Smartphone makers ask Indian retailers to brace for supply shortageThe global chip and component shortage has intensified, affecting supplies of smartphones, laptops, smart televisions and internet-connecte...
08 Jul, 2021, 07.23 PM IST
Govt's 'Make in India' initiative is unlikely to help the semiconductor production value chainIndia’s manufacturing industry does rely heavily on imported components, including semiconductors, smartphone screens, LED screens, sensors...
11 Apr, 2020, 11.02 PM IST
Hitech to assemble 4G phones at Kolkata plantHitech will locally assemble affordable 4G phones from April at its production facility near Kolkata, a move aimed at tapping into the smar...
09 Dec, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
After Aakash, government to develop sub- $100 smartphonesFlooding the market with low cost “Made In India” smartphones is at the heart of the government’s plans to evolve a broadband ecosystem.
02 Aug, 2013, 11.26 AM IST
Telecom sector looking to 4G upgradation: Semiconductor companies come up with innovative, low-cost technologyTwo major challenges which telecom players are facing now is increasing the reach of the fibre network to various locations and ensuring av...
26 Nov, 2012, 08.58 AM IST
- Homegrown mobile companies to raise $1bn through PE funds
Gee Pee Infotech, Karbonn Mobile, Lava Mobile, Olive Telecom & Spice Telecom hunt for investors to ramp up size and sophistication of opera...
06 Apr, 2011, 05.18 AM IST
- Programmeable logic devices propel technology research
PLDs or programmeable logic devices are building blocks on which researchers designing 3D TVs, mobile phones and satellites mount innovativ...
03 Feb, 2011, 01.46 AM IST
- Gee Pee in talks for tech sharing
Gee Pee Infotech, a 300-crore low-cost cellphone maker, plans to enter into technology partnerships with Chinese and Taiwanese wireless chi...
14 Jan, 2011, 03.03 AM IST
- Qualcomm dials GTL for broadband push
Qualcomm in talks with GTL to form JV for rolling out broadband wireless access services in India, if it wins spectrum in the forthcoming a...
02 Apr, 2010, 01.02 AM IST
'Cellphone batteries that can power laptops'Like its rival Nokia, the world's largest CDMA chipset maker, Qualcomm, is now eyeing the computing platforms.
29 Apr, 2009, 06.44 PM IST
- Mobile makers bet big on GPS handsets
Cellphone makers always keep a new proposition handy to perk up sales even before fatigue starts setting in with the previous one.
06 Oct, 2008, 01.01 AM IST
- Qualcomm, Nokia call truce in patent battle
Qualcomm, the world’s biggest maker of mobile-phone chips, rose the most in more than eight years after boosting 2008 sales and profit targ...
25 Jul, 2008, 12.55 AM IST
- NXP Semiconductors signs pact with SRV Telecom
NXP Semiconductors, a newly independent semiconductor company (founded by Philips), has entered into an alliance with Bangalore-based SRV T...
18 Dec, 2006, 02.41 AM IST
- Spice Ltd plans to unveil exclusive handsets
Spice Ltd, the fledgling handsets business arm of the near Rs 2000-crore B K Modi Group, is poised to unveil a clutch of exclusive handset ...
08 Nov, 2006, 08.50 PM IST
- US may bar handsets with Qualcomm chips
The global patent battle between Qualcomm and Broadcom Corp for supremacy in a fast-growing segment of the wireless-telephone industry may ...
03 Oct, 2006, 12.58 AM IST
- Hello! Cellphones may cost 20% less
Prices of cellphones may come down by 20% as manufacturers are to launch single-chipset handsets.
25 Aug, 2006, 03.03 AM IST
- AMD to gain by ATI acquisition
American microprocessor company AMD has announced it would acquire graphics and consumer electronics chipsets maker ATI Technologies.
24 Jul, 2006, 04.09 PM IST