| India's Tata Consultancy Services to Expand Embedded System Business in Japan |
Source:Tomohisa Takei, Nikkei Electronics, November 13 2007 |
| http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp |
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), a leading IT company of India, held a press conference in
Tokyo Nov 12, 2007 and announced a plan to expand its embedded system business in Japan.
The company will build new research and development bases and foster engineers as well as
developing contracted embedded software and providing embedded system-related IPs. To be
focused are automobile, digital consumer appliance, telecom equipment and OA device areas. |
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| Local firm ties up with US varsity |
| Source:Zam Karim, The Star Online: TechCentral- Malaysia Technology, November 13 2007 |
| http://star-techcentral.com |
Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a semiconductor wafer foundry, has roped in the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States to participate in a smart partnership and
resource-sharing programme.
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| Samsung opens second facility, to invest US$ 100 million |
| Source:Business Standard, November 14 2007 |
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Samsung is shifting a major portion of its colour television assembly line from Noida to Chennai
with the inauguration of its second manufacturing facility in India at the ELCOT Industrial Park
in Sriperumbudur on Tuesday.
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| SEMI cuts book-to-bill as business slows |
| Source:Mark LaPedus, EETimes, November 15 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
Business is slowing for fab-tool makers despite recent and upbeat IC forecasts. North Americanbased
manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 0.83 in
October, up from a dismal 0.79 in September, according to SEMI. |
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| Semiconductor industry call for changes in US skilled immigration policies |
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Source:American Visa Bureau, November 16 2007 |
| http://www.visabureau.com |
The president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has called on the US immigration
authorities to do more to increase the number of skilled workers entering the country.
Speaking on a live webcast, George Scalise said that the US had failed to deal with the current
problems of getting visas and green cards for workers.
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| Consumer electronics fuel chip sales |
| Source:Deirdre McArdle, ElectricNews.net in The Register, November 16 2007 |
| http://www.theregister.co.uk |
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Semiconductor sales will grow at an annual rate of 7.7 per cent until 2010, when they'll exceed
$321bn, according to the latest industry figures. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
says consumers' seemingly insatiable appetite for electronic products is driving this growth. |
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| Irish embedded tools firm heads to India |
| Source:Peter Clarke, EETimes, November 19 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
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Ashling Microsystems Ltd. (Limerick, Ireland), a developer of embedded software development
tools and a subsidiary company of multinational conglomerate NeST Technologies Corp.
(Chantilly, Va.), has established a development center in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. |
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| Applied buys Italian solar cell gear maker |
| Source:John Walko, EETimes, November 19 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
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Applied Materials Inc. is extending its investments in companies making equipment for the solar
cell industry and is buying, for $330 million in cash, privately held Italian group Baccini SpA. |
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| Semiconductor major to focus on consumer, industrial markets |
| Source:EARTHtimes.org, November 19 2007 |
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc, the $6.4-billion global leader in design and manufacture of
embedded chips, will now focus on consumer and industrial markets, a top company official
said here Monday. 'To accelerate growth, we are strengthening our core businesses by
leveraging our expertise and increasing our share in markets like India and China,' said
Freescale business operations vice-president Jan Monney at the third Freescale technology
forum (FTF) being held here.
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| Industry in fighting trim |
| Source:Bolaji Ojo, EETimes, November 19 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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After many years of cost-cutting, sales diversification and complex reorganizations, the
electronics industry appears to be better positioned than ever to withstand the shocks now
reverberating through the U.S. economy.
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| NeST Group has established an Centre in India |
| Source:evertiq, November 19 2007 |
| http://www.evertiq.com/ |
The NeST Group has established an Offshore Development Centre (ODC) in Trivandrum, Kerala,
India focused on Embedded Software Development Tools. Javad Hassan, Chairman of the NeST
group said "The Embedded Software Development Tools business has strong potential for NeST.
With our depth of engineering resources and our unique turnkey solution for tools we will grow
our business in this area.
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| CDMA user base up 1.94 million in October |
| Source:Business Standard, November 20 2007 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
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The number of mobile users using code division multiple access technology rose 1.94 million in
October with the total CDMA base at 52.99 million as on October 31. Tata Teleservices saw a
sharp month-on-month rise of 19.4 per cent in its additions with the company adding 711,245
users in October compared with 595,418 CDMA mobile users a month ago, according to the
Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India.
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| IBM, Universities Research Open Source Technologies For Aging Workers |
| Source:K.C. Jones, InformationWeek, November 20, 2007 |
| http://www.informationweek.com |
IBM has teamed up with researchers from the University of Dundee's School of Computing in the
United Kingdom and the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine to develop open source
technology for older workers. |
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| Freescale establishes innovation center in India |
| Source:K.C. Krishnadas, EETimes, November 20 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Freescale Semiconductor, which has been designing chips and developing software in India
since 1998, will next establish here an International Center of Excellence for Innovation.
Speaking at a company forum here, Joe Yiu, senior vice president and chairman of the chip
maker's Asia-Pacific operations, said Freescale will also increase its engineering workforce here
by another 1,500 over the next four years. |
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| ABI Research sees steady growth in RFID sector |
| Source:EETimes, November 21 2007 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
Revenues for global RFID markets will jump to $8.4 billion in 2012, up 21 percent CAGR from
this year's $3.8 billion, according to ABI Research. "Given the recent amount of activity and
anticipation surrounding RFID technology, one might be tempted to believe the RFID market
has been experiencing explosive growth," says research director Michael Liard. "But while
uptake of full-scale RFID systems remains slower than many in the industry had hoped, steady
growth continues. There is an overall sense of cautious optimism in the market.
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| India's tax system better than China's: PwC |
| Source:The Financial Express, November 21 2007 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
India has a better tax system in place than its neighbour China, with lower tax rates and easier
ways of payment, a latest report says. India has a lower total tax rate of 70.6 per cent as
compared to China's 73.9 per cent, while it also scores ahead of the fastest growing Economy in
terms of compliance time.
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| IIT team proposes joint approach for testing large SoC designs |
Source:K.C. Krishnadas, EETimes, November 21 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have come up with a new approach for
test engineers to balance the need handling test data compression and power consumption
parameters in large SoC designs. |
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| India plays major role in Synplicity R&D road map |
| Source:K.C. Krishnadas, EE Times, November 22 2007 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
Having its second-largest R&D site in India, Synplicity president and CEO Gary Meyers said it
expects the country to be the engine of the company's future developmental activities, even as
it is keen on getting more sales personnel to leverage the country's growing EDA tools market. |
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| Gates sees looming shortage of U.S. tech professionals |
| Source:Paul McDougall, InformationWeek, November 23 2007 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warns of a possible shortage of technology professionals in the
United States in the coming years given a recent study which found that less than 10 percent of
U.S. computer science programs graduates are black.
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