IT services major Tata Consultancy Services has entered into a partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, to develop what it said is India's first quantum diamond microchip imager.
US President Joe Biden has directed his Trade Representative to increase tariffs on USD 18 billion of imports from China, including semiconductors, solar cells, batteries, and critical minerals to 'protect' American workers and businesses, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday.
During an interactive session on Northeast India's integration with Southeast Asia and Japan at Kirori Mal College, Delhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar emphasis on India's future, and said, "To me, the future will be semiconductors, it will be electric mobility, it will be space
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Theodora Gentzis discussed strengthening economic and political cooperation between India, Belgium and the EU on Tuesday.
Manufacturing of semiconductors in Assam will put the state on the global map, said industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata, whose conglomerate has put in Rs 27,000 crore in investments for a semiconductor plant in Jagiroad.
Stating that semiconductors are the gateway to everything that is used in people's lives and almost every industry, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that in the Bharatiya Janata Party's next term, a very strong semiconductor industry will be built on the foundation laid by Prime Minister
The US-headquartered multinational corporation, Qualcomm, is famed for designing and manufacturing semiconductors and wireless telecommunications products.
Union minister for communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision is to create an entire value chain of semiconductors in India.
Tata Group hopes that the commercial production of semiconductors chips at the two plants - in Gujarat and Assam - whose foundation stones were laid on Wednesday, would start in 2026.