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AI boom drives increased demand for semiconductors: Industry leaders

India aims to lead the semiconductor industry by leveraging geopolitical advantage, skilled talent, and cost competitiveness, driving economic growth, say tech executives and officials

India scaling up semicon push for global leadership: Meity Secretary

He also spoke about the importance of ensuring that intellectual property (IP) remains in India. He noted that the key concern is not ownership, but the use of Indian IP

Embassy Developments, Lam Research ink Rs 1,125 cr land deal in Bengaluru

The deal bolsters Bengaluru's status as a global tech hub, attracting high-tech investments and fueling demand for premium commercial infrastructure

Nvidia looks to expand AI reign with new chips, personal supercomputers

At the event, Huang unveiled more powerful chips and related technology that he said would provide a clearer payoff to customers

Power-saving optical chip tech will need to wait for wider use: Nvidia CEO

Huang said that he was focused on providing a reliable product roadmap that Nvidia's customers, such as OpenAI and Oracle, could prepare for

Infineon aims to double India workforce to 5,000 by 2030, says CMO

Going ahead, the company intends to continue supporting its Indian partners and customers to leverage growth opportunities, as the country remains a high-growth market for Infineon, he said

India high-growth mkt for Infineon; will double headcount by 2030: Official

India is a high-growth market for Infineon, and the German semiconductor firm plans to double its headcount by 2030 as it looks to scale its R&D base in the country, a top company official has said. Infineon has more than 58,000 employees worldwide, with most of them based in the APAC region. It employs over 2,500 people in India, primarily in R&D roles. India is a growth market and critical R&D location for the company, Infineon Technologies CMO and management board member Andreas Urschitz said during a media roundtable here. "We are doing lots of innovation in India and intend to heavily invest and grow our R&D base here...in terms of our long-term planning towards 2030, we intend to double the number of people in India," he said. The semiconductor firm intends to support the country's domestic market and explore joint growth opportunities with Indian partners and customers, he added. Currently, India contributes a low single-digit percentage to Infineon's group ...

Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan has a history as a successful underdog

Tan, named Intel CEO on Wednesday, faces an enormous challenge in turning around the operations of a company that put the "silicon" in Silicon Valley

Intel names semiconductor industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as next CEO

Tan will assume the role on March 18, the company said in a statement Wednesday. He will rejoin the board as well after stepping down in August 2024

India's semiconductor industry can grow to $40 billion by 2030: IESA

The Indian semiconductor industry can grow to USD 40 billion by 2030 by promoting the ecosystem around supply chain, including chemicals and gases involved in the making of electronic chips, a senior official of industry body IESA said on Friday. Speaking at IESA Vision Summit, India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) President Ashok Chandak said India needs to learn from the global centers of semiconductors as it is a very complex technology. "Any chip making touches at least more than 10 countries. It is very complicated. If we have to make semiconductor manufacturing successful in India, we have to take care of the supply chain that includes gases, the chemicals, materials, and most of the supply chain has to happen with the plants that are going to manufacture semiconductors," Chandak said. He said that in 2022, IESA had released a report on tha groundwork that needs to be done from the semiconductor ecosystem and it has now released a report which details out all

Taiwan says TSMC's move to invest $100 bn in US not due to Trump's pressure

Taiwan's president and top chipmaker TSMC held a joint news conference Thursday to defend the company's decision to invest USD 100 billion in the US, saying it stemmed from customer demand and not pressure from the Trump administration. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest chipmaker, said earlier this week it would invest USD 100 billion in three more chip manufacturing plants, along with two packaging facilities in Arizona. The decision sparked concerns that Taiwan would gain little in return for moving some of its most advanced manufacturing processes to the US. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te denied that TSMC's investment decision was due to political pressure by the United States. US President Donald Trump had previously said that Taiwan had taken away the US chip business and that he wanted it back. "TSMC's decision is necessary for its future development. The government did not face pressure from the United States during TSMC's investment proce

Govt has finalised design, outline of ISM phase two, to support semicon

The government is also working to make sure that the fabless semiconductor chip' ecosystem is also enhanced further by making changes to the design linked incentive scheme

CDIL partners with Germany's Infineon to explore Indian semiconductor mkt

Under the agreement, Infineon will supply bare die wafers to CDIL, which the latter will package into discrete and module semiconductor products for Indian customers

Semicon Mission-2 in works, mulling to support chip designs: IT secy

The government is ready with an outline of next phase of India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) and discussions are on internally for its rollout, a senior government official said on Thursday. Speaking at IESA Vision Summit, Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said the government is also mulling supporting ambitious chip design projects in the country as well as semiconductor packaging designs. "The next stage of ISM is in the works. We have had discussions, discussions with many of the stakeholders, including many amongst you, as to how to design the programme. The design and the outline is ready, and there's undergoing detailed discussions internally in the government," he said. Krishnan in his virtual speech said that the second phase of ISM proposes to provide support for gases and other elements that are required for semiconductor production. He said that the first phase of ISM had a total outlay of Rs 76,000 crore comprising Rs 65,000 crore for chip manufacturing

TSMC's CEO to hold press conference at Taiwan presidential office

Trump has repeatedly criticised Taiwan, saying it has taken away American semiconductor business and that he wants manufacturing to return to the United States

German firm Infineon inks pact with CDIL to supply chips for semiconductors

German semiconductor company Infineon has signed its first agreement in India with CDIL Semiconductors to supply silicon wafer for manufacturing power chips in the country, senior officials of the firm said here on Thursday. Under the agreement, Infineon will supply bare semiconductor wafers to CDIL, which the Indian firm will process and use for assembly and packaging to make power chipset for use in products like power inverters, solar technology, automobile power solutions, and renewable energy applications, among others. "Infineon will provide silicon to CDIL. India is a special and very large market where we need partners like CDIL who understand the local requirement. This is the first of its kind agreement that we have signed in India," Infineon technologies Asia Pacific President and Managing Director CS Chua said after signing the agreement. Founded in 1964, Continental Device India (CDIL) is India's first semiconductor manufacturer, specialising in discrete semiconductors

M3 Ultra: Everything you need to know about most potent Apple silicon

Apple said M3 Ultra-powered Mac Studio can run large language models with over 600 billion parameters directly on-device, leveraging high unified memory capacity of up to 512GB

PSMC 'working' to bring semiconductor fab construction companies to India

PSCM, which has partnered with Tata Group to build the country's first semiconductor chip manufacturing facility at Dholera in Gujarat, is collaborating with the latter on multiple fronts, Chu said

India Semiconductor Mission, Tata ink fiscal pact for Gujarat chip plant

The Centre through the India Semiconductor Mission, has committed 50 per cent fiscal support on a pari-passu basis for eligible project costs

TSMC to announce $100 bn investment in US chip plants over next 4 years

TSMC is the world's leader in production of advanced semiconductors used for artificial intelligence, and the investment would help bolster Trump's pledge to make the US dominant in AI