Gude says while the complexity of manufacturing chips required in fabs is very high and not enough talent is available, the country has some talent in the 0-15 years’ experience range for ATMP/ OSAT operations. “The current talent pool that we use for chip design can be reskilled quickly to cater to OSAT operations as the number of jobs that each such unit would require would be in the range of 200-1,000 people,” says Gude.
LTIMindtree and IBM launch a Generative AI Center of Excellence in India to develop AI solutions, combining data expertise and watsonx technology, to tackle business challenges and drive AI adoption.
The company, which has 25 core compute and storage sites across the world, announced in February that, in the first phase of the Gecko project, it aims to embed compute with support for virtual machines (VM) into 100 cities by the end of the year. The initiative is part of Akamai’s multi-year strategy to become a key platform in enterprise multi-cloud environments.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has already held a couple of meetings with industry bodies such as the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) that counts Apple among other global electronics giants as its members, a senior government official said.
Confluent plans 25% workforce growth in India in 2024, with a focus on Indian public sector and BFSI. India houses a significant Confluent team for product development, projected to expand rapidly, as the company values cost-effective solutions for large data volumes.
AET manufactures LED displays for out-of-home advertising, shopping malls, business centres and counts Tata group, Shoppers Stop, and Chivas among its clients. Its LED screens measure 0.6 millimeter for indoors up to 10 millimeters for outdoor use.
Siemens executives affirm India's potential as a manufacturing powerhouse, with a focus on infrastructure development. Leveraging India's talent pool, Siemens aims to drive growth through AI innovation and strategic partnerships in semiconductor manufacturing.
It is not the first time that India has been put on the list. Govt and the US authorities have divergent views on several aspects of India’s intellectual property rights regime, with the way patents are granted for medicines being a pet peeve for the Americans and Big Pharma.
Valued at about $30 billion, MongoDB counts Tata Digital, Tata AIG, Canara HSBC Life Insurance, Zomato, Devnagri, Ambee, Inovaare and Observe.AI among its key clients.
This is partly because Samsung has been manufacturing mobile phones as well as other appliances locally in India much before the government’s production-linked incentive scheme came into force and boosted India to become the second largest mobile phone manufacturer.
Debjani Ghosh, president of IT industry body Nasscom, was speaking at the launch of Genpact’s AI Innovation Centre in Gurugram. India may build some AI models, but it need not waste a lot of money and effort on this, she said.
Get updates on your preferred social platform
Follow us for the latest news, insider access to events and more.
