08-Dec-07
Vitesse Semiconductor expanding operations here
Semiconductor design services provider Vitesse today announced plans to expand its Indian operations based in Hyderabad where it plans to invest $3 million during the fiscal year.
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07-Dec-07
Vitesse Announces Strategic Investment in Hyderabad, India
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets: VTSS) today announced plans to significantly increase its presence in Hyderabad, India, where it currently manages a design-development center.
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07-Dec-07
Wipro-NewLogic to provide turnkey IC supply services to Leica
Wipro-NewLogic, the Austria-based IC design and semiconductor IP company of Wipro Ltd., is to provide turnkey IC supply services to spatial information products company Leica Geosystems AG, a part of the Hexagon Group of Sweden.
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07-Dec-07
SPEL Semiconductor achieves highest ever revenue in Nov`07
SPEL Semiconductor achieved highest ever revenue of USD 2 million in November 2007.
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06-Dec-07
11 Dec: Programmable Solutions India 2007
Xilinx, Inc. is hosting Programmable Solutions India 2007 with Xilinx India sales representative company CG-CoreEl on 11 December 2007 at Taj Residency Hotel, Bengaluru and on 13 December 2007 at Sheraton Hotel, Hyderabad.
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05-Dec-07
Xilinx Hosts Programmable Solutions India 2007
Xilinx, Inc. announced that it will host Programmable Solutions India 2007 with Xilinx India sales representative company CG-CoreEl on December 11, 2007 in Bangalore and December 13, 2007 in Hyderabad.
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04-Dec-07
Ruiz: AMD bent on bouncing back
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is focused on returning to profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said during a visit to India last week.
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03-Dec-07
Symphony to focus on embedded software biz
Product engineering outsourcing services provider Symphony Services is focusing on the embedded systems and software business, and expects this to contribute around 40 per cent of its revenue in a few years.
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03-Dec-07
10th TIDC opens with innovative products on display
Texas Instruments (India) today opened the 10th Texas Instruments Developer Conference (TIDC) with demonstrations of a wheelchair that is operated by neuro signal processing using TI’s MSP430 microcontroller and ‘Intelligent Sensors’ that use TI’s Da Vinci technology to reduce energy consumption in offices.
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03-Dec-07
eInfochips plans 9th offshore devt centre
Ahmedabad-based eInfochips, which specialises in providing outsourcing of electronic design solutions and services, intends to set up its ninth offshore development centre (ODC) in India shortly.
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03-Dec-07
Indian auto developer gains Spice certification
KPIT Cummins, a prominent Indian software company developing automotive electronics and semiconductor products, has been certified at a higher level for using an auto design language.
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03-Dec-07
World Eco Forum-India Eco Summit: What happened today?
On the second day at the World Economic Forum - India Economic Summit, there wasn’t much news on the policy front.
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02-Dec-07
Innovation to fore at Texas Instruments meet
India’s footprint now extends across the entire spectrum of tasks involved in the making of a compelling consumer or industrial electronics product - from concept to circuit design to chip and board realisation, all the way to the creation of a fully functional reference design that potential manufacturing customers can tweak to roll out the item in large numbers.
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01-Dec-07
Designers deliver great value
Despite the inexorable upward trend in employee compensation, companies with captive design operations, and those outsourcing to third-party providers in India are able to realize a cost advantage of 30 to 40 percent, observes Mayank Jain of market research firm InStat.
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30-Nov-07
AMD launches `learning lab` for children
Semiconductor company AMD and the American India Foundation launched ‘50x15 Learning Lab’ initiative at the Government HighSchool, Doddanakundi in Bangalore on Thursday.
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30-Nov-07
TI showcases thought-controlled wheelchair
Semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI), which provides processing solutions to various industries, today showcased the 'thought-controlled’ motorised wheelchair for the physically-challenged, at the Texas Instruments Developers Conference (TIDC) India 2007 here.
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30-Nov-07
AMD chief hails leading role of Indian researchers
Key contributions in the recent creation of the world’s first true quad processor — a chip with four separate number-crunching cores — came from India-based engineers of AMD, the U.S.-based semiconductor leader’s Chief Executive Hector Ruiz, said here on Thursday.
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30-Nov-07
AMD exploring alliances to set up chip plant
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), supplier of chips and integrated circuits, is exploring alliances to set up a chip-manufacturing plant in India.
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29-Nov-07
AMD expands R&D presence in India
AMD, provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics market, on Thursday launched the new silicon design and platform research and development centre in the city.
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29-Nov-07
Return to profitability is first priority, says AMD's Ruiz
Advanced Micro Devices is focusing its efforts on a return to profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said Thursday (Nov. 29) during a visit here.
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29-Nov-07
ISA sets date for Vision Summit 2008
The Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) has announced the dates for the upcoming Vision Summit 2008, which will focus on evolving the Indian domestic market.
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28-Nov-07
SemIndia reportedly in talks to raise funds
SemIndia Inc., the semiconductor manufacturing startup based in Hyderabad, plans to raise about $100 million within the next 180 days to help launch operations.
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27-Nov-07
California Micro Devices Establishes India Design Center
California Micro Devices today announced that it has established a design center in Chennai, India in a continuing collaboration with GDA Technologies, a strategic ASIC design partner with a presence there.
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26-Nov-07
TCS bets on Embedded Systems in Japan
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday announced a series of investments in the field of Embedded Systems to help Japanese corporations innovate and remain globally competitive.
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25-Nov-07
Arrow to distribute mathstar semiconductor products in india
Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement for the India market with MathStar (Nasdaq: MATH), a leading fabless semiconductor company offering high-performance programmable logic solutions.
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25-Nov-07
TCS bets on embedded systems to spur growth in Japan
Country's largest software company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday announced a series of investments in the field of embedded systems to help Japanese corporations innovate and remain globally competitive.
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22-Nov-07
Premji on what enables innovation
The India information technology industry, including exports and domestic market and semiconductor industry, is gaining traction despite challenges, said Azim H Premji, chairman, Wipro [Get Quote], at the third Freescale Technology Forum in Bangalore on Monday.
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21-Nov-07
MindTree R&D services eye growth via ODCs
Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting, which provides Information Technology (IT) and Research and Development (R&D) services, is eyeing offshore development centre (ODC) model to drive business in the R&D services division.
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20-Nov-07
Freescale establishes innovation center in India
Freescale Semiconductor, which has been designing chips and developing software in India since 1998, will next establish here an International Center of Excellence for Innovation.
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20-Nov-07
Intel’s India-made chip to be out early next year
Dunnington, the exclusively India-designed-and-developed multiprocessor (MP) Xeon server from Intel will be out in the second half of 2008.
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16-Nov-07
Fab India land cut by 150 acres
The Fab City project will come up in 1,050 acres at Raviryal and Srinagar villages in Ranga Reddy district and not in 1200 acres as announced by the state government earlier.
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15-Nov-07
MindTree Consulting acquires Purple Vision
Leading ASIC and IC design Service provider, MindTree Consulting today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity in TES-PV Electronic Solutions (Purple Vision), the India-based, fully-owned subsidiary of TES Electronic Solutions SA.
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15-Nov-07
MindTree buys Purple Vision for $6.5m
Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting has acquired the Indian subsidiary of French company TES Electronic Solutions SA in an all-cash deal of $6.55 million.
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14-Nov-07
MindTree to buy 100% equity stake in TES-PV Electronic
MindTree Consulting announced that on Nov. 14, 2007 it inked a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity in TES-PV Electronic Solutions (`Purple Vision`), the India-based fully-owned subsidiary of TES Electronic Solutions SA, the global electronic design and manufacturing services company based in France.
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14-Nov-07
Mindtree buys French firm's Indian IC design arm
Mindtree Consulting Ltd., a software and services company based here, has bought TES-PV Electronic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Purple Vision), an IC design services subsidiary of French electronics design and manufacturing services company TES Electronic Solutions SA.
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14-Nov-07
MindTree Consulting acquires TES-Purple Vision for $6.55 m
MindTree Consulting Ltd on November 14 announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the equity in TES-PV Electronic Solutions Pvt Ltd, the fully-owned subsidiary of TES Electronic Solutions SA, a global electron ic design and manufacturing services company based in France.
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14-Nov-07
KPIT to build two more offshore units
KPIT Cummins Infosystems, a mid-tier company, which provides information technology (IT) and engineering services, plans to set up two offshore development centres (ODC) for Japanese semiconductor companies in India next financial year.
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13-Nov-07
India is most wireless-focused design location, says Synopsys
For all of those that thought Europe was the hotbed of wireless IC design EDA company Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has some evidence that my force a change of mind.
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10-Nov-07
Magma Design to up R&D output from India
US-based Magma Design Automation, which provides software for electronic design automation (EDA) tools in the semiconductor sector, plans to increase its research and development output from India.
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10-Nov-07
Potential for solar energy large in India
In India, the prospect of solar energy is sunny but without being too hot.
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08-Nov-07
PMC-Sierra in talks with DoT for WiMax chip unit
Nasdaq-listed global WiMax chip manufacturer PMC-Sierra is keen to expand its base in the country.
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08-Nov-07
19 Nov: Freescale Technology Forum 2007
Freescale Semiconductor is going to organise the third Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) at the Grand Ashok Hotel in Bengaluru on 19 and 20 November 2007.
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08-Nov-07
Freescale announces 3rd Technology Forum in Bangalore
Freescale Semiconductor is hosting its third annual technology conference in India at Hotel Grand Ashok, Bangalore on Nov 19 and 20, 2007.
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08-Nov-07
Putting India on the semiconductor map
It is always a motivating factor for any developing economy like India, when some new area of growth springs up.
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07-Nov-07
Wipro eyes IP markets in Japan, APAC region
Wipro Technologies, which runs the global IT business of the IT-to-soaps conglomerate, is looking to increase its business from Japan and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
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06-Nov-07
IP Infusion and Wipro Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), and IP Infusion, a leader in intelligent software platforms for converged IP communications equipment, today announced a strategic partnership to offer Layer 2 and Layer 3 solutions to telecom equipment and semiconductor vendors.
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05-Nov-07
Tower Semiconductor Seeks Partnerships in India
Israel-based chipmaker Tower Semiconductor Ltd recently held discussions with Indian chip fabrication and design companies.
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02-Nov-07
India planning new IT manufacturing units
The Indian government is planning to set up several IT incubators around the country to attract investment and boost electronics manufacturing.
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01-Nov-07
Kolkata IT design centre partner choice soon
West Bengal, which is planning a Rs 300 crore India Design Centre (IDC) in Kolkata to promote the semiconductor sector, intends to finalise its partner for the project in a fortnight.
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01-Nov-07
Applied CEO: Electronics doing little for sustainability
The electronics industry is doing very little to achieve ecologically sustainable growth, a goal that must start with semiconductor manufacturing, a U.S. executive said.
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31-Oct-07
Better '08 for chip industry if glut ends early, predicts Applied's Splinter
A strong holiday season in the U.S. and Europe and strong sales around the Chinese New Year will go a long way toward determining whether oversupplies of DRAM and logic chips are reduced and the global chip industry has a better 2008, a company executive said.
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30-Oct-07
Synplicity India Expands Its R&D Operations in Bangalore
Synplicity, Inc., (Nasdaq: SYNP) a leading supplier of innovative IC design and verification solutions, today announced the inauguration of its new development facility in Bangalore.
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29-Oct-07
India hinges hope on embedded design
From the perspective of technology development and manufacturing, India can be a tough read—especially compared with its booming neighbor China, the world's factory.
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26-Oct-07
ESC India seen as watershed for its embedded industry
India's embedded design industry emerged here earlier this month during the first Embedded Systems Conference (ISA) here.
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25-Oct-07
Global chipmakers find India not so fab, after all
Whilst the government recently doled out huge financial incentives to encourage global chipmakers to set up fab units in India, leading global IT research firm Gartner in a recent report titled ‘Roadblocks Ahead for Indian Fabs’ has given the India’s much-debated chip policy a thumbs down.
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22-Oct-07
India hitches its star to embedded design model
From the perspective of technology development and manufacturing, India can be a tough read--especially compared with its booming neighbor China, the world's factory.
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20-Oct-07
India To Play Key Role In Microchip’s Future: Sanghi
The global green movement is resulting in greater demand for better energy management which is expected to increase adoption of digitally programmable microcontroller solutions in motor, lighting and power-related applications, said Steve Sanghi, president, CEO and chairman of the board, Microchip Technology Inc., while on his Bengaluru visit.
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18-Oct-07
Chip design centre to go live by 2008
An exclusive VLSI chip design, testing and prototype manufacturing centre that is proposed to be set up here in Kolkata is expected to be operational by the end of 2008.
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17-Oct-07
Microchip bets on design centres
Microchip Technology, headquartered in the U.S., with FY 2007 global revenues of $1.040 billion, is viewing India as a potentially growing market for the company’s micro controllers built on 8-bit and more recently, 16-bit architecture.
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16-Oct-07
Automotives, power, telecom to drive semiconductor growth
Automotive, telecom and power sectors will drive the growth rate of the semiconductor industry in the country, despite the decline in the global growth rate.
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16-Oct-07
‘Indian semiconductor industry remains bullish’
India’s impact in the global semiconductor business is larger than its rank as a market.
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15-Oct-07
Driven by design
Dr Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, Managing Director of Texas Instruments India, dwells on how the semiconductor scene is shaping up.
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13-Oct-07
'Rivals will join hands in emerging world of tech'
From the days when the world produced semiconductor products for India, we have now reached a stage where in future products are made in the country and exported globally, whether it is mobile handsets, computing or consumer products.
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12-Oct-07
Centre may announce hardware policy soon
The Union Government is in the process of fine-tuning the new hardware policy which is likely to be announced within two-three weeks.
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12-Oct-07
Embedded keen to start Hyd operations
Canada-based Embedded Solutions has approached the Andhra Pradesh government for 50-70 acres of land at the upcoming Fab City for setting up a facility to outsource some of its operations to India, according to government sources.
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11-Oct-07
Cadence Opens R&D Facility in Noida, India
Cadence Design Systems Inc has announced the opening of a third R&D facility in Noida, India.
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11-Oct-07
Semi industry faces manufacturability, complexity and scale issues: Cadence CEO
As semiconductor geometries continue to shrink, the people who have to deal with that trend face confounding challenges of manufacturability, complexity and scale.
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11-Oct-07
CEO mum on private equity interest in Cadence Design
Refusing to comment on a New York Times report that he is taking the company private, Michael J. Fister, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc., said, "I can never confirm or deny any speculation about what anyone does."
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11-Oct-07
SemIndia to export hardware to China
So you thought India was for software and China was for hardware in making smart electronic devices?
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11-Oct-07
Cookson to Open Larger India R&D Center
Cookson Electronics will open a state-of-the-art research center here later this month.
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11-Oct-07
Nokia Siemens Transferring R&D Group to Wipro
Nokia Siemens Networks BV will transfer its research and development (R&D) team, working on radio access technologies, to Indian outsourcer Wipro Ltd.
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11-Oct-07
Chip makers begin griping about policy
A month after the Indian government provided details of its much-awaited semiconductor policy aimed at providing special incentives for companies to set up chip-making units in India, chip makers such as SemIndia Inc. and Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. are expressing serious concerns about key clauses in the policy.
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10-Oct-07
Texas Instruments focuses on startups to sell analog tech
Texas Instruments (TI), the $13.84 billion technology giant, will increasingly focus on the smaller enterprises and startups in India especially for its analog technologies.
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10-Oct-07
March to programmability inexorable, says Tensilica CEO
The infinite appetite for live multimedia-based devices, especially for handhelds and devices for the living room, is driving the development of new silicon platforms.
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10-Oct-07
SemIndia to apply for govt incentives within month
SemIndia, a consortium of non-resident Indian entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, today said it will apply for government incentives within a month to set up a chip-making facility in Hyderabad.
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10-Oct-07
SemIndia eyes Rs 600cr by 2010
SemIndia, a leading Indian semiconductor player, is poised to cross the Rs 100 crore mark by the end of the financial year 2007-08.
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10-Oct-07
SemIndia to apply for incentives for new chip unit
Indian semiconductor consortium SemIndia will apply within a month for government incentives to set up a chip-making facility in India, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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09-Oct-07
Cost, performance key topics at India semi summit
Configurability is key to the viability of the semiconductor industry, while platform development helps cut costs, speakers said here the final day of the Vision Summit of the India Semiconductor Association.
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