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Japan PM visits chip factory, stressing ties with Taiwan, support for tech

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a new semiconductor plant for which his government has pledged more than 1 trillion yen (USD 7 billion) of support to secure a steady supply of chips on Saturday. I believe this project will have positive ripple effects throughout Japan. It is key for not only the semiconductor industry but also a wide range of businesses such as electric vehicles and electronics, he said while touring the facility. The new plant on the southwestern island of Kyushu, majority owned by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is the Taiwanese semiconductor giant's first in Japan. Kishida also expressed sympathy to Taiwan following an earthquake that left at least 12 people dead. Japanese companies like Sony, Denso and Toyota are investing in the TSMC subsidiary that opened the plant in February, although the Taiwanese giant retained an 86.5% stake in the Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. The project underlines Japan's hopes to regain

Why maintaining ASML equipment is new front in US-China chip war?

ASML dominates the market for lithography tools - huge expensive, complex machines that perform one step in the chipmaking process, helping to create circuitry

Taiwan's earthquake economic fallout to be minimal, say analysts

The 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's eastern coast near Hualien County on Wednesday morning, reportedly killing nine people and injuring more than 1,000

Meity chips away at doubts, defends its domestic semiconductor policy

Govt's sequential approach targets mature nodes, foreseeing a conservative $100 billion chip demand in five years

Taiwan quake to hit some chip output, disrupt supply chain: Analysts

Manufacturers in Taiwan have been hardening their factories against earthquakes for decades and many use automatic shutdown systems to minimise damage to their production and tools, analysts said

South Korea's production of semiconductors rises by most in 14 years

The memory-chip market that underpins South Korea's semiconductor industry is notorious for its boom-and-bust cycle

India uniquely positioned in global semicon story, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

A $1 trillion industry will require more than nine lakh talented professionals. Close to a-third of all talent in the semiconductor industry are in India, says Vaishnaw

India will become a product nation in PM Modi's next term: Vaishnaw

At Business Standard Manthan, Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the Centre would create a policy framework for the Global Capability Centres

Tendulkar-backed RRP Electronics to invest Rs 5,000 cr in chip facility

RRP Electronics, a company backed by former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, on Tuesday announced an investment of Rs 5,000 crore for a semiconductor facility in Maharashtra. The investment will be done over the next five years, the company said in a statement. Contributions from Tendulkar in the overall investment or details of other shareholders were not disclosed by the company. The statement said on March 23, a 25,000 square feet facility in the satellite city of Navi Mumbai was unveiled in the presence of Tendulkar, retired nuclear physicist Anil Kakodkar and the company's founder, chairman, promoter and chief executive Rajendra Chodankar. It is an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility and plans are afoot to establish a comprehensive research and development centre and have an expanded setup encompassing multi-line OSAT and a fab foundry, the statement said. "Embarking on a journey of innovation, RRP Electronics pledges an initial investment of Rs 5,000 crore

EAM Jaishankar, Singapore's trade minister discuss semiconductors, space

EAM Jaishankar also engaged in discussions with prominent corporate figures from the country who offered positive feedback on India's growth story

China blocks use of Intel, AMD chips in govt PCs, to use local processors

The procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft's Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options, the report said

NIT Raipur to set up advanced semiconductor chip research centre on campus

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. The POSIT system-based general purpose-graphics processing unit (GPGPU) advanced chip research and development centre will be named ViBram Silicon Hub and assistant professor of NIT Raipur Dr Sonal Yadav will head it, a public relations officer of the institute said. POSIT number system is an alternative to Floating Point number system and claims to deliver better performance and accuracy for high-performance applications, specifically those that involve significant mathematical computations, the official said. GPGPU advanced chips are used in smartphones, laptops, desktops, servers, and many other digital devices. These chips are also used in tsunami detection and satellite launch applications, he said. The agreement was inked between NIT

Jaishankar urges Singapore's biz community to invest in India's chip sector

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday briefed Singapore's business community about the strides taken by India in the field of manufacture of semiconductors and appealed to them to invest in this key sector in the country. Jaishankar spoke about how machines for the manufacture of semiconductors have started coming (to India) and also how India is progressing towards establishing the first three plants for this multi-billion dollar industry. There is a degree of purpose and seriousness as well as investment going into manufacturing that has not been seen for a long time, the Minister told a 300-plus audience, mostly Singapore-based members of the business community. He was answering questions at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) after a lecture on his book Why Bharat Matters.' A very productive interaction with leading Singaporean Corporate figures. ... Appreciate their positive feedback on the India growth story,

China relaxes rules governing cross-border data flows on business pressure

"The relaxations are meaningful. This is the government's response to foreign companies' complaints," said Tom Nunlist, an analyst at consultancy Trivium

Recruitment companies tap into double-digit demand for semicon jobs

According to data from Xpheno, a specialist staffing firm, companies such as Kaynes Technology, Micron, and SRAM & MRAM Group are expected to hire a total of 12,000

Local chip design firms can cater to e2Ws worldwide: Cadence's India MD

He points out, moreover, that there are two clearly different markets in the semiconductor sweepstakes

Intel gets $20 billion in US grants, loans for semiconductor chip plants

The money also will help pay for equipment research and development and advanced packaging projects at smaller facilities in Oregon and New Mexico

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils successor to its all-conquering AI chip

Huang, Nvidia's co-founder, said AI is the driving force in a fundamental change in the economy and that Blackwell chips are "the engine to power this new industrial revolution"

Nvidia backs little-known Yotta Data Services in India's biggest AI bet yet

The company's products are so coveted because they're essential for the development of artificial intelligence, the technology that's set off a frenzy in industries around the world

Expansion, AI campus, green hydrogen plans on cards for Linde in India: CEO

Linde talks about the global chemical company's blueprint for India, which ranges from an AI campus and more manufacturing facilities