Germany s Bosch Group said on Wednesday that it has acquired California chip manufacturer TSI Semiconductors in a move to establish a U.S. manufacturing foothold for silicon carbide chips that keep electric vehicles (EVs) on the road longer.

Publication: Money Control

The Government on Wednesday said it has received 32 applications of laptop manufacturers including Dell, HP, Foxconn, Flextronics and Optiemus, under the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware., while 80 companies have registered for the scheme.

Publication: The Economic Times

Addressing a press conference, Ashwini Vaishnaw said, Excellent response received for the production of laptops and PCs under the hardware Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) scheme. Companies that will be manufacturing laptops include HP India, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Thomson and others.

Publication: News 18

The Centre has received a total of 32 applications from top companies including Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Foxconn, and Netware for the Rs 17,000 crore production linked incentive (PLI) scheme aimed at boosting the manufacturing of IT hardware.

Publication: Business Standard

Dell Technologies, HP Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Apple s biggest contract manufacturer Foxconn Group Corp. are among the 32 companies that want to make IT hardware in India under a production linked incentive scheme, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at a briefing on Wednesday.

Publication: BQ Prime

Addressing a press conference, Ashwini Vaishnaw said: Overwhelming response received for the production of laptops and PCs under the hardware Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) scheme. Companies that will be manufacturing laptops include HP India, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Thomson and others. Servers will be made by HP Enterprises.

Publication: Business Today

Mass production is planned for the first half of 2024, and notable clients including AMD and Nvidia are said to be interested. Why HBM technology is a gamechanger HBM technology involves vertically stacked memory chips, similar to floors in a skyscraper, significantly reducing data travel distance.

Publication: WIO News

Thirty-two firms have expressed interest in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s subsidies for local laptop, PC, server and tablet assembly, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.

Publication: The Hindu

However, Apple has not applied for the subsidy. Companies like HP, Dell, Lenovo, Thompson, Acer, and Asus will manufacture laptop, tablet and PCs while HPE, VVDN, Netweb and Lenovo will be manufacturing servers in the country by next year.

Publication: The New Indian Express

In a big win for the government’s revised information technology (IT) hardware production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, a total of 38 companies have expressed interest in commencing manufacturing of personal computers (PCs), laptops, tablets, servers, and edge computing devices within the country.

Publication: Business Standard

The response shows the commitment of the global supply chain, it shows it is a high-trust partner.” The companies that have applied include Dell International, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, ASUS, and Lenovo, among others, said Vaishnaw.

Publication: Hindustan Times

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has collaborated with Amazon Web Services India to provide cloud skills training to 1,500 people, the company said on Tuesday. The initiative focuses on training 30,000 underprivileged youth, 50 per cent of whom will be women, it said.

Publication: Business Standard

The South Korean industry ministry said on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Samsung Electronics SK hynix and other chip firms to cooperate on technology development for advanced semiconductor packaging Under the MOU, the government and chipmakers agreed to work together to secure leading technologies in advanced semiconductor packaging and to nurture companies in the final steps of semiconductor manufacturing, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

Publication: ET Telecom

The Indian IT industry is expected to see moderate revenue growth of 3 to 5 per cent in FY2024, lower than 9.2 per cent (year on year) growth in FY2023, a new report said on Tuesday. According to the credit rating agency ICRA, key sectors like BFSI, retail, technology, and communication are expected to slow down discretionary IT spending.

Publication: Siasat Daily

The education industry was no exception. Data centers are playing an increasingly significant role in transforming education. As technology continues to advance and the demand for digital learning solutions grows, data centers are evolving to support educational institutions in various ways.

Publication: Express Computer

Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president of government affairs and public policy, said the additional money will be used to complete the Columbus and Lancaster centers and expand the New Albany facility, but did not disclose more specific details.

Publication: ET Brand Equity

When employees leave Google to join the artificial intelligence startup race, the search giant still has a way to benefit by keeping those former workers as cloud customers.

Publication: Hindustan Times

In a recent update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Software and Public Cloud Services Spending Guide, it has been projected that worldwide expenditure on public cloud services is set to surge to a staggering $1.35 trillion by the year 2027.

Publication: InfoTech Lead

Quess Corp is a business solutions provider that has launched The Skills Report. This report offers insights into the technology skills that are in most demand from companies across industries in India. This report is based on Quess IT staffing s operations data, which maps demand and supply in the talent ecosystem. The report focuses on the quantum of demand in Q1FY24.

Publication: Business Standard

He underscored one should invest in companies with good corporate governance, a healthy balance sheet, strong growth potential over the next three to five years and valuations at reasonable levels. Edited excerpts:

Publication: Live Mint

Those included US Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods, its semiconductor policies, restrictions of two way investment, discriminatory subsidies, and sanctions on Chinese enterprises, Beijing s commerce ministry said. Washington defends the policies as necessary to derisk its supply chains.

Publication: The New Indian Express

Ampere’s chips use technology from SoftBank Group’s Arm, which revealed earlier this month in initial public offering filings that it owns a 6.8% stake in Ampere.

Publication: ET Telecom

Kurian also announced Tuesday, alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, that a large cluster of Nvidia s newest AI chips, the H100, will become generally available to Google Cloud customers sampling a growing range of its AI offerings. Google s TPUs also will become accessible for a wider range of tasks.

Publication: Live Mint

IBM joined companies such as Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Salesforce, to invest $235 million in opensource AI software development startup Hugging Face, in what was its Series D round of funding.

Publication: Storyboard 18

Microsoft-owned OpenAI has launched a business-focused edition of the company’s AI-powered chatbot app, ChatGPT Enterprise, which will offer enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited higher speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows for processing longer inputs, advanced data analysis capabilities customisation options, and much more.

Publication: The Economic Times

Microsoft has said that it will be removing some of the features from its web browser Edge in the latest update.

Publication: The Hans India

Google unveiled a swath of fresh artificial-intelligence technology and partnerships on Tuesday that were geared toward bringing more of the growing technology to large businesses. The batch of announcements from its Google Next conference in San Francisco included new customers for its cloud software such as General Motors and Estee Lauder Companies. (Microsoft)

Publication: Hindustan Times