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SEOUL: Samsung Electronics' Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Patrick P Gelsinger, chief executive of chip-maker Intel in Seoul and discussed cooperation in the chip sector, Samsung officials said.At the meeting, the leaders of the world's two largest chipmakers explored ways to collaborate in areas ranging from the next-generation memory chips, fabless logic chips and foundries to PCs and mobile, according to Samsung.Samsung and Intel have continued their partnership, working on the compatibility between Samsung's…

Vedanta will finalise a location for its $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,55,273 crore) semiconductor and display plants in India by mid-June and will have the first chip product ready in two years, its Chairman Anil Agarwal said on Wednesday.Oil-to-metals conglomerate Vedanta said in February it will diversify into chip manufacturing and announced plans to form a joint venture with Taiwan's Foxconn to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to make India a semiconductor manufacturing hub.Vedanta has a total planned…

Will Smith-Led Bad Boys 4 Halted After Infamous Oscars Slap? Sony Chairman Clears The Air Saying “There Weren’t Any Brakes To Pump” ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Oscars 2022 grabbed everyone’s attention. Even now, almost two months later it still makes the headlines. Not just that, the incident has also been affecting the Aladdin actor’s career with several of his projects being halted or delayed. But do these projects include Sony’s Bad Boys 4? While an earlier The…

Seplat Energy Plc has announced the appointment of Basil Omiyi as its new independent non-executive chairman. Mr Omiyi replaces A.B.C Orjiakor whose tenure ended Wednesday. According to a notice published by the Nigerian Exchange on Thursday and seen by PREMIUM TIMES, Seplat also appointed Charles Okeantalam as the senior independent non-executive director of the firm, a role previously held by Mr Omiyi. The oil and gas firm said the appointment was approved following a unanimous vote by…

With only "two-and-a-half players" left in the highly competitive domestic telecom sector, the future of battle hardened Bharti Airtel looks good now, its Chairman Sunil Mittal said on Thursday.Speaking at a CII event, Mittal noted that the company has been through many ups and downs, including regulatory challenges and market competition, and is now better placed in the market."The balance sheet is healthy, it's strong. And we are now down to two-and-a-half players for a country the size of India so the future looks good…

Editor's Note: The following excerpt has been taken from the book Chandra Shekhar: The Last Icon of Ideological Politics written by Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh and writer Ravi Dutt Bajpai. The book was launched on Wednesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and chronicles the journey of former PM Chandra Shekhar from his humble lower middle-class background to becoming one of the most prominent political icons of India. During the launch of the book, Modi lashed out at the Congress stating that…

A 5G technology standard developed in India has become part of global standards which will be adopted by companies locally as well as across the world, a senior official of Indian telecom standards body TSDSI said on Friday.5Gi is the first ever telecom technology standard from India that will find place in global telecom gear standards for 5G services.Global standards development body 3GPP has agreed to a plan of action that will allow the merger of 5Gi into 5G."The move is a big step in enabling India's objective of…