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Date: 25th Jul 07
India semiconductor investment: 2nd quarter
07.
Companies: Videocon and Alereon
Videocon is in talks with Government
of West Bengal to invest in a production and design facility
for making Semiconductor ICs. Videocon is popular consumer
electronics brand in India. Videocon is entering into this
market due to semiconductor industry's growth and availability
of cheap talent and work force in this sector. Videocon is
sourcing huge quantity of semiconductor ICs from outside India
for it's various consumer electronic products. So it has internal
customer for much of the production to start with.
Alereon Inc, an US based fabless semiconductor company
has started a new R&D facility at Pune in Maharastra This
facility is to develop Ultra Wideband (UWB) chipsets such
as AL4000 for the future products.
Indian operation will be headed by Mr.
Rajesh Zele, Managing Director.
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