| Premji on what enables innovation |
Source: Azim Premji, rediffNews, November 22 2007 |
| http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/nov/22premji.htm |
The India information technology industry, including exports and domestic market and
semiconductor industry, is gaining traction despite challenges, said Azim H Premji, chairman,
Wipro, at the third Freescale Technology Forum in Bangalore on Monday. Excerpts from his
speech:
"The IT industry will grow at the rate of 35 per cent year over year and semicon at the rate of
25 per cent y-o-y. The key driver going forward is innovation and it is fundamental for growth.
"Innovation is implementing creative thoughts. All employees, including top management,
should embrace it. It should go much beyond just product innovation and R&D activities. Now
one of the biggest challenges in the IT and semicon industry is the need to increase energy
efficiency in all what we create. |
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| Indian telecom market to be at US$ 87.33 billion by 2012 |
| Source: The Economic Times, November 23 2007 |
| http://www.ibef.org/artdisplay.asp |
The Indian telecom industry is expected to reach a size of Rs 344,921 crore by 2012 at a growth
rate of over 26 per cent, and generate employment opportunities for about 10 million people
during the same period, according to a report.
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| Indian semicon special: Increasing brand value for semicon within India
Source: CIOL, November 23 2007 |
| Source: CIOL, November 23 2007 |
| http://www.ciol.com/content/231107101692.aspx |
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S. Janakiraman, president and CEO –- R&D Services, Mindtree Consulting, and chairman, India
Semiconductor Association (ISA), is quite bullish on the advantages of India and the
opportunities provided in the Indian semiconductor industry. Here, he speaks on a host of
topics, ranging from the outlook for next year, as well as the fab and semiconductor policies,
Indian ecosystem, etc.
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| eASIC, Tensilica ink IP deal |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EETimes, November 26 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203317 |
Fabless ASIC house eASIC Corp. has added Tensilica Inc. to its intellectual-property (IP) roster.
Through a new partnership, eASIC (Santa Clara, Calif.) now provides ''free access'' to Tensilica's
Diamond Standard microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) cores. |
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| Japan is changing; you just don't see it |
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Source: Bolaji Ojo, EETimes, November 26 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml |
What does Sony do, again?," a colleague asked recently. "Are they still in the semi- conductor
business?" He was only half-joking. The Japanese companies that once dominated the
electronics industry appear to be having a hard time recovering their mojo. Even as their North
American rivals spent the last several years furiously reorganizing operations, Japanese tech
companies seemed to be standing still. When Hajime Sasaki took over as head of NEC Corp. in
1999, he talked about transforming the company. Eight years later, he's still working on it.
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| Valley's edge: Success hard to copy |
| Source: John Boudreau, Mercury News, November 26 2007 |
| http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7560066?source=most |
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Four years ago, Chuck Cheng left Palo Alto to launch a computer chip design company in this
city known more for financial acumen than tech prowess. He was lured by the Hong Kong
government's generous incentives, such as subsidized rent in a new science and technology
park, and strong intellectual-property laws. Then there were dream logistics: His company is a
day trip from mainland China's Pearl River Delta, the world's factory for everything from iPods
to personal computers. |
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| ST sets up R&D facility in Vietnam |
| Source: EETimes, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.eetindia.co.in/ |
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STMicroelectronics has opened a new facility in Vietnam that would focus on R&D, according to
a report from the Viet Nam News. |
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| Notebook PC units to surpass desktop shipments by 2010 |
| Source: evertiq,November 27 2007 |
| http://www.evertiq.com/news/read.do |
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Through the end of this decade, the status of PC systems will not change despite periods of
slow annual growth rates for units shipped and worldwide revenues from products. Stronger
growth rates are now materializing worldwide in the notebook segment, which is rapidly
catching up with desktop personal computers and expected to nudge ahead in terms of unitvolume
shipments in 2010, according to the 2008 edition of IC Insights' IC Market Drivers report. |
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| Toshiba, NEC To Team On 32-Nm Chips |
| Source: Reuters in InformationWeek, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.informationweek.com |
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Japanese chip makers Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. said on Tuesday they would jointly develop 32-nanometre chips to better keep up with rivals. |
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| Gartner Projects Hot Holiday Sales For Cell Phones |
| Source: Reuters in InformationWeek, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml |
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Fast growth in the cell phone industry, the largest consumer electronics sector in the world, is
set to continue in the holiday-sales-fueled fourth quarter, research firm Gartner said Tuesday.
All handset vendors combined sold 289 million mobile phones in the July-September quarter,
with strong demand in Asia and Africa lifting sales 15 percent from a year ago, Gartner said,
adding it does not see much changing in the ongoing quarter. |
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| Foreign exchange reserve in the country |
| Source: PIB, November 27 2007 |
| http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=33300 |
The foreign exchange reserves (including Gold, Special Drawing Rights and Reserve Tranche
Position in the IMF) of the country, which stood at US$199.18 billion as on March 31, 2007, rose
to a level of US$270.18 billion. |
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| Cadence opens design office in Zelenograd |
| Source: Nicolas Mokhoff, EETimes, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Cadence Design Systems has opened its second office in Russia, in the heart of the former
Soviet Union's "Silicon Valley". |
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| Foundries get ready to squeeze the semiconductor industry - MEDEA+ 2007 |
| Source: David Maners, ElectronicsWeekly.com, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.electronicsweekly.com |
The foundries are getting ready to put the squeeze on the semiconductor industry, just as the
semiconductor industry decides to depend more and more on the foundries. The foundries are
cutting back on spending although they're running at 90 per cent utilization", Bill McLean,
president of US analysts IC Insights, told the MEDEA+ conference in Budapest, yesterday. |
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| Electronics market worth $3.2 trillion in 2012 |
| Source: evertiq, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.evertiq.com/news |
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A figure that is expected to increase to $2.0 trillion in 2007 and $3.2 trillion in 2012, a
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.5% over the next 5 years. The market is broken down
into wafer fab materials, semiconductors, communications, computer, consumer, industrial,
and automotive applications. Of these sectors, industrial products account for 39.6% of the
total sales for electronics products, while computer electronics have the second largest share
of the total market at 20.0%. Semiconductors make up 13.5%, consumer electronics make up
13.4%, communications electronics account for 9.9%, and automotive electronics products
make up the remaining 2.6%. |
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| Marvell cuts 400 jobs, posts loss |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EETimes, November 27 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
Amid a loss for the quarter, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. plans to reduce its headcount by
400 employees, or approximately 7 percent of the company's total workforce.
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| India attracts more US PE investments than China |
| Source: Business Standard, November 28 2007 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
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ndia has scored over China in terms of total private equity (PE) investments received from the
United States over the last eight years, but China is well ahead of India in terms of PE
investments this calendar. According to a study by Thomson Financial, “India appears to be
emerging as a new favourite among global PE investors.
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| High tech company growth spreads over Europe |
Source: Colin Holland, EETimes, November 28 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
The U.K. has the most ranked companies in the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA which
identifies the fastest growing high-tech firms but the general trend is that fast-growing
technology firms are becoming more evenly spread across the region, including Eastern and
Southern Europe, and less centred in the traditional lead economies. |
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| Winners, losers in 2007 chip rankings |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EETimes, November 28 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com/ |
Intel, Sony, Toshiba and Qualcomm are the stars -- or winners -- in iSuppli Corp.'s projected IC
rankings for 2007. |
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| Motorola continues to lose ground in mobiles |
| Source: John Walko, EETimes, November 28 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.com/ |
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Motorola is continuing to lose ground in the global share of mobile phone sales, according to
Gartner Inc's latest analysis of the sector. The market research group says worldwide sales of
mobile phones in the third quarter grew 15 percent compared to the same period last year,
with 289 million units shipped, compared to 251 million.
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| India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Announced Global Conference |
| Source: Business Wire India , November 28, 2007 |
| http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/b2m/b2m.htm |
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The India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the trade body representing the Indian
semiconductor driven industry today announced Vision Summit 2008, the only business
leadership conference for leaders in this region. It is to be scheduled on February 18 & 19, 2008
at The Leela Palace, Bangalore with participation from senior executives within and outside
India. The theme for this year’s Vision Summit is on the evolving domestic market which is the
growth driver for the Indian electronics industry. For more information on Vision Summit,
please visit the website: http://isaonline.org/visionsummit/08/
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| Israel funds more than 1,000 tech projects per year |
| Source: Amir Ben-Artzi, EETimes, November 28 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu/semi/204300250 |
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The Israeli government has financed more than 1,000 technology projects per year over the
past five years, according to a study written by Karen Vainunska and Yael Rosenberg from Tel-
Aviv University.
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| Israel's Nanotech program creates a funding triangle |
| Source: Amir Ben-Artzi, EE Times Europe, November 29 2007 |
| http://www.eetindia.co.in/ |
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Nanotechnology R&D is growing rapidly in Israel according to a website mapping the country's
nanotechnology sector, with 81 nanotechnology companies operating in the country, and 326
academic researchers in the field. The figures come from a technology map created by D&A
Knowledge Centre.
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| India posts largest growth in mobile phone sales |
| Source: livemint.com, November 29 2007 |
| http://www.ibef.org/ |
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India posted the world’s largest sales of mobile phones to end users in the third quarter,
helping the Asian market expand 26%, according to a global survey. Sales of mobile phones
using both CDMA and GSM technologies reached 24.5 million units during the three months
ended 30 September 2007 in the world’s second-most populous nation, said the survey by
market research firm Gartner.
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| U.K. government backs manufacturing R&D |
| Source: John Walko, EETimes, November 29 2007 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu/ |
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The British government, through its Technology Strategy Board, is holding a beauty contest
amongst companies in numerous manufacturing sectors for £23 million worth of research grants
for technologies that improve high value manufacturing procedures.
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| AMD Eyes India for New Chip Plant |
| Source: John Ribeiro, IDG for The New York Times, November 29 2007 |
| http://www.nytimes.com |
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is warming to the idea of building a chip manufacturing plant in
India, which would be a significant breakthrough for the country's high-tech ambitions. Hector
Ruiz, AMD's chairman and CEO, was in India Thursday to announce the opening of a new, 52,000
square-foot AMD design facility in Bangalore that will house up to 350 engineers. The company
has outgrown its previous design facility, which opened in 2004.
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