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  Modi govt's red carpet for semiconductor industries, offers 50% financial aide to technology firms

  Business | July 28, 2023 23:13 IST

  Addressing the Semicon India 2023 conference in Gandhinagar, PM Modi said that his government has rolled out the red carpet for semiconductor industries.

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  India's semiconductor mission progressing at very fast pace, says Union Minister

  Business | July 20, 2023 22:31 IST

  India's semiconductor mission is progressing at a very fast pace. Step-by-step we are achieving new milestones, said Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

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  Legal hurdle for Foxconn cleared, company to start production by next April: K'taka Minister

  Business | July 14, 2023 23:15 IST

  In the last three years, 3 major and medium industries have come up in the Doddaballapura taluk.

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  Gujarat govt, US firm Micron sign MoU for semiconductor plant in Sanand days after PM's US visit

  Business | June 28, 2023 20:06 IST

  The MoU was signed in the presence of Electronics & Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, a government release said.

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  PM Modi US visit: Micron to set up $2.75 bn semiconductor plant in Gujarat; 5,000 new jobs to open

  Business | June 22, 2023 17:40 IST

  As PM Modi's US visit is underway, Micron Technology in a statement said that it will invest USD 825 million in the semiconductor test, assembly plant while the rest of finance will come from the government.

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  From mobile phones to chips, India manufacturing enters golden era

  Technology | May 28, 2023 22:28 IST

  Even before that, the country saw a massive turnaround in mobile manufacturing. Before 2014, there were two mobile manufacturing factories and now, more than 200 manufacturing units have been set up in India, producing millions of devices and exporting them to other countries.

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  Meta fined record $1.3 billion for violating data transfer rules

  Business | May 22, 2023 16:55 IST

  The Irish watchdog said that Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on May 25, 2018.

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  After Gujarat, India's second semiconductor plant to come up in UP's THIS town

  Business | April 19, 2023 16:42 IST

  The Hiranandani Group plans to build the semiconductor plan in Sector 28 of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), Noida.

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  Intel co-founder Gordon Moore dies at 94 I Know his incredible journey

  World | March 25, 2023 17:18 IST

  Moore, who held a PhD in chemistry and physics, made his famous observation — now known as “Moore’s Law” — three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It appeared among a number of articles about the future written for the now-defunct Electronics magazine by experts in various fields.

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  Samsung layoff: 3% of employees at the US chip subsidiary lost their job

  Technology | March 14, 2023 14:25 IST

  Samsung is not the only semiconductor company which has layoffs the workforce. Other chip makers like Intel have reported $14 billion in sales and a $700 million operating loss in Q4 2022, which was stated as the worst business performance in the past 50 years.

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  Chip shortage to continue for few more quarters, to impact vehicles delivery, says Maruti Suzuki

  Auto | March 05, 2023 19:06 IST

  The semiconductor shortage still continues. Last quarter we lost 46,000 units due to this issue and this quarter also the problem continues for a few models, Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Officer (Marketing and Sales) Shashank Srivastava said.

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  Vedanta-Foxconn finalises Gujarat's Dholera for first semiconductor manufacturing plant in India

  Business | February 20, 2023 21:31 IST

  Vedanta and Foxconn in September 2022 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government to invest Rs 1,54,000 crore in the state.

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  Vedanta-Foxconn plant: Centre promise of bigger plant for Maha is like consoling child, says Pawar

  India | September 15, 2022 23:08 IST

  Vedanta-Foxconn chip plant: Speaking to the reporters, Pawar took a dig at the Centre over Gujarat bagging the project and said PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah both control the reins of the country so it can be understood "if they give little more attention to their home state".

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  Vedanta-Foxconn plant: NCP says no hope of semiconductor unit coming back to Maharashtra

  Business | September 15, 2022 19:11 IST

  Vedanta-Foxconn Plant: The Opposition parties have sought to corner the Eknath Shinde-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government following the announcement two days ago that the Rs 1.54 lakh crore semiconductor plant would be set up in neighbouring Gujarat and not in Maharashtra as proposed earlier.

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  India's first chip factory: Vedanta-Foxconn to invest Rs 1.54 lakh crore | 10 Points

  Business | September 13, 2022 23:47 IST

  India's first chip factory: The 60:40 joint venture of Vedanta-Foxconn will set up a semiconductor fab unit, a display fab unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit on a 1000-acre land in the Ahmedabad district.

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  Samsung is working on 15 billion USD next-gen chip R&D facility: Know more

  Technology | August 19, 2022 20:42 IST

  Samsung said it plans to strengthen cooperation with domestic and foreign partners in the field of materials, parts and equipment through the construction of the R&D complex.

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  Joe Biden signs $280 billion CHIPS act to boost local manufacturing to counter China

  World | August 09, 2022 21:52 IST

  The move has come days after China showed unwanted aggression against the United States over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

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  Samsung hires semiconductor expert from Apple

  Technology | July 26, 2022 11:16 IST

  Samsung: Experts said that the appointment is somewhat unusual considering the special relationship between Samsung and Apple, as the two cooperate and compete with each other at the same time, the report said.

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  India wants to become chip maker from chip taker: PM Modi at Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar

  India | July 04, 2022 20:19 IST

  PM Modi, speaking at Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar, said, "Today, India is working on the target of taking electronics manufacturing to more than $300 billion in the next three-four years."

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  Cabinet gives nod to setting up 2 semiconductor units

  September 13, 2013 9:33 IST

  New Delhi: The Cabinet has given in-principle approval to the proposal of setting up two semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the country. The move will give a boost to domestic production of electronics goods.Till now the