Intel to invest up to $200 million in India

Intel Corp, the world's No 1 chipmaker, said on Thursday it could invest up to $200 million in India to ramp up its software design centre and more than triple the number of engineers to 3,000 in a few years.

Intel's three-year-old development centre in Bangalore designs and develops software to power chips that drive personal computers and high-end network computers for Internet-based applications

'Not gloom, but tough times ahead for India

I think more of it is politics than what can be implemented. If you read the fine print of those clauses, it is not as bad. There are so many ways for companies to do outsourcing if they really want to. It is only the headline that catches the attention. If you read the fine print, you will know that there are many ways by which companies can outsource

chipmaker Intel's director

Avtar Saini, chipmaker Intel's director (South Asia) unveiling the Centrino Mobile Technology, a chip that integrates wireless capability into laptops, in Delhi on Wednesday.

Satyam episode not to affect investment

Intel Capital, part of the world's largest chip maker, has said that its investments into India will not be affected by the Satyam episode and such incidents happen in every country. "It shouldn't," Intel Capital managing director for India, Japan , Australasia and south-east Asia Sudheer Kuppam told reporters when asked if there would be impact on Intel capital investment in India after the Satyam episode

The Shepherd

We've finally found some silicon artwork on an Intel chip--the first we have ever seen! This shepherd was discovered tending a two-headed ram on the Intel 8207, a dual-port RAM controller chip used in the early 80x86 era. According to Intel chip designer Robert Stear, the chip was designed and manufactured in the Haifa plant in the early 1980s. Regarding the significance of these doodles, we assume the shepherd represents a "controller" and the two-headed ram symbolizes dual-ported RAM circuitry

World's top 10 patent leaders

World's top 10 patent leaders

January 24, 2009

Panasonic Corp

Matsushita now known as Panasonic Corp comes sixth in the list with 1,745 patents.

Panasonic's vision is to build products 'in harmony with the environment'.

In January, the company won patents for a method of designing a semiconductor integrated circuit, Loudspeaker edge, Data library device, fuel cell etc.

Panasonic makes products that can be easily used by people with disabilities also

Now, NASA supercomputer is 'fastest'

The Unites States space agency NASA has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer at its Ames Research Centre in California, where India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla worked for years, in honour of the seven crew members of spacecraft Columbia which crashed last year.