India goes deep into semicon market | ZDNet

▤ Summary

BENGALURU, India--The country has capabilities to be a leader in the realm of embedded systems, but it must first build the facilities and ecosystem needed to support this market, say industry experts. "In future, one of the things that India might be good at is exploiting the use of IC (integrated circuits) fabrication to generate extremely low-cost RFID (radio frequency identification) components," he said. According to Richard Wallace, global editorial director of Techinsights, growth in the Indian embedded systems industry is triggered by not just exports, but also by the domestic market. "As the Indian population gets more prosperous, they are buying more mobile phones, more high definition television sets and other consumer electronics, and soon, cars like Tata Nano--all of which run on sophisticated embedded software," Wallace told ZDNet Asia. Speaking at the ESC, Ashok Kumar Manoli, principal secretary of IT, biotechnology and science and technology with the Karnataka government, said the state aims to create the ecosystem necessary to kickstart growth across all components of the semiconductor business, including manufacturing.

▦ Linked Companies

Mistral Solutions

$25M to $50M