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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Government subsidies have drawn companies into basic chip packaging, where China and Malaysia already hold an edge. Moving up the value chain may prove to be a stiff task.
On 17 September, at the SEMICON India summit in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi proudly declared that India now had five semiconductor plants in operation. He called it a feat worth celebrating. But there was a crucial detail missing from the announcement: all five plants are chip packaging units.
These plants take chips manufactured elsewhere, connect them, seal them in a casing, and test them before they are shipped to phone or carmakers. The industry calls this outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, or OSAT. In other words, India is not yet manufacturing chips at scale. It is building the …
The lesser known EMS company has been rewarded for its discipline and balance sheet strength. But its next leg of growth could be a test.
Barely two years after being founded and without even a finished product, Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors has been acquired by Germany’s Infineon. What’s the secret?
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
