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India must make itself quantum secure, says HCL Co-founder Ajai Chowdhry

Speaking at BS Manthan, HCL Co-founder Ajai Chowdhry emphasised the urgent need for India to embrace quantum technology and take proactive steps to ensure the country's digital and strategic autonomy

Crucial Nvidia results to set the course for faltering 'Magnificent Seven'

Investors have raked in big gains from the AI boom led by the so-called "Magnificent Seven", a group of tech giants that includes Nvidia, Microsoft and automaker Tesla

Taiwan seeks to give away chip industry to US as 'souvenir', says China

US President Donald Trump has criticised Taiwan for taking away American semiconductor business

First 'Made in India' semiconductor chip expected by 2025: Vaishnaw

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday said the first 'Made in India' semi-conductor chip would be ready for production by 2025. He made the announcement on the second day of the 'Global Investors Summit 2025' organised in Bhopal. "By 2025, the first 'Made in India' semiconductor chip would be ready for production," an official release quoted the Electronics and Information Technology Minister during the event that he joined via video conference. "Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, electronic manufacturing in Madhya Pradesh has gained significant momentum. Two electronic manufacturing clusters have been approved by PM Modi one each in Bhopal and Jabalpur," he said. Currently, 85 companies are actively engaged in the electronics manufacturing sector in the state, marking a major success for the double-engine government, Vaishnaw said. The government's commitment to technological advancement by announcing the training of 20,000 engineers under the Future Skills ...

Semiconductor plant created an entire ecosystem in Assam: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday said the semiconductor plant in Assam's Morigaon district has created an entire ecosystem, attracting investment interest from multiple countries. Speaking at a session on semiconductors, the minister for railways, electronics and information technology said the setting up of the semiconductor assembly unit at Morigaon will position Assam as a major hub and very soon, another such unit will be set up in the state. Several companies from Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan are expected to sign Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and set up offices near the semiconductor plant, he added. "Apart from semiconductors, Assam will soon have manufacturing units for mobile phones and electronics, further boosting the state's industrial landscape," he said. The decision to set up the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) University was taken a few months ago at Jagiroad on encroached railway land, the minister said. "The

Donald Trump's team seeks to toughen Biden's chip controls over China

Trump officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron Ltd and ASML Holding NV engineers from maintaining semiconductor gear in China

Semiconductor policy key to improving defence mfg: Navy chief Tripathi

Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi has said India's semiconductor policy is essentially "new oil for the economy" and important to improve the country's defence manufacturing. Speaking at an event here on Monday, he also asked the private sector to take the lead in order to make the country self-reliant. If India has to become self-reliant, then the private industry must take the lead in defence manufacturing, he said. The Ministry of Defence has set aside Rs 450 crore this year for the Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX) scheme, which aims to help startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) innovate, Admiral Tripathi said. "The MoD has earmarked 75 per cent of our modernisation budget for the defence industry, which is almost Rs 1 lakh crore. And out of that, 25 per cent has been earmarked for the private defence industry in this budget. This year, Rs 450 crore has been successfully allocated for iDEX scheme," he said. Since its inception in 2018, the iDEX has signed

Will Trump's semiconductor tariffs disrupt India's global supply chains?

US President Trump has imposed a 25 per cent tariff on semiconductor imports, raising costs for US tech firms and disrupting global supply chains. Here's how it will impact the Indian industry

India's dependency on China upstream imports on the rise: McKinsey report

India's exports to China are declining, suggesting an emerging asymmetrical trade relationship between the world's two largest developing economies

Quantum computing stocks rise as Microsoft's new chip heats up tech debate

Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 1 chip on Wednesday and said it is less prone to errors than rivals, while providing evidence in a scientific paper set to be published in academic journal Nature

Lam Research to invest Rs 10,000 crore in India, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Lam Research has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karnataka government to lease and eventually purchase a land parcel at Whitefield in Bengaluru

IIT Madras, Isro develop semiconductor for space research, other sectors

State and private sector organisations involved in developing chip indigenously

Taiwan's next-generation supercomputer for AI set to launch in May

According to the report, the new system, which will be equipped with Nvidia's H100 graphics processing units (GPU), will initially offer a computing capacity of 16 petaFLOPS

Semiconductor manufacturing to be an important attraction of GIS: MP CM

Yadav said that enthusiasm and interest are being seen in this sector among potential investors at the GIS, so it is expected that there will be increased investment in this sector

Tata Projects building largest ever back-end semiconductor unit in Sanand

In June 2023, the Gujarat government signed a $2.75 billion agreement with Micron for this project. Once operational, the facility is expected to create 5,000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs

Tata Projects to finish construction of Micron's semiconductor plant by Dec

Tata Projects on Tuesday said that the construction of the US-based chip company Micron Technology's semiconductor assembly and test facility at Sanand near Ahmedabad will be over by December 2025. While 60 per cent of work on India's first semiconductor plant has already been completed, the rest will be finished by the end of this year, said Amit Agrawal, Project Director, Tata Projects. The facility is coming up in nearly 50 acres of area at Sanand industrial area and the construction began in July last year. This semiconductor Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) facility is being constructed by Tata Projects for Micron. "An ATMP facility is essentially a backend fab facility where testing, packaging and marking of semiconductors are carried out. This is perhaps the largest back-end semiconductor fab unit in the world. So far, 60 per cent of work has been completed on Phase-1 with the help of a total workforce of 3,500," Agrawal told reporters. "We will hand over this

India-Singapore working on semiconductor ecosystem: Prez Shanmugaratnam

Asserting that India is emerging as a major pole in world economy, Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Saturday said his country was trying to contribute to the semiconductor ecosystem and the air connectivity sector. "India aspires to be a pole in its own right, in a multipolar world that is true geopolitically, but it is also true economically. India is emerging as a major pole of the global economy. India is a nation with which we would like to collaborate," he said, while briefing the media at the end of his two-day tour to Odisha. "Because of its demographics, its own development processes, and significant potential in its export economy, India is a nation that Singapore would likely collaborate with," he added. Stating that "India's priorities and Singapore's priorities are also very similar," the President added, "According to the priorities established under the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable, the two governments are working together to develop the ...

TSMC Q4 profit jumps over 57% to record on strong demand for AI chips

World's largest contract chipmaker, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, posted a net profit of T$374.68 billion ($11.4 billion) for the quarter ended Dec 31

GPU export curbs may derail India's AI ambitions, tech-driven growth

Key chips designed in the US by companies like Nvidia and AMD are fabricated abroad. Some of the key raw-material inputs are also drawn from nations that are not on the "favoured" list

US chip export curbs raise concerns for India's AI growth, infrastructure

India's National AI Mission aims to build infrastructure with over 10,000 GPUs through public-private partnerships, supported by a Rs 10,000 crore investment over five years