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7 Indian startups approved for chip designing: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
In his address on the second day of 'Semicon India 2023', the minister said the future is bright for India in the global semiconductor ecosystem. The government has launched a Digital India RISC-V programme (DIR-V) and a large number of startups and incubation centres built around academic institutions are focusing on the future of RISC-V and on the devices it operates on, Chandrasekhar said.
Industry lauds PLI 2.0 for IT hardware to boost laptop, tablet manufacturing
The revised PLI scheme has increased its budgetary outlay to Rs 17,000 crore and expanded its tenure to six years. With an anticipated incremental investment of Rs 2,430 crore, the scheme aims to generate an incremental production amounting to Rs 3,35,000 crore.
India will soon have 85K talent pool in semiconductor space: MoS IT
Addressing an event organised by the non-profit Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), the minister said that India's 'Techade' is changing the narrative of the country being a IT/ITES hub. "Our digital economy pie has transitioned from a unipolar prism of IT/ITES to one that consists of almost every activity in the digital economy space that the world is pursuing," he told the audience.
Top 10 semiconductor buyers lower chip spending by 7.6% in 2022
According to Gartner, most of the top 10 semiconductor customers are major PC and smartphone OEMs. "As a result, a sharp drop in consumer demand for PCs and smartphones prevented the top OEMs from increasing unit production and shipments," Masatsune Yamaji, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, said.
Global semiconductor revenue growth worsens, to drop 3.6% in 2023
In 2022, the market is on pace to grow 4 per cent and total $618 billion. The worsening economic outlook is negatively impacting smartphone, PC and consumer electronics production which is positioning the DRAM market for oversupply for the remainder of 2022 and the first three quarters of 2023.
How India R and D is helping Qualcomm move beyond smartphones
With centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Noida, the India R&D operation is the company's largest outside of its US-based headquarters. Ziad Asghar, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, told IANS that India is a sweet spot for them to transition from a wireless communications company for the mobile industry to a connected processor company for the intelligent edge.
TSMC captures 70% global smartphone chipset market share
TSMC captured the market from the complete System-on-Chip (SoC) to discrete Application Processors (AP) and cellular modems, reports Counterpoint Research. Global smartphone chipset shipment declined 5 per cent (on-year) in Q1 due to seasonality, weaker demand in China amid lockdowns and over shipping from some chipset vendors in Q4 2021.
India must accelerate digitisation via chip design, innovation: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
After inaugurating Intel India's state-of-the-art design and engineering centre here, he said that Intel's critical contributions and relentless quest to advance innovation in design and engineering in the country over the past two and half decades highlights the design opportunity India offers to the world. "The inauguration of Intel's new state-of-the-art design facility in Bengaluru is a testament of its commitment to contribute towards bolstering India's technology leadership," the minister told the audience.
India to spend $30 bn to achieve independence on chip supply chain
Gourangalal Das, director-general of the India-Taipei Association which is the country's de-facto embassy in Taipei, told Nikkei Asia that the country would boost local production of chips as well as displays, advanced chemicals, networking and telecom equipment, batteries and electronics. "There is an increase in demand for semiconductors. By 2030, India semiconductor demand will attain $110 billion.
Russia-Ukraine war set to worsen global chip shortage
The worldwide chip shortage will exist well into the last part of 2022, and possibly even 2023, according to the latest US Commerce Department report on semiconductor supply chain. "The global semiconductor chip shortage, which has only marginally been covered, may worsen due to the current Russian-Ukraine tension," said Pallavi Singh, VP at Super Plastronics Pvt Ltd (SPPL).
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