• ELECTRONICS
    8 Bharat Electronics officials in soup over favouring companies

    The vigilance department of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a defence public undertaking, has ordered blacklisting of a design consultant and action against eight of its own senior officials over irregularities in awarding contracts. BEL allegedly allocated a consultancy contract to RD Konsultants for a confidential defence project to a single company without following due process, […]

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    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, […]

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    Mobile phones, consumer electronics lift Reliance Retail

    KOLKATA: India’s largest retailer Reliance Retail’s cellphone and consumer electronicsretailing business crossed the $5-billion revenue mark in the year to March, underscoring the breadth of its market presence. Sales in these two categories — which account for about a third of the total — through Reliance Digital and Reliance Jio stores more than doubled to Rs […]

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    India Electronics and Semiconductor Association appoints Intel’s Jitendra Chaddah as its Chairman

    Industry body India Electronics and Semiconductor Association Monday said it has appointed Jitendra Chaddah as its chairman. Chaddah, Intel India senior director for operations and strategy, has over two decades of industry experience. “I feel extremely honored for taking up the position of IESA chairman at a time when the Indian electronics and semiconductor industry […]

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    Bharat Electronics Q4 PAT may dip 20% YoY to Rs. 446.9 cr: Prabhudas Lilladher

    Prabhudas Lilladher has come out with its fourth quarter (January-March’ 19) earnings estimates for the Capital Goodssector. The brokerage house expects Bharat Electronics to report net profit at Rs. 446.9 crore down 20% year-on-year (down 12% quarter-on-quarter). Net Sales are expected to increase by 32.9 percent Q-o-Q) to Rs. 3,609.4 crore, according to Prabhudas Lilladher. Earnings before interest, tax, […]

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    Bharat Electronics Q4 PAT may dip 38.8% YoY to Rs. 342.1 cr: ICICI Direct

    ICICI Direct has come out with its fourth quarter (January-March’ 19) earnings estimates for the Capital Goods sector. The brokerage house expects Bharat Electronics to report net profit at Rs. 342.1 crore down 38.8% year-on-year (down 32.6% quarter-on-quarter). Net Sales are expected to increase by 6.5 percent Y-o-Y (up 41.5 percent Q-o-Q) to Rs. 3,843.1 crore, according to ICICI Direct. […]

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    Computer Models Simplify the Synthesis of Organic Electronics

    Organic electronics could change the electronics industry  with their high cost-efficiencies and versatility compared with more commonly used inorganic electronics. For example, their flexibility could let companies print them like paper or put them into clothing to power wearable electronics. However, they have failed to gain much industry traction due to the difficulty of controlling […]

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    New technique can make flexible electronics self-repairing too

    Flexible electronics is making possible tiny gadgets for a variety of applications such as wearable devices and strip thermometers. But circuits inside them are prone to breakage if such flexible electronic devices are bent in different directions over a period of time. A new technique developed by a group of Indian and British researchers promises […]

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    GAIL pipeline leak creates tension at Electronics City

    Tension gripped Electronics City after Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) began leaking from the GAIL pipeline in AECS Layout on Sunday evening. Fire and emergency officials rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control after an hour. Senior fire officials said residents of Haraluru Road near Singasandra had called the fire control room around 7 […]

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    ‘India needs to emerge as an electronics export hub to attract investments’

    NEW DELHI: India needs to emerge and be seen as an electronics export hub to be able to tap into the new opportunities and attract investments from global handset players, a panel of top handset industry executives discussed at ETTelecom’s India Mobile Conclave on Tuesday. The panel which was moderated by IDC’s research director Navkendar Singh emphasized on how […]