| ISA-IDC report 2008 on Indian semiconductor and embedded design service industry
(2007-2010) |
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This report provides details on design workforce; analysis of the main design services segments-
VLSI, hardware/board design and embedded software; revenue, market drivers and trends. It
offers a review of the Indian semiconductor and embedded design services market for 2007 and
projections up to 2010. It identifies future opportunities and strengthens the existing design
ecosystem in India. The report is an exhaustive depth field work and carries current data. |
For details, please contact research@isaonline.org
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| Semiconductor sector poised for future development |
Source:Allen Hsu, Taiwan Journal, June 26 2008 |
| http://taiwanjournal.nat |
When discussing the global semiconductor industry, it is impossible to overlook the role of
Taiwanese companies in integrated circuit design, manufacturing, and packaging and testing.
This international edge that the nation's semiconductor-related firms enjoy was on display at
an annual exhibition dubbed SemiTech Taipei 2008 held between June 11 and 13 at the Taipei
World Trade Center. |
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| New Research Predicts End to Silicon Shortage |
| Source:Ucilia Wang, Greentech Media, June 26, 2008 |
| http://www.greentechmedia.com |
The three-year competition for silicon between solar and semiconductor companies will end
later this year as silicon manufacturers roll out new production lines, according to a new report
released Thursday by the Prometheus Institute and Greentech Media. For decades, silicon has
played a starring role in the rise of the chip industry. Its semiconducting properties and
relatively cheap price have helped to make it possible to engineer smaller and faster chips to
run iPods and laptops. |
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| India becomes most-favoured investment destination for Japan |
| Source:The Economic Times, June 27 2008 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
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The Ranbaxy-Daiichi deal attracted a lot of interest, which was only to be expected, since it
was the largest Japanese acquisition in India till date. But the Japanese business association
with India has been growing for a while now. A recent survey conducted by the Japan Bank for
International Cooperation (JBIC) shows that India has become the most-favoured destination
for long-term Japanese investment. While nearly 70% of Japanese manufacturers regard India
as the most attractive country to do business over the next 10 years, around 67% preferred
China. Russia came third with a 37% rating, followed by Vietnam at 28%. |
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| Fabless chip market up 16% in Q1, says GSA |
| Source: Peter Clarke, June 27 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
Fabless semiconductor company revenue totaled $13.4 billion in the first quarter of 2008, up 16
percent compared with the first quarter of 2007, according to the Global Semiconductor
Alliance industry group. At the same time worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $67.3
billion rising 5 percent year-over-year and 0.2 percent quarter-over-quarter. As a result fabless
semiconductor revenues moved up to 19.9 percent of total semiconductor sales, the GSA said. |
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| India leads world in semicon: S. Janakiraman |
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Source:CIOL, June 28 2008 |
| http://www.ciol.com |
Irrespective of the debate raging within the semicon community regarding wafer fabs in India,
the strength of and the talent within the Indian semiconductor industry has never been in
doubt. Delivering the welcome note at the recently held ISA Technovation 2008 awards
ceremony at the Indian Institute of Science, S. Janakiraman, the former Chairman - India
Semiconductor Association, and President & CEO – R&D services, MindTree Ltd, elaborated the
fact that India now leads the world through execution of most complex and latest technology
designs. |
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| Chip sales increased 7.5% in May, says SIA |
| Source:John Walko, EETimes, June 30 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
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The three month moving average of global chip sales was $21.8 billion in May, 7.5 percent up
on the $20.3 billion reported for May 2007, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association
(SIA) and based on figures from WSTS. May sales were 2.8 percent higher than the $21.2 billion
reported for April 2008. Year-to-date sales of $103.4 billion are up by 5.3 percent from the
$98.2 billion reported for the first five months of 2007. |
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| Dubai: Emerging Power in Semiconductor Industry |
| Source:Alfred Vollmer, Nikkei Electronics Asia -- July 2008 |
| http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp |
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Dubai, once known mostly for its oil, is now the financial center of the Arabian world, a luxury
tourism destination, with more than 50 five-star hotels. And today, crude oil contributes less
than 5% to Dubai's GDP. For the future, Dubai's ruling sheikhs have even more ambitious plans
in the semiconductor and IT business. "Our vision is to make Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) one of
the world's leading centers of advanced electronics innovation, design and development." This
is the mission pronounced by H H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and
Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. |
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| Synopsys gears up for 'techonomic' challenges |
| Source: Amir Ben-Artzi, EE Times, July 1 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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The strategy of EDA company Synopsys Inc. is based on offering complete design systems. That
involves drilling down to detail the semiconductor physics while reaching up to embrace system
complexity. Seeing where the industry is going is relatively easy. The difficult bit is laying out
an EDA offering at the right time, when customers are ready to take it up, according to Aart de
Geus, chairman and CEO of Synopsys. And right now, everything in the EDA space has to be
rethought, according to the executive. |
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| Report: SemIndia looks for new partner after AMD deal ends |
| Source: K.C. Krishnadas, EETimes, July 1 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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SemIndia Fab, one of India's first major chip manufacturing projects, is reportedly looking for a
new technology partner after a three-year technology partnership with Advanced Micro Devices
Inc. lapsed. According to a report here in the Financial Chronicle, "After its recent breakup
with technology partner AMD, SemIndia is now scouting for a new partner." The report said
SemIndia "is in preliminary discussions with chip makers like [the] Israeli firm Tower
Semiconductor, but says the process of finding a new partner to invest in India is tough because
of the current economic conditions." |
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| Analyst -- Chip industry no longer "business as usual" |
| Source: John Walko, EETimes, July 1 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
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Semiconductor industry analyst Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England),
invoked the spirit of both Winston Churchill and King Canute in arguing in his June chip market
report that even though the global economy is facing tough times, the semiconductor is holding
its own. Paraphrasing Churchill's comments on Russia, he suggested : "The chip industry, too, is
a riddle wrapped up in an enigma." |
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| Wanted: Skilled Workers for a Growing Economy in Brazil |
| Source: Andrew Downie, The New York Times, July 2 2008 |
| http://www.nytimes.com |
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For almost any nation other than China or India, achieving more than 5 percent growth a year is
hard. Doing it without skilled labor is even harder. But that is the challenge facing Brazil, the B
in the BRIC economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China — today’s version of economic tigers. |
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| National ventures into photovoltaic market |
| Source: EETimes, July 2 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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National Semiconductor Corp. has entered the photovoltaic market with new technology
designed to increase the overall energy output of solar electric power generating systems.
National's SolarMagic technology extracts the maximum power efficiency of each photovoltaic
panel, even when some panels in the array are compromised by shading, debris or inherent
panel-to-panel mismatch. |
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| Solar Semiconductor ties up with Deutsche |
| Source: Business Standard, July 2 2008 |
| http://www.business-standard.com |
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Hyderabad-based photovoltaic (PV) modules producer, Solar Semiconductor Private Limited
(SSPL), has entered into a 10-year delivery agreement with Deutsche Solar AG, a subsidiary of
SolarWorld AG of Germany. As per the contract, the German company would supply silicon
wafers worth over $ 1.2 billion (Rs 4,800 crore) to SSSPL. |
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| New 'Atom' bomb PC for first-time users |
| Source: Neenu Abraham, EETimes, July 2 2008, |
| http://economictimes.indiatimes.com |
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It's not as big as your desktop, neither is it as small as your mobile phone, where basic internet
computing can turn rather clumsy. 'Nettops', an abridged version of desktops, powered by
Intel’s latest Atom processor, has all the basic internet features that a desktop has and is just
what a first-time user would need. |
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| World Bank says Eastern Europe reaching Western European norms |
| Source: Drew Wilson, EETimes, July 2 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
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The business environment in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is maturing and
converging towards the developed market economies of Western Europe, according to a World
Bank study. The region has overcome the crisis of the 1990s. To sustain growth, the countries
need to innovate, include all citizens in the country's development and integrate with the
global economy, according to the study, "Innovation, Inclusion, and Integration: From
Transition to Convergence in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." |
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| Mentor takes control of Flomerics |
| Source: EETimes, July 2 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu |
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EDA giant Mentor Graphics Corp. has apparently taken over Flomerics Group plc, a simulation
software maker, for $60 million, according to reports. Mentor had been trying to gain control
of the firm. But Mentor's original offer of about $2.07 per share, or about $47.1 million, was
too low and Flomerics had been fending off Mentor's bid. |
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| Who Will Be the Next Big Company to Go Solar? |
| Source: Jennifer Kho, July 2, 2008 |
| http://www.greentechmedia.com |
| Semiconductor and computer industries are joining the push into solar with other large
companies, while analysts are pondering which conglomerates will be next. When Applied
Materials (NSDQ: AMAT) entered the solar market in 2006, it made an understandable splash. |
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| India intensifies support for solar initiatives |
| Source: K.C. Krishnadas, EE Times, July 3 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
| In India, where the government has launched a "National Mission on Solar Energy" that seeks to
tie the country's economic development to energy efficiency, a separate initiative on energy
efficiency has also been launched. Specific projects and funding will be announced soon. The
announcement of the National Action Plan in New Delhi came as India participated in the
United Nations talks on combating climate change. |
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| Mobile reach to triple in 4 years: Gartner |
| Source: The Hindu Business Line, July 3 2008 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
| India would have more than 737 million mobile connections by 2012 and revenues from cellular
services will exceed $37 billion by then. In the next four years, cellular market penetration
would increase to 60.7 per cent from 19.8 per cent last year, according to a study by research
firm Gartner Inc. |
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| UK is the largest investor in India: Report |
| Source: The Financial Express, July 3 20088 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
| Britain has become the biggest foreign investor in India with an investment of 560 million
pounds, according to a report on investment flows by the Commonwealth Business Council
(CBC). The report, prepared by the CBC and UK Trade and Investment, a Government agency,
said that when investments made by UK companies through Mauritius, the British Virgin Islands
and Cyprus were included, it outstripped the US as the leading investor, with over 8 billion
pounds of investment. |
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| Applied Materials funding arm invests in 2 Indian firms |
| Source: K.C. Krishnadas, EETimes, July 3 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
| The investment arm of IC tool vendor Applied Materials Inc. has invested in two Indian
companies and is considering two additional investments here this year. The first investment by
Applied Ventures LLC completed last year was Tessolve Services, based here, a test and IC
packaging services company. The second is an undisclosed company that develops EDA tool
software at the foundry level, said Madhusudan Atre, president of Applied Materials India Pvt.
Ltd. The amount invested in each company was not disclosed, but Applied Ventures typically
invests from $1 million to $5 million. One of the planned investments would be a new funding
round for the EDA software company. |
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| Embedded designers on tighter schedules, juggling multiple projects in 2008: 2008
Embedded Market Study from Tech Insights/ESD Shows Pressures of Economy |
| Source: Loring Wirbel, EETimes, July 3 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
| "Developers of embedded systems are juggling more projects in 2008, and reporting that
meeting schedules is their biggest task, the 2008 Embedded Market Study from Tech
Insights/Embedded Systems Design reports. Designers are reporting greater pressures to finish
jobs, and more than 50 percent of projects are reported as late. This year's survey reported the
greatest percentage of new projects compared to product improvements since 2005. Some 46
percent of projects were described as "new from scratch," while 54 percent were upgrades or
improvements. The type of improvements was dominated by new software features, in 81
percent of cases, followed by new processors in 55 percent, and new system logic in 39 percent
of the project upgrades. Part of the dominance of software may reflect the high number of
respondents (62 percent) involved in writing and/or debugging software and firmware. |
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