• ELECTRONICS
    Analyst sees muted recovery for semis and electronics

    “Muted” is probably about the best word to describe the expected recovery for semiconductors and electronics. In a Semi.org blog, analyst Walt Custer of Custer Consulting Group said the normal autumn upturn for electronics is “less robust” than normal. “The muted seasonal recovery is obvious,” he said. In August, shipments of electronics globally were down 6.4% […]

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    Bharat Electronics signs MoU with TEL for ammunition business

    Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tamil Nadu Industrial Explosives Limited (TEL), a Tamil Nadu government undertaking, for co-operation in the explosives segment.. The MoU was signed by Anandi Ramalingam, Director-Marketing, BEL, and C Kamaraj, CMD, TEL, recently, in the presence of Edappadi K Palaniswami, Chief Minister of Tamil […]

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    Electronics showroom burgled

    Ludhiana: An electronics showroom, Micro IT Solutions, situated in Kochar Market, was burgled on the night of Tuesday. The thieves reportedly decamped with around 70 laptops and cash. However, the police investigation suggested that the thieves did not steal these many laptops. The thieves entered the showroom after prying open the main shutter. They were […]

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    IEEE Unveils Roadmap Addressing the Future of Electronics

    IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced the 2019 release of the Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap (HIR), a roadmap to the future of electronics identifying technology requirements and potential solutions. The primary objective is to stimulate pre-competitive collaboration among industry, academia and government to accelerate progress. The roadmap offers professionals, industry, academia and research […]

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    Bharat Electronics Q2 PAT seen up 1.3% YoY to Rs. 578.5 cr: ICICI Direct

    ICICI Direct has come out with its second quarter (July-September’ 19) earnings estimates for the Capital Goods & Power sector. The brokerage house expects Bharat Electronics to report net profit at Rs. 578.5 crore up 1.3% year-on-year (up 182.6% quarter-on-quarter). Net Sales are expected to increase by 5.7 percent Y-o-Y (up 70.1 percent Q-o-Q) to Rs. 3,573.9 crore, according to […]

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    Samsung Electronics says Q3 profit seen down 56%, beats expectations

    South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics on October 8 reported its third-quarter operating profit likely tumbled 56 percent, hurt by a downturn in global memory chip prices but slightly better than analysts had anticipated. The world’s biggest semiconductor firm by revenue has struggled since late last year as a weak global economy and slower spending from […]

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    MeitY to push for more sops to lure electronic makers

    NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) will push the finance ministry to approve additional incentives to attract electronics manufacturers into the country, according to two government officials. The sops include interest subsidy on loans, credit guarantees for plant and machinery and renewal of the Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) scheme after the earlier one ended […]

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    More sops needed to boost electronic manufacturing: Top govt official

    NEW DELHI | CHENNAI: India may have to offer electronic manufacturers additional sops such as cheap credit and incentives for export along with infrastructure support in order to boost production and help the sector compete with China, Vietnam and Thailand, according to a top government official. These incentives, over and above the proposed reduction of corporate tax to 15% […]

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    From splash to style: meet electronics engineer and artist Chetana Ravi

    Karntataka Chitrakala Parishath (KCP) in Bengaluru recently hosted an exhibition titled ‘Hues of Spikes,’ featuring the works of Chetana Ravi. Mythical and mystical characters mix with everyday scenes and scenarios, in her vibrant surrealistic style. “I am an electronics engineer by qualification, but an artist by passion. Art has been my passion since my childhood days,” says Chetana, […]

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    Union Minister asks electronics manufacturers to take full advantage of tax incentives

    Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on September 20 exhorted electronics and mobile makers to take full advantage of the tax incentives announced by the government, saying the latest measures underlined the commitment to transform India into a manufacturing hub. The comments came after the government slashed the tax rate for companies by almost 10 percentage […]