Data centre capacity in the country is expected to double in the next three years, from nearly 0.9 gigawatt (GW) in 2023 to ~2 GW in 2026, according to CareEdge Ratings.

Publication: The Financial Express

Called Llama 2, it includes 70 billion parameters and was developed by Meta Platforms MLCommons officials also added a second text-to-image generator to the suite of benchmarking tools, called MLPerf, based on Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion XL model.

Publication: The Economic Times

The city of Bengaluru dominates when it comes to setting up of semiconductor Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in India, according to a report by Nasscom and Zinnov.

Publication: Money Control

The accelerating pace of technological innovation is evident today with artificial intelligence (AI) leading the way, which is impacting every sector across the globe.

Publication: Business World

Currently, Apple is exclusively using TSMC s N3B for crafting its A17 Pro SoC chips for smartphones and the M3 series processors for iMac and MacBook devices. This year, we anticipate AMD and Intel jumping on board with TSMCs N3E and possibly N3B for their processors, further boosting earnings from the 3nm process.

Publication: Techno Sports

AMD EPYC 7302 Processors: Experience exceptional hyper processing power for seamless website operation and efficiently handle even the most demanding tasks.

Publication: ANI News

A new global study conducted by the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) has revealed insights into the sustainability strategies of Indian enterprises.

Publication: Financial Express

In a giant leap for India s semiconductor manufacturing sector, the Union Cabinet approved, on February 29, the establishment of three semiconductor units with investments of over $15 billion.

Publication: The Economic Times

Support Chinese chips , join the enterprise of the century read an upbeat slogan at a recent semiconductor industry fair in Shanghai, where the mood was defiant despite the intense pressure placed on the sector by geopolitical tensions.

Publication: The Economic Times

Wipro GE Healthcare on Tuesday said it will invest over Rs 8,000 crore in India over the next five years to increase local manufacturing and research and development (R&D).

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

On March 23 last year, the government had formed the 16-member task force to make India a ‘product developer and manufacturing nation’.

Publication: The Economic Times

He said robust submarine cable infrastructure linking Mumbai and Chennai to Singapore, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, has been helping position India as a more attractive Asia-Pacific location for data centre development, expansion, and investment.

Publication: The Economic Times

Gaming hardware and console brands such as HP, Asus, AMD, Lenovo, Intel, etc, and nonendemic brands such as Red Bull, are among the largest sponsors of gaming tournaments in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

As the world embraces the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI), the accounting industry is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. Ganesh Ranganathan, the visionary CEO of Integra Global Solutions, a leading provider of accounting services and AI for accounting, shares his insights on the evolution of accounting roles in the age of AI.

Publication: Financial Express

Companies have invested over Rs 1.07 trillion in two years through December 2023 under the 14 Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes, or about 40% of the Rs 3 trillion committed.

Publication: Financial Express

Kaynes Semicon, the semiconductor arm of Kaynes Technology, is targeting to have 13 chip assembly and test lines over the next 1.52 years with a volume of 1 billion chips annually, the company s CEO Raghu Panicker told FE in an interaction.

Publication: Financial Express

While the physical realm of human activity contains an array of languages, the digital realm is founded on just one fundamental binary language: the 1s and 0s, also called the bits of data.

Publication: The Hindu

Specifically in areas like AI, the demand-supply gap remains high, and niche skills in Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud expertise and Infrastructure as Code are much in demand.

Publication: Financial Express

Alongside, tech companies envision unique use-cases that would work better with custom chips. Microsoft’s Azure Maía 100 and Cobalt 100 chips, Amazon’s second-generation Trainium. Meta’s MTIA, and Google’s contentious Tensor Processing Units are examples of a growing industry-wide momentum to reduce reliance on traditional chip makers, including AMD and Intel, which often face challenges with production inventory and can demand a price premium

Publication: Hindustan Times

The company has also launched its Databricks Infrastructure on Google Cloud s India (Mumbai) region to support the growing customer base and demand for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Internet data centers and large scale industrial users, which include the likes of chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., will see their power tariffs jump by between 15% and 25%, depending on usage.

Publication: Hindustan Times

In recent years, the inclusion of AI (Artificial Intelligence) has presented a promising opportunity to enhance the tax compliance process further. Businesses across the globe are adopting AI and intelligent automation to meet increasing expectations from boards and tax administrations, as well as automating complex processes in the tax world.

Publication: Financial Express

IT services company HCL Tech and CAST, a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores provider, has announced plans to scale their partnership to offer customized chips to enable original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) across industries accelerate their digital transformation and automation journeys

Publication: The Times of India

National Institute of Technology Raipur has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Bengaluru based firm to set up an advanced chip research and development centre on its campus in Chhattisgarh s capital, an institute official said on Sunday.

Publication: The Economic Times

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the critical need for professionals to possess hybrid skills has never been more pronounced.

Publication: Financial Express

Huawei Technologies Co. and a secretive chipmaking partner in China have filed patents for a low tech but potentially effective way to make advanced semiconductors, raising the prospect that China could improve chip production techniques despite US efforts to halt its progress.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

With four chip manufacturing facilities under construction across the country, the demand for talent in the semiconductor manufacturing sector has surged. Data from staffing and recruiting firms indicate that demand for talent in the sector is in double digits.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

Jaishankar, who is on a three-day visit to Singapore and reached here earlier in the day, highlighted “a very good global manufacturing response to the Production Linked Initiative (PLI) Scheme,” but at the same time reminded the audience that India had missed the manufacturing bus in the previous decades.

Publication: The Pioneer

One idea that stands out prominently in the contemporary narrative of India as it aims to be a developed nation by 2047 is the opportunity artificial intelligence (AI) offers.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

After the electronics and information technology ministry (MeitY) scrapped the idea of a self-regulatory body for online gaming, it may be looking at incorporating an independent regulator that will allow only registered entities to offer egaming services in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

Chipmakers seem to take the biggest piece of this pie with record breaking growth. Nvidia currently has a market cap of $2.232 trillion and is the third most valuable company in the world, overtaking giants like Amazon and Alphabet. Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, too broke records with a market cap closing of above $300 billion for the first time in February 2024.

Publication: CNBC TV18

For years we used to hear of Intel and AMD. But now it’s Nvidia and TSMC. Both these companies are $50 billion+companies in terms of revenue.

Publication: Data Quest

Most of the Chinese entities that could be affected were previously identified as chipmaking facilities acquired or being built by Huawei in a presentation by the Washington based trade group Semiconductor Industry Association, according to people familiar with the matter.

Publication: ET Telecom

South Korea will proactively support the semiconductor industry, and accelerate the development of high bandwidth memory and artificial intelligence chips to achieve the annual export target of $120 billion, said Industry Minister Ahn Dukgeun on Thursday

Publication: The Economic Times

Cadence Design Systems, the world’s leader in electronic systems design and automation, headquartered in San Jose in the US, sees a huge opportunity for homegrown chip and electronic design startups to make products catering to the global electric two-wheeler industry, beginning with supplying to domestic players like Ola, TVS and Ather, amongst others.

Publication: Business Standard

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ushered in a profound transformation across industries, fundamentally altering competition dynamics. However, alongside its immense potential, AI presents intricate regulatory challenges, particularly in the realm of competition.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Responding to SEBI’s directives, AMFI mandated mutual funds to conduct stress tests to assess their resilience

Publication: The Economic Times

Most people don t think about data centers in the course of their daytoday lives. Even as they use the internet for entertainment, directions, banking, shopping, and more, they don t consider that there are physical buildings somewhere that enable all of that.

Publication: Express Computer

Chipmaker Micron s shares surge as AI boom drives strong forecast Memory chip maker Micron Technology tapped a surge in artificial intelligence adoption to forecast third quarter revenue above estimates on Wednesday and post a surprise quarterly profit.

Publication: MoneyControl

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday met Tata Sons Emeritus Chairman Ratan Tata and Chairman N Chandrasekaran in Mumbai and thanked them for setting up the Rs 27,000-crore Tata semiconductor facility in Assam.

Publication: Hindustan Times

OpenAl Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sam Altman aims to set up a network of semiconductor manufacturing plants. Altman is in discussions with middle eastern investors and chip fabricators, including TSMC, about launching the venture.

Publication: Electronics For You

NXP’s S32 processors, vehicle connectivity, and power management, this system solution supports the development of software-defined radar technologies. The radar SoC streams radar sensor data at up to 1Gbit/s, enabling automakers to refine ADAS partitioning for software-defined vehicles and transition to new architectures.

Publication: Electronics For You

In recent weeks, representatives of Saudi Arabia s Public Investment Fund have discussed a potential partnership with Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, and other financiers, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly. They cautioned that the plans could still change.

Publication: Business Standard

RRP Electronics has tied up with a consortium of European companies to set up a one of its kind semiconductor facility in Maharashtra. The company, which will invest 5,000 crore over the next five years, plans to lay the foundation stone in its new premises of 25,000 sq ft on March 23.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Among the companies that could be blacklisted are chipmakers Qingdao Si En, SwaySure, and Shenzhen Pensun Technology Co, or PST. The Biden officials are also weighing sanctions on China s leading memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc, the report said.

Publication: Business Today

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the first chip out of the semiconductor unit in Assam’s Jagiroad will be rolled out by 2025. Sarma met Ratan Tata on Wednesday.

Publication: The Economic Times

Union Minister for Communications and Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Tuesday said that by the end of this year India would witness the launch of the first indigenous semiconductor chip.

Publication: BusinessWorld

The ecosystem from across the globe will mobilise to have India as their preferred semiconductor destination, N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, said in a statement on March 13, to mark the beginning of construction of two chip factories by the Indian conglomerate.

Publication: Forbes

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the upcoming Rs 27,000-crore Tata semiconductor facility will put the state on the world semiconductor map and transform the economic landscape of eastern India.

Publication: The Telegraph

Manufacturing of semiconductors in Assam will put the state on global map, said industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata, whose conglomerate has put in Rs 27,000 crore in investments for a semiconductor plant in Jagiroad.

Publication: The Hindu

India will get its first semiconductor chip by December this year, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said while kicking off Network 18 s Rising Bharat Summit 2024 event on March 19.

Publication: CNBC TV-18

IT company HCLTech on Tuesday said it has expanded its alliance with semiconductor intellectual property (IP) core provider CAST to provide customised chips and aid enterprises in accelerating their digital transformation.

Publication: Business Standard

Union Minister for Communications and Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw , on Tuesday said that by the end of this year India would witness the launch of the first indigenous semiconductor chip.

Publication: The Economic Times

In the dynamic landscape of India s digital economy, the data centre market is undergoing a remarkable surge, fueled by an increasing appetite for cloud computing, data storage, and diverse IT services.

Publication: TechCircle

AI will also create new ethical and social issues around privacy, bias, accountability, and trust: Anndy Lian As part of our rapid fire interview series, Anndy Lian, an Intergovernmental Blockchain Expert shares his quick take on the AI evolution, how it will impact the workforce in APAC, and his favourite thing about AI.

Publication: The Economic Times

“The two companies (HCL and Foxconn) will need to get a technology partner. We have also sought details about the uptake of the output from the OSAT unit they have proposed,” said a senior official from the ministry of electronics and information technology.

Publication: The Economic Times

In a fiercely competitive world, brands are competing for customer attention, owing to the fast paced digitization. At the forefront of this, organisations continue to find themselves plagued with a unique challenge to deliver a stellar customer experience.

Publication: The Financial Express

India needs a different approach than the rest of the world when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on the huge opportunities it presents rather than just the risks, Debjani Ghosh, president of IT industry apex body Nasscom, said on Monday.

Publication: The Economic Times

Uncertain macroeconomics in key markets like the US and Europe will continue to drag growth for the Indian IT services industry.

Publication: Business Standard

Taiwan’s TSMC is looking at building advanced packaging capacity in Japan, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a move that would add momentum to Japan s efforts to reboot its semiconductor industry.

Publication: The Print

The EU is weighing whether to investigate how deeply such semiconductors are embedded across industry networks, according to a draft working statement seen by Bloomberg News

Publication: NDTV Profit

Our analysis examined four of these layers and the companies that inhabit them: AI-powered applications sold to businesses outside the stack; the AI models themelves, such as GPT-4, the brain behind ChatGPT, and repositories of them (for example, Hugging Face); the cloud-computing platforms which host many of these models and some of the applications (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure); and the hardware, such as semiconductors (made by firms such as AMD, Intel and Nvidia), servers (Dell) and networking gear (Arista), responsible for the clouds’ computing oomph (see chart 1).

Publication: Mint

The world has seen an interesting yet complex interplay of rising globalisation post pandemic, with the importance of data management and leveraging data as an asset on one hand, and on the other, continued focus on cyber physical resilience, digital and e-governance, and the fruition of country specific data protection and privacy laws, especially across Asia Pacific APAC

Publication: The Economic Times

India’s first entirely indigenous semiconductor fabrication unit is set to start production in 2026, marking the start of the country s journey towards self-reliance in chips that power a wide range of technology, from smartphones to defence systems.

Publication: LiveMint

Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the situation.

Publication: The Economic Times

Benefits for NSW technology companies will be reciprocated with access to nasscom s services to find suitable partners and clients to grow in the Indian market, the statement said. On Friday, IT industry body Nasscom said it signed an agreement with Australian industry body Business NSW to facilitate market access for technology companies in the two markets.

Publication: MoneyControl

The advisory also mentioned that every intermediary and platform should verify that its computer resource in itself or through the use of AI models/LLM/generative AI, software(s) or algorithm(s) does not endorse any partiality in the electoral process ethicality.

Publication: Financial Express

Their case is that by the time this facility goes operational, it will begin by producing 28 nanometer (nm) chips. And by the time it acquires the capabilities to produce 26 nm chips, the world would have moved on, and the chips Dholera produces might be obsolete. It is pertinent then to investigate if these critics have a point.

Publication: Hindustan Times

After facing intense backlash on its first advisory on election integrity for artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, the IT Ministry has amended it and prepared a fresh advisory where it has scrapped a controversial provision to require government permission before rolling out untested/unreliable AI systems in India, The Indian Express has learnt.

Publication: The Indian Express

In a fresh advisory to platforms on Friday, the ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) has removed the earlier requirement of seeking government s nod before launching any untested or unreliable AI models in the country.

Publication: The Financial Express

Taiwan’s TSMC is looking at building advanced packaging capacity in Japan, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a move that would add momentum to Japan s efforts to reboot its semiconductor industry.

Publication: MoneyControl

As many as 95 per cent of Indian chief information officers (CIO) consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be important to their companies, says a new survey. As many as 28 per cent of them are investing in generative AI (GenAI), which can create text, images and video in seconds in response to prompts

Publication: Business Standard

Instruction Enhancement Programme (IEP) on ‘Memory and In-Memory computing using SCL 180nm PDK’ under Chip to Startup (C2S) Project under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEIT) of Government of India will be organised from March 18 to March 22 at IIT Indore.

Publication: Free Press Journal

When India’s largest conglomerate, Tata Group, broke ground on a $11 billion semiconductor factory this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country was poised to become a world leader in the sector. He might be in for a rude awakening.

Publication: LiveMint

To know more, read this In this episode of Tech Conversations, Jaya Jagadish, country head and senior vice president at AMD India, talks about why the company is very optimistic about the prospects of India s fledgling semiconductor ecosystem over the next decade

Publication: Forbes

The meeting focused on how Karnataka and the US could work together to foster AI innovation. “We will explore everything from AI-related patents to concept papers and get universities involved. We will create a strong common platform… to build an AI-based ecosystem,” said the minister.

Publication: The New Indian Express

How large is the commercial potential of AI? The Wall Street journal recently reported that OpenAI’s Sam Altman is seeking 7 trillion dollars in investment into his company to further develop semi-conductor graphic processor units (GPUs) used in advanced Al projects.

Publication: The Indian Express

The government has dropped the permit requirement for untested AI models but emphasised the need to label AI-generated content, according to a latest advisory on Artificial Intelligence technology. Instead of permission for AI models under development, the fresh advisory issued by the Ministry of Electronics and IT on Friday evening fine-tuned the compliance requirement as per IT Rules of 2021. 

Publication: The Pioneer

RRP Electronics has tied up with a consortium of European companies to set up a one-of-its-kind semiconductor facility in Maharashtra. The company, which will invest Rs.5,000 crore over the next five years, plans to lay the foundation stone in its new premises of 25,000 sq ft on March 23. In the second phase, it will invest another Rs.5,000 crore.

Publication: Sakal

IBM is part of a 75-member alliance of companies such as AMD, Meta, Oracle, Sony, and Uber which have committed to “accelerate open innovation across the AI technology landscape that responsibly benefits people and society everywhere”

Publication: The Economic Times

The smartphone market is increasing in India. This is the reason why the Indian government is also laying a lot of emphasis on it. The government wants more and more smartphone manufacturing in India. In this series, the government has now partnered with the American company Qualcomm.

Publication: Navbharat Times

The government engaged in discussions with major players such as Intel and AMD, with the latter entering into a licensing agreement with SemiIndia, a consortium of technology firms based in Hyderabad.

Publication: Analytics India Mag

The AMD chip-design plant, which will employ approximately 3,000 engineers, bets on India s design talent. Though a number of American companies have chip design centres in India (AMD too has been in India for long), India’s design talent is not comparable with that of the US

Publication: The Economic Times

As a result, around 38 companies applied for this version of the production-linked incentive scheme, with the scheme being more flexible in its current iteration, allowing applicants to choose from 2023, 2024 or 2025 as the base year.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

This is just the beginning. In the next five years, we should be seeing at least four or five more fabs and many more ATMP units.

Publication: The Times of India

The two semiconductor facilities to be set up by Tata Electronics are expected to create around 70,000 72,000 jobs in the coming years, said Tata group Chairperson N Chandrasekaran on Wednesday.

Publication: Business Standard

China continues to be a significant growth market for FrenchItalian semiconductor company STMicroelectronics in spite of growing tensions between the United States and China about semiconductors.

Publication: CIO News

Murugappa Group firm CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd has kicked off the construction work for its 7,000 crore Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in Gujarat.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Both Britain and the EU have sought to secure a domestic semiconductor supply chain after the pandemic exposed their reliance on global chipmakers and key technologies owned by Chinese and U.S. companies.

Publication: The Print

Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually laid the foundation stone for a Rs 27,000-crore semiconductor assembly and test facility in Assam’s Morigaon district on Wednesday.

Publication: Nagaland Post

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone, through a virtual ceremony, for three semiconductor projects worth around Rs 1.25-lakh crore.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

The company said with an investment of up to Rs 91,000 crore, India’s first AI-enabled Fab is poised to generate over 20,000 direct and indirect skilled jobs. He also said today every major economy is looking for self-sufficiency in the semiconductor supply chain.

Publication: The New Indian Express

The first set of semiconductors will start rolling out from Tata Electronics’ plant here in December 2026, Union Minister for Communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of Tata Group and CG Power chip plants, Mr. Vaishnaw said India would be among the top five chip ecosystems in the world by 2029.

Publication: The Hindu

The day is not far when India will become a global power in the manufacture of products for the semiconductor sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as he laid the foundation stone for three major semiconductor projects and blamed previous governments for indulging in corruption worth thousands of crores and not investing in modern technology.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Tarun Garg, COO, HMIL Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL), which has been banking heavily on technology loaded Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to drive up volumes, has maintained that the semiconductor crisis is over and has resulted in reduced waiting period for its bestselling models such as the Exter, Venue and Creta.

Publication: Money Control

The battle between ISMC Analog Fab and Israeli company Tower Semiconductor is escalating, with the law firm of the former taking up the matter with the government through communication on March 8 to the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), urging it not to clear their fresh application for setting up a fabrication (fab) plant without ISMC.

Publication: Business Standard

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Jal Shakti, has said India s future lies in the growth of the startup ecosystem driven by artificial intelligence, semiconductors and electronics.

Publication: The Hindu

The year 2024 has ushered in a new era for technology enthusiasts and industry experts alike, as governments around the world are recognizing the pivotal role that semiconductor and display technologies play in shaping the future.

Publication: The Economic Times

The PMO office in a statement said on Tuesday that it has been the vision of the Prime Minister to position India as a global hub for semiconductor design, manufacturing and technology development, fostering the creation of employment opportunities for the nation’s youth.

Publication: The Economic Times

In the global arena, semiconductor chips have emerged as critical assets shaping geopolitical strategies Semiconductor chips are posited as the new oil by some; some see them as a threat to national security, while others view them as a passport to economic prosperity.

Publication: Daily Pioneer

Additionally, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) inaugurated a design centre in Bangalore, reinforcing India s position as a hub for semiconductor innovation.

Publication: India Defense News

Investors are lapping up shares of Linde India, an industrial and medical gas maker, as the company is seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the growth in semiconductor manufacturing in India.

Publication: The Economic Times

India s provide production linked incentives (PLI) for companies to set up semiconductor units is encouraging for American companies, a US official said.

Publication: Business Standard

The tech industry, a driving force behind this relentless progress, finds itself at a crossroads, navigating the delicate balance between innovation and the ecological footprint left in the wake of its breakthroughs. Nowhere is this irony more apparent than in the realm of data centres, the unseen hubs of computational prowess.

Publication: Express Computer

Google’s generative AI platform Gemini has become a cause of embarrassment for the tech major for throwing biased responses on questions relating to history, politics, gender, and race.

Publication: The Financial Express

MeitY Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw comments on India s first semiconductor company, attributing its success to PM Narendra Modi s policies, execution, and vision Establishing a commercial semiconductor fab and fostering an ecosystem has long been a national aspiration

Publication: Business Today

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ( TSMC ) has reclaimed a spot in the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies, riding the optimism of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom in the tech industry that pushed its stock to record levels.

Publication: The Times of India

Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar has announced that artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories will be established in 10 colleges in Thiruvananthapuram under the India-AI Mission unveiled recently.

Publication: The Hindu

There are many companies internationally who now don t run fabs of their own and simply do design. Large companies like Qualcomm, Broadcom and even AMD have become fabless companies. So, many of them are purely design companies

Publication: The Economic Times

A design centre of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was also to be set up in India. A few months back, I inaugurated the design centre of AMD in Bengaluru, Vaishnaw said.

Publication: CIO Tech Outlook

Semiconductor chips are posited as the new oil by some; some see them as a threat to national security, while others view them as a passport to economic prosperity.

Publication: The Pioneer

In recent weeks, some of the best-known players in artificial intelligence (AI) have intensified their efforts to dominate the space. Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon, launched Claude 3 Opus. (AMD)

Publication: Mint

Lack of academia industry collaborations hampers innovation. Taiwan leads in semiconductor education, addressing the talent gap. The CHIPS act supports research and development.

Publication: The Times of India

Semiconductor giant TSMC is reportedly close to securing a major financial win from the US government. According to a report in Bloomberg, the company is in line for over $5 billion in federal grants to support its chip manufacturing facility being built in Arizona. The Bloomberg report says that this would be a significant step forward for President Biden s plan to revitalize American chip production.

Publication: The Times of India

The Center is said to mark the next step in the company s journey of enabling the semiconductor ecosystem in India The Center is said to enable early pilots, talent, and capability development for the upcoming India Collaborative Engineering Center including validation, process engineering, lab management, and collaboration with academia and suppliers

Publication: The Times of India

Consider how challenging it would be to conduct business or be a consumer if there were no semiconductors on the market. Even for a person, daily life would have been dull without smart devices like mobile phones, appliances, computers, games, tabs, and many more that run on chips.

Publication: Techno Sports

The semiconductor industry stands as the bedrock of the modern digital realm, powering everything from smartphones and computers to automobiles and critical infrastructure.

Publication: The Times of India

The government plans to boost chip sector incentives from the current 76,000 crore, as it expects a mushrooming of chip fabs and testing units in the country in the years ahead. India will emerge as one of the top five semiconductor ecosystems in world in the coming five years, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in an interview.

Publication: Mint

Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday inaugurated the State Data Centre (SDC) at the civil secretariat, marking a significant step towards facilitating highend data services for the government.

Publication: The Times of India

The exclusive club that dominates the global semiconductor fab scenario is about to get a new member. Taiwan, South Korea, and China control nearly 70 per cent of the global capacity.

Publication: Business Standards

The chips to be made at the Tata-PSMC plant, for instance, will be primarily of 28 nano metre process nodes, along with 50 nm and 55 nm. None of these plants are meant to produce cutting-edge compute logic, GPU or AI chips, but they are a good start for the country on the semiconductor manufacturing path and are aimed at significant markets.

Publication: Deccan Herald

India’s burgeoning semiconductor sector is facing a surge in demand for talent, fuelled by new investments and the government’s ambitious plan to transform the country into a chip manufacturing hub.

Publication: The Economic Times

The JCM is expected to comprehensively review the entire gamut of bilateral cooperation and explore avenues for further strengthening it. It will also provide an opportunity for the two sides to exchange views on regional and global issues of mutual interest.”

Publication: The Pioneer

Leading Chinese chip equipment suppliers including Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment and Naura Technology have been trying to catch up with their American peers, but their offerings are still not as comprehensive or sophisticated. China’s top lithography system developer Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group still lags a few generations behind what industry leader ASML is capable of.

Publication: The Financial Express

There is demand for 40,000-50,000 employees across job roles in 2024, a 25-30% increase over last year, says staffing company Randstad. The sector is expected to see more than 800,000 to 1 million job openings over the next five years.

Publication: Pudhari

Mobile phone manufacturing in value terms. jumped 21-fold to 24.1 lakh crore in India in the last 10 years as government policy measures like PLI played a critical role in attracting global players to boost local production, industry body ICEA said in a statement.

Publication: Hindustan Times

The government plans to boost chip sector incentives from the current Rs 76,000 crore, as it expects a mushrooming of chip fabs and testing units in the country in the years ahead.

Publication: Hindustan Times

There is demand for 40,000-50,000 employees across job roles in 2024, a 25-30% increase over last year, says staffing company Randstad. The sector is expected to see more than 800,000 to 1 million job openings over the next five years.

Publication: Prahaar

The Narendra Modi government in its third term will work towards enabling domestic manufacturing of AI chipsets, communications and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told FE.

Publication: The Financial Express

The Centre’s latest move will enable these AI startups to create foundational models from scratch for a variety of applications, for which they were earlier dependent on models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta.

Publication: The Economic Times

According to industry estimates, NVIDIA dominates the GPU market with about 88 per cent market share and there is a lag of 12-18 months in getting GPUs from the company due to its high demand across the globe.

Publication: The Echo of India

“In that sector, the concentration among the implementers of the standard, your prospective licensees, is currently very high. In the handset market, if you license Apple, Samsung and Huawei, you have a big chunk of the potential total licensing income covered. Big licensors in this space, such as Ericsson, Qualcomm and Nokia, prefer to handle these implementers on their own.

Publication: The Pioneer

The central government approved the nation’s first commercial semiconductor fabrication plant on February 29. Over the past six decades, India has harboured ambitions of participating in the semiconductor ecosystem, implementing various schemes in pursuit of this goal.

Publication: Business Today

As India embarks on its ambitious semiconductor journey with a likely groundbreaking ceremony of three new semiconductor projects worth $15 14 billion, including two from the Tata Group, next week, the bold initiative under Prime Minister Narendra Modi s leadership has started to jolt China s dominance in the global silicon market

Publication: The Hans India

On February 29, the Indian government approved three semiconductor units worth Rs 1.26 lakh crore including a fabrication plant by Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) in partnership with Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) in Dholera.

Publication: MoneyControl

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with American chipmaker Micron Technology to drive innovation in India’s semiconductor industry and develop a highly skilled workforce.

Publication: The Economic Times

The Tata group has been allotted about 160 acres in Gujarat s Dholera to set up the country s first mega semiconductor fabrication plant with an investment of Rs 91,000 crore, according to officials in the state government.

Publication: Business Standard

The Centre will provide training to tribal students in semiconductor technology in collaboration with the Bengaluru based Indian Institute of Science.

Publication: The Economic Times

In a cabinet briefing by Union Minister Piyush Goyal, on Thursday, he stated that under the India AI mission, Rs 10,372 crore of investment, for five years, has been allocated to drive innovations under artificial intelligence Goyal also mentioned that this development will help in the adoption of AI at a larger scale and help in growing talent of youth of India, with many areas already being covered

Publication: The Financial Express

Since 2022, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Ministry of Education in India, Arm Education and STMicroelectronics have been organizing an annual contest in support of the government s goal to expand and enrich India s rapidly growing electronics manufacturing and innovation ecosystem.

Publication: Times Tech

CLOSE on the heels of the Centre’s plan to regulate AI tools deployed in India by big tech companies, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved an outlay of `10,371.92 crore for the national-level IndiaAI Mission to boost the artificial intelligence ecosystem in the country.

Publication: The New Indian Express

At the moment, TSMC manufactures chips for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft and Alphabet s Google in Taiwan.

Publication: The Print

At the moment, TSMC manufactures chips for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft and Alphabet s Google in Taiwan. The company is not expected to bring its advanced 3nanometer manufacturing, which is already used to make iPhone 15 Pro chips, to Arizona until at 2027 or 2028, despite starting mass production in Taiwan last year.

Publication: The Economic Times

The U.S. government is urging the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea and Japan to further tighten curbs on China s access to semiconductor technology, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday

Publication: The Economic Times

STMicroelectronics SRK1004 synchronous rectifier controller eases the design and enhances the efficiency of converters built with silicon or GaN transistors, including industrial power supplies, portable-device chargers, and AC/DC adapters.

Publication: Times Tech

Facebook parent Meta may start its first data centre in India focussed on the growing demand for its short video feature Reels in its largest market, it was reported.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Taiwanese chipset maker MediaTek is now turning its focus to the fast growing premium segment with its latest breed of 5G chipsets , having attained a dominant 50% market share, outpacing rival Qualcomm in the highly competitive India smartphone market, company executives and market trackers said.

Publication: The Economic Times

India wants to expand its strategic partnership with South Korea into new areas like critical and emerging technologies, semiconductors and green hydrogen to make the bilateral ties more contemporary, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday

Publication: The Times of India

As India embarks on its ambitious semiconductor journey with a likely groundbreaking ceremony of three new semiconductor projects worth $15.14 billion, including two from the Tata Group, next week, the bold initiative under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership has started to jolt China s dominance in the global silicon market.

Publication: The Economic Times

Elevate Your Tech Prowess with HighValue Skill Courses Offering College Course Website MIT MIT Technology Leadership and Innovation Visit IIM Kozhikode IIMK Advanced Data Science For Managers Visit Indian School of Business ISB Product Management Visit India can become a world leader in technology, ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) to semiconductor chips once it reaches the status of thirdlargest economy in the world, Union minister of electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday

Publication: The Economic Times

The European Union should think twice before imposing additional export controls or rules on foreign investment, semiconductor industry group SEMI Europe said in a position paper published this week.

Publication: The Economic Times

The soon to be announced Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre (BSRC) will have a regional centre at IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, informed Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday.

Publication: ANI News

The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) and the Netherlands Innovation Network, Embassy of the Netherlands in India, join forces to announce the launch of a groundbreaking report titled IndoDutch Semiconductor Opportunities .

Publication: Times Tech

The US is currently leading the race in the design of these chips, also known as semiconductors. But most of the manufacturing is carried out in Taiwan.

Publication: The New Indian Express

Groundbreaking ceremonies for three semiconductor projects, including two from the Tata Group, are likely to be held next week, less than two weeks after the Union Cabinet cleared the proposals entailing investments of $15.14 billion, officials told ET.

Publication: The Economic Times

Another reason why GCCs are rapidly availing the services of data centres is the recent data localisation requirements, which are part of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 The rapid expansion of Global Capability Centres (GCC) is propelling the growth of data centres in India, making up approximately 1416 percent of the total demand for data centres, from a negligible share just three years ago.

Publication: MoneyControl

This refers to ‘Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre soon’ (March 5). With approval given for three more units, the government’s vision to make India a semiconductor nation is appreciable. The upcoming units will add up to 80,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to government estimates.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

If there is going to be an emerging parallel to the Indian IT industry growth story, it is undoubtedly going to be the Indian semiconductor industry. The growth of Indian IT industry through the creation of Software Technology Parks (STPIs) and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is seeing its counterparts in the Indian Semiconductor Mission (ISM) and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

“It underscores our commitment to harnessing the power of technology to solve complex challenges and to creating a world where progress and prosperity are accessible to all,” said Marisa Gerards, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India, Nepal and Bhutan.

Publication: Free Press Journal

In a move to bolster semiconductor manufacturing in Uttar Pradesh, the state government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has announced a comprehensive subsidy scheme as part of the UP Semiconductor Policy 2024.

Publication: BusinessWorld

India’s overarching ambition to play in the big league has found partial expression with the government s approval of three semiconductor foundries to be set up by the private sector.

Publication: LiveMint

India has set its sights on becoming a formidable force in global semiconductor equation, rivalling known destinations like Taiwan and South Korea in next 5 years, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said asserting that if and when mindset of global players has changed to an eagerness to invest in the country.

Publication: The Economic Times

 Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre will be announced soon, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Electronics and Information Technology, and Jal Shakti, said on Monday.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has issued a clarification regarding an advisory sent to intermediaries on March 1 Following a blowback from the industry regarding a government advisory which directed AI platforms to seek permission before launching an AI product, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar clarified that the advisory does not apply to startups.

Publication: MoneyControl

Gujarat Has attracted more than $55 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) over the past 20 years, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said Monday, adding that the state has become a favourable destination for trade and business. “In the past 20 years, over $55 billion in FDI has come to Gujarat.

Publication: The Indian Express

Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw defended issuing an advisory to all AI developers such as Google, Microsoft, and Adobe, and said the companies should be responsible before developing any AI platform.

Publication: The New Indian Express

However, for Assam, which has come out of nowhere to bag a crucial investment in chip-building, this is nothing less than a dream come true. The facility will create direct employment opportunities for at least 15,000 people and generate indirect employment for an estimated 11,000 to 16,000.

Publication: News 18

The company has applied for funding under the Commerce Department s $39 billion Chips and Science semiconductor subsidy program, and an environmental review is required if the project receives government funding, the agency said Micron plans to starting building next year, with two of the four planned 600,000square foot (56,000square meter) fabrication units open by 2029, according to the filing.

Publication: The Economic Times

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Rs 27,000crore semiconductor plant approved for the state by the Union Cabinet on Thursday will be a gamechanger for the economy of the entire North East region.

Publication: ET EnergyWorld

Ahead of Lok Sabha polls this year, the Union cabinet on Thursday cleared a host of key decisions, including rooftop solar scheme with an outlay of over Rs 75,000 crore, three semiconductor plants with an investment of Rs 1.26 lakh crore in the states of Gujarat and Assam and fertilisers subsidy of over Rs 24,000 crore to the farmers for the upcoming kharif season.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

India now key semiconductor player, Rs 2.50 lakh crore investment proposals received: Minister India has made significant strides in the semiconductor sector in the last two years during which the government received investment proposals of Rs 2.50 lakh crore from global chip makers, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said.

Publication: MoneyControl

Beijig’s draconian lockdowns had disrupted global chip supply and sent companies and governments on a hunt for alternative sources of production. India is offering itself as a democratic and trusted alternative tech hub to China.

Publication: CNBC TV-18

India has set its sights on becoming a formidable force in global semiconductor equation, rivalling known destinations like Taiwan and South Korea in next 5 years, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said asserting that if and when mindset of global players has changed to an eagerness to invest in the country.

Publication: The Hindu

CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd, part of the Chennai based Murugappa Group, has roped in partners to jointly build an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility in India. CG Power, Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Stars Microelectronics (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd, a Thailand-based outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider, recently signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) to build and operate an OSAT facility in India, CG Power said.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

All artificial intelligence (AI) models, large-language models (LLMs), software using generative AI or any algorithms that are currently being tested, are in the beta stage of development or are unreliable in any form must seek “explicit permission of the government of India” before being deployed for users on the Indian internet, the government said.

Publication: The Economic Times

As per sources, most of the app developers have opted to operate on Consumption-only basis without paying any service fee. Under the consumption-only model, any developer could allow a user of their app to access content that they paid for outside the app.

Publication: The New Indian Express

Asked about the timelines when India would aim to be a formidable player rivalling known semiconductor destinations, the minister said “in the coming 5 years, definitely”. Last week, the Cabinet approved proposals to set up three semiconductor plants, including a mega fab by Tata Group, at a cumulative investment of Rs 1.26 lakh crore, as India moved to position itself as an international powerhouse in chip manufacturing.

Publication: The Pioneer

Presently, India has forged agreements with several global semiconductor manufacturing giants to establish manufacturing facilities in the country. With companies like Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Micron, and Qualcomm making investments in India, alongside the emergence of more venture capital backed startups, the semiconductor industry in India is poised for further expansion.

Publication: Inc 42

The proposal of Israeli semiconductor company Tower is likely to get approval from the Centre today, according to a report by The Economic Times (ET). This is likely to be India s first pureplay chip foundry.

Publication: Business Standard

Tech giant Google is deeply engaged with various stakeholders in India to build language models with datasets specific to the requirements of the country to create artificial intelligence (AI) models, said Amit Kumar, Director, Digital Native Sales, Google Cloud India.

Publication: Yourstory

On a quarterly basis, total PC GPU shipments increased 5.9 percent over Q3, but not all the GPU manufacturers benefited from the growth. While Intel s shipments rose 10.5 percent, Nvidia and AMD saw their sales fall by 1.5 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively.

Publication: Madras Tribune

A federal investigation into semiconductor equipment supplier Applied Materials involving China shipments has widened to other U.S. agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission , according to a company filing on Tuesday.

Publication: The Economic Times

The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved the establishment of a semiconductor unit in Assam s Morigaon district that will provide advanced semiconductor requirements to the world, including Elon Muskled electric vehicle maker, Tesla The Assam unit, which is the biggest private investment in the state so far, will be set up by Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt Ltd (TSAT) at an estimated cost of Rs 27,000 crore

Publication: The Times of India

While Tata Electronics Pvt. Ltd (TEPL) will build India’s first semiconductor fab in Gujarat’s Dholera for Rs 91,000 crore along with Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (PSMC), Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt. Ltd (TSAT) will build an assembly, testing, marking and packaging (ATMP) plant in Assam’s Morigaon for Rs 27,000 crore.

Publication: Mint

Speaking on the sidelines of the AMD campus launch, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, told media that India expected three new semiconductor fabrication units in the coming months, with a combined investment ranging from US$8 to US$12 billion, inclusive of government incentives.

Publication: India- Briefing

The first fab project that will manufacture higher compute chips with 2 8 nm technology will be set up in Dholera, Gujarat, for which the construction is expected to start in the next 100 days, the government said. The fab will have a capacity of 50,000 wafers per month and produce 3 billion chips every year.

Publication: Financial Express

Microsoft has introduced a new App Programming Interface (API) for PC game developers on Windows. This new API , called DirectSR , aims to help game developers by simplifying the process of integrating super resolution AIupscaling features from various vendors like Nvidia , AMD , and Intel into their titles

Publication: The Times of India