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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Adani group will manufacture microchips for its own businesses ranging from ports to power and mining, as well as for global and domestic customers at its proposed fabrication plant in Maharashtra, multiple officials aware of the plans said. The ports-to-cement conglomerate has tied up with Israel’s Tower Semiconductor to build the foundry in Maharashtra's Raigad district.

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Trade unions and thousands of disgruntled workers are demonstrating in the Belgian capital to protest the threat of massive layoffs in a state-of-the-art Brussels car factory and other key industries

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tamil Nadu dominates India’s electronics exports with a 34% share. This hard-won dominance is at stake as Samsung India workers’ strike at its Sriperumbudur unit refuses to die down and risks spreading to other units.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Canada's Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is weighing potential investments in India's emerging semiconductor fabrication sector, even as it actively assesses opportunities in fibres, transmission lines, electric vehicles and smart meters. In the US, Brookfield has invested $15 billion in a joint venture with Intel Corp.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar could well be dead today if not for a low-tech communications system honed in prison that shields him from Israel’s intelligence-gathering dragnet. Sinwar has largely shunned phone calls, text messages and other electronic communications that Israel can track and that have led to the demise of other militants.

The MacBook Pro is the only Apple product manufactured in the USA. Currently, total sales of Mac computers account for less than 10% of Apple's revenue, with the MacBook Pro representing slightly more than half of Mac computers' sales.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. (Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has picked banks for a potential initial public offering of its Indian business that could raise as much as $1.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Polymatech Electronics is investing $16.2 million (about Rs 136 crore) in Bahrain as part of its strategy to spend more than $100 million in the Gulf nation by 2027, top company officials said. This investment marks the first phase of Polymatech’s foray into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) market, the officials told ET. Polymatech designs, manufactures, packages, and assembles opto-semiconductor chips and modules. Opto-semiconductors are electronic devices that either emit or detect light, and are used in a variety of applications, including medical lighting, large-area lighting, cell phone backlights, agriculture, PCs, and laptops.

Uttar Pradesh, once called a bimaru (sick) state with low industrialisation, is on its way to become a boom state. As it strives to become an electronics hub, the state will now get a semiconductor plant too. The joint venture between Taiwan’s Foxconn and IT services major HCL Group has been allotted around thirty acres of land, near the upcoming Jewar airport in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, to set up a semiconductor outsourced assembly and testing (OSAT) unit, said Et has reported based on information from sources. Uttar Pradesh has received proposals for projects totalling around Rs 40,038 crore under its new policy to incentivise semiconductor manufacturing and attract global investments in the state, the government said in a statement in July. Among several proposals, it has so far considered Hiranandani group’s Tarq Semiconductor plant. In fact, Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the only north Indian state actively vying for high-tech industrial projects which has traditionally been the mainstay of south Indian states. Uttar Pradesh has followed states Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat to have a dedicated semiconductor policy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “The next industrial revolution has begun." Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia Corp., on the earnings call for the chipmaker’s financial second quarter ended 28 July. A glimpse of this revolution was already visible in Nvidia’s full-year earnings for 2023-24.

IT hardware manufacturers are urging the government to significantly reduce the five-to-six-month certification process for locally-made laptops and notebooks, which they say is hindering production ramp-up under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware. Industry executives have informed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) about the extended timelines for acquiring BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) certification. This is due to the mandatory separate tests for battery packs installed on laptops, after running viability tests for making the products with local contract manufacturers. “Currently, because of the requirements of acquiring testing certificates for individual components like the battery pack as well as the laptop as a whole, the whole process takes around 5-6 months, where the products themselves have a shelf life of 8-10 months,” a senior executive at a leading IT hardware brand told ET on condition of anonymity.

Mint. “The plant is costing us ₹4,000 crore ($475 million) to set up, and this itself will take 18 to 24 months to complete fully and make it operational. Right now, we don’t have any plans to venture into a fab project, at least in the near term. We’ll start with chip manufacturing through OSATs, and then slowly see how we can scale up," he said on the inaugural day of Semicon India 2024.

Bharat Electronics Ltd. traded 0.76 per cent up at Rs 290.25 at 11:16AM (IST) on Thursday, even as BSE benchmark Sensex gained 225.31 points to 81748.47. The scrip had closed at Rs 288.05 in the previous session. The stock quoted a 52-week high and 52-week low of Rs 340.35 and Rs 127.0, respectively.

Mint in an interview. Also read | Zetwerk charts ₹1,000 crore game plan for electronics manufacturing “In the next two quarters, MoUs (memorandums of understanding) with global firms from Korea, Japan and Taiwan will be signed, through which we will get into new sectors of automotive and defence electronics. In the next financial year, we’re looking at making servers locally and we will also expand our laptop manufacturing capacities.

NXP Semiconductors plans to invest over USD 1 billion to double its research and development activities in India over the next few years, a top company official said on Wednesday. Speaking at Semicon India 2024, NXP Executive Director, President and CEO Kurt Sievers said the company is engaging with the whole industry, downstream in the automotive sector, industrial sector, which is going to make India extremely powerful as an economy. «In that context, NXP is committed to double its R&D efforts here in the country in the next few years, which is far in excess of a billion dollars,» he said. Sievers said NXP has been present in India for about 50 years.

The U.S. consumer watchdog has found that low-income families typically pay as much as 60 cents per dollar in fees when paying for school lunches electronically

Data Patterns (India) Ltd., incorporated in the year 1998, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 15316.09 Crore) operating in Defence sector.

Noida Traffic Police on Tuesday issued traffic advisory ahead of the SEMICON India 2024, which will be commencing on Wednesday in Greater Noida. The three-day conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and therefore is set to see lot of VVIP movement. Global semiconductor giants are set to participate in the event, which will feature more than 250 exhibitors and 150 speakers. «The Gautam Buddh Nagar Traffic Police has issued an important traffic advisory for September 11, 2024, in view of a high-profile visit to Greater Noida. Due to anticipated traffic disruptions, several routes will be diverted, and alternative routes have been suggested to facilitate smooth travel during the event,» said Noida Traffic Police in a post on X.

Also Read: Heavy showers could rain on agrochemical firms' parade in Q2 Meanwhile, PI has made an offer to acquire Plant Health Care (PHC) plc, a UK-based company in the crop protection business, for £32.8 million (about ₹360 crore). However, PHC’s current contribution to revenue would be a mere 1.3%.