The Videocon group, the country's largest consumer electronics and durables manufacturer, is contemplating setting up a semiconductor facility.
Electronic equipment production in India will touch $32 billion in 2011, a compound growth rate of 18 per cent from the $14 billion in 2006, according to Gartner.
The government has given an 'in-principle' approval to the special incentive package prepared by the department of information technology for semiconductor manufacturing and other high-tech industries.
The India information technology industry, including exports and domestic market and semiconductor industry, is gaining traction despite challenges, said Azim H Premji, chairman, Wipro, at the third Freescale Technology Forum in Bangalore on Monday.
Come early 2007, a mobile user will get a feature-rich multimedia phone that even supports 3G applications by paying less than Rs 1,800
India is becoming an attractive solar market and firms such as Moser Baer and US-based Signet Solar are confident of the growth in this market.
The US election campaign has provided plenty of ammunition for the CCP to make its case that its political system is superior.
As many as 18 out of the top 25 chip companies are setting up chip design centres in India,
Flextronics, a provider of contract manufacturing services to electronics industry, has decided to pick up minority stake in SemIndia's $3 billion project to set up a chip manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.
Rather than focussing on manufacturing, Indian companies need to concentrate on conceiving, designing and branding products.
P M Ajayan, one of the top 50 scientific researchers in the US, holds forth on nanotech and how it can help India in energy and health care sectors.
Today, there are opportunities in many areas like the new media entertainment, mobile space, gaming, bio-informatics and application of technology in various domains.
Franco-Italian semiconductor manufacturer ST Microelectronics will invest up to $25 million in India next year and up its headcount by 1,300.
I dream of the day where we'd be able to use a sleek looking, all-in-one, power-efficient, feature-rich smart device!
There is lot of potential in chip designing and solar energy going forward
Times without count we have bought more complex procedures in the name of simplification, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Last year, the researchers had developed the world's best single photon source based on semiconductor quantum dots.
It's earnings from mobile gadgets dropped 64%
The Bangalore design centre of the Euro 30.3 billion Royal Philips Electronics would work on the next generation consumer platform chip design and integrate the whole chip -- the biggest ever designed by the Netherlands-headquartered company.
Wipro Technologies on Monday said it has acquired Austrian firm NewLogic for $56 million in an all cash deal.
SemIndia, a consortium of overseas Indians, on Wednesday announced plans to invest $3 billion in an advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in the country with technology from America's Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Infineon Technologies could hire another 300 software developers in India over the next two years, with the possibility of more hardware design shifting to Bangalore, S Surya, managing director of the German semiconductor company's Indian subsidiary
Infineon currently has an employee base of 550 and proposes to scale it up to 800 in the next one-and-half-years.
Royal Philips Electronics is making an ultra low cost mobile handset, priced below (Rs 1000), for India and plans to launch the product sometime next year.
'If it works, something good can come out of this tragedy for the common public good,' say Dr Prasad Gadgil and Dr Kunal Basu.
IT firm Nucleaus Software Exports on Tuesday said it has featured in the Deloitte Technology's ranking of the Fast 500 companies in Asia Pacific. \n
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