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US memory chip firm Micron Technology on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian government to build a semiconductor plant, its first factory in the country.Micron said last week it will invest up to $825 million (nearly Rs. 6,850 crore) in the facility. With support from the Indian central government and the state of Gujarat, the total investment will be $2.75 billion (nearly Rs. 22,560 crore), it added.The facility will be constructed in Sanand, near the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat.Of that total…

U.S. memory chip firm Micron Technology on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian government to build a semiconductor plant, its first factory in the country.Micron said last week it will invest up to $825 million in the facility. With support from the Indian central government and the state of Gujarat, the total investment will be $2.75 billion, it added. The facility will be constructed in Sanand, near the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat.Discover the stories of your interestStay on top of…

The United States is considering new restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Shares of Nvidia fell more than 2 percent, while Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell about 1.5 percent on the news in extended trading.The Commerce Department will stop the shipments of chips made by Nvidia and other chip companies to customers in China as early as July, the report said.Nvidia, Micron, and AMD are among the US…

US memory chip giant Micron Technology Inc recently announced that it would invest up to $825 million in a new chip assembly and test facility in India. The plant will be the company's first factory in India and will be set up in the state of Gujarat. Announcing the new chip facility, Micron said that with support from the central as well as the government of Gujarat, the total investment in the facility will be $2.75 billion. Of this, 50% will come from the central government and 20% from the state of Gujarat.IT and…

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said current Central Government has succeeded in attracting investments in emerging technology, and stated that India is the next important location for semiconductor manufacturers. Congress has attempted to do so since the 1980s but was not successful. During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's State visit to the US last week, Micron Technology announced a massive India-specific investment plan.On Thursday, hours after PM Modi met Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra in the US and invited him…

The big-ticket announcements by players including Micron, Applied Materials, and Lam Research during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit will create an estimated 80,000 jobs, and underscore the resolve of the two countries to shape the future of technology, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The Minister of State for Electronics and IT termed the announcements by Micron Technology, Applied Materials and Lam Research as a "significant and meaningful milestone" and "central piece" in the growth…

The Indian government is in talks with nearly half a dozen more semiconductor fabrication, packaging and testing companies that are likely to plan significant investments in the country over the next 12 months, union minister for electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said.“From our understanding, we are expecting anywhere between two and six good proposals over the next 12 months. As for the investment, it could be around or slightly more (than the Micron investment), depending on the technology that…

The American chipmaker will set up an assembly, testing, and packaging facility for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and Nand flash modules in India. The plant will be established in two phases, with the first phase involving the construction of a 500,000 sq ft assembly facility in Sanand, Gujarat, scheduled to begin later this year. The second phase is expected to be implemented in the second half of this decade. Rival US semiconductor manufacturer Applied Materials has also…

Non-binary memory. It might not be set to give you the same performance uplift as a new graphics card, and it’s not as intriguing as AMD’s X3D CPUs, but it’s still an interesting new wrinkle in how you build a PC. Non-binary memory effectively allows half steps in RAM quantities, so instead of only having options for sticks of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB (and so on), you can now buy a 24GB DIMM, or a 48GB one. That might not sound like much, but in the coming years as games demand more than 16GB — but where 32GB would be…

Micron announced its UFS 4.0 mobile storage solution and revealed that it has already shipped qualification samples to “select global smartphone manufacturers and chipset vendors”. The new tech will be used to manufacture storage in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities. High-volume production will begin in the second half of this year, so it will be a while before the first phones with Micron UFS 4.0 storage arrive. This storage is built on 232-layer TLC flash (triple-level cells, i.e. storing 3 bits per cell). According…