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Indian startup targets AI inference opportunity with full-stack compute platform

Tuesday 28 April 2026

While global AI infrastructure investment remains concentrated around massive GPU clusters for training frontier models, Indian startup Turiyam.ai is betting on a different commercial reality: the dominance of inference.

IndieSemiC partners with Nordic on wireless modules as India expands design-led semiconductor push

Thursday 23 April 2026

IndieSemiC, an Indian semiconductor and chip design company, has partnered with Nordic Semiconductor to design and commercialize wireless modules for connected devices, as Indian firms seek to capture more value in the...

Micron's Sanand ramp shifts India chip debate from milestone to manufacturing system

Wednesday 22 April 2026

Micron Technology's Sanand assembly, test, marking, and packaging plant has given India something it lacked until recently: a live semiconductor manufacturing operation with global supply-chain relevance.

IndieSemiC eyes India's general-purpose chip gap with Kaynes OSAT deal

Tuesday 7 April 2026

India-based fabless startup IndieSemiC is betting that its new OSAT partnership with Kaynes Semicon can help it move from RF modules into vertically integrated chip products. However, the company acknowledged that the...

India's FDI reset opens controlled door to Chinese participation in semiconductor supply chains

Monday 23 March 2026

India's decision to ease foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions for neighboring countries marks a calibrated shift in policy that could reshape its electronics and semiconductor supply chains, even as geopolitical...

Rohm eyes India as emerging hub for power semiconductor packaging and automotive supply

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Japanese semiconductor maker Rohm is expanding its engagement with India's nascent semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, positioning the country as a potential future export base while initially targeting domestic...

India's 2026 semiconductor ramp unlikely to move global wafer supply needle, analysts say

Thursday 12 March 2026

India's plan to bring four semiconductor facilities into commercial production in 2026 marks an important milestone for the country's semiconductor ambitions, but analysts say the move will have only a limited impact on...

Nasdaq-listed AI chipmaker Blaize bets on India for sovereign edge inference growth

Tuesday 3 March 2026

As much of the global semiconductor industry remains fixated on AI training accelerators and hyperscale GPUs, US-based AI processor company Blaize is making a different wager in India: large-scale inference embedded in...

Can Polymatech anchor India's compound semiconductor supply chain?

Monday 23 February 2026

Looking beyond advanced logic nodes, compound semiconductors have emerged as a strategic priority for applications ranging from power electronics and RF to optoelectronics.

Intel India makes key contributions to Panther Lake, leads reference design and validation

Tuesday 17 February 2026

Intel's India engineering center made significant contributions to the recently launched Panther Lake client platform in the areas like x86 core, platform design, post-silicon validation, reference design and platform...

India does the heavy lifting: RISC-V moves into cars and factories

Tuesday 10 February 2026

RISC-V is gaining commercial traction in automotive and industrial electronics, though its adoption remains constrained by execution risk and uneven ecosystem maturity, according to IT services firm UST.

India wins electronics investment, but key gap threatens momentum

Wednesday 4 February 2026

India's rise as an electronics manufacturing hub has been one of the fastest shifts in the global supply chain over the past decade. Geopolitical realignments, generous incentives, and growing interest from...

India targets post-quantum secure chip personalization with Kaynes Semicon-SEALSQ joint venture

Monday 12 January 2026

India's semiconductor ambitions are beginning to extend beyond fabrication and conventional packaging into secure chip personalization and cryptographic control, as Kaynes Semicon and SEALSQ detailed the roadmap for...

India's OSATs are comfortable with materials today, but that may not last

Thursday 8 January 2026

India's backend semiconductor manufacturers are benefiting from a narrow window of materials comfort that is closely tied to the use of legacy packaging technologies.

India's L&T Semiconductor to unveil partnerships in cellular IoT modules and power devices at CES

Wednesday 31 December 2025

L&T Semiconductor Technologies is expected to outline a partner-led expansion into cellular IoT modules at CES, positioning India as a future manufacturing base and sourcing option in a market long dominated by imported...

Move over, Malaysia? India's emerging OSAT sector claims price parity in legacy packaging

Monday 29 December 2025

India's first wave of OSAT facilities is moving from capacity announcements to competitive positioning, with some domestic players now benchmarking themselves against established backend hubs rather than solely against...

How is India's AI governance framework reshaping where AI runs?

Monday 22 December 2025

India's tightening AI governance rules are no longer just shaping compliance strategies. They are beginning to influence where artificial intelligence workloads are deployed, pushing sensitive applications toward...

India's iVP Semi targets 30% of renewable energy chip market through guaranteed supply model

Friday 19 December 2025

Chennai-based iVP Semiconductor is betting it can crack India's power semiconductor market by solving a problem that global chipmakers largely ignore: the poor service experience of Indian OEMs, who rank low in their...

Dolphin Semiconductor shifts toward platform-led, mixed-signal IP in HCLTech collaboration

Tuesday 16 December 2025

French semiconductor IP vendor Dolphin Semiconductor said its collaboration with HCLTech reflects growing demand for pre-optimized, platform-based system-on-chip development, as energy costs, time-to-market pressure,...

India's state-run chip fab upgrade puts public-sector model to the test

Thursday 11 December 2025

India's effort to modernize its state-run Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) is shaping up to be one of the most consequential experiments in the country's semiconductor strategy.

India's Ziroh Labs pitches CPU-first AI compute as power-hungry GPUs face scrutiny

Wednesday 19 November 2025

India's Ziroh Labs is positioning its Kompact AI runtime as a homegrown alternative to GPU-based AI compute, arguing that enterprise AI adoption in emerging markets will hinge as much on energy availability and hardware...

India's Kaynes Semicon outlines OSAT roadmap from power to advanced packaging

Thursday 13 November 2025

Kaynes Semicon, the semiconductor division of India's Kaynes Technology, is expanding beyond its success in power module packaging toward advanced chiplet and co-packaged optics assembly.

What India's latest PCB drive means for its semiconductor supply chain growth

Friday 31 October 2025

India's newly approved multilayer and high-density interconnect (HDI) printed circuit board (PCB) projects mark a crucial upstream shift in the country's electronics manufacturing ecosystem, one that analysts say could...

India's semiconductor ecosystem expands beyond fabs with software-IP firms

Tuesday 28 October 2025

As India prepares to begin commercial chip production by late 2025, much of the discussion has focused on new fabs in Gujarat.

India moves from component-level XR optics to full-stack manufacturing

Tuesday 21 October 2025

India's efforts to establish itself in next-generation electronics manufacturing have taken a major step forward, as QWR Interactive Solutions and Kaynes Technology announced plans for what they call the country's first...