When India’s largest conglomerate, Tata Group, broke ground on a $11 billion semiconductor factory this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country was poised to become a world leader in the sector. View Full Image China’s aggressive expansion comes at a time when the market for legacy chips is already well supplied. But India would struggle to shower such …
Taiwan's GlobalWafers Co Ltd will spend $5 billion on a new plant in Texas to make silicon wafers used in semiconductors, switching to the United States after a failed European investment. The company said late on Monday the new plant, manufacturing 300-millimetre silicon wafers, would start being built later this year and generate as many as 1,500 jobs in Sherman, …
Some call it the ‘heart’, others the ‘brain’, of modern gadgets. Such as they are, says US-based industry body Semiconductor Industry Association, “semiconductors are the brains of modern electronics… and technologies of the future such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced wireless networks”. It cites MeitY to add that “India produces nearly 2,000 chips every year and more than …
German technology group Robert Bosch has earmarked more than 400 million euros for investments in microchip production in Germany and Malaysia next year to ease a global shortage. The largest part of Bosch's budget will be spent on a faster expansion of its Dresden, Germany factory for 300-millimeter wafers, which the group inaugurated in June, it said in a statement …
