Samsung was the number one tablet brand in India in terms of shipments during the first quarter (January-March) of 2022, according to market research firm International Data Corp.s (IDC) worldwide quarterly PC devices tracker Q1 22.

Publication: Live Mint

The meeting was also attended by industry leaders from major Global & Indian IT hardware companies including Acer, Dell, Cisco, Flex, HPE, Apple, HPI, Lenovo, Oppo, (Prose Technology Private limited (a Rosenberger Co), Samsung and Indian industry players from Netweb, Sahasra (InfoPower), Tube Investments, Velankanni among others.

Publication: Business Today

Frontiers nearest competitor, Fugaku, has a performance score of 442 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark a standard for officially ranking global, publicly disclosed supercomputers. While Fugaku was based on Arms core designs, USs Frontier is powered by AMD.

Publication: Live Mint

MediaTek competes with the likes of the US based Qualcomm , Intel and Broadcom We had an impact We were not able to fulfil 100% demand of our customers, but we have managed it quite well Its the reason why we could see an increase in the company’s revenue, Anku Jain, managing director, MediaTek India, told ET

Publication : The Economic Times

As part of the agreement, Pega will make Pega Cloud applications available on Google Cloud as a fully hosted and managed as a service offering. In addition, Pega and Google Cloud will collaborate on addressing new industry-specific use cases and joint go to market activities and will bring Pega Infinity applications to the Google Cloud Marketplace.

Publication : CXO Today

Taiwanese fabless chipmaker MediaTek expects the global semiconductor supply situation to improve by the end of the year, its top India executive said, despite the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict further adding to the shortage. MediaTek competes with the likes of the US-based Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom.

Publication: The Economic Times

Gamers and gaming influencers are set to rake it in as the domestic esports market matures. Last week, game streaming platform Rooter signed local professional esports team GodLike to an exclusive streaming deal it called the biggest esports deal of its kind in India

Publication : Live Mint

Xiaomi which has been known for its smartphones and tablets has begun to work on its next tablet, which is the successor of the Xiaomi Pad 5, and will be named Xiaomi Pad 6.

Publication: India Tv News

Vedanta will finalize a location for its $20 billion semiconductors and display plants in India by midJune and will have the first chip product ready in two years, its Chairman Anil Agarwal said. Oiltometals conglomerate Vedanta said in February it will diversify into chip manufacturing and announced plans to form a joint venture with Taiwans Foxconn to support Prime Minister Narendra Modis drive to make India a semiconductor manufacturing hub.

Publication: ELE Times

Grouping skill based gaming like online fantasy sports (OFS) with games that involve pure luck something the Online Gaming (Regulation) Bill, 2022, in its present form does is unfortunate This, even after the Supreme Court declared in August 2021 that OFS is a game of skill and not of chance.

Publication: The Economic Times

A single chip with processor, memory, I/O (input and output) peripherals making the typical microcontroller has its industrial applications in vehicles, robotics, medical devices, home appliances, manufacturing to automotive.

Publication: ELE Times

The offer of $142.50 in cash or 0.2520 of a Broadcom share for each VMware stock represents a premium of nearly 49% to the stock’s last close before talks of the deal were first reported on May 22. Broadcom will also assume $8 billion of VMware’s net debt.

Publication: ET CIO

Advertisement According to Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, the semiconductor supply has greatly improved, and the companys global production is projected to recover in the second half of the year.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

According to a report by CII and BCG, the Indian VFX and animation business rebounded by 3050% in 2021 after a challenging 2020, with a market worth of $0.9 trillion$1.1 billion.

Publication: Careers 360

However, this processing needs to happen at a location close to the cars referred to as the Edge. Edge Computing is the processing of data closer to the device at the edge of the network to provide low latency and real time response. Certain cases in which extremely quick response is needed, processing cannot happen at centralized data centers or Public Cloud far away from the device.

Publication: Free Press Journal

The state is planning to bring a legislation in order to regulate online skill based games specifically fantasy games Industry bodies in the sector like the Skill Games Council of India and EGaming Federation (EGF) said that the government should make the draft more inclusive by incorporating regulations for all online skill games equally and not just fantasy gaming.

Publication: The Times of India

The Economic Survey for 202122 stated Shortage of semiconductors led to closure or lowering of production by several firms from diverse industries. The report recognized Semiconductors as integral part of technology used in automobiles and its components, electronics etc.

Publication: Live Mint

What was once a business enabler is now core to many emerging business models. We are talking about cloud computing, which has become a foundational resource for businesses and governments alike as they strive to harness emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, and IoT. There is cloud innovation happening wherever you look.

Publication: The Financial Express

After a less than convincing start, cloud gaming has grown exponentially in the last few years. Services such as Nvidia GeForce Now, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, PS Now, and Xbox Cloud Gaming can be seen as viable alternatives depending on your internet speed to traditional, local based hardware.

Publication: Tech Radar

In a circular shared by the ministry, there are 10 members in the advisory group, led by Amitesh Kumar Sinha, joint secretary, electronics, MeitY. The group also has Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA, and top executives from Lava, Samsung, Apple, HP, Dell, Foxconn, Intel, and Coconics.

Publication: ELE Times

The panel will look into various aspects to promote online gaming and frame regulatory mechanisms for the segment, protection of gamers, ease of doing business, among others, the source said

Publication : ET Telecom

A single chip with processor, memory, I/O (input and output) peripherals making the typical microcontroller has its industrial applications in vehicles, robotics, medical devices, home appliances, manufacturing to automotive.

Publication : ELE Times

The state is planning to bring a legislation in order to regulate online skill based games specifically fantasy games Industry bodies in the sector like the Skill Games Council of India and EGaming Federation (EGF) said that the government should make the draft more inclusive by incorporating regulations for all online skill games equally and not just fantasy gaming

Publication : The Times of India

The Economic Survey for 2021- 22 stated Shortage of semiconductors led to closure or lowering of production by several firms from diverse industries. The report recognized Semiconductors as integral part of technology used in automobiles and its components, electronics etc.

Publication : Live Mint

What was once a business enabler is now core to many emerging business models. We are talking about cloud computing, which has become a foundational resource for businesses and governments alike as they strive to harness emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, and IoT. There is cloud innovation happening wherever you look.

Publication : The Financial Express

The Raptor LakeS Desktop CPUs from Intel will support both DDR5 and DDR4 memory, giving them a significant advantage over AMDs DDR5only AM5 platform.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

Last week, GoI announced that it has formed a seven-member panel to work on regulations for India’s online gaming industry. Coming as this does after Narendra Modi stated in March that India must unlock its potential to make it a global powerhouse in the animation, visual effects, gaming and comics (AVGC) sector something also highlighted in Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech a month earlier the move is, indeed, welcome.

Publication: The Economic Times

Mobile gaming now represents 61% of the overall gaming market and is set to surpass $136 billion in 2022, growing 1. 7x faster than the gaming market overall, a new report says.

Publication: The Economic Times

Showa Denko, a hard drive manufacturer from Tokyo, Japan has started shipments of its 3.5″ 26 TB HDDs, the largest (and densest) the industry has ever seen. Using eSMR (Energy-assisted Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology, the company was able to develop 2.6 TB platters, allowing the production of 26 TB HDDs. These drives feature platters with a recording density of 1 TB/in^2, enabling the firm to plan the release of HDDs exceeding 30 TB by the end of 2023.

Publication : Hardware Times

NVIDIA reported its Q1 earnings this week, registering an increase of 31% in year-on-year revenue (and 6% sequentially). The chipmaker estimates that nearly a third of its GeForce userbase is now using RTX graphics cards. Channel inventory has normalized and should stay around these levels for the foreseeable future. Laptop gaming revenue also posted strong sequential and year-on-year growth figures, driven by the ramp of the RTX 30 series mobile family. A total of 180 notebooks featuring RTX 30 series GPUs are now on the market, up from 140 last year.

Publication : Hardware Times

Returnal, a popular PS5 exclusive seems to be headed to PC via Steam. This was discovered by @Nibellion on SteamDB. A page on the database includes a description of the game and a string that mentions the “Tower of Sisyphus”, a game mode that was recently released as part of a free DLC. Returnal was also featured in the GeForce Now leak, making a Steam release highly likely.

Publication : Hardware Times

Accenture organised Masters of Change, a digital transformation symposium, in association with Network18 and Money Control on the topic Ready for Breakthrough Growth Grow away from the core, to discuss the trends and developments in the consume rpackaged goods (CPG) sector and the establishment of a recovery roadmap for the sector.

Publication : Money Control

The deal is the biggest takeover ever for a chipmaker, beating AMD’s $34.1 billion takeover of Xilinx.

Publication: The Economic Times

The agreement is also a coup for Dell Technologies Inc chief executive Michael Dell, who spun VMware out of the computer maker last year. Michael Dell owns a 40% stake in VMware, while his financial backer Silver Lake, a private equity firm, owns 10%. VMware will be allowed to solicit offers from rival bidders for 40 days as part of the agreement.

Publication: The Times of India

Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices was the highest paid woman CEO for the third year in a row, but her compensation valued at $29.5 million ranked just 22nd in the survey. Sus pay rose 9% from last year. That was partly due to stock and stock options awards, which totaled $25.1 million as AMDs stock surged 57%.

Publication: Business Standard

In a circular shared by the ministry, seen by ET, there are 10 members in the advisory group, led by Amitesh Kumar Sinha, joint secretary, electronics, MeitY. The group also has Pankaj Mohindroo, chairman, India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA) and top executives from Lava, Samsung, Apple, HP, Dell, Foxconn, Intel and Coconics.

Publication: The Economic Times

Partners is acquiring software maker Citrix Systems Inc. for $13 billion, and Elon Musk announced a $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc. in April. The largest previous deal involving a chip-maker was AMD Inc.’s $34.1 billion takeover of Xilinx Inc.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India Sreejith Nair, CEO, Coconics Amitesh Kumar Sinha, Joint Secretary (Electronics), MeitY The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has formed an advisory board on making India a $300 billion electronics manufacturing hub by 2026.Called the Digital India Electronics Mission $300 Billion, the board is composed of members from major local and multinational electronics brands and industry bodies.

Publication : The Economic Times

Manufacturing companies are slowly moving to India as the second most desired location after China. Earlier this year, the Govt. of India announced that India would be one of the top five countries to be recognized as a global biomanufacturing center by 2025. Intel announced its plans to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in India just a few weeks ago.

Publication : People Matters

Through this alliance we plan to share our thought leadership on our expertise in modernizing semiconductor space using our smart product engineering, silicon, embedded technology, and data analytic solutions, said David Owens, Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation Solutions at HARMAN.

Publication: Times Now News

The government has set up a committee to regulate online gaming and to identify a ministry to oversee it, according to documents HT has examined. The panel will include the chief executive officer of government think tank NITI Aayog and secretaries of the ministries of home, sports and youth affairs, information and broadcasting, electronics and information technology, etc.

Publication: Hindustan Times

A higher tax slab for online gaming will not only lead to proliferation of a parallel black market but also act as a major barrier when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), say industry experts.

Publication: The Financial Express

As we run our business, we think a correction is now well underway in the global economy, Pat Gelsinger, CEO of chipmaker Intel, said on the sidelines of the meeting. Gelsinger said the semiconductor industry is still grappling with supply chain issues, including a slowdown in deliveries of the advanced equipment used to manufacture computer chips.

Publication: The New Indian Express

Bharat Electronics Ltd. lost business to the tune of Rs 2,200 crore during fiscal 2021-22 following chip shortages and disruptions in the global supply chain, a top official said.

Publication: The Hindu

In September 2021, Modi met leaders of semiconductor manufacturers, including Qualcomm CEO Cristiano R Amon, in the backdrop of the first in-person Quad summit in Washington. For most of 2020 and 2021, India was reeling from a chip shortage crisis.

Publication: The Economic Times

This earnings season, Wall Street has been rewarding companies that provide clear guidance on how they’ll handle slowing economic growth, supply chain issues and inflationary pressures, while punishing the rest. Earlier this month, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gained after giving a strong sales forecast for the current quarter.

Publication: The Economic Times

The legislation to this effect, which is broadly supported by the chip industry, would also facilitate funding for new chip fab units. This would help the companies that build them and fabless companies such as AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm, which rely on contractors to manufacture their products.

Publication: Cellit

Snaps shares fell 28% premarket, following a profit warning on Monday, during which the company noted that the macroeconomic environment has deteriorated more than anticipated. Its losses rippled to other technology stocks, with Meta Platforms down 6.4% before the opening bell and Google parent Alphabet down 4%. Advanced Micro Devices AMD 1.68% lost 2%.

Publication: India Just Now

Mediatek is at loggerhead with archrival Qualcomm, which showed off its FastConnect 7800 WiFi 7 connectivity chip at Mobile World Congress 2022.

Publication : Tech Radar

The Samsung group plans to raise spending by more than 30% to 450 trillion won (about $360 billion) over the half-decade to 2026 to shore up businesses from chips to drugs, as South Korea’s conglomerates grapple with growing economic and supply shocks.

Publication: The Economic Times

NVidia’s Computex presentation this year was mostly around AI and Cloud solutions but we’ve got some gaming news as well. NVIDIA has announced a list of games that will soon receive RTX support, i.e., become RTX On.

Publication : Digit

Taiwan manufactures 92% of the global semiconductor chips, essential for the survival of the US and global economy. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would severely affect US production lines and damage the global economy.

Publication: The Times of India

The group is focusing particular attention to Samsung Electronics, the crown jewel of a multi billion dollar sprawling empire that spans shipbuilding, technology, health care and finance.\

Publication : Business Standard

Venture capital (VC) firms have invested over $2 billion in gaming firms, mostly fantasy gaming platforms, in India over the past two years. Now, smaller game development firms are starting to catch the eye of investors in the country. Investors, founders and game developers said that investments in these firms are set to rise in the coming months.

Publication : Live Mint

The favourable regulatory support, rapidly growing cloud computing, increasing internet penetration, government effort on digital economy, adoption of new technologies (IoT, 5G etc), growing needs of hyperscalers are some of the major factors driving the demand for data centres in the country, said Rajeshwar Burla, Group Head, Corporate Ratings, ICRA.

Publication : Live Mint

India’s public cloud services market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), revenue totalled $4.6 billion for July-December 2021, said research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

Publication : Live Mint

For chief executives of in India, the disruption caused by the Covid19 pandemic has triggered a focus shift towards and digital transformation, shows a new survey by consulting firm EY.

Publication : Business Standard

Spain’s government approved Tuesday a plan to spend 12 billion euros in the semiconductor and microchip sector amid persistent worldwide shortage of the devices that has disrupted the electronics and automotive industries. Sanchez met with the heads of chip makers Intel and Qualcomm on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum being held at the Swiss resort of Davos to discuss the plan.

Publication: Economic Times

Besides Kamakoti and Chowdhry, the panel also boasts of veterans such as Vinod Dham, the former Intel senior leader credited with the development of the Pentium chip Chowdhry told ET that companies that had applied under the previous incentive scheme for semiconductors would move toward setting up their semiconductor packaging units soon.

Publication: The Economic Times

According to Pichai, another differentiation is the Google Tau VM offering. Tau VM offers cloud virtual machines powered by AMD EPYC 7003 “Milan” processors, delivering a price/performance ratio that is more than 40% higher than any other top cloud provider, he claims.

Publication: Analytics Insight

Changes expected for the upcoming 5.19 kernel include improved support for a variety of Intel, AMD and Apple hardware. These pieces of hardware include, but are not limited to, Intel DG2/Alchemist graphics, Intel Raptor Lake P graphics support, and AMD SEVSNP upstreaming according to Phoronix.

Publication: Tech Radar

Amid India’s frenetic drive to indigenise supply of semiconductors, packaging wafers will be the first node to be localised in the electronic component’s supply chain, two industry veterans who are part of a government advisory panel told ET.

Publication: The Economic Times

The head of chip maker Intel says a shortage of advanced equipment to make semiconductors could hold up its global expansion plans. CEO Pat Gelsinger said Monday that there have been “quite significant extensions” in delivery times for chipmaking gear for new chip factories, known as “fabs,” that the company plans to build in the US and Europe.

Publication: The Telegraph

In the Indian context, each state has formulated its own laws governing online fantasy games. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. During the initial stages, the industry was marked with controversy over whether success in such games is dominated by ones skill or luck, the latter being illegal in the majority of the states in India.

Publication : Media Nama

MediaTek on Monday launched the Filogic 880 and Filogic 380 chipsets for access points and consumer electronics, with emphasis on WiFi 7 connectivity The Filogic 880 platform includes a 6nm WiFi 7 access point solution with support for WiFi 7 technologies, flexibility to scale to pentaband 36Gbps speeds, support for up to 10Gbps in one channel and for OFDMA RU, MUMIMO and MBSSID

Publication : ET Telecom

In 2021 Tamil Nadu was only one of the States that passed amendments on its gaming and police laws trying to prohibit all online games for money. Similar legislation attempts in Kerala, Karnataka and Assam were struck down as unconstitutional by regional High Courts.

Publication : The Hans India

Speaking on the sidelines of World Economic Forum Davos 2022, C Vijayakumar, MD & CEO of HCL Tech told CNBCTV18 that, demand for digital transformation continues to be robust. He said Cloud is the biggest focus area for HCL Tech. Speaking on the sidelines of World Economic Forum Davos 2022, C Vijayakumar, MD & CEO of HCL Tech told CNBCTV18 that, demand for digital transformation continues to be robust.

Publication : CNBC TV18

Broadcom Inc is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware Inc in a deal which could transform the chipmaker into a diversified tech firm, people familiar with the matter said Negotiations between Broadcom and VMware are ongoing and a deal is not imminent, the sources said.

Publication : ET Telecom

Giving us a glimpse of the overall market share, HP is leading with a total of 33.8% share followed by Dell and Lenovo with 19,4% and 17.6% respectively. The top 5 list is completed by Acer with 9.8% and Asus with 6.2% market share. (Image credit: HP)

Publication: Tech Radar

Now that AMD and Intel no longer sell their chips in Russia, the country must find alternatives to avoid falling back into the stone age. Dannie, a motherboard manufacturer with locations in Russia, China, Lithuania, and Turkey, unveiled a new motherboard based on China’s Zhaoxin system-on-chip this week.

Publication: Techno Sports

The event was Sponsored by Micron, Ignitarium, Qualcomm, Indie Semiconductor, Mos Chip, AMD, Cadence and Brain chip.

Publication: Business News This Week

Ashok Leyland, the commercial vehicle major and the flagship of the Hinduja Group, expects the sector to return to growth. Dheeraj Hinduja, executive chairman of Ashok Leyland, said the semiconductor crisis will ease in six months’ time and commodity prices will ease.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

It added around the same number of users in the December quarter, but during the September quarter it added around 8 million users.

Publication: The Financial Express

President Joe Biden on Friday opened his trip to Asia with a focus on the computer chip shortage that has bedeviled the world economy, touring a Samsung computer chip plant that will serve as model for a 17 billion semiconductor factory that the Korean electronics company plans to open in Texas.

Publication: Millennium Post

Nvidia Corporation, Intel Corporation, IBM Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Alphabet Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Apple Inc. are some of the key players in the AI chip market.

Publication: The Hindu

The COVID19 pandemic sped up the digital revolution being witnessed across sectors globally. The past few years made it a necessity for businesses to set off on their digital transformation journeys despite the hesitation and associated challenges.

Publication : CXO Today

While earlier in 2022, auto original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) were expecting an improved demand & supply scenario, the turn of events in the last five months means they would now need to temper their expectations Geopolitical strifes, Covid19 resurgence have prolonged semiconductor shortages and induced volatility in fuel prices, thereby hurting demand in the last quarter of the previous fiscal Geopolitical strifes, Covid19 resurgence have prolonged semiconductor shortages and induced volatility in fuel prices, thereby hurting demand in the last quarter of the previous fiscal.

Publication : The Economic Times

Our last article (dated 18 May 2022) highlighted the differences between gaming and gambling which elicited broad contours of what constitutes game of skill vizaviz game of chance.

Publication : The Financial Express

Our last article (dated 18 May 2022) highlighted the differences between gaming and gambling which elicited broad contours of what constitutes game of skill vizaviz game of chance.

Publication : The Financial Express

Leading telecommunications experts and industry leaders connected and brainstormed ideas for seamless deployment of 5G Network, its challenges and opportunities, capacity building towards enabling a connected digital ecosystem.

Publication : CXO Today

What started in the pandemic as a bubble, has now evolved to become one of the fastest growing industries across the globe. As digital penetration continues to grow and gamification becomes the norm, the industry will continue to see growth not only in traditional forms but also through innovations in apps, esports, and ingame formats.

Publication : Free Press Journal

On Friday, US President Joe Biden kickstarted his maiden trip to Asia by visiting a Samsung semiconductor plant in South Korea. The stop reflected the growing cooperation between the US and the east Asian country on technology and other issues.

Publication : Republic World

Businesses built on cloud computing and technology will come out of the coronavirus pandemic crisis stronger, said Puneet Chandok, president of commercial Business, AWS India and South Asia at AISPL (Amazon Internet Services). Chandok, in an interview with Peerzada Abrar, said AWS (Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the e-commerce giant), plays a key role in the digitisation of small businesses and enterprises India.

Publication : Business Standard

Vembu said there are three key pillars driving growth for ManageEngine in India hybrid work, cloud adoption and the governments digital push. We have been quite successful in catering to the needs of the modern workforce environment.

Publication : The Financial Express

The Indian gaming industry is in a fix after an empowered group of ministers (GoM) unanimously proposed a flat 28 per cent goods and services tax (GST) on gaming activities. Indian gaming companies and the industry body representing the industry had made representations for the continuation of an 18 per cent taxation, saying that this brings the Indian gaming industry at par with global players.

Publication: Business Standard

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip maker, is considering building a semiconductor factory in Singapore to help address a global supply shortage, according to people familiar with the matter.

Publication : Live Mint

Even before the forced mass adoption of digital in the pandemic, so many of us across all industries were alive to the benefits there is a plethora of game changing technology available that makes our lives easier and helps make smarter decisions faster and more efficiently.

Publication : Tech Radar

Industry players are also saying that by proposing to bring online gaming in the 28 per cent tax slab, the government is equating online games in the same category as horse racing and gambling, this when esports is making its debut at the 2022 Asian Games.

Publication : Business Standard

QwikSkills, a cloud certification and skilling platform, has raised 3.85 crore from Indian Angel Network (IAN) and other investors in a seed fund raising round.

Publication : Live Mint

Predictive analysis is key to making intelligent decisions based on such big data, according to researchers. However, there are problems that must be addressed especially when such big data exists in the cloud. Krishna Kumar Mohbey and Sunil Kumar of the Central University of Rajasthan in Ajmer, India, consider the impact of big data in this context.

Publication : Ele Times

Metaverse is a concept that many people in the tech industry are taking up these days. The latest company that has been reported to be venturing into the metaverse is PlayStation maker Sony.

Publication: News 18

“This is the first step towards making the solution feasible commercially. Over the next few months, ‘Made-in-India’ solution has the potential of going from local to global. It also meets India’s needs indigenously and securely,” the minister said.

Publication: The Times of India

Already, major domestic conglomerates such as Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel, Adani group, Hiranandani group, and MNCs have joined hands with traditional data centre players like NTT, Sify, CtrlS, STT to invest huge sums in the data centre space.

Publication: The Economic Times

IT stocks were the biggest losers on Thursday with the BSE IT Index falling 5.25 per cent while the NSE IT Index fell 5.74 per cent, mirroring US tech index Nasdaq 100’s fall by 5.06 per cent led by 5 to 7 per cent fall in shares of tech giants Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft and AMD, among others.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

Electronic chip company Mediatek expects the supply of chipsets to ease by the end of this year as the capacities to manufacture semiconductors are being built across the world, a senior company official said on Thursday. Mediatek India Managing Director Anku Jain told PTI that it does not have a semiconductor plant of its own and would like to collaborate with chips makers and other vendors that have proposed to set up their facilities in India.

Publication: Economic Times

Ashok Leyland, the commercial vehicle major and the flagship of the Hinduja Group, expects the sector to return to growth. Dheeraj Hinduja, executive chairman of Ashok Leyland, said the semiconductor crisis will ease in six months’ time and commodity prices will ease.

Publication: Business Standard

Vedanta Foxconns discussions with the Karnataka government over setting up of a semiconductor chip manufacturing unit in the state have hit a roadblock over incentives, people in the know told ET.

Publication: The Economic Times

The metaverse, which is built using blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality technologies, among others, drew attention at first but chief executives from top firms don’t see short term value in it.

Publication: Live Mint

With the number of online gamers in India expected to grow to 650 million by 2025, the Indian online gaming industry is well on its way to revolutionise the global gaming market, and favourable taxation is one of the biggest boosts to this growth Our recommendation to the GoM is to levy GST on the GGR or platform fee earned by operators.

Publication: The Times of India

With the FastConnect 6900, the latest AMD Ryzen processor powered business laptops feature WiFi 6 and 6E connectivity, including advanced wireless capabilities enabled with Windows 11.

Publication: Var India

The Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC), the Council responsible for skilling in telecom, on Wednesday launched a report ‘Overview: Indian Telecom Market 2022-23’, charting out the areas of traction where the telecom industry would witness growth in the coming financial year.

Publication: Business Standard

The second episode of a series of virtual panel discussions on a technologyled revolution for Indias education system, titled Technology: Transforming the learning experience with borderless campuses, powered by Lenovo, brought together a cross section of experts from universities across the country who looked at the changing face of higher education in India and the role played by technology in this change.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Semiconductor foundries have raised prices by 15%A sharp increase in the price of noble gases is one of the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on the semiconductor industry even as it emerges from challenges to the supply chain posed by the pandemic.

Publication: The Hindu

Today, intelligent automation is key to a successful digital transformation strategy. Government organisations must contemplate intelligent automation if they plan to accelerate digital.

Publication : CXO Today

Cloud based digital solutions will enhance agility, empower hybrid workspaces and facilitate intellectual property (IP)led innovation for the information technology enabled services (ITeS) sector in India that has been at the forefront of digital transformation and enterprises, industry experts said on Tuesday.

Publication : Business Standard

The impact of the semiconductor chip shortage , which is wreaking havoc in the automobile industry, is unlikely to be pronounced for renewable energy projects in India, according to industry experts While availability of semiconductors could be an issue for the solar industry, an even bigger issue has been nonavailability or delay in module supply, said Hetal Gandhi, director, CRISIL Research

Publication : ET Energy

SMB Vidyalaya includes over 50 technology education modules specific to SMBs and the opportunities they have to drive business growth across the country.

Publication : Business Standard

Xiaomi is a leading smartphone brand that has established its success in the laptop and other market segments as well. When it comes to laptops, the Mi laptops have been selling well in recent years. You can get your hands on these laptops at a lucrative discount via Amazon India.

Publication : Gizbot

At Capgemini Engineering, we address the diversity of engineering skills at scale and drive innovation for our clients from India. With the expertise and capabilities of Capgemini in India, we drive digital transformation and build operations at scale for our clients.

Publication : Live Mint

Intel Corp shareholders rejected compensation packages for top executives, including a payout of as much as $178.6 million to Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger, a regulatory filing showed on Monday. About 1.78 billion votes were cast against executive compensation at the annual meeting, Intel said, though the vote is nonbinding. About 921.2 million votes were cast in favor.

Publication : CNBC TV18

Intel worked some magic with its Alder Lake processors. The company struggled to keep up with the performance gains AMD was making through its Ryzen CPUs, but all that changed with its move to a 10nm process

Publication : Tech Monsterr

Dell Technologies is committed to understanding the needs of its evolved customers and partners, and delivering enterprise solutions in the realm of telecom and 5G, which empower the holistic growth of people around the globe.

Publication : CXO Today

Dell G15 5520 and G15 5521 SE series of gaming laptops recently entered the Indian market. Last years Dell G15 gaming laptop also won the Digit Zero 1 award. We recently caught up with Anand Subramanya, Director Product Marketing, Consumer and Small Business, Dell Technologies and had a conversation regarding the future of the Indian gaming laptop market and how Dell is preparing itself to handle all the challenges ahead.

Publication : Digit

Freitas said AI/ML is used in deciding which contest to launch, understanding how many players are likely to join the contest, the credits to be allocated to each user. Given the talent shortage, Yadav and Freitas encouraged youngsters to selflearn. 

Publication : The Times of India

eta has poached a senior silicon engineer from Intel in a move that appears designed to kickstart the development of custom server chips for its datacenters. Jon Dama joined Meta earlier this month as Director for Silicon for the infrastructure hardware group, in which role he will take charge of multiple design teams focused on “innovating the datacenter for scale”.

Publication : Techradar

There is no clarity on whether this will apply only to real money games or casual games as well, given that the former being a subsegment of online gaming. Any such increase in the GST rate is likely to turn businesses in the sector unviable, leading to complete shutdown which, in turn, will result in loss of a large number of jobs, the industry body said in a statement.

Publication: News 18

This is the result of a four-year technical collaboration between STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications; and Semikron, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of power modules and systems.

Publication: Manufacturing Today India

The United States and European Union will announce a joint effort to avert a subsidy race as they scramble to boost production of scarce semiconductor chips, a senior Biden administration official said The move will be unveiled at the second meeting.

Publication: ET Auto

China’s monthly output of chips shrunk to its lowest level since 2020, as strict lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities disrupted production in downstream industries from cars to robotics, reports South Morning Post, quoting data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Publication: Business Standard

Lenovo led the with a 36 per cent market share, followed by Apple (22 per cent) and Samsung (22 per cent) in Q1, according to CyberMedia Research (CMR). Driven by the pandemic and the continuous rise and ebb of the Covid19 cases, many of the sectors are persisting with hybrid or remote work.

Publication: Business Standard

“We help startups scale by helping them develop a market strategy, and ensuring product market fit. We’ll take the firm from, say, $0. 5 million in revenue to the next phase of growth, which is where they face big challenges,” he said. Jagadeesh is also the managing partner at Kaaj Ventures.

Publication: The Times of India

The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad will soon start offering an undergraduate course in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and technology, the first of its kind undergraduate programme in the country that aims to create semiconductor engineers and technical talent pool in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

To lure chip manufacturing behemoths and propel India into a global hub of semiconductors manufacturing, the Union Government recently set up the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM). It also unveiled incentives worth 10 billion USD (Rs 76,000 crores).

Publication: Swarajya

Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc on Thursday announced it was experimenting with a new pricing model for its chips called forward pricing agreements that would aim to stabilize the steep price fluctuations that plague the industry.

Publication: ET Telecom

Chip supplies should last five years after it spent 500 million euros ($519 million) this year to ramp up inventory of semiconductors and electronic components, Rheinische Post reported on Friday.

Publication: Gadgets Now

Anil Agarwal, chairman of the oiltometals Vedanta Group, has ambitions of setting a semiconductor chip plant in India, but says state governments need to look at creating a hub for electronics like Silicon Valley or what Taiwan has done.

Publication: The Economic Times

Israels ISMC Analog Fab recently announced that it will invest $3 billion in Karnataka to set up a semiconductor chipmaking plant.

Publication: Gadgets Now

Samsung Electronics is in talks with clients about hiking prices for chip contract manufacturing by up to 20 percent this year, Bloomberg news report said. The move, expected to be applied from the second half of this year, is part of an industrywide push to raise prices to cover rising materials and logistics costs.

Publication: Telecom Lead

Automakers from Toyota to Tesla are facing unprecedented costs and production hurdles. Sony is struggling to make enough PlayStations. The economic consequences from Chinas Covid19 lockdowns are starting to be felt by companies and consumers across the globe, and expectations are that the reverberations will only get stronger.

Publication: Tech Hindustan Times

SoftBank Group Corps chip technology firm Arm Ltd reported record revenue for 2021 on Thursday, and Chief Executive Rene Haas told Reuters that the companys business for innovative chip designs shows a bright future.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

Two dozen women ran S&P 500 companies for the full year of 2021, the same number as 2020. None of them cracked the top 25 in terms of compensation. The highest paid was Lisa Su, who heads chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., with a package worth $29.5 million, including $25.1 million in equity.

Publication: Live Mint

Multinational chipmakers are in discussions with various states to build factories, and the construction of the first such plant in India is expected by the end of the year, a government official said.

Publication: MINT

Consumers keen to pick up a 5G phone can expect some good news. Mobile device companies and global chipset manufacturers are closely working together to offer 5G mobile handsets at around Rs 10,000 by March next year, by which time the telcos are expected to have launched their 5G.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

India is one of the fastest-growing markets for online gaming with deep backward software and hardware linkages. Gaming has emerged as the most dynamic segment among entertainment platforms. Augmented reality (AR) is pushing user engagement as social networking shows signs of fatigue. Technology giants like Microsoft and Meta of Facebook fame are placing big bets on online

Publication: The Economic Times

Taiwan’s labour drought and hunt for a manufacturing partner for offshoring China-based Taiwanese businesses and India with its abundant talent pool and enormous market size seem to be the perfect partner for each other and therefore, it is expected that the inking of an FTA (free trade agreement) would be a worthy step to remove all avoidable trade and investment barriers and would lead to a paradigm shift in the tariff regime.

Publication: The Print

A persistent shortage of chips has disrupted the automotive and electronics industries, forcing some companies to scale back production Raimondo and others have called boosting chips production a national security issue.

Publication : ET Auto

The global clients have a razorsharp focus on accelerating digital transformation with efficiency, HCL Technologies Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra said.

Publication : Business Standard

Chipmaker Micron Technology announced it started experimenting a new pricing model for its chips called forward pricing agreements that would aim to stabilize the steep price fluctuations in the industry

Publication : Telecom Lead

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) directions to virtual private network (VPN) service providers are significant. They say that VPN providers should store data of Indian users for up to five years; this reinforces the importance of striking a balance between the need to protect user privacy and the government’s legitimate requirement to access data for cyber security.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Facebook parent, Meta Platforms Inc, and chipmaker AMD on Wednesday said they were partnering for a mobile internet infrastructure programme that would bring base station costs down to make broadband more accessible around the world.

Publication: The Hindu

AMD is doubling its efforts in the server segment with three product launches planned for the next three quarters. Tom from MLID has made a detailed video on this. We already know about the Zen 4-powered Genoa lineup which will rock up to 96 cores across 12 CCDs in the final quarter of 2022. This will be followed by Bergamo which is a low-power, high-core count version of Genoa. It’ll feature Zen 4c cores which are a cut-down variant of Zen 4 with reduced L3 cache and lower boost clocks.

Publication : Hardware Times

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest contract chipmaker, is likely to hike prices of its products amid rising costs and inflationary pressures. It is also planning to expand operations that will help alleviate the global supply crunch, reports said.

Publication: CNBC TV18

The US considering banning American suppliers from selling advanced equipment to Chinese chipmakers. The ban may be drafted within a few months and will target companies like Hua Hong Semiconductor, Changxin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies.

Publication: The Week

The online skill based gaming industry has made a case for retaining the service under the 18 percent GST slab instead of the 28 percent tax rate category, saying the move will badly hit the $2.2billion sector.

Publication: CNBC TV18

Cloud based data analytics, backed by hyper scaling servers facilitate effective data processing. Automation is considered one of the key drivers of cloud adoption, especially when it comes to enhancing the efficiency of business operations In Todays Technological era, gone are the days, when content was only considered the King when it comes to understanding the market and the consumers.

Publication: Business World

Tesla shipped vehicles with AMD Ryzen based chipsets powering the infotainment system last year. The company, however, did not disclose if the new chip has started the issue, the report mentioned late on Tuesday.

Publication: Business Standard

Red Hat and Kyndryl announced a strategic partnership to help customers embrace open, differentiated automation technologies and managed services to modernize core business applications and IT infrastructure, while enabling scalable enterprise operations and greater resilience with advanced security capabilities.

Publication : Express Computer

The last two years were not accentuated by the pandemic alone. The geopolitical situation triggered a chip shortage that the world has still not come out of. We face issues like less supply, more demand, and insufficient capacity at semiconductor fabs.

Publicataion : India Today

The gaming industry has risen over the years from playing video games on a life sized desktop to playing games at an online casino NJ via a smartphone. More so, the gaming world is extensively dominated by smartphone users. Global statistics have estimated that the inclusion of smartphones and gaming hardware accessories has greatly impacted the market.

Pubication : Devdis Course

Processor custom octacore AMD Zen 2 with a clock speed of 3.5GHz GPU custom RDNA 2 graphics processor at 2.23GHz Memory 16GB GDDR6 RAM and 825GB gen 4 NVMe SSD Output 4K at 60 frames per second, up to 120 frames per second Sony Ships Over 19.3 Million PS5 Units Across The Globe.

Publication: Gizbot

It’s because of the shortage of semiconductors that we haven’t been able to run our factories at 100%. We manufacture glass and optical fibre. So, it was natural for us to move into semiconductors. Foxconn is one of the largest and the best companies in semiconductor manufacturing and will be our full-fledged partner. We are in the process of selecting a site.

Publication: Hindustan Times

In January, Vedanta had announced a tieup with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn for a multi-billion dollar semiconductor manufacturing plant that would draw on the Centre’s $10-billion incentive package unveiled late last year.

Publication: The Economic Times

Today, a community of upandcoming game creators are engaging with the Gen Z. Take the example of the HPs Omen Squad comprising big names such as CupAhNoodle, Femennenly, Holo, Lawler and MajinTaj.

Publication : The Times of India

The transformation journey of the Indian banking industry is well underway. Driven by the maturity of AI, banks have faced disruption in the past two years due to the pandemic forcing them to reformulate their business models.

Publication : Analytics India Mag

He said while SMEs often face liquidity issues, digital transformation drives were inevitable There are already 5,0006,000 midsize businesses using cloud and other platforms, and tech startups are already digital native, he said.

Publication : The Times of India

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor company will supply silicon carbide (SiC) technology for the eMPack electric vehicle (EV) power modules from Semikron, a leading manufacturer of power modules and systems.

Publication: Auto Car Pro

The 5th generation of wireless technology is set to redefine business networks with its widespread application in multiple areas of communication and data processing. 5G is a welcome force especially for cloud dependent businesses, thanks to its key benefits such as low latency, high speeds and greater capacity.

Publication: Express Computer

Speaking at the Future Ready Industry week BFSI edition, Bill Borden, Corporate Vice President, Financial Services, Microsoft, said financial services players need to think about the bold impact that technology and digital transformation can have on products and services, in expanding reach, and driving innovation and transparency.

Publication: Free Press Journal

Semiconductor self-sufficiency by all accounts should be India’s top priority. It has been more than a year since the shortage of semiconductor chips hit various sectors hard. From automobile to defence, India has been reeling under the shortage of semiconductor chips.

Publication: Business Standard

Semiconductor self-sufficiency by all accounts should be India’s top priority. It has been more than a year since the shortage of semiconductor chips hit various sectors hard. From automobile to defence, India has been reeling under the shortage of semiconductor chips.

Publication : Business Standard

Attrition rates have been high across companies through the last few quarters as demand for technology talent with digital skills continues to outstrip supply.

Publication: The Economic Times

Web 3.0 is supposed to be the next big evolution for the internet. It could also revolutionise games and enhance overall gaming experience for users, according to industry experts.

Publication : The Indian Express

While the world is catching up to the latest versions of digital transformations, one sector that appears to have jumped on the bandwagon is the public sector. While there is an increased focus on going digital and paperless in the government sector, the benchmark for successful transformations has to be much higher in the present day.

Publication : CXO Today

In his address at a recent conference held in Bengaluru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered six reasons why India is an attractive investment destination for semiconductor technologies First, India is building a digital infrastructure to connect over 1 First, India is building a digital infrastructure to connect over 1(chip)

Publication : Money Control

5G will not only enable the operators to manage the growing data needs of consumers more efficiently, but also help open new revenue streams for them. Across the world, 5G is already transforming industries by kickstarting the fourth industrial revolution and by enriching the network experience for various businesses and end consumers.

Publication : News 18

Infineon , the leading supplier of microchips to the auto industry , reported on Monday a 22% rise in second quarter revenue and lifted its full year outlook as it benefits from a global shortage of semiconductors.

Publication : ET Telecom

The ISMC is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi based NextOrbit Ventures and Tower Semiconductor of Israel. Intel, an American multinational corporation and technology company, is a giant in the semiconductor design sector. Intel has already signed an agreement to take over the Tower Company.

Publication : The Financial Express

However, the competition in the graphics card industry is heating up with new powerful cards from Intel and AMD coming up to challenge NVIDIA.

Publication : Times Now News

E NIAC, the world’s first programmable general-purpose computer, introduced in 1945, weighed an astounding 30 tonnes. Much of the bulk was contributed by the 18,000-odd vacuum tubes, which were the large, fragile, energy guzzling electronic circuits that performed the machine’s computational tasks.

Publication : Hindustan Times

India has more than 270 million VPN users, who use them to access company networks securely, remain anonymous, access geo-restricted content, stay safe on public Wi-Fi networks and get around internet restrictions among other things.

Publication: The Economic Times

The United Nations’ (UN’s) tax committee, of which India is part, is developing a set of rules to tax digital services in a way that is distinct from global tax deals for large multinationals, including Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Microsoft. The committee is looking to absorb these rules in tax treaties multilaterally.

Publication : Business Standard

Intel has a satellite factory in China Don’t take this wrongly, it doesn’t mean you do not need localised support I’m a firm believer in global collaborations

Publication: The Economic Times

However, Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Cristiano Amon feels that the best is yet to come in terms of adoption and funding for the metaverse. It is genuine, and it will be a huge open door, according to Amon on Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday.

Publication : Tech Story

On December 21, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology unveiled four initiatives under this new mission. The semiconductor fab plan and the showcase fab plan are two of them.

Publication : India Times

With the esports policy in the making and Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comic (AVGC) task force announced by the Indian Government, the Indian esports industry will be given the right direction. Also, the interest of major brands like ITC, Pepsico, AMD, etcetera, will propel the industry into the next orbit.

Publication: Sports Keeda

IBM’s next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized inferencing.

Publication: Enterprise It World

Nearly 49000 jobs may be opened after the setup of Semiconductor Plant In Mysore.

Publication: Vishwavani

TSMC then announced that it would set up a research centre in Tokyo. Last year, the Japanese government announced a $6.8 billion package to support the domestic semiconductor industry.

Publication: Business Standard

The PlayStation 6 is already in development as AMD is hiring for developing its “next-generation” chip for Xbox and Playstation consoles.

Publication: Dual Shockers

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger believes the global chip shortage will remain a global problem for the next two years. In an interview, he confirms that he does not expect the situation in the semiconductor industry to ease before 2024. The global shortage of semiconductors continues to put pressure on the electronics industry as it severely curtails chip production worldwide.

Publication: Research Snipers

The drought in chip availability that has hit auto production, raised electronics prices and stoked supply-chain worries in capitals around the globe has a new pain point: a lack of chips needed for the machines that make chips, industry executives say.

Publication: Live Mint

In an effort to allot land in quick time to industrialists who come forward to set up industries, the Government would acquire over 50,000 acres across the State, said Large and Medium Industries Minister Murugesh R. Nirani on Saturday. “…And the country’s first semiconductor plant worth $3 billion with employment potential for 1,500 people would be set up here,” he said.

Publication: The Hindu

With the conclusion of the SemiconIndia 2022 conference, alongside a series of agreements inked and a show of ambitious intent to increase the Indian electronics manufacturing footprint, it is an apt time to gather some understanding about how a relatively new player in the industry has reached the threshold of becoming a serious global player — the People’s Republic of China.

Publication: Swarajyamag

Corsair has said that it expects GPU availability to improve and pricing to be back to MSRP soon, and possibly we’ll see price tags drop below recommended pricing with discounts, as more and more people build their own PCs in the second half of 2022.

Publication: TechRadar

By going digital, no doubt organizations are witnessing several benefits, such as cost and time reduction in processes, and increase in operational efficiency and productivity. Innovation and business opportunities are leading to newer products, services and of course revenue streams.

Publication : Express Computer

They were also instructed to actively implement information technology projects of which investments have already been approved and appraise available infrastructure conditions and databases to identify implementation plans in line with the eGovernment structure and eGovernment plan building.

Publication: The Statesman

The world today runs on a environment. Consumer workloads, enterprise workloads, and now telcos internal network function workloads are being moved to the cloud. Public, private, or a combination thereof.

Publication : ET Telecom

While finance, HR, and IT leaders recognise the importance of digital transformation, digital strategy is always or often outpaced by the demands of the business, finds the study conducted by enterprise cloud applications company Workday.

Publication: People Matters

The ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) is aiming that atleast 175 semiconductor chips should be designed and fabricated by students at premier institutes like IITs in the coming five years. In order to make that happen, the government has widened the infrastructure by allowing students to remotely access high-tech tools for chipmaking.

Publication: The Financial Express

To meet data localisation requirements and also to help customers boost cyber defences, cloud based secure access provider Duo on Wednesday launched its first data centre in India at Mumbai.

Publication : The New Indian Express

Chipmaker MaxLinear Inc said on Thursday it will buy Taiwan-based Silicon Motion Technology Corp for nearly $4 billion in a cash-and-stock deal, creating one of the largest fabless semiconductor suppliers in the world.

Publication: ET Auto

Chip makers, semiconductors In this technologically connected world, semiconductors play a pivotal role. To give a boost to this particular sector, India recently hosted a big conference. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s own consumption of semiconductors is expected to cross $80 billion by 2026 and $110 billion by 2030.

Publication: Business Standard

By going digital, no doubt organizations are witnessing several benefits, such as cost and time reduction in processes, and increase in operational efficiency and productivity. Innovation and business opportunities are leading to newer products, services and of course revenue streams.

Publication: Express Computer

The world today runs on a environment. Consumer workloads, enterprise workloads, and now telcos internal network function workloads are being moved to the cloud. Public, private, or a combination thereof.

Publication: ET Telecom

Specific collaborative arrangements are being made available with Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA, Silvaco and other leading tool vendors, IP & design solution providers and Fab aggregators, the statement said.

Publication: News 18

In February, the European Commission set out plans to encourage chip manufacturing in the European Union due to a boom in demand, with proposed new legislation to ease state aid rules for chip factories.

Publication: Telecom Lead

Tech giant Apple is reportedly working to bring the macOS experience to its future iPads. This news comes from Patently Apple, as the team had discovered on the US Patent and Trademark Office database that the tech giant was recently awarded a detachable laptop-like iPad experience, running on a macOS-like experience, reports Gizmo China.

Publication: Business Standard

NTT has opened a new hyperscale data centre campus in Navi Mumbai

Publication: The Economic Times

Though India was slightly late in the semiconductor game, Raj Kumar, Founder and Group CEO, IGSS Ventures, said this could be used to the country’s advantage.

Publication : Economic Times

Consumer electronics manufacturers on Thursday said that owing to hike in raw material costs and shipment delays amid lockdowns in China, they have no option but to increase prices of consumer goods by 57 per cent soon for the Indian consumers.

Publication: The Statesman

In this technologically connected world, semiconductors play a pivotal role. To give a boost to this particular sector, India recently hosted a big conference. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s own consumption of semiconductors is expected to cross $80 billion by 2026 and $110 billion by 2030.

Publication: The Statesman

Chipset shortage is expected to rise and will last till the next two years if we believe in the prediction of Intel’s CEO. This might hike the price of electronic goods. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel further said that the semiconductor industry is next to suffer from the expected supply shortages till 2024. The prediction came into the picture when the AV integrators were suggesting the end-users for products and they stated that they do not have it in the stock, hence, did not order the same in advance. 

Publication : India TV

Joseph Tung, chief financial officer of Taiwanese chip testing and packaging firm ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd, told an earnings call that demand for cellphones and some consumer products seem to be relatively weaker But from our standpoint, I think the overall situation still remains very healthy, he said.

Publication: The Economic Times

Qualcomm India, MeitY collaborate to support homegrown semiconductor startups Qualcomm India Private Limited plans to initiate and conduct the Qualcomm Semiconductor Mentorship Program (QSMP) 2022 for select startups from the semiconductor space in India, with an intent to provide and facilitate mentorship, technical training, and industry outreach, the chipmaker said in a media statement.

Publication: ET Telecom

The proposed chipmaking plant is coming up near the indoor container depot attached to the Indian Railways About 150 acres of land has been sought for the project which is likely to generate 1,500 direct and 10,000 indirect jobs Once operational, it will be the first such plant in the country and is expected to boost industrialization in the Old Mysuru region.

Publication: The Times of India

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, announced its recognition as the Google Cloud Expertise Partner of the Month for January 2022. This recognition demonstrates its capability to ensure success for Google Cloud customers through their digital transformation journey and support them in advancing their digital plans.

Publication: India Education Diary

The 5G network will help bring an additional level of depth in building next generation games. HD graphics, fast internet, higher configuration smartphones are important factors in curating the best user experience seamlessly and going beyond infrastructural bottlenecks.

Publication: Free Press Journal

Audio player loading Fujitsu today launched its CHseries laptops in India that come with a lightweight chassis yet bring premium features. A leader in premium laptops , the Japanese manufacturer has introduced the 4ZR1H03552 and the 4ZR1H03553 models for a starting price of Rs 69,990.

Publication: The Times of India

We run all our workloads on the cloud to leverage the increase in data consumption and smoothen the entire data sharing and accessing experience of users, said Suresh Kumar Khemka , Head of Platform Engineering & Infrastructure, Apna Being a technology driven startup (which turned a unicorn last year), Apna constantly juggles data integration and speedy delivery

Publication : ET CIO

Cloud based secure access provider Duo on Wednesday announced the launch of its first data centre in India to help customers boost cyber defences and meet data localisation needs. The launch of the data centre in Mumbai is a part of Duos global expansion strategy, according to a statement.

Publication: The Financial Express

Directly accusing China of intervening in American legislative processes, US President Joe Biden has said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is lobbying to oppose the passage of the CHIPS Act, which is meant to create incentives to boost semiconductor manufacturing, in the US Congress since it is linked to national security.

Publication: Hindustan Times

The world turned a corner the day it moved towards Cloud. Cloud technology and platform business models have been redefining the potentials of workforce and how every company moves ahead into the future.

Publication: Free Press Journal

The semiconductor industry has hit the headlines over the past year and not always in a good way. Supply chain problems led to supply shortages, which led to bottlenecks in the production of everything from cars to computers, and prompted some large technology and auto companies to move design inhouse.

Publication: Tech Radar

Advanced packaging allows semiconductor companies to combine mature and leading edge chips in an integrated system for applications that need both types, which lowers costs. This trend, called heterogeneous integration, enables companies to combine multiple smaller chips instead of making one large chip.

Publication: Ele Times

Matching in its focus on the 1,000day goal set by the Ministry of Electronics and IT MeitY ) to breach the $1 trillion digital economy mark and amid announcements of India’s foray into semiconductor space, the Union government while shuffling the departments of top administrators placed its bets on senior IAS officers Alkesh Kumar Sharma , secretary (Coordination), Cabinet Secretariat to take on the role of secretary in MeitY The Union government has set a timeline to commercially launch the first indigenous chipsets by 202324 under the Digital India RISCV programme.

Publication: ET Telecom

A data lake is a fundamental component in the digital transformation roadmap for most companies. But, the ability to get data ready and available for generating insights in a governed manner is still one of the most complex, costly and time consuming processes.

Publication: Analytics India Mag

In the post pandemic time, there has been an unprecedented growth in the area of online gaming and is now considered an acceptable profession giving rise to the existence of full time gamers, live streamers, YouTubers, prestigious gaming collaborative events which are leading to rising in demand and popularity of gaming related gadgets and equipment among newage India.

Publication: The Financial Express

The Group of Ministers has arrived at consensus of hiking the tax rate to 28 per cent on casinos, race courses and online gaming under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.

Publication: The Indian Express

International semiconductor consortium ISMC, led by Next Orbit Ventures with Israel’s Tower Semiconductor as JV partner, signed a Rs 22,900-crore ($3 billion) memorandum of understanding on Sunday to set up a chip-making plant on 150 acres of land in Mysuru’s Kochanahalli Industrial Area.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

Amid high demand and supply constraints, Apple and Samsung enjoyed nearly 60 per cent of the global tablet market in the January-March quarter, according to a new report.

Publication : News 18

In his keynote speech for the first edition of the Data Engineering Summit (DES 22) hosted by Analytics India Magazine, Google Cloud India’s Subram Natarajan, the director of customer engineering, spoke about how cloud infrastructure can be transformative in a company’s journey.

Publication: Analytics India Mag

Currently, the GST rate applicable on online games involving betting or gambling is 28%, and for on games not involving betting or gambling it is 18%. A tax rate of 18% is also levied on the commission collected by online gaming platforms for each game.

Publication: The Economic Times

Now, it seems that the government’s plans are coming to fruition with the first tangible multibillion dollar investment announcement. Mining giant Vedanta has much bigger plans at $20 billion to set up a semiconductor and display manufacturing facility in the country.

Publication: Business Insider

Giving the analogy of chip major Intel s famous slogan Intel Inside, Minister of State for Communications and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday said all efforts of the government in the semiconductor domain should make the world hear Digital India Inside.

Publication: ET Telecom

India wishes to attract major investments from global semiconductor giants like Intel, TSMC and Micron Technology. In recent reports, junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar revealed that global semiconductor companies were actively engaging in exploring opportunities in India.

Publication: India Times

Quality technology talent, sound infrastructure and relatively lower cost of living keep Chennai on theradar of MNCs that want to set up back offices or offshore units. But the city lost out to Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the early 2000s when Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Amazon, Facebook, and many others setup tech GCCs (global capability centres).

Publication: The Times of India

Samsung Galaxy Book Go comes with Windows on ARM with a Snapdragon processor, making it very different from other options in the market.

Channel : Tech Reflex

Tata Electronics is in talks with large global semiconductor companies and Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) vendors to foray into advanced packaging of semiconductor components, said Raja Manickam, the chief executive of its OSAT arm.

Publication: The Economic Times

Shortage of components due to the Ukraine war and Covid-induced curbs in China are impacting production of automobiles and electronic products in the June quarter, and the tight situation will continue for the entire year, said executives of leading companies.

Publication: The Economic Times

Speaking during the inauguration of the Semicon India2022 conference, the Prime Minister said India has undertaken wide ranging reforms to improve ease of doing business.

Publication: The Statesman

It has emerged as the country with the highest number of games downloaded per month in the world According to Sensor Tower research, the No 1 market for global game mobile downloads was India, which accumulated 761.2 million installs, or approximately 16 per cent of total worldwide downloads in March 2022.

Publication: Business Standard

Chipmaker Qualcomm India Friday said it will collaborate with the Ministry of Electronics & IT ( MeitY )s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) to strengthen homegrown semiconductor startups by providing required mentorship.

Publication: ET Telecom

The inaugural ‘Semicon India 2022’ Conference is being organised by India Semiconductor Mission in partnership with industry and industry associations under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi with the aim to make India a global hub for Semiconductor Design, Manufacturing and Technology Development which will help propel the vision of India Semiconductor Mission

Publication: Seeking Alpha

India is headed for a robust economy and the country’s consumption of semiconductors is expected to cross $110 billion by 2030, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, while listing out six key reasons why India is the next big destination for semiconductor technology.

Publication: Hindustan Times

In the backdrop of India having received investment proposals from five global semiconductor majors to set up units, PM Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated a three-day international seminar, while underlining how India could emerge a key partner in global semiconductor supply chain.

Publication: The Tribune

Global semiconductor revenue is projected to total $676 billion in 2022, an increase of 13.6% from 2021, according to Gartner. Automotive applications will experience component supply constraints extending into 2023. Slowing growth in PCs, smartphones and server markets is expected to gradually slow down the growth of semiconductor revenue.

Publication: The Economic Times

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said India has over 80 unicorns in the Internet and software space and now it is time to build unicorns in the semiconductor design domain.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

In February, the government said it had received proposals from five companies to set up electronic chip and display manufacturing plants with investment of $20.5 billion (1.53 lakh crore). The government had also said previously that it was talking to other large players such as Intel, Samsung and TSMC to invest in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

In order to realise vision of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to turn India into a thriving semiconductor hub, multiple number of agreements/pacts have been announced on third and last day of SemiconIndia 2022. The SemiconIndia 2022, a 3 day conference, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 29th April, 2022.

Publication: Orissa Diary

Applied Materials, a material engineering solutions and one of the largest semiconductor display equipment manufacturers in the world, has announced a cumulative investment of Rs 1,800 crore in India over the next few years.

Publication: Business Today

The government has received proposals from five companies for setting up electronic chip and display manufacturing plants with investment of Rs 1.53 lakh crore. The government expects to grant approvals to electronic chip makers in the next 6-8 months as it looks to encourage domestic manufacturing of semiconductors, union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.

Publication: Business Today

With India’s semiconductors consumption pegged to cross $80 billion by 2026 and $110 billion by 2030, India is seriously pursuing its dream of becoming a global hub in the semiconductor space. This was the general feeling on the first day of SemiconIndia 2022.

Publication: Business Today

International semiconductor consortium ISMC, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Next Orbit Ventures and Israel’s Tower Semiconductor, will invest $3 billion in Karnataka to set up India’s first chip-making plant, the state government said on Sunday.

Publication: The Financial Express