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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

Nvidia's chip demand faces scrutiny as DeepSeek stirs doubts on AI spending

Claims that DeepSeek's AI models rival its Western counterparts at a fraction of the cost has led some investors to ask if Nvidia's cutting-edge chips are essential for gaining an edge in AI race

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

Nadella unveils Microsoft's quantum breakthrough: Majorana 1 explained

Microsoft's Majorana 1 represents a paradigm shift in quantum computing. This innovation could solve biggest challenges at a pace previously thought impossible

Trump team plans firings of probationary workers at NIST, key agency for AI

NIST was responsible for helping implement key initiatives under the Biden administration, including funds for semiconductor manufacturing and setting standards for artificial intelligence use

First 'Made-in-India' chip to be launched by September-October: Vaishnaw

Tata Electronics, in partnership with Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC), is making India's first semiconductor fab in Gujarat's Dholera

Taiwan pledges chip talks with US, more investment in bid to appease Trump

Trump has threatened specifically to put tariffs on imported semiconductors, which could threaten Taiwan's economy given the island's major role in producing chips

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 brings gen AI, advanced gaming to mid-range

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 enables on-device AI processing and brings support for in-game graphic upscaling features

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

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

Chinese chip makers, cloud providers rush to embrace homegrown DeepSeek

The news that Huawei had integrated DeepSeek's models with its Ascend chips marked a watershed moment

Budget 2025: Govt ups allocation for electronics PLIs, semicon, AI by 84%

The government has enhanced allocation for key technology projects, comprising production-linked incentives for mobile phones, IT hardware, semiconductor scheme and IndiaAI Mission, by about 84 per cent to Rs 18,000 crore for the next fiscal. The revised allocation for the key electronic sector project was around Rs 9,766 crore in the current financial year, according to the budget documents. The allocation for IndiaAI Mission has been increased by over 11 times to Rs 2,000 crore. The IndiaAI mission is spearheading development of the country's artificial intelligence ecosystem including providing financial support for compute infrastructure. The total allocation for Ministry of Electronics and IT has been raised by about 48 per cent to Rs 26,026.25 crore for 2025-26 against Rs 17,566.31 crore under the revised allocation for the current fiscal. The highest allocation of Rs 8,885 crore has been made for the production-linked incentive scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturin

India's semiconductor market to grow at 13%, reach $103 bn by 2030: IESA

The report calls for the continuation of the semiconductor incentive scheme beyond the initial $10 billion allocation to achieve India's manufacturing ambitions

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

Responding to Trump tariff threat, Taiwan says chip business is 'win-win'

Trump said he plans to impose tariffs on imported chips, pharmaceuticals and steel in an effort to get the producers to make them in the United States

Chinese firm DeepSeek's advances prove need for more of its chips: Nvidia

The US microchip export controls were designed to freeze China's development of supercomputers used to develop nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence systems

L&T Semiconductor plans $10 bn investment in silicon fabrication plant

Move only after it has visibility of hitting $1 bn annual sales of fabless semicon products designed by the firm

First 'Made-in-India' chip to now roll out in 2025, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Notably, the chip was supposed to be launched in December 2024, as announced by Ashwini Vaishnaw at the Davos summit in January last year

Chipmaker TSMC says all its sites operating following Taiwan quake

Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes

India, Singapore strengthen ties in advanced manufacturing, semiconductors

India and Singapore are cooperating in critical sectors like advanced manufacturing and semiconductors as the relations are on a "new trajectory" of growth, Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Thursday. Shanmugaratnam, on a five-day visit to India, held separate talks with President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a broad focus on further expansion of the bilateral ties. The Singapore president told reporters that a data corridor between the GIFT City in Gujarat and his country is being explored so that the financial institutions of the two sides can exchange data on a safe and trusted basis. He said the possibility of a "corridor for renewable energy" between India and Singapore is also being looked at. Delving into strong Singapore-India ties in the last few decades, he said the two countries are now on a new trajectory of cooperation after the ties were upgraded to a comprehensive strategic partnership during Modi's visit to the city state in