Semiconductor

Tessolve appoints HCL Tech's Ravi Kumar Chirugudu as President, COO

Semiconductor firm Tessolve on Monday announced the appointment of Ravi Kumar Chirugudu as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. With over 35 years of experience, Chirugudu has held senior leadership roles at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro. In his new role, Ravi will lead Tessolve's growth strategy by broadening its global engineering capabilities, strengthening customer relationships and speeding up innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing, Tessolve said in a statement. "As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle-from Design, Packaging, Validation and Systems integration. "Ravi's deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforci

Shipbuilding ties to be in focus during South Korea President's visit

India and South Korea to prioritise shipbuilding cooperation during Lee Jae Myung's visit, alongside talks on semiconductors and small modular reactors

War has hit all nations, but India managed it well: PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Kaynes Semicon's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility at Sanand on Tuesday and said India is strengthening its role as a reliable semiconductor supplier in the global market. He said the inauguration of the facility strengthens India's push towards self-reliance, which marks a landmark step in building a robust semiconductor ecosystem. Modi said India's decision to join the Pax Silica initiative aims to strengthen the supply of critical minerals. Calling the development a moment of pride as an Indian company has joined the global semiconductor supply chain, Modi said this is not just the time of economic competition but a time to shape the future tech landscape. "With the commencement of production in this project, India is further strengthening its role as a reliable semiconductor supplier in the global market. In a sense, a new bridge has emerged today between Sanand and Silicon Valley; the plant in Sanand is now supplying .

AMD to deploy Helios AI systems globally, India among key markets

Computer chipset firm AMD expects the deployment of its latest GPU-based high-performance computing platform Helios to begin in the second half of this year across several countries, including India, a top company official said. The company aims to capitalise on the demand for AI and proposed data centre capacity ramp-up by global technology giants. AMD, senior director for data centre GPU product marketing, Mahesh Balasubramanian, told PTI that a single Helios rack integrates 72 interconnected MI455X (AMD GPUs) accelerators, delivering up to 2.9 exaflops of FP4 (number format used in AI) compute performance per rack. The expected deployment timeline refers to global customer deployments of Helios systems, including India. Initial deployments are expected to begin in the second half of 2026, Balasubramanian said. The demand for GPUs (Graphics processing units) has skyrocketed after the massive demand for AI across the world, and US chip company Nvidia dominates the market with ove

PM Modi to inaugurate semiconductor OSAT plant in Gujarat on March 31

With an investment of ₹3,300 crore, the project will further strengthen the semiconductor ecosystem in Gujarat's Sanand

US charges Super Micro co-founder with smuggling AI chips to China

Super Micro's shares plummeted more than 20% in pre-market trading

Nvidia resumes production of AI chips for sale in China after US approval

CEO Jensen Huang said the company has resumed production of H200 chips after earlier pausing output due to uncertainty around regulatory clearances

India's semicon market to reach $300 billion by 2035: Deloitte report

India's semiconductor market is projected to nearly triple to USD 120 billion by 2030 and reach USD 300 billion by 2035, driven by the exponential adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), automotive growth, and data centre expansion, according to a report by Deloitte. India, which currently imports over 90 per cent of its semiconductor needs, is poised for a structural shift as local production is expected to meet more than 60 per cent of domestic demand by the end of 2035, the report titled 'Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Predictions 2026' said. "India's semiconductor market is estimated at USD 4550 billion in FY202425 and has been growing at a CAGR of 20 per cent over the past three years. The market is predicted to reach USD 120 billion by 2030 and USD 300 billion by 2035, driven by AI, automotives, data centres, and electronics manufacturing. "By 2035, India is expected to host 45 silicon fabs, 810 compound fabs, 12 display fabs and 2025 OSAT facilities, supported by

Agnit Semiconductor aims to scale production to 100K units in 24 months

IISc-incubated startup Agnit Semiconductors plans to scale gallium nitride chip production to 1 lakh units in two years as it expands into telecom and power electronics

Finance ministry cuts MeitY allocation by 17% for FY27 amid underspending

Finance ministry cuts MeitY's FY27 allocation by 17% due to underspending in PLI, semiconductor and AI Mission schemes, with panel flagging concerns over fund utilisation

US withdraws draft rule that called for permits for global AI chip exports

The now-abandoned Trump administration proposal would have carved out a significant role for the Commerce Department's licensing office to conduct case-by-case reviews of AI chip exports

India plans to launch $11 billion fund to support domestic chipmaking

India is hoping to woo major chipmakers to the world's most populous country with its engineering, design talent as well as subsidies in much the same way it's helped Apple Inc. expand in the region

India bridges funding gap to back high-innovation, long-gestation startups

India's technological landscape is bridging the investment gap needed to support high-innovation and long-gestation startups

Sanand 2.0's swift semicon wave accelerates India's chip ambitions

How the authomotive hub is providing semiconductor companies exactly what they need - speed

India trained 85,000 engineers in 4 years under Semicon 2.0: Vaishnaw

Prioritising talent development under the Government of India's Semiconductor Mission, Union Minister for Railways and Electronics & IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, stated that India has achieved its 10-year target of training 85,000 engineers in semiconductor design in just 4 years.The Minister on Monday informed that world-class Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens, have been made available in 315 universities across the country, and with the help of these tools, students are designing actual semiconductor chips, according to a release.These chips are being fabricated and tested at the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, giving students hands-on experience across the entire process from design to manufacturing and validation, he said.Vaishnaw further stated that students from universities across the nation, from Assam to Gujarat and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, are actively engaging in semiconductor design. This marks a significant milestone ...

Semicon 2.0 to boost deep tech startups, create design ecosystem: Vaishnaw

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said the Centre's Semicon Mission 2.0 will focus on bolstering deep tech startups, prioritising the creation of a design ecosystem and getting equipment manufacturing and design facilities in the country. Addressing the inaugural session of the Gujarat Semiconnect Conference 2026 here, the Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology said that a talent gap of 20 lakh in the semiconductor sector will create huge opportunities for students. "Semicon 2.0 will be totally the reverse of Semicon 1.0, which focused on getting manufacturing facilities in India. We got that. We have 10 plants, with the first starting commercial production yesterday. Very soon, the second plant will start commercial production," he said. Vaishnaw said that the top priority for Semicon 2.0 - the second phase of India's Semiconductor Mission - will be to create a "design ecosystem", so that deep tech startups get the opportunity to develop the next ...

PM Modi inaugurates Micron ATMP unit; Sanand plant starts production

The Micron ATMP facility was the first project approved by the government in 2022 under the ambitious ₹76,000 crore India Semiconductor Mission

Tattvam AI raises $1.7 million to speed up semiconductor chip design

Seedcamp-backed Tattvam AI is building a reasoning-driven AI system to automate complex semiconductor design tasks, aiming to compress multi-year development cycles into weeks

Nvidia could launch laptop chips this year with Dell, Lenovo models: Report

Nvidia is reportedly working on Arm-based and x86 designs with MediaTek and Intel, as it looks to re-enter the consumer PC space beyond data centre AI chips