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Japan car makers scramble to assess impact of Renesas auto chip-plant fire

Toyota, Nissan, Honda and other Japanese automakers scrambled to assess production impact of a fire at a Renesas Electronics automotive chip plant that could aggravate global semiconductor shortage

Centre targets global majors for semiconductor fabrication plants

MeitY draws up list of potential players

Inflation is already creeping into some corners of the world economy

Hawks say that pockets of inflation today will turn into across-the-board price increases tomorrow, with stimulus providing the fuel

Can Vinod Dham-founded AlphaICs disrupt the AI-based chip market?

The firm operates in the mid-power segment worth $15-20 billion, and is designing a chip targeted for vision applications like surveillance, industrial automation and IoT

GM extends vehicle production cuts due to semiconductor chip shortage

The U.S. automaker did not disclose the impact on volumes or say which supplier or parts were affected by the chip shortage, but said it intends to recover as much of the lost output as possible

Want new factory to make car chips? That'll be $4 billion, please

It takes approximately $4 billion to set up a fab for the types of chips carmakers need

Resolution of semiconductor shortage may take months: Bosch India MD

In another two and a half to three years, Bosch will have 2,500 lesser associates, says MD Bhattacharya

Trump's China tech war backfires on automakers as chips run short

Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that has been exacerbated by the US actions against key Chinese chip factories, officials said

Ford joins top automakers to halt production due to semiconductor shortage

Ford has joined Nissan, Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota who have curtailed production amid a global semiconductor shortage, delaying the production of some vehicles

Auto firms stare at supply outages amid global shortage of semiconductors

This comes at a time when demand in world's fifth largest auto market is in the initial stage of recovery after the Coronavirus pandemic-induced lockdown earlier this year

Semiconductor assembly majors plan to set up manufacturing units in India

If the current talks with the ATMP big boys fructify, it will be a major step for the country.

The future of 'civic' technologies

Such technological intervention will have lasting benefits. It will ease bottlenecks that prevent access to credit and bring SMEs within a national infrastructure programme

Hero Electronix's Tessolve acquires UK-based chip design services firm T&VS

The acquisition is expected to help Tessolve to become the largest semiconductor engineering services player in the world

Micron Technology appoints Anand Ramamoorthy to head India operations

The US memory chip giant is eyeing opportunities in India to provide its technology to the government, large Indian enterprises and small and medium companies

China is raising up to $31.5 billion to fuel chip vision

The secretive China IC Fund plays a key role by steering overall investment and strategy