VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) has disclosed details of their key role in enabling the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cricket Semiconductor and the Government of Madhya Pradesh for an analog fab proposed to be set up in the state. They provided a strategic roadmap to the company for locating the proposed unit in the country. The industry body is also helping Madhya Pradesh for their investment promotion initiatives. The proposed investment is expected to be Rs.6,000 crore (US$1 billion) to set up an analog wafer fab in the country. The creation of this fab ecosystem coupled with the products and systems value chain is expected to create close-to 450,000 new jobs, making a potential future economic impact of $40 billion, over its project life span and reduce electronics import burden for the nation. Madhya Pradesh recently approved the “Analog Semiconductor Fabrication [FAB] Investment Policy”  that provides for free government land, reim...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   To meet the demands of increasingly discerning end-users, system designers need processors with the performance to run rich user interfaces without sacrificing real-time responsiveness or power efficiency,  Freescale Semiconductor  has introduced the industry’s first applications processor to integrate an  ARM Cortex-A9 processor  and an  ARM Cortex-M4 processor  in a single chip design. This design enables enhanced flexibility, performance and low-power functionality for the company’s flagship i.MX 6 applications processor family. “Freescale has leveraged its experience and deep understanding of microcontrollers, microprocessors and heterogeneous SoC design to deliver yet another industry first,” said  Rajeev Kumar, Worldwide Director of Marketing and Business Development for Freescale’s MCU business. Freescale’s i.MX 6 series of applications processors is growing quickly, particularly in the...