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Date: 4th Apr 07

Indian Institute of Science is the leadership-university partner of Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments (TI) has enhanced already existing relationship with Indian Institute of Science (IISc) by joining it into a group of four leadership universities. IISc is the only university outside US to get this special role and recognition of leadership university. The other three universities of this group are Georgia Tech, Rice University, and MIT.
As part of this program TI will fund $400,000 as seed capital over a period of five years. This money will go towards supporting research programs for industry specific applications, as well as curriculum development in DSP, analog and mixed signal systems. Rich Templeton, TI's CEO has said to IISc students, "The higher education in engineering and science you get here provides you with critical skills and also enables you to transform the lives of millions through invention and discovery. Our goal in joining with IISc through the Leadership University program is to enable engineers to use electronics innovation to enrich lives."

Every leading semiconductor company wants to tap the top brains of India through these kind of recognitions and funding. But when it comes to investing in a fab or any other component manufacturing facility in India, they step back and jump to our big neighbor. When will we see a processor or a microcontroller of cutting edge technology to be made in India?