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DigiKey has officially launched an Indian subsidiary, DigiKey Electronics & Automation Trading Private Limited. It will be operating out of the distributor’s Global Capability Center (GCC) in Bengaluru (also known as Bangalore). The company is now employing 300 people in India. Indian subsidiary “This milestone represents a major step forward in DigiKey’s global strategy,” said Dave Doherty, its CEO. “India’s ...
Ambient Scientific is demonstrating AI applications running on coin cell batteries at Electronica India this week, using combined analogue and digital processing to save power. Locally-processed local fall detection, voice recognition and face ID will be running on its ‘GPX10 Pro’ IC. Inside, AI processing is performed in two sets of five cores (called ‘MX8’) in two separate power domains. ...
Trade between China and India is a lopsided affair with China delivering $125 billion worth of goods to India in 2023 while India shipped goods worth approximately $18.1 billion to China that year. Almost two thirds China’s export value was generated by electronics and other machinery, while the biggest Indian exports to China were less lucrative raw materials including fish, crustaceans ...
Indian start-up Ziroh Labs of Bengaluru has come up with a way to run AI programmes on relatively inexpensive CPUs instead of ultra-expensive GPUs. Called Kompact AI, the technology is aimed at bringing AI training and inference to SMEs which cannot afford GPUs. “Anything that can be computed on a GPU can also be calculated on a CPU; what really ...
We're talking about the damage of Hurricane Helene, the UK Space Conference 2025, a Taiwanese foundry building a fab in India, and a 3D printed object that measures its own loading through piezo-resistance...
A revival for the old Fujitsu fab at Newton Aycliffe, Hynix 36GB 12-layer HBM3E memory, the UKRI announces semiconductor manufacturing projects, and ST and Qualcomm working on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Thread modules...
Powerchip Semiconductor (PSMC), the Taiwanese foundry, has ditched a plan to build a fab in Japan in favour of building one in India. Last year, Powerchip entered a partnership with Japanese finance company SBI Holdings to start construction this year on a 40k wpm fab in Sendai, Japan starting on 40nm technology and moving on to 28nm with volume production ...
Renesas Electronics is part of a consortium building an OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) facility at Sanand near Ahmedabad in Gujarat India. It will only hold around 6.8% of the equity capital, with the bulk going to Mumbai engineering conglomerate CG Power and Industrial Solutions. Thailand OSAT provider Stars Microelectronics will hold 0.9%. “CG’s entry into the semiconductor manufacturing ...
Indian startups are getting an increasing taste for IPOs with some Indian exchanges outpacing China exchanges for IPO numbers. 2023 saw 209 IPOs – a 45% y-o-y rise – on Mumbai’s two stock exchanges the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, reports EY (Ernst & Young). This contrasts with falls in IPOs of 33% down to 126 IPOs in Shenzhen, ...
Foxconn is expected to increase its Indian production of iPhones from 12-14% in 2023 to 20-25% in 2024. Earlier this week the company filed a securities notice in Taiwan that it would build a plant costing $1.54 billion at an unnamed location in India, reported The Nikkei. According to reports in the Taiwan press, the plant will be used for ...
