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India semiconductor market growth faster than Asia for Farnell
Element 14 is a retail electronics component reseller company owned by leading technology distributor Premier Farnell. Laurence Bain, Chief Executive Officer of Premier Farnell was in Bangalore and could able to answer few questions on component market as well as some other trends in component selli
4 min readCSR CEO: On fabless biz and wireless tech
By Srinivas The short range low power wireless chip maker CSR is one of the successful example in fabless semiconductor business. CSR has seen tremendous growth in Bluetooth wireless ICs and is now targeting wearable and IoT market. In a video interview with me, Mr. Joep van Beurden, Chief Execut
6 min readWolfson selects India based Incube solutions for audio integration
Wolfson Microelectronics has entered into a partner agreement with Incube Solutions, a Hyderabad, India based systems design company. Through this agreement, Incube Solutions will provide turnkey services to Wolfson’s customers and partners including porting, optimisation and integration of software
3 min readIndia semiconductor fab: LG, Samsung may be the next
Lately LG and Samsung showing some interest in building semiconductor IC fabs in India. LG and Samsung are leading makers of DRAM and flash memory semiconductor chips, which are going to be in huge demand in Indian electronics systems market as well as data-storage market. South Korea based LG and
6 min readIndian R&D outsourcing services biz maintains its lead
Innovation continue to drive the global economy. The investment in research and development is only increasing. When there is a big opportunity emerges in the market, however big is the company, doing every piece of research and development on its own is no good idea, so they outsource to research a
7 min readCome what may, India will have a semiconductor chip fab
On Thursday Sept 12, 2013, Union Government has given in-principle approval of setting up two semiconductor chip fabs in India. These fabs may need to be established very quickly to take up the immediate opportunity of millions of Set Top Box ICs, Security id chips for smart cards and other Govern
6 min readTwo India semiconductor fabs approved by Government
Setting up of two semiconductor fabrication facilities are approved by government of India. Each one of this facility is proposed by a team of companies. The one fab which is going to be established near Noida, U.P. is proposed by Jayprakash associates in partnership with IBM and ToweJazz. Techn
4 min readHathway's new set-top boxes to use ICs from ST Microelectronics
India's leading cable TV service provider Hathway has selected ST Microelectronics’ set-top box SoC chip to power two of its latest high-definition (HD) set-top boxes. ST’s STiH273 (Palma) is used in Hathway’s newest HD entry-level set-top box and the STi7141 is used in Multi-Tuner HD DVR set-top
4 min readDish TV India and Tata Sky selects Broadcom's SoC for their STBs
Broadcom Corporation has announced two Indian companies selecting its chips to power their Set Top Boxes. The two companies are Tata Sky and Dish TV. Dish TV India has selected Broadcom's SoCs BCM7358 HD and BCM7301 SD SoCs for its direct-to-home STBs. Tata Sky to use Broadcom's BCM7301 SoC for it
1 min readCadence completes acquisition of Bangalore based Cosmic Circuits
Cadence Design Systems has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a Bangalore, India based provider of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores. The Cosmic Circuits team will report to Martin Lund, Cadence’s senior vice president of re
1 min readSemicon investor Lip-Bu Tan joins Ittiam's company Board
Ittiam Systems has inducted Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International into its Company Board. The India based semiconductor IP vendor Ittiam is well known in the industry for its media proceessing CODEC IPs and such DSP IPs. Welcoming Lip-Bu to the Board of Ittiam, VG Siddhartha, Head of Globa
2 min readIndia semiconductor market forecast by Gartner: To grow by 20% in 2013
India's electronics design and manufacturing industry is growing faster than the world average for the simple reason of catching up speed with the huge local demand of electronics products. Lot of MNC OEMS are going for local manufacturing to serve the local demand as well as other global markets. W
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