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