| 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
Members: INR 7500 / USD 195.
Others: INR 9000/ USD 235
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| Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry |
Source:The New York Times, Mark Landler, May 16 2008 |
| http://www.nytimes.com/2008 |
This sad stretch of eastern Germany, with its deserted coal mines and corroded factories,
epitomizes post-industrial gloom. It is a place where even the clouds rarely seem to part.
Yet the sun was shining here the other day — and nowhere more brightly than at Q-Cells, a
German company that surpassed Sharp last year to become the world’s largest maker of
photovoltaic solar cells. Q-Cells is the main tenant among a flowering cluster of solar start-ups
here in an area known as Solar Valley. |
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| Bulgaria provides $12 million for technology projects |
| Source:Drew Wilson, EETimes, May 16 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu/eastern_europe |
Bulgaria has launched a $12 million National Innovation Fund to finance technology research in
small- and medium-sized enterprises. Priority areas are information and communication
technology, instrument manufacturing, nanotech, biotech and environmental technologies. |
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| Bartronics bets big on government schemes |
| Source:CIOL, May 16 2008 |
| http://www.ciol.com |
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Bartronics India, provider of automatic identification and data collection, is targeting many
government initiatives to boost business. “In the future the company will see over 50 per cent
of work coming from government initiatives,” said Sudhir Rao, managing director, Bartronics
India. |
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| High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers |
| Source: The New York Times, Martin Fackler, May 17 2008 |
| http://www.nytimes.com |
Japan is running out of engineers. After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is
actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technologyrelated
fields. Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is
growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering
look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import foreign workers, or sending
jobs to where the engineers are, in Vietnam and India. |
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| Growing demand for chip designers |
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Source:Dipal Gala, The Times of India, May 19 2008 |
| http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com |
The next time you admire the latest functions in your cell phone, laptop, or playstation, or
stare in awe at complex medical and manufacturing computers, remember that these devices
are run by a tiny silicon wafer, commonly called a chip. Chip designers the world over work to
make faster, cheaper, and more innovative chips that can automate parts or the entire
function of electronic devices. |
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| For a job in the micro world |
| Source:Nagesh Prabhu, The Hindu, May 19 2008 |
| http://www.thehindu.com |
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Engg. graduates who want challenging and creative jobs can check out embedded and VLSI
fields. In today’s e-world, embedded systems are present in all activities of our life. Embedded
and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology designs are used in a variety of products
which have almost become indispensable such as cell phones, refrigerators, computers, remote
controls, calculators, microwave ovens, washing machines, automobiles, inertial guidance
systems for aircraft and missiles. In fact, there is hardly any area where these systems are
absent. |
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| Blackstone to up focus on India |
| Source:Business Standard, May 19 2008 |
| http://www.ibef.org |
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Blackstone Group, a global private equity player, is set to increase its focus on India. After
setting the ball rolling on its corporate private equity and recently starting off its real estate
opportunity focus, the company during the past week has set up Blackstone Altius Advisors, an
event-driven strategy focusing on opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Event-driven
strategies are those where PEs fund merger and acquisitions or bankruptcies scenario. |
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| Wolfowitz to head U.S.-Taiwan trade group |
| Source: George Leopold, EETimes, May 19 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the Iraq war and ousted head of the World Bank, has been
named to head the board of an influential U.S.-Taiwan lobbying group. The U.S.-Taiwan
Business Council (Arlington, Va.) said Monday (May 19) that Wolfowitz, former deputy secretary
of defense, will replace William Brock as chairman of the trade group. |
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| Intel Capital buys stake in Malaysian tech firm |
| Source:The Economic Times, May 19 2008 |
| http://economictimes.indiatimes.com |
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Intel Capital, a unit of chip giant Intel Corp, said on Monday it will buy a minority stake in a
Malaysia-listed tech firm which owns the license to roll out wireless broadband services in the
country. Intel Capital will invest 50 million ringgit ($15.5 million) in Green Packet Bhd. |
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| U.K. electronics is core of engineering success
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| Source: Colin Holland, EETimes, May 19 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.eu/semi/207800848 |
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The U.K. electronics industry must not just think of itself as an enabler according to Harry Tee,
chairman of the revamped Electronics Leadership Council (ELC) but as an integral part of the
success of the country's engineering sector. Eight new members have joined the U.K.'s
Electronics Leadership Council (ELC), all of them chairmen or CEOs of electronics companies. |
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| KLA-Tencor expands in Asia with new Singapore facility |
| Source: EETimes, May 20 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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KLA-Tencor has opened its new facility in Singapore designed to expand its high-precision
manufacturing and well as expand it training, sales and corporate functions. The 17,400m˛
building provides cleanroom space for manufacturing the company's process control products,
with ample room for future expansion. These products are used in every semiconductor fab
worldwide, and the latest systems can detect nanometer-scale defects and anomalies on the
wafers used to make the most advanced chips. |
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| Bring in latest tech, get sops easily for FAB units |
| Source: The Economic Times, May 20 2008 |
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Companies like Reliance Industries (RIL) and Videocon may not require the approval of the
inter-ministerial group for getting financial benefits to set up fab units. The government has
decided to give in-principle approval to such units if they plan to install "state of the art
advanced technology" for their manufacturing units. All other proposals would have to go
through the inter-ministerial group. The Department of Information Technology (DIT) would
soon appoint a third-party foreign consultant for deciding whether a particular company is
using the eligible technology or not. |
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| Top 20 risk factors tech firms are wary about |
| Source: Junko Yoshida, EE Times, May 21 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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A research by BDO Seidman, LLP, a professional services firm, found that the top concern that
keeps U.S. technology companies awake at night is, not surprisingly, "competition and
consolidation in technology sector" (92 percent). The study also found that tech companies
seem to be more worried about risks associated with international operations (85 percent) than
the struggling U.S. economy (73 percent). |
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| Analyst: Startups should orient towards India, China |
| Source: Peter Clarke, EE Times Europe, May 21 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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The momentum behind India and China in semiconductors is such that all electronics startups
have to be oriented towards one or both of these countries, according to Bipin Parmar,
principal analyst for The Chilli, a U.K. consultancy. "If you don't have India or China as part of
your strategy, forget it. You can't compete with the leverage," Parmar said at Born Global, a
meeting organized by the Silicon SouthWest promotional group. |
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| Zeus Numerix, IIT Bombay Incubated Firm, Gets $500K Seed Funding |
| Source: VC Circle, May 21 2008 |
| http://www.vccircle.com |
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Zeus Numerix Pvt Ltd, an engineering design services company incubated at IIT Bombay, has
received Rs 2 crore ($500,000) funding from a group of high-net worth individuals led by
investment bank Saltrock Advisors Pvt Ltd. Zeus is founded by a group of IIT-B professors and
students. The company has the backing of 10 years of R&D at Dept. of Aerospace, IIT Bombay. |
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| April SEMI Book-to-Bill ratio drops to 0.81 |
| Source: Fabtech, May 21 2008 |
| http://www.fabtech.org |
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The North America-based semiconductor equipment company SEMI 's Book-to-Bill Report
published posted $1.07 billion in orders in April 2008 (three-month average basis) and a bookto-
bill ratio of 0.81, which follows a strong decline since the February 2008 figure of 0.92. |
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| Indian embedded software seen moving up the value chain |
| Source: K.C. Krishnadas, EETimes, May 21 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Embedded software development, which netted exports worth $4.9 billion last year and
employs 106,000 engineers in India, remains fragmented and stuck at the lower end of the
value chain. But larger Indian companies are now moving toward higher-end development and
are increasing their expertise in specific domains, a study has found. Embedded software
developers here also are moving toward product ownership and away from modular tasks,
according to the study commissioned by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA). |
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| Qualcomm bests TI in wireless IC market |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EE Times, May 22 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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New rankings from market iSuppli Corp. showed that Qualcomm Inc. once again toppled Texas
Instruments Inc. as the world's leading supplier of semiconductors for wireless applications in
2007. For years, TI had been the top wireless IC vendor but in 2007, Qualcomm outgrew the
overall wireless semiconductor market, with its revenue in this segment rising by 24.1 percent,
according to iSuppli. |
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| Applied forms new solar group |
| Source: Mark LaPedus, EETimes, May 22 2008 |
| http://www.eetimes.com |
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Expanding its efforts in an exploding market, Applied Materials Inc. has formed a new solar
group. The so-called SunFab Operations will be co-led by two executives, including Mark Pinto,
senior vice president, chief technology officer and general manager of Applied's Energy and
Environmental Solutions group. |
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| GSA and ISA sign MoU for co-support |
| Source: EETimes, May 23 2008 |
| http://www.eetindia.co.in |
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The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), an organization focused on increasing the growth of
the global semiconductor industry, and the Indian Semiconductor Alliance (ISA), the trade body representing the Indian semiconductor driven industry, have formed an organizational alliance
teaming up global and regional efforts for the benefit of the semiconductor community. |
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| ABI: RFID to become $9.7B market in 2013 |
| Source: EETimes, May 23 2008 |
| http://www.eetasia.com |
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New forecasts released by ABI Research indicate that the total RFID market will turn over
approximately $9.7 billion by 2013, representing roughly a 15 percent CAGR for the period from
2008. "These figures highlight an RFID market that is growing robustly," says research director
Michael Liard. "Across all product categories and flavors of RFID technology, market trends
continue to be positive. We saw a strong finish to 2007, which continued into a healthy Q1 08." |
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