China s semiconductor industry is facing renewed pressure from the United States and its allies after Japan announced on May 23 that it would impose export restrictions on 23 types of chipmaking technology, including advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Publication: The Indian Express

The US will help India develop standards for goods and services and train workers in sectors of strategic interest such as semiconductor manufacturing, government officials said. The move is part of the Indo Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) agreement on supply chain, aimed at cutting reliance on China and fixing supply chain gaps.

Publication: Live Mint

To thrive in this dynamic environment, enterprises must proactively respond to evolving digital trends and strive to surpass customer expectations through innovative solutions and seamless user experiences.

Publication: CRN

As the US and its allies increase efforts to restrict China s access to advanced semiconductor chips, experts say the measures could impact Beijing s development. But they will also cause collateral damage to US firms.

Publication: The Telegraph

The collaboration unveiled at the recent COMPUTEX press conference, brings together MediaTek s expertise in connectivity and multimedia with Nvidia s industry leading position in AI and computing Nvidia and MediaTek have struck a strategic partnership aimed at harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing.

Publication: Business World

Chipmaker s MediaTek and Nvidia has teamed up to bring drivers and passengers new experiences inside the car as they will be working on transforming automobiles with artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing.

Publication: Business Standard

MediaTek announced a partnership with NVIDIA to deliver a complete range of in vehicle AI cabin solutions for the next generation of software defined vehicles.

Publication: ET CIO

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the Odisha for Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Youth initiatives on Monday in the state capital. The State Government has roped in international technology company for the initiative. In the first phase, the initiative will be implemented in Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack.

Publication: Business World

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday launched Odisha for Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Youth initiatives at a programme here.

Publication: Republic World

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday launched Odisha for Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Youth initiatives. The state government has roped in tech firm Intel for the initiative. In the first phase, it would be implemented in Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack, officials said.

Publication: The Hindu

At an event held at Lok Seva Bhawan today, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik introduced the programs Odisha for Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Youth. International technology corporation Intel has been enlisted by the State Government for the efforts.

Publication: Daily Pioneer

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday launched the Odisha for Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Youth initiative in partnership with Intel In the first phase, the initiative will be implemented in Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack.

Publication: The Times of India

In the pilot phase, which will see participation from companies including Lenovo and Cisco, India will also permit reexport of the imported electronics goods to countries different from the original one currently it is banned under foreign trade rules.

Publication: The Economic Times

We are well positioned to win in our markets and drive long term sustainable growth as we make continued progress against our Future Ready plan, Enrique Lores, HP President and CEO, said in its earnings report. The latest report from Gartner showed that spending on devices that include PCs and laptops will drop 4.6 percent to $684.342 billion in 2023.

Publication: Infotech Lead

The government Tuesday notified the second phase of the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware with a budgetary outlay of Rs 17,000 crore, more than doubling the incentives in the initial version of the plan, aimed at attracting global companies like Dell , HP, Apple and Samsung to manufacture in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

ARM is introducing new CPU designs that break away from the traditional bigl ittle configuration where there are usually more little cores than big cores.

Publication: Gizbot

Microsoft is also said to be working with AMD on AI processors that can be used to train large language models (LLMs) Facebook parent company Meta recently unveiled its first custom silicon chip for processing AI programs The chip is called the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA.

Publication: The Times of India

Here is a curation of some of the most interesting announcements from brands like Intel, NVIDIA, Asus, and AMD from Computex 2023, happening from May 30 to June 2.

Publication: The Indian Express

Tenstorrent, started in 2016, designs computers to train and run artificial intelligence models and works on both the software and hardware, CEO Jim Keller said in an interview. Keller is an engineer best known for his pioneering work in designing chips at Apple Inc, Tesla Inc , and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc .

Publication: The Print

The 192 cores of the Ampere One delivered 7296 VM s per rack which was 2.9 times more than the 96core Genoa AMD EPYC 9654 at 2496 VM s per rack.

Publication: Forbes

As the demand for cutting edge GPUs, including NVIDIA s A100 and H100, AMD s MI200 and MI300, and Google s proprietary TPU, continues to escalate, Trend Force projects a remarkable 58 percent increase in HBM demand for 2023, with an estimated further boost of 30 percent expected in 2024.

Publication: Infotech Lead

The US will help India develop standards for goods and services and train workers in sectors of strategic interest, such as chip making, government officials said. The move is part of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework agreement on supply chain.

Publication: MINT

The government Tuesday notified the second phase of the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware with a budgetary outlay of Rs 17,000 crore, more than doubling incentives from the initial version, aimed at attracting global companies like Dell, HP, Apple and Samsung to manufacture in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

Businesses that fail to meet these expectations risk losing customers to their digitally advanced competitors. Operational efficiency: Digital transformation can significantly improve operational efficiency.

Publication: The Economic Times

Do you feel a lingering sense of ennui at work place Are you looking for new opportunities Or, do you wish to pursue a passion but find the present work ethos a hindrance Don t fret, you are in company of Csuite executives A majority of CXOs/CEOs surveyed are looking to move to a different industry

Publication: The Times of India

The two AWS Regions are designed to provide Indian customers with multiple options to run workloads with even greater resilience and availability, securely store data in India, and serve end users with low latency. AWS has invested more than INR 30,900 crores (US $3.7 billion) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region between 2016 and 2022.

Publication: Enterprise It World

The appeal of gaming has remained evergreen But the technology and the facilitators of the gaming experiences have constantly changed with time, making gaming better and more engaging.

Publication: The Financial Express

MediaTek recently hosted its 12th Chapter of Technology Diaries, focusing on the theme The Vision to Go Beyond with Brilliant Technologies.

Publication: The Indian Express

Lumina Cloud Infra, a data centre platform owned and managed by Blackstone’s Real Estate and Tactical Opportunities funds, has announced its plans to invest over $ 300 million, approximately Rs 25 billion, in the development of a hyperscale data centre campus in the Airoli locality of Navi Mumbai.

Publication: Construction World

Generation Z has grown up in a world where gaming has become an integral part of life. With the advent of advanced technology, online gaming has evolved to become a social and immersive experience.

Publication: The Times of India

In the short term, there is a huge opportunity being driven by domestic demand across applications like sensors, logic chips, and analog devices, according to Tarun Pathak, Research Director at Counterpoint. Local sourcing is already happening in a significant way. It accounted for around 10 percent of the overall market in 2022, he added.

Publication: Business Standard

India s tech regulations are at an inflection point as the country plans to overhaul rules governing the Internet economy.

Publication: The Indian Express

How digitalization changed the picture of India? How has Digital India progressed? How is the future of AI in Digital India? To know, watch this conversation between financial analyst Ridham Desai and Indian industrialist and policy-maker Nandan Nilekani.

Publication: Zee Biz

China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao met with South Korean Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in Detroit.

Publication: The Economic Times

India s semiconductor market was valued at $22.7 billion in 2019, according to a recent joint report by Counterpoint Research and the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA). The 2026 forecast of $64 billion is set to be driven by both domestic and export markets with significant demand from the consumer electronics, telecom, IT hardware and industrial sectors.

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As part of a nationwide study on the digital transformation of SMEs, we surveyed over 350 SME owners across various sectors in India. Our research demonstrates that SMEs can successfully transform with the right inputs. It also suggests that SMEs who have begun their transformation journey are gaining tangible benefits, including increased customer satisfaction, better quality, higher sales and profitability, and the ability to expand globally.

Publication: The Financial Express

There are rumors circulating about Qualcomm s introduction of its custom Oryon cores alongside the announcement of the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

The 7.2Gbps data transfer rates of Samsung s latest 12nm DDR5 DRAM chips are enough to process two 30GB 4K movies in a second. In December 2022, these new processors were already being considered for AMD CPUs.

Publication: It Voice

Further, the upcoming Exynos 2300 chipset is expected to use a semidesign based on AMD s RDNA2 architecture for its GPU. Other details about the upcoming phone and chipset remains a mystery. We should get more details about them in the coming months.

Publication: Fone Arena

AMD shares were up 10.7%. Shares in Applied Materials, a supplier of chip manufacturing equipment, were up 5.8% and other companies involved in chip manufacturing process including ASLM Holdings and KLA Corp and Lam Research were up more than 5%.

Publication: ET Auto

The roadmap provides a timeframe for the next major process nodes and transistor designs that the business will research and develop in its labs in collaboration with industry titans such as TSMC, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Samsung, and ASML, among many others, through 2036.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

AMD shares were up 10.7%.Shares in Applied Materials, a supplier of chip manufacturing equipment, were up 5.8% and other companies involved in chip manufacturing process including ASLM Holdings and KLA Corp and Lam Research were up more than 5%.

Publication: ET Telecom

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met Japan’s Economy, Trade & Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura in Detroit on Friday and said that semiconductor research centers in both countries will be encouraged to create a roadmap for technological & human resource development, a joint statement. They will also cooperate to resolve geographic concentrations of production undermining semiconductor supply chain resilience.

Publication: Millennium Post

Arm wont just design, but also manufacture chips as per a new FT report. The British company which is known for selling design IPs to brands like Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia etc is aiming for vertical expansion into the chip making business. Here’s what we know so far about this.

Publication: Digit

In the immediate aftermath of the Covid pandemic, much of the talk was about how the public cloud had made it so easy for people to transition to a remote work environment, and to build a remote transactions ecosystem.

Publication: The Times of India

The cloud is increasingly becoming the centre of all digital activities, and it is becoming difficult to imagine a world that is powered without the cloud .

Publication: ET CIO

Vedanta Foxconn Semiconductors Limited (VFSL), a joint venture between Foxconn and Vedanta Group, has appointed Mike Young as Senior Vice President, Project Management Office and Manufacturing Operations. In this role, Mike will oversee the seamless execution of manufacturing and operational processes as VFSL looks at setting up a state of the art semiconductor fab in India.

Publication: Zee Biz

Singapore based STT Global Data Centres India arm is planning to invest around Rs 2,000 crore to develop two new data centers in its existing campus in Pune s Dighi locality taking its total capacity to over 80 MW of IT load in this hub alone STT Global Data Centres s Pune campus is one of the largest data centre campuses in India with an existing capacity of 40MW of IT load spanning across 3 operational facilities.

Publication: The Economic Times

NXP Semiconductors N.V. reports that Sir Peter Bonfield, the Founding Chairman of NXP, has retired from his service on the NXP Board as of the conclusion of the company s 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of shareholders.

Publication: Times Tech

According to a media report, Young will oversee the execution of manufacturing and operational processes as the company gears up to set up its first semiconductor fab in India. Vedanta Foxconn Semiconductors Limited (VFSL), on Thursday, appointed Mike Young as its senior vice president, project management office and manufacturing operations.

Publication: Business Standard

India will become the biggest semiconductor manufacturing destination in the world in the next five years with the Centre ensuring that the right ecosystem is built, and with production in India being the cheapest globally, Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said here.

Publication: Blitz India Media

The chipmaking industry is a highly concentrated one. The recent disturbances in different parts of the world have led major economies to enter the chipmaking sector. India has been investing in domestic semiconductor manufacturing to address its own semiconductor consumption. Domestic consumption is expected to cross $80 billion in 2026. The policy makers aim to establish India as one of the key partners in global semiconductor supply chains.

Publication: ELE Times

While Hyderabad is emerging as a hub for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics, small and medium companies are faced with multiple challenges despite dominating the sector here.

Publication: The Times of India

The Tata Group is in the midst of scouting land near its electronics manufacturing facility in the Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu . The homegrown titan might either be looking to widen the scope of its current mobile components manufacturing unit located there or set up an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) unit, Economic Times reported, citing anonymous sources.

Publication: Times Now News

ETtech The Tata Group is looking to step up its electronics play and could be firming up plans to enter the semiconductor segment It is currently scouting for land near its electronics manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu s Krishnagiri district, according to several people aware of the development.

Publication: The Economic Times

US based cloud data warehousing firm Snowflake announced on Thursday that it has acquired Neeva a search startup founded by two former Google employees to maximise data value using generative artificial intelligence (AI) Benoit Dageville, the cofounder of Snowflake and currently the president of its product division, said in a blog post that while the search experience is evolving with new conversational paradigms, it is important for teams to discover the right data points to maximise its value.

Publication: The Economic Times

Learn how AWS has been fueling its web services business by training over 4 million people in India with cloud skills since 2017 and investing in renewable energy projects.

Publication: Live Mint

Netweb Technologies is the manufacturer of AIRAWAT and the supercomputer runs on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS operating system. The supercomputer is powered by AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz processor with 81,344 cores.

Publication: Business World

Supermicro s booth will highlight the latest servers supporting Intel s 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, and the new generation of NVIDIA H100 GPU Accelerators.

Publication: The Print

In design, India is already seen as a superpower. Every major chip manufactured in the world has a touch of Indian design, whether it is through Intel, NXP, or AMD.

Publication: Business World

AIRAWAT is manufactured by Netweb Technologies. This supercomputer works on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS operating system. Furthermore, it is powered by AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz processor with 81,344 cores.

Publication: Tech Lusive

Vedanta-Foxconn Semiconductors Limited (VFSL) has appointed Mike Young as Senior Vice President, Project Management Office and Manufacturing Operations. In this role, Mike will oversee the seamless execution of manufacturing and operational processes.

Publication: Millennium Post

The Chinese government on Wednesday defended its ban on products from U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. in some computer systems after Washington expressed concern, adding to strains over technology and security.

Publication: Republic World

The Centre has started internal consultations on principles and guardrails for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in language learning models and by companies, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.

Publication: The Economic Times

In the years before China declared U.S. firm Micron Technology s products a national security risk, authorities were already scaling back purchases of its chips, opting instead for domestic or South Korean options, documents showed.

Publication: ET Telecom

Lenovo on Wednesday said its revenue for FY23 came at $62 billion, while its net income stood at $1.6 billion, or $1.9 billion on a non Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards (HKFRS) basis. The company s board of directors has announced the final dividend of 3.8 US cents or 30.0 HK cents per share for the fiscal year which ended on March 31, 2023.

Publication: The Indian Express

Lenovo was second with a share of 15.7% despite witnessing a decline of 37.5% YoY. While it was second in the consumer segment with a share of 14.2%, it was marginally behind Dell in the commercial segment as it held third place with a share of 16.8%.

Publication: Express Computer

The Indian traditional PC market has registered a decline of 30.1 per cent year over year or YoY in the first quarter of 2023 (January March).

Publication: Zee Biz

Among the companies that have placed orders for AI chips at TSMC are NVIDIA, Apple, and AMD. In response to the growing demand for its top AI GPUs such as the A100 and H100, NVIDIA has placed additional wafer supply orders at TSMC.

Publication: CXO Today

The conglomerate could either broaden the scope of its existingmobile components manufacturing unit there or set up an outsourced semiconductor assembly & test (OSAT) unit, these people added.

Publication: The Economic Times

This issue s cover story is about Anil Agarwal and Vedanta Resources ambitious semiconductor project in partnership with Foxconn Manu Balachandran gets into the details of the plan of the mining conglomerate that was in the right place at the right time

Publication: Forbes

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud and the launch of its new offering, TCS Generative AI which leverages Google Cloud s generative AI services, to design and deploy custom tailored business solutions that help clients harness the power of this exciting new technology to accelerate their growth and transformation.

Publication: The Economic Times

The firm is a spin off from the Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore, and has differentiated IP across the GaN materials, processes, and devices s developed over 15 years of R&D from IISc.

Publication: Technology Silicon India

Union electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is optimistic that India will become the largest semiconductor manufacturing destination in the world in the next five years, with the cheapest production costs globally.

Publication: The Financial Express

India has a great possibility to emerge as a sizable player in the manufacturing of semiconductor products, said Hitesh Garg, India Country Manager of Dutch headquartered NXP Semiconductors, adding that the company is currently seeking to aggressively develop and enhance India s semiconductor capabilities.

Publication: ANI News

Infineon Strengthens Embedded AI Solutions with Imagimob Acquisition Article By : Infineon Technologies AG The Imagimob acquisition significantly complements Infineon s AI offerings. Infineon Technologies AG has acquired Stockholmbased startup Imagimob AB, strengthening its position to offer a worldclass machine learning (ML) solution.

Publication: EET india

International Data Corporation (IDC), a global market intelligence and advisory services provider, attributed the rise in growth rate to digital transformation initiatives among enterprises in India.

Publication: The Print

China s ban on the use of US based Micron Technology s chips in certain sectors, announced on Sunday, is a stark reminder of risks facing the global chip industry as it braces for escalating Sino US trade tensions China s move against Micron, the biggest US memory chipmaker, was widely seen as retaliation for Washington s efforts to restrict Beijing s access to key technology.

Publication: The Economic Times

The first draft of the upcoming Digital India Act (DIA) will be published and opened for industry consultations by the first week of June, minister of state (MoS) Rajeev Chandrasekhar told industry executives at an industry consultation held in Mumbai today. Four industry professionals who attended the event told Mint that today s discussion did not yield much new information over what was already discussed at the first DIA consultation held in Bengaluru in March.

Publication: Live Mint

The CHIPS Act has another USD 11 billion set aside for broader R&D efforts including funding for a new National Semiconductor Technology Center that will be a focal point for the industry s research and engineering.

Publication: ET Auto

HP was the only vendor whose market share remained unchanged compared to the corresponding quarter last year. Dell’s shipments fell the sharpest at 49.7% year-over-year in the March quarter of 2023, while Lenovo fell 37.5% year-over-year, and Asus fell 25.9% year-over-year, according to IDC data.

Publication: ET Telecom

Dell, which has traditionally been strong in the enterprise segment, also saw a significant slump in shipments due to lack of enterprise orders. Taiwanese brand Acer performed extremely well in the government and education segments, according to IDC.

Publication: Tech Circle

Lenovo was second with a share of 15.7% despite witnessing a decline of 37.5% YoY. While it was second in the consumer segment with a share of 14.2%, it was marginally behind Dell in the commercial segment as it held third place with a share of 16.8%. The vendor struggled in the government segment even though this quarter was driven by government orders.

Publication: PTI News

Intel Corp on Monday provided a handful of new details on a chip for artificial intelligence (AI) computing it plans to introduce in 2025 as it shifts strategy to compete against Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Publication: The Economic Times

A number of leading semiconductor and computing companies, including AMD, IBM, Intel, Micron, Nvidia, Samsung, TSMC and Western Digital, have commented on today s announcement.

Publication: Express Computer

The continuous decline in shipments of PCs comes at a time when the government has just announced a revamped Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for IT products with better financial incentives.

Publication: Business Standard

A recent report by Counterpoint Research and the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association says the Indian semiconductor market to be worth $64 billion by 2026; in 2019, that figure stood at $22.7 billion.

Publication: Forbes

So, this new licensing decision makes news at a time when Qualcomm is said to be working on new 2tier Nuvia CPU architecture and MediaTek is apparently working with Nvidia for a custom GPU. These plans could thus be under threat from ARM s new move.

Publication: Digit

AIoptimized racks with the latest Supermicro product families, including the Intel and AMD server product lines, can be quickly delivered from standard engineering templates or easily customized based on the user s unique requirements.

Publication: ANI News

Last week, the UK became the latest country to announce a national semiconductor plan. The UK National Semiconductor Strategy plans to double down on advanced chip leadership and research and development (R&D), and facilitate greater international cooperation in a ‘friend-shoring’ initiative, particularly with Japan.

Publication: MINT

Ahead offers services and solutions across cloud platforms, digital engineering, data and analytics, data centre modernization, automation, cybersecurity, and managed services.

Publication: Var India

Since semiconductors is a ‘big company game’, as long as the company is into silicon, large corporations like Reliance, Tata, Vedanta, and Adani, are well placed to get into semiconductors, Chowdhry said.

Publication: The Economic Times

India may see investments of up to $23 billion for capex on data centres as an infrastructure asset over the next 10 years, driven by the exponential increase in data consumption, storage, governmental thrust on data localisation and the need for high bandwidth, following the launch of 5G.

Publication: Live Mint

Over the last three years, the Indian data centre market grew by over 48 percent from 540 MW in 2019 to over 800 MW of installed capacity in 2022.

Publication: Money Control

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held talks with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida during the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, where they discussed collaboration in areas of green hydrogen and semiconductors, according to a statement from the Prime Minister s Office.

Publication: Live Mint

Britain will invest 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in its semiconductor sector over the next decade as part of a long awaited strategy that was immediately criticised by the industry for being too little to make a difference.

Publication: ET Telecom

Avendus Capital has unveiled a report highlighting the key drivers leading to the success of data centres in India, taking a deep dive into the return dynamics, investor interest, and market landscape.

Publication: Construction Week

According to a report by Avendus Capital, India s data centers are predicted to take the lead in the upcoming wave of real estate investments by expanding at a CAGR of around 40% to reach a capacity of about 1,700 MW by 2025, supported by investments totalling $5 billion.

Publication: Business Outreach

The chip industry has long relied on proprietary instruction sets, with x86 and Arm dominating the market. Licensing these sets comes with hefty costs, forcing companies to invest millions for a single design.

Publication: Manufacturing Today India

India Will become the biggest semiconductor manufacturing destination in the world in the next five years with the Centre ensuring that the right ecosystem is built, with production in India being the cheapest globally, Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said during the Express Adda Saturday.

Publication: The Indian Express

New Delhi: Tech major IBM on Sunday announced a $100 million collaboration with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits by 2033.

Publication: India Tv News

US semiconductor giant Micron has failed a national security review, China s cybersecurity watchdog said Sunday, telling operators of critical information infrastructure to stop buying its products.

Publication: ET Telecom

The results come more than a month after China announced an investigation on imports from America s largest memory chip maker.

Publication: Live Mint

TSUBAME4.0 will be built with HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers, consisting of 240 nodes, and equipped with two 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, four NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and 768 GiB of main memory.

Publication: Headlines Of Today

Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro Review: When it comes to Windows laptops and especially thin and light laptops designed to do everyday work while being light, portable, and powerful, there are very few options.

Publication: News 18

The Indian government has approved the second phase of the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware, with a budgetary outlay of ₹17,000 crore. The scheme aims to attract global companies like Dell, HP, Apple and Samsung to manufacture in India.

Publication: Construction World

India’s electronics exports in April jumped over 26% to $2.11 billion from the year ago boosted by shipping of mobile phones of $1.08 billion, an over 80% surge on year with US major Apple contributing $750 million, while Korean giant Samsung exported $240 million.

Publication: The Economic Times

Hardware consolidation is one of the best ways to reduce carbon emissions and the physical footprint of data centers. According to a recent Forrester study commissioned by Dell Technologies, businesses can reduce costs of planning and provisioning storage by 63% and 86%, educating a good number of customers to realize benefits through consolidation.

Publication: CXO Today

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are among companies interested in increasing electronics production in India, a minister said, a boon for the country s push to challenge neighboring China as a manufacturing hub.

Publication: Live Mint

ARM, the renowned British semiconductor company, is reportedly making a bold move by entering the competitive world of chip manufacturing.

Publication: It Voice

Even as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) deal with higher costs, prices of chipsets are likely to stay elevated till the year-end due to high demand and low supply in the Indian automobile industry.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

New PLI plan better than earlier one, says member of advisory panel to semiconductor mission. Calling the latest incentive scheme for electronics hardware manufacturing better than the previous one, Ajai Chowdhry, cofounder of HCL, said that production linked incentives (PLI)s that come out of the government should encourage value addition in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

“The two leaders exchanged views on contemporary regional developments. They also discussed deepening cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” it said.

Publication: Millennium Post

The group of seven, comprising the US, France, the UK, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan, represent the world’s richest democracies. Under its G7 presidency, Japan invited India and seven other countries to the summit.

Publication: The Pioneer

Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that pose hazards to China’s information infrastructure and affect national security, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on its website.

Publication: Free Press Journal

Both partners also committed to seek cooperation on trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and coordinate their policies with regards to the strategic semiconductors sector through a dedicated memorandum of understanding.

Publication: Daily Excelsior

India and the European Union will coordinate their policies with regards to the strategic semiconductor sector, with the aim of concluding a Memorandum of Understanding by September 2023.

Publication: News On Air

Ampere Computing on Thursday released a new family of data center chips with technology it has custom designed for cloud computing companies. Founded by former Intel Corp president Renee James, Ampere has focused on courting cloud companies that buy thousands of chips at a time and in turn rent them out.

Publication: Devdis Course

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he welcomed and expected more investment from global chipmakers in Japan , which is striving to revive its chip sector, after meeting top executives on Thursday before a Group of Seven summit.

Publication: The Economic Times

AAEON has announced the release of the MAXQ670A, its first MicroATX industrial motherboard to incorporate the new 13th Generation Intel Core Processor platform (formerly Raptor Lake).

Publication: ELE Times

In December 2022, Samsung successfully evaluated the compatibility of its 16gigabit DDR5 DRAM with AMD, and it continues to collaborate with global IT companies to foster innovation in the next generation DRAM market.

Publication: Devdis Course:

In a chat with Business Standard, Vaishnaw said he had met executives of HP, Dell, Acer and ASUS who were all keen to invest in India, given the fastmaturing contract manufacturing process in India.

Publication: CXO Today

The first version of the scheme was a laggard with only two companies Dell and Bhagwati managing to meet first year s (FY22) targets, and the industry calling for a renewed scheme with an increased budgetary outlay.

Publication: The Indian Express

An HP spokesperson told IANS that the company has a long history of manufacturing in India and is committed to its business in the country. We are currently evaluating details of the programme along with its potential benefits to HP and its customers, said the company spokesperson.

Publication: The Statesman

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is capitalizing on the early success of Apple Inc. s local assembly operations which have helped the US company produce about 7% of its global iPhone output to pitch the country as a viable global manufacturing hub.

Publication: Tech Hindustan Times

The previous version of the scheme, announced in 2021, had failed to take off with only Dell, Bhagwati (Micromax), and Dixon Technologies were able to meet the first year (FY22) targets.

Publication: The Economic Times

The cabinet approved the second phase of the production linked incentive ( PLI ) scheme for IT hardware with a budgetary outlay of Rs 17,000 crore, more than doubling the incentives in the initial version of the plan aimed at attracting global companies like Dell, HP, Apple and Samsung to manufacture in India.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Meanwhile, Microsoft has stepped up its chip game to target NVIDIA as it seems like it has a newfound interest in AMD since reports suggest that Microsoft has been secretly working with the latter on its own AI processors, known as Athena, since 2019. Speculations suggest that Microsoft may be financing AMD s AI chip development, which could be seen as a move against their current partner, NVIDIA, causing NVIDIA s shares to decline.

Publication: Analytics India Mag

The scheme covers all aspects of semiconductor manufacturing, PCBs, ATMPs, component manufacturing, contract manufacturing, display panels, memory devices, power adapters etc astutely and comprehensively.

Publication: Live Mint

The IT and electronics industry welcomed the government s announcement on the revised production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware by increasing the outlay to over two times to Rs 17,000 crore. With improved incentives and outlay, the government aims to push local manufacturing of IT hardware such as laptops, tablets, desktops, and servers, among other products.

Publication: The Financial Express

With India’s semiconductor market expected to balloon to $64 billion by 2026, the country presents a considerable opportunity for global semiconductor manufacturing.

Publication: EET India

With the Chips Act now agreed, we are sending a strong signal to all of you, in Europe and outside, that Europe is open for business, he told a conference of semiconductor companies in Antwerp.

Publication: The Economic Times

Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said the Cabinet approved the Production Linked Incentive Scheme 2.0 for IT hardware covering laptops, tablets, allinone PCs, servers and ultrasmall form factor devices with a budgeted investment of Rs 17,000 crore.

Publication: News 18

Optiemus Electronics is manufacturing IT Hardware for many reputed brands under the current PLI and now with the PLI 2.0 , we are actively considering and evaluating our options to participate in this new phase of growth in electronics manufacturing, said A Gururaj, MD, Optiemus Electronics.

Publication: ET Telecom

Japan is arranging subsidies that could be worth around 15 billion yen ($110 million) to South Korea s Samsung Electronics Co for a chip facility it is considering setting up near Tokyo, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.

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Telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the scheme would attract top hardware companies such as HP, Dell and Apple to India. HP, Dell, Acer and others already have high volumes (market) in India. Apple is niche.

Publication: Live Mint

The union cabinet approved a budgetary outlay of Rs 17,000 crore for the IT hardware PLI 2.0, up from Rs 7,350 crore in the previous version of the scheme, for a period of six years.

Publication: The Economic Times

Besides product exhibits, GIGABYTE will hold a four day Tech Talk with speakers from AMD, Ampere, Intel, and NVIDIA, sharing insights about how the future of computing is reshaping the technology landscapes. The exhibition will be held from May 30th to June 2nd on the 1st floor, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1.

Publication: IANS

Will you allow companies like Lenovo, which is owned by a Chinese company, to assemble in India as well? We have no problem as long as they tie up with Indian EMS players operating in the country and do the required value addition under the scheme.

Publication: Business Standard

According to the government, Apple is “seriously evaluating” making MacBooks in India, after expanding with iPhones. IT & electronics minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said discussions with Apple have been encouraging as the government pushes the company to make more in India, replicating the success with iPhones.

Publication: The Times of India

The government is set to accept the chipmaking organization of the Vedanta Foxconn collaboration under the $10billion Indian Semiconductor Mission (ISM), senior government officials. This will pave the way for the Centre s bid to launch India as a global hub for semiconductors.

Publication: Business Standard

Even as India is poised to become a major global hub in semiconductor manufacturing over the next 10 years it has to continue working consistently to ensure that a robust ecosystem is in place to achieve that goal, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.

Publication: Business Today

According to Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India is securing its position in the future of global supply and value chains with the announcement of a semiconductor fab soon and the first packaging facility in the works, as well as the potential launch of 100 design startups by 2024.

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According to sources within the government, 15 months since the semiconductor manufacturing incentive scheme was announced, the selection of candidates is still pending. Recently, the telecom minister held meetings with over 45 companies, including major players in the industry, to discuss the progress of the scheme.

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The global hyperscale data centre market will reach $421,475 7 million by 2032, growing by 18 7% annually over 20222032, according to a Research and Market s report.

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Gartner, Inc. today highlighted four trends impacting cloud, data center and edge infrastructure in 2023, as infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams pivot to support new technologies and ways of working during a year of economic uncertainty.

Publication: ET CIO

Accounting automation software leader BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) today announced it is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region by opening a new office and launching a data centre in Sydney.

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Since 1976, Ireland has been a critical innovation center for ADI, thanks to its strong academic and research organizations, business ecosystem, and progressive government leadership, said ADI CEO and Chair Vincent Roche.

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After meeting the brass of tech giants like HP, Intel, Western Digital, Micron, Applied Materials and AMD, among others last week, he said the semiconductor industry will double from the current $650 billion to $1 trillion plus by 2030.

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On regulating AI, he said the possible threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) and creating a regulatory framework is an issue of global significance, not limited to only one country. He said this has to be looked at from an international perspective. “As we come up with the idea about the framework, we will keep sharing it.”

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India’s imports of electronic goods such as laptops, personal computers (PCs), integrated circuits and solar cells from China declined during 2022-23, according to a report by economic think tank GTRI.

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India’s approach of developing a comprehensive ecosystem is absolutely the right thing,” Vaishnaw said last week, during his visit to the US, where he visited the Applied Materials semiconductor plant, met with top bosses of HP, Intel, Western Digital, Micron, and AMD, among others, inviting companies to invest and set up manufacturing in India.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Announcements in this regard could come as soon as next week, they added. (India’s approach of developing a comprehensive ecosystem is absolutely the right thing,” Vaishnaw said last week, during his visit to the US, where he visited the Applied Materials semiconductor plant, met with top bosses of HP, Intel, Western Digital, Micron, and AMD, among others, inviting companies to invest and set up manufacturing in India.)

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ETtech The government is set to approve the chipmaking plan of the Vedanta Foxconn joint venture under the $10billion Indian Semiconductor Mission (ISM), senior government officials told ET This will pave the way for the Centre s bid to establish India as a global hub for semiconductors Their plan is for fabrication of 40 nm (nanometre) chips there are some conditions they need to fulfil

Publication: The Economic Times

STMicroelectronics has introduced the second generation of its STM32 MPUs (microprocessors), coming with a new architecture built upon the same ecosystem and raising performance and security for applications at the industrial and IoT edge.

Publication: Times Tech

The prices are higher, Vas said. Bajaj has 105 Chetak dealerships in 88 cities across the country. Within six months, the company plans to have 150 Chetak dealerships in 120 cities. Bajaj is also putting in a lot of effort to train more technicians for its EV business in FY23.

Publication: ET Auto

Renesas Electronics recently announced on Twitter that their CEO, Toshi Shibata, had a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the semiconductor industry s role and its contribution to India s digital future.

Publication: ELE Times

Semiconductor opportunity Taiwan s main strength is in the machinery and electrical equipment sector which thrives on its semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. The importance of semiconductors can be gauged from the fact that it is the most critical material brains of modern electronics driving technologies for national economic growth, security, and global competitiveness.

Publication: The Financial Express

Digital India Corporation’s MD and CEO, Abhishek Singh, has said that India needs to have its own framework on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Publication: Gadgets Now

As electronics manufacturers worldwide step up their efforts to promote sustainability through power efficient solutions and technologies, the onus is on semiconductor providers to develop devices that will help support this trend.

Publication: EET India

Construction plans for a massive state-backed company’s semiconductor facility in central China went wrong last October. The economic conflict over technology had intensified under the Biden administration, cutting off China’s access to the Western resources and skilled labour it required to produce the most cutting-edge semiconductors. Some employees who are citizens of the United States left the company.

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The Wilmington, Massachusetts-based firm makes chips that are used for industrial robots, 5G telecommunications equipment and automobiles. It has been located in Limerick, its European headquarters, since the mid-1970s.

Publication: ET Telecom

Wafer level integration encompasses fanin, core fanout, high density fanout, 2.5D IC, and 3D IC packaging technologies. However, only those with a bumping pitch size of less than 100 m are considered as advanced semiconductor packaging technologies.

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Despite the continued demand for hybrid working, global IT leaders are failing to recognize the full extent of the connection between their enterprise network and employee experiences. That s according to the latest research released by HPE Aruba Networking, which found that while three quarters of respondents believe digitization is fundamental both to employees being able to do their jobs and for talent attraction and retention, just 55% see the strong relevance of the network to these areas.

Publication: Express Computer

The US law, ostensibly aimed at tackling the China threat, was criticised by the Indian government for restricting equal access to technology. And it wasn’t the first such episode hinting at the geopolitical vitality of semiconductors: the US had earlier cut off chip supplies to Russia and subsequently banned the shipment of Nvidia and AMD products to China.

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The duo’s details have been submitted to the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), one of the officials said.

Publication: The Economic Times

Infineon Technologies AG addresses this development with CALYPSO move, the first secured memory for simple contactless ticketing based on the Calypso basic specification. It allows manufacturers to meet the specific requirements of each transport operator and authority, avoiding the use of magnetic stripes, barcodes and proprietary tickets.

Publication: Times Tech

The country will soon announce its first semiconductor fabrication (fab) and packaging unit, tells Union Minister of State for IT and Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar in an interaction with this newspaper. The minister claims that after the first fab unit is announced, people will realise that India is serious (about building the semiconductor industry).

Publication: The New Indian Express

The government will invest $2 billion in the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali for research and prototyping, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said at a semiconductor design roadshow in IIT Delhi on May 12. According to a previous plan, the government was going to invest around $1.3 billion in the facility, but now that amount has been raised by about 50 percent.

Publication: Var India

The facility belonged to Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp., or YMTC, a memory chip company that Xi Jinping, China s president, has extolled as a flagbearer in China s race toward self reliance. Now, the chipmaker and its peers are hurriedly overhauling supply chains and rewriting business plans.

Publication: ET Telecom

Launched in 2018, the company enables its customers with turnkey processor IP solutions for industrial segments such as automotive, industrial automation and general electronics among others.

Publication: The Hindu

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said that the Centre will invest $2 billion in the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali for research and prototyping.

Publication: Business Standard

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had a productive meeting with Toshi Shiabata , the CEO of Japanese semiconductor firm Renesas Electronics and discussed various aspects of technology and innovation in the field of semiconductors The Japanese company s CEO called on PM Modi on Friday.

Publication: The Economic Times

It includes a semiconductor package (100) with a substrate (110), a semiconductor chip (111) having a top surface (103a) and a bottom surface (103b) opposite to the top surface, wherein the bottom surface of the semiconductor chip (111) (103b) placed on the substrate (110).

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In today s Finshots, we look at India s history with semiconductors and how even the latest incentive scheme to promote its production might be stuttering. Just a bit.

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InCore Semiconductors has raised USD 3 million (over INR 24 cr) in a funding round from Sequoia Capital India , marking the venture capital firm s second semiconductor investment this year, according to a statement on Friday.

Publication: ET Auto

The company, however, did not specify what equipment would be manufactured in India but did mention that it would provide flexible, cost effective delivery of next generation services and applications and support complex cloud computing environments.

Publication: CXO Today

Samsung Electronics is set to construct a new semiconductor chip development plant in Yokohama, Japan, which is where the company already has a research and development facility, Nikkei reported. As reported by Bloomberg, the plant will be in Yokohama where Samsung has an existing research and development site, the report said, without citing anyone.

Publication: Live Mint

The two companies are currently seeking ways to cooperate in the development of IT-related technologies, such as semiconductors for autonomous vehicles, Samsung said.

Publication: The Economic Times

Microsoft’s cloud services demand in India is being driven by solutions such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and digital transformation, said Irina Ghose, COO, Microsoft India.

Publication: The Economic Times

The concept, sometimes called chiplets, caught on in a big way, with AMD, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, IBM and Intel introducing such products. Chiplets rapidly gained traction because smaller chips are cheaper to make, while bundles of them can top the performance of any single slice of silicon.

Publication: The Economic Times

Over the next two days, Vaishnaw plans to meet more executives from Intel, Micron, Western Digital, Applied Materials, HP, Analog Devices, Lam Research, and AMD, among others.

Publication: Construction World

Sequoia Capital India has invested $3 million in Chennai-based InCore Semiconductors, a startup that is building reduced instruction set computer V (RISC-V) processor cores in the country.

Publication: The Economic Times

From near zero levels just a year-and-half ago, India is now well on its way to having 100 semiconductor design startups by 2024. Currently as many as 27-30 design and semiconductor start-ups are “doing very good work”, he said.

Publication: The Asian Age

India is aiming to create 100 semiconductor design startups in the near future that will develop innovative designs and solutions not only for the domestic market but also for the world, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said here on Friday.

Publication: Free Press Journal

As per him, India is attracting large electronics manufacturers (Cisco to manufacture in India), as more big companies come, attractiveness for semiconductor companies will grow. He says the trend for Indian start-ups to park their money in the US has come to a halt after collapse of First Republic and Silicon Valley Bank.

Publication: The New Indian Express

The Union Cabinet approved the modernisation plan in July 2022, which includes exploring the possibility of a joint venture (JV) of the SCL with one or more commercial fab partners. However, the government has not provided a timeline for the project.

Publication: Business Standard

The minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday that the country is cementing its place in future of global supply and value chains.

Publication: The Times of India

The government will spend around $1.2 billion to modernise the Semi-conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, a 30-year-old facility currently capable of producing 8-inch CMOS microchip wafers mostly used for the country’s strategic needs such as the space programme.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

India currently lacks the infrastructure to produce the semiconductor devices required for the development of supercomputers.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Samsung Electronics Co executive chairman J. Y. Lee and Tesla Inc chief executive officer Elon Musk met in the Unite States last week, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Publication: MINT

Salesforce has released data from its digital skills survey which shows that 40% of Indian employees are currently utilising AI related skills in their respective job roles.

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China will resolutely object if the U.S. restricts its firms from investing in Chinese semiconductor industry, said Shu Jueting, a spokesperson at China s commerce ministry on Thursday. Shu said at a news briefing that such U.S. behaviors will affect companies normal operation and damage the international economic and trade order.

Publication: The Print

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC said on Thursday that while war in Ukraine has impacted the company s costs, customers need not worry about the impact being passed on in price hikes. War happening in a far away place the Ukraine war has ripple effects that reach us, said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co s CEO C.C. Wei , speaking at the company s annual technology showcase in the chipmaking hub of Hsinchu. TSMC is the world leader in manufacturing advanced chips used in technology from smartphones to data centres..

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The growth of deep tech enterprises, programs like Digital India and projects like India Stack , and our successful track record of IT and BPO service exports, will make India the preferred choice for global technology players.

Publication: ET CIO

Chinese chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) on Thursday reported revenue of $1.46 billion, in line with estimates and down 20.6% from the same period one year ago. Net Income hit $231.1 million, down 48.3% from the same period the year before and beating estimates of $174.5 million.

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Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had allocated a budget of 1,200 crore for investment in semiconductor design startups. According to reports quoting the official, 27 domestic startups have already qualified for the initiative. The lawmaker is set to launch the third Semicon India Future Design Roadshow at IIT Delhi on Friday.

Publication: Live Mint

Nautanix, a hybrid multicloud computing company, has announced Project Beacon, a multiyear effort to deliver a portfolio of datacentric Platform as a Service (PaaS). As per the company, the vision is to decouple the application and its data from the underlying infrastructure and the Project Beacon aims to enable developers to build applications once and run them anywhere.

Publication: The Financial Express

Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductors, Renesas Electronics, General Atomics Global Corporation, venture capitalists Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Celesta Capital etc are scheduled to participate in the roadshow.

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That firm tone of approval from his son in law, who had by then become rather obsessed with the stunning Japanese technology to manufacture thin display glasses, certainly was music to the ears of 69yearold Agarwal.

Publication: Forbes

Infineon Technologies AG the global leader in automotive semiconductors, and Hon Hai Technology Group aim to establish a long term partnership in the field of electric vehicles (EV) to jointly develop advanced electromobility with efficient and intelligent features.

Publication: Times Tech

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday said that in the semiconductor space, the country will soon have a talent pool of 85,000 who will not only create innovative designs and solutions for the country but also for the world.

Publication: Pune Mirror

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has stated that there is a shortage of at least 51% of AI engineers in India. Currently, India has 416,000 AI engineers, but the demand for an additional 213,000 AI engineers still exists.

Publication: News 18

Bullish about making India a semiconductor and display manufacturing nation, Akarsh K. Hebbar, Global Managing Director of Vedanta s semiconductor and display business told Business Today that India needs not just one but several fabs (semiconductor manufacturing factories). Back in early 2022, the Anil Agarwal led Vedanta group, in a joint venture with Taiwan s Foxconn, had applied for the governments PLI scheme for making India a semiconductor manufacturing nation.

Publication: Business Today

Washington last year brought in new export controls in an effort to limit the ability of Chinese entities to purchase and manufacture high-end chips with possible military applications.

Publication: ET Telecom

The event will be led by the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Earlier, the IT ministry had organised two roadshows in Gujarat and Bangalore, respectively.

Publication: The Economic Times

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Intel announced a strategic collaboration to enable generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) using endtoend Intel AI hardware and software, bringing fully custom and proprietary solutions to enterprise clients while keeping private data in the isolation of their trusted environments.

Publication: Express Computer

Union Minister of Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw , who is in the US, informed that the Indian Semiconductor Mission signed an MoU with Purdue University for capacity building, research and development, and industry participation.

Publication: The Economic Times

The IT hardware PLI scheme was launched to promote local manufacturing of products such as laptops, tablets, desktops, and servers. However, the companies cited lower incentives for them to start manufacturing in the first round.

Publication: The Financial Express

Earlier, the IT ministry had organised two roadshows in Gujarat and Bengaluru. At the event, MeitY is likely to unveil the names of two more startups selected for design-linked incentive scheme. So far, about 25 startups have been selected under DLI scheme.

Publication: The Economic Times

17 months since the government announced its semiconductor manufacturing scheme with a financial outlay of Rs 76,000 to make India a chip manufacturing nation, yet none of the big names such as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries, Micron has given clear indications to setting up fabs or ecosystem in the country.

Publication: Business Today

Semiconductor manufacturing companies in the US and Europe have backed India s approach to creating a wellrounded and complete semiconductor ecosystem, the Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

Publication: ET Telecom

It will be almost three times its size at $22.7 billion in 2019. Two thirds of the total market will be accounted for in the telecom stack and industrial applications.

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India now plans to allow companies to apply again and is set to accept applications until its budgeted $10 billion in incentives is exhausted, the people said. That means the Vedanta and Tower groups might not be the only ones racing to win federal support for chip plants. India’s salt-to-software Tata conglomerate has publicly voiced its ambitions to get into chipmaking.

Publication: ET Telecom

The company s ability to produce large volumes of sapphire wafers is critical in supporting industries that manufacture LEDs for consumer electronics and general lighting companies.

Publication: Silicon India

India’s semiconductor market is projected to reach $64 billion by 2026 and Minister of State for Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar will meet and encourage startups, next generation innovators, chip designers and business leaders to invest in the semiconductor sector at an event as part of a series at IIT Delhi on May 12.

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The two groups selected specific areas of joint projects for the Future Partnership funds, focusing on youth exchanges and industrial cooperation, said Kendanren chair Masakazu Tokura and Federation of Korean Industry acting chair Kim Byong-joon Wednesday at a joint news conference in Tokyo.

Publication: ET Telecom

India to reopen application process for $10 billion in chip incentives India plans to reopen the application process for $10bn in incentives and assistance for prospective chipmakers. India launched a call for submissions last year, but it only attracted three applicants, none of which have made significant progress so far.

Publication: The Times of India

Union Minister of Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is in the US, informed that the Indian Semiconductor Mission signed an MoU with Purdue University for capacity building, research and development, and industry participation.

Publication: ANI News

According to a report by Counterpoint Research and the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA), the manufacturing of semiconductor chips in India will be driven by domestic and export markets with significant demand from the consumer electronics, telecom, IT hardware, and industrial sectors.

Publication: Business Standard

India is set to revive its effort to lure prospective chipmakers into the country as projects already disclosed, including billionaire Anil Agarwal’s $19 billion plan, are taking time to get off the ground.

Publication: The Financial Express

According to the information shared by Cisco, the company s manufacturing facility will build Cisco s bestinclass technology, designed to provide flexible, costeffective delivery of nextgeneration services and applications and support complex cloud computing environments.

Publication: Business Today

Not many adorning the hallowed precincts of the global semiconductor industry would know that three years before global chip leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) set up shop, India had a desi fabrication facility in 1984 Nearly four decades have gone by, and the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) still exists in Mohali in India s northern state of Punjab.

Publication: The Economic Times

It has also partnered with the Vedanta group to manufacture semiconductor fabs. However, one development that is particularly significant in the Indian context is its founder Terry Gou’s second attempt to become Taiwan’s president.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Minister Vaishnaw is on a three day visit to USA, where he met Google CEO Sundar Pichai and is expected to meet leaders of chip companies including Intel, Micron, Global Foundries, among others to woo them to invest in India.

Publication: Business Today

On Wednesday, Vaishnaw met with Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai at the Google headquarters and held discussions on Make in India and the India stack. He also visited the Applied Materials semiconductor plant, and is slated to meet top bosses of HP, Intel, Western Digital, Micron, and AMD, among others, as he seeks to invite companies to invest and set up manufacturing in India.

Publication: Live Mint

A bulk of the company’s business comes from making silicon wafers for chip designers such as Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm Inc, which do not have their own fabrication plants, called fabs.

Publication: ET Telecom

India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) and Purdue University, US on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), for cooperation in capacity building, R&D, and industry participation. Minister of Telecommunications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is on a visit to Silicon Valley, said the semiconductor industry will double from $600 billion to more than $1 trillion in the next few years.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

India is set to revive its effort to lure prospective chipmakers into the country as projects already disclosed, including billionaire Anil Agarwal’s $19 billion plan, are taking time to get off the ground.

Publication: MINT

Companies agree that India is on right path by first focusing on building the ecosystem: Vaishnaw.

Publication: The Economic Times

Former IBM executive Terry Daly has been appointed as Advisor by Vedanta for its semiconductor business, the company announced Tuesday Daly brings over 30 years of experience in the industry, the company said We are pleased to welcome Terry Daly to our team, said David Reed, CEO, Vedanta Foxconn Semiconductors Limited (VFSL).

Publication: The Economic Times

Minister of State for Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar will meet and encourage startups, next generation innovators, chip designers and business leaders to invest in the semiconductor sector at an event as part of a series at IIT Delhi on May 12.

Publication: The Economic Times

MediaTek has announced a new chipset . While the chipset has a new name, it is identical to the Dimensity 1300 and Dimensity 1200 chipsets.

Publication: Gadgets Now

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Marqueesemi India Pvt. Ltd. and Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar on 2nd May 2023 at the School of the Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar.

Publication: India Education Diary

The country s semiconductor market is expected to reach $64 billion by 2026, with significant demand from sectors like consumer electronics, telecom and IT hardware, according to a joint report by Counterpoint Research and the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA).

Publication: The Financial Express

India and the UK are in talks to build a pathbreaking partnership designed to boost cooperation in critical strategic technologies, according to persons aware of the matter. The proposed partnership is expected to focus on semiconductors, telecommunications, critical minerals and other technologies with strategic implications.

Publication: Live Mint

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Digital technologies are changing the way businesses function today. It impacts all business units – HR, Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing or Manufacturing – and is being integrated into all areas of an organisation, fundamentally changing how the company operates and delivers value to its customers.

Publication: The Times of India

Technology majors Cognizant and Google Cloud on Tuesday said they are deepening their partnership to accelerate adoption of artificial intelligence ( AI ) by businesses The expanded tieup between the two companies will help clients create, migrate and modernize their AI journeys

Publication: The Economic Times

According to a South China Morning Post investigation, as reported by DigiTimes, the Chinese government spent CNY12.1 billion (US$1.75 billion) in subsidies to approximately 190 listed semiconductor companies in its territory.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

Apple, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are eager to shift to new manufacturing techniques annually because that allows their own products to be more powerful, a key selling point for logic processors.

Publication: The Financial Express

Vedanta on Tuesday announced appointment of Terry Daly as an advisor for its semiconductor business. He will be responsible for providing strategic counsel and inputs as the firm looks at setting up a semiconductor fab and assembling and testing unit in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

Semiconductor manufacturing companies in the US and Europe have backed India’s approach to creating a well-rounded and complete semiconductor ecosystem, the Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw told ET.

Publication: The Economic Times

According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “we have an exceptional semiconductor design talent pool which makes up to 20 per cent of semiconductor design engineers”.

Publication: The Statesman

A lot of such digital transformation can conserve energy. Like when it enables you to work from home and not have to commute to office. Or when it measures and optimises the amount of energy that different appliances in a building consume.

Publication: The Times of India

Over the next two days, Vaishnaw plans to meet more executives from Intel, Micron, Western Digital, Applied Materials, HP, Analog Devices, Lam Research and AMD, among others. He is also participating in a round table hosted by SEMI, a global association representing the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain.

Publication: Business Standard

This has led to an explosion in the volume, velocity, and variety of data generated by businesses and consumers alike. In response, organizations in India are increasingly turning to big data and analytics to make sense of this deluge of information, gain insights into customer behavior and preferences, and drive business growth.

Publication: Express Computer

EY, the leading professional services organization launched a report in collaboration with nasscom titled ‘A Year of Paradoxes: M&A Trends and Outlook in the Technology Services Sector’. In 2022, the technology service sector proved to be a year of paradoxes.

Publication: Times Tech

The deal activity in the global technology services sector has softened, with over 150 transactions announced in the first quarter of 2023 compared to 270plus deals in Q1 2022 and over 220 in the first quarter of 2021, according to an EY Nasscom report.

Publication: Millennium Post

The two countries, however, have been working closely in this direction with the inaugural meeting scheduled one year later at the end of January 2023 between the National Security Advisors of both countries.

Publication: News 18

Most cloud storage providers offer robust backup and recovery capabilities as well as advanced security measures. Employees can access data from anywhere and enjoy easier file sharing and collaboration. Despite the benefits, however, cloud computing carries a degree of risk, and your organization must follow best practices to combat this.

Publication: Forbes

India and the UK are in talks to build a pathbreaking partnership designed to boost cooperation in critical strategic technologies, according to persons aware of the matter. The proposed partnership is expected to focus on semiconductors, telecommunications, critical minerals and other technologies with strategic implications.

Publication: MINT

In its annual report to shareholders, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) provided information on its next generation 2nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process.

Publication: Techno Sports Co

While working on the FY23 IT sector preview last May, ET s informal analysis showed that mention of the words attrition and talent had doubled on a year on year basis in the earnings call transcripts of the top four Indian IT companies.

Publication: The Economic Times

India s semiconductor market is rapidly growing and transforming with advancements in technology and the increasing demand for electronic devices.

Publication: Express Computer

Many enterprises have moved to a multicloud environment over the past couple of years and are now looking at how best they can optimise their cloud investments and digital transformation initiatives to drive business agility and value in the context of the current economic challenges.

Publication: The Economic Times

Billionaire Gautam Adaniled Adani Group is developing an integrated data centre and technology business park in Vizag, to boost the local technology ecosystem in the region, the conglomerate said in a press release on Thursday.

Publication: Fortune

Einstein GPT will infuse Salesforce’s proprietary AI models with generative AI technology from an ecosystem of partners and real-time data from the Salesforce Data Cloud, which ingests, harmonises, and unifies all of a company’s customer data.

Publication: Business World

In the roughly 60 years since they were first fabricated on a commercial scale, semiconductors have become a seminal cog in the future of machines.

Publication: The Economic Times

In October 2022, the United States decided to implement comprehensive restrictions on the export of advanced semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China.

Publication: ET Telecom

Graph core closed its Oslo office as part of a broader restructuring announced in October last year, a spokesperson for the startup said, as it struggled to make inroads against U.S. based firms like Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc which dominate the market for AI chips.

Publication: Gadgets Now

Though most of the world’s large semiconductor fabrication companies such as Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, Microchip, Synopsys and others are either US based or controlled by US based parents, Chinese and Taiwanese companies have raced to produce similar quality chips at much lower prices.

Publication: The Economic Times

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in talks with partners to spend as much as 10 billion ($11 billion) to build a chip fabrication plant in Saxony, Germany, according to people familiar with the matter.

Publication: The Economic Times

ET tech Reskill or perish seems to be top of mind for Indian techies , as they rush to upskill themselves in a fast changing tech landscape where artificial intelligence ( AI ) is becoming a risk to jobs even as macroeconomic factors threaten to hamper IT sector growth in the short term.

Publication: The Economic Times

Furthermore, the release claimed that Simplilearn has witnessed a 45% increase in year on year growth in FY23. The Data Science and Coding verticals are among its most opted courses followed by Cyber Security and Cloud Computing verticals. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

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He added that DDR&D welcomes collaboration not only with R&D organizations but also with startups and companies, venture capitals on both sides.

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Thirdly, in the past infrastructure used to be more consolidated. From: How do I keep it centralized in my premise, it became more distributed. It became a hybrid environment.

Publication: DQ India

Digital Transformation is no longer an option if businesses have to remain competitive and retain customers who have gone digital. Moreover, along with customers purchasing and using products or services, they are providing valuable insights and feedback to business houses in real time which is key to the organization s growth.

Publication: CXO Today

As the US tries to bring back semiconductor manufacturing with the CHIPS and Science Act, it will need to invest in building up the broader supply chain in addition to the multibillion dollar chip fabrication facilities The war in Ukraine has exposed several choke points on the chemical side of the chip industry that need to be fixed.

Publication: The Economic Times

To boost the local technology ecosystem in Vizag, Adani Enterprises company AdaniConneX is developing an Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park in Madhurawada, Vizag.

Publication: Business Today

The groundbreaking ceremony at the park site in Visakhapatnam was held on May 3 in the presence of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, Adani Group Managing Director Rajesh Adani, and Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ) CEO and Whole Time Director Karan Adani.

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Qualcomm, a leading provider of modems and chipsets to companies including Apple and Samsung, was found to be uploading private user data, including IP addresses to a cloud attributed to the company, research from Nitrokey cybersecurity firm claimed.

Publication: The Hindu

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reaffirmed that it will begin volume production of 2nanometer(nm) chips by 2025 as the chip behemoth plans to beat competitors to be the first to deploy the advanced technology.

Publication: Swarajya Mag

Pressure Sensitive Systems India Ltd, a BSE listed company, has secured orders worth $32 million USD from prestigious companies such as IBM UK and Australia, Kuwait Airways, and Laddu Gopal Ventures Pvt Ltd.

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They also require a large amount of electricity and high voltage transmission lines. In northern Virginia, which is home to the biggest cluster of data centers, complaints have grown mostly about the constant noise from fans needed to cool the computers and servers.

Publication: ET Telecom

Europe must boost mass production of vital semiconductors due to worsening geopolitical risks in Asian chipmaking centres, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday She made the comments at the groundbreaking of a five billion euro.

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The partnership aims to codevelop an incubation program that enables participating organizations to mobilize realtime data, and quickly build the smart, highscale applications required to become datadriven businesses.

Publication: Express Computer

An overarching layer of cyber governance can add an important dimension to the zero trust architecture which strengthens the enterprise cyber posture with solutions like cyber asset management, auto remediation, cloud guardrail policies, cyber risk, and compliance management.

Publication: ET CIO

Microsoft has announced two new initiatives to guide India s small and medium businesses (SMBs) on digital transformation projects and help them learn new technology and business skills. The initiatives include a SMB focused website and a dedicated helpline number.

Publication: Tech Circle

Vertiv announced the launch of the Vertiv Liebert PKDX, the largest single direct expansion thermal management unit designed for data centers. The units include intelligent controls, rack sensors, and central optimizing system control to enable data center thermal management optimization. The Liebert PKDX is available now throughout India.

Publication: Express Computer

As humans have gotten more and more dependent on computers for life and work, the need for more powerful and denser computer chips has gotten greater.

Publication: The Indian Express

Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek has launched the MediaTek Dimensity 7050 SoC for smartphones.

Publication: The Times of India

Infineon Technologies has broken ground for building a new semiconductor plant in Dresden with an investment volume of 5 billion.

Publication: Telecom Lead

The US, Canada and the UK have posed questions, at the World Trade Organization WTO ), about India s Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Policy, Scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components and Semiconductors, and the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP).

Publication: The Economic Times

ELCINA organised its 3rd Electronics Supply Chain Summit successfully on Friday, 28th April, 2023 at Radisson Hotel, Sector18, Noida on the theme of Road to Atmanirbhar Bharat in Electronics Manufacturing and received an overwhelming response.

Publication: ANI News

Data centres that consume a huge amount of power to run mission critical digital infrastructure are increasingly moving towards sustainable infrastructure, according to a new report published on Tuesday by market research firm Gartner, which noted that by 2027, around threequarters (75%) of organisations would build energy efficient data centre, up from less than 5% in 2022.

Publication: Tech Circle

Multiple indicators last month, pointed to the imminence of the first major semiconductor manufacturing industry in India, with international partnership, finally getting off the ground. After some mixed messaging from Foxconn and two potential state partners, Karnataka and Telangana, it looks as if the Taiwan headquartered electronic contact manufacturer will finally break the sod in at least one location this year.

Publication: Swarajya Mag

According to the most recent reports, Microsoft is intending to enter the custom silicon business in order to compete with Apple s own Mseries chips.

Publication: The Times of India

Microsoft has gained its market position with a clear focus on the enterprise segment but its hardware ambitions remain and a new report claims the company wants to build its own custom SoC like Apple for its Windows 12powered machines.

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Keller is known for his work in designing the AMD K7 processor, which was the first computer chipset to achieve 1 gigahertz processing speed, AMD K8 processors, Apple A4 and A5 chipsets and later his role for the leading design team at AMD. The Apple A4 chip was used to build the first iPad.

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And now, the use cases are increasing all the time. Take this meeting we are having. If for some reason you are not able to attend it, you can later on ask an AI agent what happened in this meeting, who said what, is there any action item for me. You can have a conversation with that agent, which is truly game changing,” she said.

Publication: The Times of India

Exports in the Information Technology (IT) sector from Telangana are likely to cross 2.2 lakh crore for the 2022-23 fiscal, a 20 per cent growth from the previous fiscal’s export figure of1.83 lakh crore, according to sources in the IT department. 1,500 IT and ITeS companies located in Hyderabad, includes Google, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, Micron, SAP, Infosys, Cyient, Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, Uber, Facebook, TCS, HP, Apple, Deloitte, Accenture, GE, Dell and Hyundai.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

Sales of semiconductors decreased 8.7 percent to $119.5 billion during the first quarter of 2023 against the fourth quarter of 2022 and 21.3 percent less than the first quarter of 2022, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said in its report.

Publication: Telecom Lead

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government shall soon start the Odisha Chip (OChip) program to design and manufacture semiconductor chips. The government will start a swanky facility for semiconductor designing and manufacturing and generate high end jobs.

Publication: Kalinga Tv

The OChip initiative is sought to be a onestop shop for fabless product companies and startups where they can be provided advanced designing and testing infrastructure and mentoring support from the best minds in the industry.

Publication: Odisha Bytes

Quantum technologies represent a paradigm shift in the world of computing and telecommunications. It is not simply an incremental upgrade over classical computing, but rather a new approach that promises to provide unprecedented levels of speed, security, and efficiency.

Publication: Express Computer

Nidhi Bhasin, CEO, Nasscom Foundation said, We all believe that technology is an enabler but it is also a divider. Despite internet accessibility, inadequate infrastructure in rural regions remains a significant challenge.

Publication: Business World

Bosch is expanding its semiconductor business with silicon carbide chips. The technology company plans to acquire assets of the U.S. chipmaker TSI Semiconductors, based in Roseville, California.

Publication: ET CIO

“Given the current macroeconomic and demand environment, we’re implementing further spending reductions and streamlining operations without losing sight of the significant growth and diversification opportunities ahead.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Better than expected results from Microsoft s latest earnings not to mention those of cloud rivals Google and Amazon Web Servicesled to a mix of analyst reports hopeful for Azure deceleration slowing, an end to customers optimizing cloud spend and the sales potential of generative AI.

Publication: CRN

Investors will look for additional readings on the health of the chip industry with more players set to report this week, including Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday, Qorvo and Qualcomm on Wednesday and Cirrus Logic on Thursday.

Publication: The Print

One such example is Dell’s alternative cooling technologies such as Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) and Liquid Immersion Cooling(LIC) deployed at PhonePe’s Navi Mumbai data centre facility that allows them to use less energy and reduce the company’s carbon footprint, saving more than 25% on electricity.

Publication: MINT

Malaysia, and especially Penang, enjoys a major advantage over India as they had developed a semiconductor ecosystem decades ago. Many companies, from chip players to OSAT companies, are already established there and the ecosystem caters to the needs of giants such as AMD, Analog Devices, Micron, Intel, Jabil, and Agilent Technologies.

Publication: Business Standard

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has instigated a profound shift in the manner in which we engage with technology, no longer relegated to the realm of speculative futurism, but a pervasive reality of contemporary society.

Publication: The Financial Express

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are being used to analyze data and provide insights that were previously impossible to obtain. This allows consultants to make more informed decisions and provide more valuable advice to their clients. Additionally, the use of cloud computing and other technologies is enabling consultants to work remotely and collaborate more effectively with their clients.

Publication: The Times of India