Market
India electronics import bill could surpass oil
From chip plants to research parks, India must invest in an electronics manufacturing base to sate the swelling demand for smartphones, laptops and other gear or risk an import bill larger than for oil, a top adviser to the prime minister said. [Read more...]
Govt to launch campaign for ‘Made in India’ electronics items
The government has decided to launch a brand building initiative to promote India as a preferred destination for investment in the electronics industry and has invited expressions of interest (EoIs) for appointing agencies for the same. “The purpose of this Expression of Interest is to finally shortlist a reputed agency to conduct Communications Need Assessment [Read more...]
Sony expects to gain in India after buying out Ericsson AB
With Japan’s Sony buying out 50 per cent stake of Swedish wireless equipment firm LM Ericsson AB in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson, the Indian operations of the Sony Ericsson expect stronger market advantage with this deal. Sony Ericsson came to India in 1993 and at present has less than 30 employees here. According to [Read more...]
Industry
Tablet market set to heat up in coming months
Competition in the low-cost tablet computer space is set to intensify in the next few months, as Lenovo Group Ltd?, Amazon.com Inc. and HCL Infosystems? Ltd are set to introduce inexpensive models [Read more...]
The origin and evolution of India’s Silicon Valley
By the early 1990s, Bangalore had became a hot destination with about 1,500 multinational IT companies establishing a presence in the city—all of them lured by the highly educated pool of human [Read more...]
New electronics policy aims to create 2.8 crore jobs
Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday unveiled the draft National Policy on Electronics, 2011, aimed at achieving a turnover of $400 billion for the sector by 2020, which involved [Read more...]
Electronics, IT sector to need 3.2 million workforce by 2022: NSDC
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has estimated that the electronics and IT hardware industry will require an additional 3-3.2 million skilled employees till 2022 and 70% of them will [Read more...]
Finance
Intel Capital Invests in India’s Happiest Minds Technologies
India to Attract $100 Billion Investment in Electronics Manufacturing
India’s draft electronics policy sets $400 billion annual turnover by 2020 news
Philips set to double India business in next five years
Dell India Revenue Nears $2 Billion
Intel logs into Indian market; targets 20% revenue jump in FY12
Casio India aims 40 pc sales growth, to launch e-dictionary
Semiconductor
World semiconductor industry under a slowdown: Gartner Inc
Semiconductor sales have dropped in the world, and are expected to drop further in the fourth quarter of this year, as per research firm Gartner Inc. Gartner expects that a inventory correction process in the industry will continue to dampen sales prospects for at least the [Read more...]Consumer Electronics
Handset sale in India expected to reach 35 crore by 2020
Sale of mobile handsets in India is expected to reach 35 crore units per annum by 2020 and the average selling price (ASP) of handsets in the country is estimated to rise to Rs. 2,950 by that year from Rs. 2,300 in 2010, according to a joint study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of [Read more...]
Manufacturing
Huawei launches ‘Made in India’ phone, service
Huawei Devices has launched its first customised 3G feature phone U5510 for the Indian audience aged 20–mid thirties. Developed by the Huawei India’s R&D centre in Bangalore, the phone features 3G video calling with dual camera. [Read more...]Government/Policy
India semiconductor fab is key, as per Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011
$35 tablet computer, draft National Policy on Electronics, and is followed by more important Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011 points out that [Read more...]
New policy to earmark purchases from domestic electronics firms
India is considering a move that would make it mandatory for all government departments to make at least one-third of the annual purchases of [Read more...]
Draft IT policy: Sops coming to draw investments to small cities
Fiscal policies to attract IT investments in smaller cities, and incentives for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to drive technology adoption are [Read more...]
Corporate
Sony expects to gain in India after buying out Ericsson AB
With Japan’s Sony buying out 50 per cent stake of Swedish wireless equipment firm LM Ericsson AB in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson, the Indian [Read more...]
Samsung to have smart phones across OSs
Samsung India has set its sights on capturing around 40 per cent market share in the smartphone and tablet PC markets in India in 2011. As part of [Read more...]
Acer eyes 20% growth in India revenues this year
Acer India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the $20-billion electronics major Acer Computer International Limited, is targeting to achieve a 20 per cent [Read more...]
New Launches
Cheapest tablet: How sky can be the limit for Aakash, plan for commercial success
First, a quick look at the specifications of the $35 tablet. Aakash is a 7th Android (Ver. 2.2) tablet with 256 MB RAM and 2 GB of storage, [Read more...]
Aakash tablet production cost less than $35
A dream project of the government, the ‘world’s cheapest tablet PC’, Aakash, is being produced at less than $ 35 (approximately Rs 1,750) per [Read more...]
India launches “world’s cheapest” tablet computer
India launched what it dubbed the world’s cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later [Read more...]
News and Events
The PC is not dead, it’s growing
Having spent 27 years with the company, Jean-Philippe Courtois has seen the $70 billion Microsoft Corp?. evolve from a software developer to one [Read more...]
Handset sale in India expected to reach 35 crore by 2020
Sale of mobile handsets in India is expected to reach 35 crore units per annum by 2020 and the average selling price (ASP) of handsets in the country [Read more...]
Cyber security under threat of foreign devices
Securing network devices from foreign countries could prove to be a threat on the country’s cyber security, Rear Admiral Rahul Sharawat, Director [Read more...]