India Semiconductor Mission

While India has a design talent pool for semiconductors, it needs a talent pool for manufacturing, and a supply chain, said S Krishnan, secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY). He was speaking at an event by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) on Wednesday in Bengaluru. "Do we have significant parts of the value chain that brings manufacturing into India? The chief executive of Micron said we have a huge talent pool as far as design is concerned but as it is setting up a manufacturing…

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal on Friday unveiled the large language model (LLM) Krutrim, which he described as ‘India’s own AI’. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ HC dismisses plea against Ashneer Grover on Nakrani share sale■ ETtech Deals Digest■ Third Wave Coffee fires 10% of staffBhavish Aggarwal unveils Ola's large language model Krutrim Krutrim, an artificial intelligence firm started by Ola Electric founder and chief executive Bhavish Aggarwal, announced its large language…

Taiwanese contract manufacturing firm Foxconn has started reaching out to large Indian business houses as it seeks to partner with them to further its semiconductor manufacturing ambitions in the country, multiple sources told ET. The year-old joint-venture (JV) that Foxconn had formed with billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group to set up a semiconductor fabrication unit at Dholera in Gujarat may be on the rocks as differences have appeared between the two partners, the sources added.“There are differences between the…

NEW DELHI : India has reopened applications for its ambitious chipmaking programme after the three aspirants, who applied in 2022, failed to qualify…

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As India rides on 5G, with more than 50 cities and towns now enjoying the new technology, India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) Chairman Pankaj Mohindroo said that by the end of 2023, 75 to 80 percent of the new smartphone launches will be 5G-enabled.The 5G services were launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 1.Telecom service providers have launched the service in select cities and plan to cover the entire nation by the end of 2023 or early 2024."India as a nation is an early adopter of 5G…

What is different about India’s chip push this time around? There were actually no trials in the past—there were isolated attempts by private individuals, mostly from abroad, who would work with states, never with the federal government, to launch a fab. It did not materialize for the obvious reason that there are lots of factors involved in building a fab—not just building a fab, but you need to build an entire ecosystem. I know it because I was invited to be a figurehead…