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South Korea Announces $19B Support Package For Domestic Chip Industry

On May 23, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced a package worth 26 trillion won ($19 billion) to boost and empower its...

Samsung Appoints Veteran Amid AI Chip Challenges

This shake-up, effective immediately, sees Young Hyun Jun transitioning from his role in future business planning to tackle the booming demand for high-end AI...

Imec-Led European Labs To Get $2.7B From Chips Act Funding

Europe's chip revolution gains momentum with a €2.5 billion investment in cutting-edge pilot production line for sub-2nm technologies, aiming to elevate domestic production and...

India Eyes $250M Private-Public Cloud Model For Semiconductor R&D

According to the plan, this facility will offer easy access to chip and packaging designs for startups, researchers, and small firms. The Indian government is...

Ampere Teams With Qualcomm On AI, Unveils New Chip

Ampere Computing and Qualcomm team up to create energy-efficient AI chips, launching a data center server aimed at reducing power consumption and outpacing rivals...

FICCI And IESA Form Alliance To Boost India’s Semiconductor Industry

The main goals of this partnership are to foster innovation, strengthen the semiconductor and electronics industry, and reinforce supply chains. On Tuesday, the India Electronics...

Power Integrations Acquires Odyssey Semiconductor To Boost GaN Tech Leadership

The deal supports continued progress in developing high-voltage, high-power gallium nitride technology. Power Integrations has announced its plan to acquire Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies, a company...

Mindgrove Debuts India’s First Commercial MCU Chip

  The startup, which is backed by the IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation and incubated at the IIT-Madras Incubation Cell, announced that the chip successfully underwent...

Infineon Unveils Advanced Automotive BMS Microcontroller

Infineon Technologies is targeting the automotive battery management sector with its PSoC 4 HVPA-144K microcontroller, which combines high-precision analogue and high-voltage subsystems into a...

Micron To Ship First India-Made Chips From Gujarat In 2025

Micron India is planning to start exporting semiconductor chips, which will be packaged at its facility in Sanand, Gujarat, by early next year. The...

SOA Collaborates With Kaynes Semicon

This collaboration aims to meet the increasing demand for skilled professionals in the field, leveraging the expertise of Perceptive Solutions.  Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to...

Hitachi And Sagar Semiconductors Forge Strategic Alliance to Power India’s Semiconductor Growth

Joint marketing of high-voltage IGBT and SiC products, technical training for diode manufacturing, and setting up a facility to produce 100 million units annually,...

Industry's Buzz

ASMl Holdings

ASML and TSMC Partner to Advance Next-Generation Semiconductor Mask Tech

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The chipmaking giants target a shift to larger 12-inch photomasks to boost manufacturing productivity and lower advanced node costs.  ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

Ultraviolette to Build Major EV Factory in Tamil Nadu

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The Indian electric vehicle manufacturer plans to produce up to 500,000 units annually at its new automated facility in Hosur.  Electric vehicle pioneer Ultraviolette Automotive...
Drone

Karnataka to Build $5.1m Drone Testing Hub

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The state government targets advanced aerial mobility expansion with a dedicated testing facility in Chikkaballapura.  Karnataka is set to bolster its aerial mobility ecosystem by...
Telecommunications sector

US Backs Africell with $100m Loan to Counter Huawei in Africa

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The Trump administration finances the US-owned telecoms operator to expand trusted mobile network technology across the continent.  The US government is set to provide a...
CXMT

China’s CXMT Takes Top Spot with 82 per cent Profit Margin

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The DRAM manufacturer’s record profitability eclipses Samsung and SK Hynix as conventional memory prices surge.   China’s leading DRAM manufacturer, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has achieved...

Learn From Leaders

India’s Photonics Puzzle Is Finally Coming Together 

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Can India turn its scattered photonics capabilities into a stronger industry? A new association aims to connect the ecosystem and strengthen the domestic value...
Jin Bains, CEO, Mini-Circuits

Mini-Circuits CEO Jin Bains on Navigating High-Frequency Component SWaP-C Constraints, Emerging Markets, and Career...

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In this exclusive, Jin Bains, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mini-Circuits, explains in a conversation with Dilin Anand of EFY about areas of emerging...

India Needs Not a Hundred, But Thousands of Chip Diversified Companies 

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Can India build a semiconductor ecosystem beyond fabs? Indiesemic believes thousands of diversified chip companies are needed to make that possible. India’s semiconductor push is...
L Venkata Subramaniam, CEO, Qbit Force, Andhra Pradesh

“We Aim To Make Quantum Computing More Visible, Understandable, And Open To Build On”...

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From building India’s first open quantum hardware ecosystem to assembling a working quantum computer in just four months, Qbit Force is redefining how deep...
(L-R) Nikesh Gondchawar, Strategic & Technical Advisor – Robotics Manufacturing; Shrikrushna Kakade, Founder Partner; Nikhil Kakade, Senior Technical Advisor – Robotics & Control Systems, SlightGen Solutions LLP

“A Made-In-India Robotic PCB Soldering System That Automates The Through-Hole Soldering Process!” – Shrikrushna...

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Electronics manufacturing is complex, and automation often comes at a high cost. To bridge this gap and offer a more affordable solution in India,...

Startups

Manivannan Subramaniam, Director R&D, CIYES Systems

“We Want to Build Globally Competitive Deep-Tech Products from India” –  Manivannan Subramaniam, CIYES...

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Can India build globally competitive deep-tech products? Manivannan Subramaniam of CIYES Systems believes it can. In this interview with EFY's Nitisha Dubey, he discusses...

Raptee.HV, Rajalakshmi Engineering College Launch EV Centre of Excellence

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The facility is among the first initiatives under Raptee.HV Academy Raptee.HV has launched a Centre of Excellence for Electric Mobility at Rajalakshmi Engineering College (REC),...

Agnikul Cosmos Opens New Facilities to Advance Reusable Rocket Development

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STIF has been designed and fabricated in-house to test complete reusable rocket stages under flight-like conditions Indian space-tech company Agnikul Cosmos has inaugurated two new...

Zenergize Technologies Raises $4 Million Pre-Series A to Scale SiC Power Electronics

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The fundraise comes after a year of rapid product development and commercialisation Zenergize Technologies, an R&D-driven deep-tech company developing indigenous Silicon Carbide (SiC)-based power electronics,...
Gadhadar Reddy, Co-Founder and CEO, NoPo Nanotechnologies

Nopo Nanotechnologies’ Carbon Nanotubes Turn ‘Not Possible’ To ‘Now Possible’

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Can single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) significantly improve EV batteries? This startup says it has turned what was once considered ‘not possible’ into ‘now possible.’ An...