HSMC to set up two chip-making plants
Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HSMC), promoted by a group of non-residents in the Silicon Valley in the U.S., said on Wednesday it has tied up with the German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies to set up two chip-making plants in India with an investment of $4.5 billion.
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28-Mar-07
Infineon confirms licensing deal with Indian chip maker
Infineon has signed a memorandum of understanding with recently-established Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HSMC) to license several semiconductor manufacturing technologies required to launch production in India.
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28-Mar-07
Head of EMT Indian operations
Semiconductor IP memory start-up Emerging Memory Technologies (EMT) has hired Mr Pierre Gopal as its new Managing Director to head the Indian operations.
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28-Mar-07
Hind Semiconductor plans 2 manufacturing units
In the backdrop of the semiconductor policy getting notified, Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HSMC) announced its plan to set up fabrication manufacturing facilities in the country at an investment of $4 billion.
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28-Mar-07
Satyam bags $200-m deal from Applied Materials
IT services provider Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced it has bagged a five-year $200 million (about Rs 900 crore) maintenance-cum-business transformation deal from Applied Materials Inc.
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28-Mar-07
Infineon to partner NRI investor in big chip plant
Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG, one of the world’s top semiconductor firms, has teamed up as technology partner for a multi-billion-dollar silicon chip design and manufacturing facility in India.
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27-Mar-07
Intel's first Asia fab goes to China, not India
Even as the Indian government has been speaking of “reopening talks” with Intel Corp, the world’s largest semiconductor maker has announced its plans to build its first computer-chip factory in China (and its first in Asia), investing $2.5 billion in a country that assembles 50 per cent of the world’s personal computers.
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24-Mar-07
Chip policy may discourage investors from future spends
The semiconductor policy may discourage investors from future payments as the government is using a discount rate of 9% to calculate the net present value (NPV) of future investments.
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24-Mar-07
RFID: poised for growth
A tall man with a long overcoat walks into a store, coolly lifts a stack of Mach 3 and slips it in his oversized pockets.
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23-Mar-07
Govt sops only for 3 fabs, Rs 24k-cr investment likely
In a move that could spark-off a race amongst semiconductor players eyeing fab units in India, the government has decided to limit the number of projects under the semiconductor policy package to three.
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23-Mar-07
SCL upgradation project soon
Upgradation work on the erstwhile public sector enterprise Semiconductor Complex (SCL) could finally start in the next two months.
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23-Mar-07
Semiconductor policy notified
A month after getting clearance from the Cabinet, the Government has notified the ambitious semiconductor policy that gives major subsidy to firms for setting up chip-making plants and other high-end manufacturing units in India.
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22-Mar-07
Industry welcomes semiconductor policy notification
Information Technology hardware industry apex body MAIT has welcomed semiconductor policy saying it would boost the capital intensive IT manufacturing in the country.
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22-Mar-07
STMicroelectronics expands partnership with premier Indian institutes
STMicroelectronics will set up joint research and innovation labs at two premier Indian technology institutes, BITS Pilani and IIT Delhi.
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22-Mar-07
India expects chip policy to attract $5B in foreign investment
The government said it expects its new chip policy to attract more than $5 billion in manufacturing investments over the next three years.
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22-Mar-07
Freescale Opens New Campus In India
Freescale Semiconductor has inaugurated its new 300,000-square-foot semiconductor design centre in Noida as part of its ongoing expansion plans for India.
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22-Mar-07
New semi-conductor policy has place for only 2-3 fabrication units
The Government has decided to allow only two or three companies to set up fabrication units in India with incentives specified under the semi-conductor policy.
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22-Mar-07
Govt spells out semiconductor policy
The government has notified the much-awaited semiconductor policy providing capital subsidy to the investors setting up chip manufacturing units in India.
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20-Mar-07
Freescale to hike R&D but won’t set up fab unit here
The $6.4-billion US-based chip maker Freescale Semiconductor will increase its chip design work in India but has no plans to set up a chip manufacturing unit here.
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16-Mar-07
UMC setting up support in Hyderabad
Foundry United Microelectronics Corp. said Friday it will open a customer support office in India's Hyderabad Technology Park.
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16-Mar-07
Semiconductor complex in Chandigarh to be upgraded
In a move that is likely to benefit the Semiconductor Complex Ltd and Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) at Chandigarh, the Union Cabinet has given its approval for upgradation of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit Facilities (VLSI).
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15-Mar-07
A Good Year For Semiconductor Industry
Year 2007 seems bright for the Indian semiconductor industry.
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15-Mar-07
Gemini Traze's RFID initiative
Gemini Traze, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gemini Communication Ltd., has set up a facility for manufacturing RFID (radio frequency identification) based tags.
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14-Mar-07
Gemini TRAZE to make RFID tags
Gemini TRAZE (P) Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidiary of the Chennai-based Gemini Communication Ltd, has set up an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag manufacturing facility near Chennai at an initial cost of Rs 18 crore, according to a company official.
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