Tag: Semiconductors
Sarvam AI Startup Programme Fuels Indic AI Builders
Sarvam AI has introduced the Sarvam Startup Programme, providing early-stage companies with up to 12 months of API credits, priority engineering support and production-ready infrastructure to build multilingual AI applications without backend complexities. Founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar positioned the initiative to empower India’s developer ecosystem with high-quality models fluent in 22+ Indian languages and English, enabling full agency in creating voice agents,...
Oracle Layoffs Fund AI Data Centre Push Amid Cash Squeeze
Oracle is planning thousands of job cuts across divisions as it grapples with a cash crunch from aggressive AI data centre buildout to support major clients including a $300 billion OpenAI agreement, xAI and Meta, as Bloomberg News first reported. The reductions, potentially broader than typical rolling cuts, may begin this month and target roles expected to diminish under AI automation, coinciding with an...
Cyient, Kinetic Deal Bets on Custom Power ICs for the AI Era
Cyient Semiconductors has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake (over 65%) in San Jose–headquartered Kinetic Technologies for a total consideration of...
SEMI: AI Wave to Lift Chip Equipment Sales to $126 Billion in 2026
Global sales of equipment used to manufacture semiconductor wafers are set to climb about 9% to 126 billion dollars in 2026, before rising a...
Cyient Semiconductors Joins ₹4,500-Crore SCL Modernisation as Core Tech Supplier
Cyient Semiconductors has been officially qualified to supply core technology IP for the ₹4,500-crore modernisation of the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, marking one...
Semiconductor Engineering Outsourcing to Hit $16B by 2030
The global semiconductor industry is entering one of the most aggressive expansion cycles in its history, and engineering outsourcing is emerging as a critical...
Tata Electronics, NIELIT Kohima Launch Semiconductor Skilling Push in Northeast
Tata Electronics has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NIELIT Kohima, now a Deemed-to-be University under the Ministry of Electronics and IT,...
Tata Electronics, BEL Sign Strategic Semicon MoU
Tata Electronics and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop indigenous electronics and semiconductor solutions that support...
IIT Kharagpur, IME Sign Semiconductor MoU
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), part of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), have signed...
IISc Pushes for Post-Silicon Chip Innovation
A team of 30 scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has submitted a detailed proposal to the government to pioneer next-generation chip...
Taiwan to Simulate US Tariff Impact on Chips
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs announced plans to simulate the potential impact of proposed US tariff on its semiconductor industry, amid escalating global concerns...
South Korea Boosts Chip Support to $23 Billion
South Korea on Tuesday announced a substantial increase in its support package for the domestic semiconductor industry, raising the total to 33 trillion won...
Chhattisgarh Gets First Semiconductor Plant
In a major boost to India’s semiconductor ambitions, Chennai-based Polymatech Electronics has announced the establishment of a ₹1,143 crore Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor manufacturing...
Google Launches Ironwood AI Chip
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, on Wednesday introduced its newest artificial intelligence chip—Ironwood—a seventh-generation processor designed to boost the performance of AI...
