| Global Indian award for Sam Pitroda |
Source: Hindustan Times, March 13 2008 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
The Canada-India Foundation (CIF) has decided to honour Indian Knowledge Commission
chairman Sam Pitroda with the first annual Global Indian Award for pioneering the telecom
revolution in India. Called the CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award, it carries $50,000 in cash
and a trophy. |
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| Synopsys finds second home in Armenia |
| Source: Drew Wilson, EETimes, March 13 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
EDA tool developer Synopsys Corp has established itself as a dominant technology company in
Armenia by setting up the largest R&D center in the country and deeply integrating into the
university system.
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| Indian designers seek to ride out U.S. downturn |
| Source: K.C. Krishnadas, EETimes, March 14 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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ndian designer companies maintain they are better prepared than earlier in the decade to ride
out a U.S. economic downturn, saying they have spread their risks. Wipro Technologies, India's
largest hardware and software design services provider, is banking on its EagleWision design
methodology to weather the U.S. economic storm. Wipro claims it has improved its design tool
in the last few years, resulting in more first-time IC design success. |
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| Electronics expansions for euro-bound Slovakia |
| Source:Drew Wilson, EETimes, March 14 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
Samsung and Sony are among the companies expanding manufacturing operations in Slovakia as
the country prepares to adopt the euro currency in 2009. Samsung's 320 million euro ($496M)
expansion at its LCD and plasma TV factory, in Trnava, near Bratislava, is expected to create
1,400 new jobs. The investment will increase capacity at the plant to 12 million flat screen TVs
per year by 2012, up from the initial 10 million target it had set. |
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| HP Labs braces for impact |
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Source: Rick Merritt, EETimes, March 14 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com/ |
Hewlett-Packard Labs director Prith Banerjee has been a busy man. Since joining the company
in August, he has reorganized HP's storied R&D organization into 23 labs, each with a new
director focused on high-impact projects. He has put a review structure in place to link HP's
business units with the 600-person research division, and he has set up new programs to
connect HP Labs to universities and the venture capital community. |
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| Electronic companies innovate for India |
| Source: EETimes, March 17 2008 |
| http://www.eetindia.co.in |
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Don't be surprised when Dell reports a 6 per cent decline in U.S. consumer division sales, as it
did in February, then, in the same breath, reveals plans to offset that loss by expanding in
emerging markets like India, where sales rose by 47 per cent. |
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| Analog soars in Asia |
| Source: Norman Chan EETimes, March 17 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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China's formidable power consumption is showing no sign of slowing down. India's market is
emerging. And Asia is expected to continue to outgrow every other region in the world. In
particular, Asia's analog segment—whether in the automotive, industrial or consumer—is
expected to grow quickly. Industry analysts predict a double-digit year-on-year growth in the
next three years, while the entire semiconductor industry expects only 5-6 percent growth and
the largest consumer segments (cellphones and digicams) are expected to slow within the next
three years. |
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| Common Man’s Chip |
| Source: Sujit John & Debojyoti Ghosh, Times of India, March 17 2008 |
| http://epaper.timesofindia.com |
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When you use an ultrasound machine, the machine transmits waves into your body, which hit
the targetted tissues/body parts and bounce back. When they bounce, they are picked up by
sensors in the machine which then calculates the distance the numerous different waves have
traversed and based on that, puts together an image of the tissue. That’s how, for instance,
you can make out how big a foetus has grown over time. |
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| ADI Establishes Power Management Development Center in Shanghai |
| Source: Nikkei Electronics Asia, March 17 2008 |
| http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp |
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Analog Devices Inc (ADI) has launched its Power Management Development Center in Shanghai
to provide global power management engineering development resources and primarily drive
the development of fixed power applications for the networking, infrastructure and industrial
and instrumentation (I&I) markets. The center is going to be staffed with full product
development from design, layout, product and testing to sustaining engineering. |
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| No BlackBerry ban in India |
| Source: EETimes, March 18 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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The Indian government finally ended the brewing controversy by ruling out Mar. 14 any
disruption in BlackBerry services, The Times of India reported. Telecom Minister A Raja,
however, said that security aspects regarding the service remain and these need to be thrashed
out. He told reporters that the government will discuss the issue in the Telecom Commission
adding that the country's security is of paramount importance. |
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| Telecom outfit market to ring in US$ 6.5 billion revenue in 2007-08 |
| Source: The Economic Times, March 18 2008 |
| http://www.ibef.org/ |
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India, the world's fastest-growing telecom market, is also making steady progress in the
telecom manufacturing space. Latest figures from the Department of Telecom (DoT) indicate
that revenue from the telecom manufacturing sector is set to cross the $6.5 billion (Rs 23,656
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crore) figure in fiscal 2007-08. At the current growth rate, the Indian telecom equipment
manufacturing sector is set to become one of the largest globally by 2010. |
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| NRIs setting up manufacturing unit |
| Source: R. K. Radhakrishnan, The Hindu, March 18 2008 |
| http://www.hindu.com |
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U.S.-based firm Signet Solar Inc. on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the
State government to set up a Rs.2000-crore manufacturing facility near Chennai. The firm’s
chairman, Prabhu Goel, signed the MoU with Industries Secretary M.F. Farooqui in the presence
of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Mr.Raja and a host of officials. “We are planning an initial
investment of at least Rs.2,000 crore,” said Dr.Goel, in response to questions from
presspersons. |
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| Applied retains top spot for IC manufacturing gear |
| Source: John Walko, EETimes, March 18 2008 |
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The leading ten IC manufacturing equipment suppliers recorded combined revenues of $33.5
billion last year, a 10 percent increase over the previous year, according to market research
group VLSI Research Inc. Applied Materials retained the top spot, with Tokyo Electron Ltd and
ASML again in second and third spots respectively, the sixth consecutive year all three leading
suppliers retained their positions, according to the market research firm. |
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| Israel provided $283 million in R&D support in 2007 |
| Source: Amir Ben-Artzi, EETimes, March 18 2008 |
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During 2007, Israel's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, through the office of its chief
scientist Eli Opper, approved support for 619 research projects conducted by 401 companies,
with a total budget of $647 million. Total R&D grants paid to companies in 2007 are valued at
$283 million. |
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| Gloomy IC forecast seen for 2008 |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EETimes, March 18 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Research and Markets has released a gloomy forecast for IC growth in 2008. The Dublin,
Ireland-based research firm is forecasting revenue growth in 2008 to be only 2.4 percent.
''Where 2007 was characterized by excess capacity and high demand, 2008 will be
characterized by better capacity balance, but softening demand,'' according to the firm. |
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| Solar market grew 62% in 2007 |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EETimes, March 18 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Cliche of the year: Solar is hot! Despite ongoing polysilicon shortages in the market, world solar
photovoltaic (PV) market installations reached a record high of 2,826 megawatts (MW) in 2007,
a 62 percent jump over 2006, according to Solarbuzz LLC, a San Francisco-based solar energy
consultancy. |
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| RCom plans WiMax services in 50 countries |
| Source: Business Standard, March 19 2008 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
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ADA Group company Reliance Communications (RCom) is planning to set up WiMax networks
across 50 countries in the next three years to move into the global telecommunication market.
To get a headstart, the telecom major is planning to acquire a European WiMax operator in a
$300-400 million (Rs 1,200-1,600 crore) deal. |
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| Kolkata IT hardware design arm flagged off |
| Source: Business Standard, March 19 2008 |
| http://www.business-standard.com |
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The dream project of the West Bengal information technology (IT) department, The Indian
Design Centre (IDC) to house semiconductor design and fabrication units and relevant
infrastructure, was flagged off today at Salt Lake Sector V. Synopsis India, a wholly owned
subsidiary of US based Synopsys Inc., a leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA)
solutions to the global electronics market, was open to investing in setting up a unit at the IDC. |
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| Cellphone chip makers set sights on operators, vendors to up sales |
| Source: Malovika Rao, livemint.com, March 19 2008 |
| http://www.livemint.com |
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As a mobile phone user, do you care what chip is inside your handset? Mobile handset chip
makers such as NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments (TI) hope that at least service
providers such as Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone Essar Ltd, Reliance Communications Ltd, Tata
Teleservices Ltd and handset vendors such as Nokia Oyj, Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co.
and LG Electronics Co. would. |
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| iSuppli ranks top semiconductor companies in 2007 |
| Source: Fabtech, March 20 2008 |
| http://www.fabtech.org/ |
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There were no changes in the positions of the top five biggest semiconductor companies by
revenue, according to iSuppli Corp’s release of its 2007 Top 25 semiconductor suppliers list by
revenue. Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and STMicroelectronics retained the 1 to 5
slots respectively. However, two of the top five companies (Samsung and TI) posted revenue
declines in 2007 compared to 2006. iSuppli does not include foundries in its semiconductor
suppliers rankings table. |
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