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Kota’s Test Prep Co Allen, Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree Seal $600 mn Deal

MUMBAI/KOTA: Allen Career Institute and Bodhi Tree Systems have announced a strategic partnership to help expand private coaching, that trains more than a million students in India from a small town-turned-education hub Kota in Rajasthan and several such similar centres across the country. The USD 600 million investment by Bodhi Tree will help scale India’s […]

Semicon 2022: Government Signs MoUs To Boost Semiconductor Ecosystem

BENGALURU: The wheels are set in motion to power the semiconductor ecosystem in the country as the government signed multiple Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with leading names including Sony India, ISRO, ICGAR and BEL. At the Semicon 2022 in Bengaluru, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) unveiled a roadmap to catalyse the industry’s […]

Semicon Policy: Multinational-firm ISMC Announces India’s 1st Chip Plant In Mysore At Rs 22K Cr

  BENGALURU: India’s ongoing three-day mega conclave, Semicon 2022, in Bengaluru saw a major breakthrough as multinational chip manufacturer ISMC announced to set up its  65nm analog semiconductor fabrication plant in Karnataka’s Mysuru, making it country’s first such unit to manufacture and supply wafers for mobile and smart devices. ISMC is a venture between Israel-based […]

EXC: Mining Giant Vedanta Says Foxconn JV For Chips Seeing Indian States Offer Free Land

  BENGALURU: Indian oil and metal major Vedanta has said the company has been offered free land, up to 350-acres, by several states in the country as it bids to enter the semiconductor and display fabrication industry with Taiwan major Foxconn which will also make it India’s first chipmaker. Foxconn is the company behind the […]

SEMICON 2022: The Next Digital Frontier; India Building Tiny Processor At 7nm Or 22nm For Your Mobiles

BENGALURU: Consider this: You pick up any mobile phone or a smart wearable device and there’s a 90 per cent chance it contains at least one IIT Madras processor from India in the next five years. After producing the indigenous industrial-grade microprocessor Shakti in 2018, India is on course to roll out an n-core processor […]