• ELECTRONICS
    Samsung Electronics to invest $9.6 billion annually in logic chips until 2030

    Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it would invest 11 trillion won ($9.57 billion) annually through 2030 in logic chip businesses, including its foundry business. The investment until 2030, worth 133 trillion won in total, comes as the world’s top memory chip maker strengthens non-memory semiconductor businesses such as contract chip manufacturing, known as foundry, […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    India’s draft electronics policy aims $400 billion manufacturing industry by 2025

    The country’s draft electronics policy released by the IT ministry on Wednesday has set an ambitious target of creating a $400 billion electronics manufacturing industry by 2025, with the mobile phone devices segment accounting for three-fourths of the production. The draft National Policy on Electronics (NPE) aims to promote domestic manufacturing in the entire value-chain […]

  • ALL DEALS
    Foxconn Plans US Display Plant for Over $10 Billion, Scouting for Location

    HIGHLIGHTS Foxconn is currently considering Wisconsin, Ohio, and others The company plans to invest more than $10 billion in a plant in the US Foxconn already has operations in Pennsylvania Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and a major Apple supplier, plans to invest more than $10 billion (roughly Rs. 64,588 crores) in a display-making factory […]

  • COMPUTERS
    HPE to Buy Nimble Storage for $1.09 Billion

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co said it would buy data storage provider Nimble Storage Inc for $1.09 billion (roughly Rs. 7,272 crores) in cash, to expand its presence in the fast-growing flash storage business. HPE Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman has been focusing on a few areas such as networking, storage and technology services since the […]

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    Amazon Pumping Nearly $1.5 Billion Into US Air Freight Hub

    Online retail colossus Amazon on Tuesday said it will strengthen its distribution muscle, and create US jobs, by building its first air freight hub, an investment of nearly $1.5 billion. A hub for the company’s growing fleet of Prime Air cargo planes will be built at an airport in northern Kentucky, adding more than 2,000 […]

  • COUPONS
    Samsung to Buy Harman for About $8 Billion in Cash

    Samsung to Buy Harman for About $8 Billion in Cash Samsung Electronics said Monday it would buy US auto parts maker Harman International Industries for $8 billion (roughly Rs. 54,107 crores) in a bid to enter the growing market for automotive technology to produce “connected” cars. Board members of Samsung – the world’s largest producer […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    China’s $100 Billion Chip Supremacy Bid Deemed Unrealistic

    HIGHLIGHTS China wants to become premier supplier of semiconductors to the planet Part of a broader effort to wean itself off foreign technology China currently makes just 15 percent of the semiconductors it consumes China faces an uphill battle in its push to become the global leader in computer chips because of a lack of […]

  • ALL DEALS
    Japan’s Renesas to Buy US Chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 Billion

    Japan’s Renesas to Buy US Chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 Billion Japan’s Renesas Electronics will buy smaller US chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 billion (roughly Rs. 21,392 crores), the companies said Tuesday, as part of a push into the lucrative auto market. Renesas, one of the world’s biggest supplier of automotive microcontroller chips, said it would pay […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Japan’s Renesas to Buy US Chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 Billion

    Japan’s Renesas Electronics will buy smaller US chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 billion (roughly Rs. 21,392 crores), the companies said Tuesday, as part of a push into the lucrative auto market. Renesas, one of the world’s biggest supplier of automotive microcontroller chips, said it would pay $22.50 a share for its rival, in an all-cash deal […]