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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Huawei set to run out of SoCs soon, smartphone manufacturing will come to a halt

Chinese tech giant Huawei has recently reported that it is running out of SoCs to manufacture smartphones. The company will also have to halt the production of its flagship Kirin processors. These chips were used in its own as well as smartphones from other companies. This is a direct result of the serious sanctions that the US imposed on Huawei and US companies it is in business with.

Huawei is one of the biggest producers of smartphone and connected technologies in the world. And this is a huge setback for the company, because like most smartphone companies it is dependent on American technologies and companies for providing a complete smartphone experience. The US-China tension over technology and the resulting security issues resulted in these sanctions. US President recently imposed sanctions on Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat as well.

The sanctions on Huawei were imposed last year which cut off Huawei’s access to US components and technologies. This resulted in companies like Google retracting support of Huawei smartphones. These sanctions were made stricter in May when the White House outright barred vendors worldwide from producing components for Huawei using US technology.

Richard Yu, president of the Huawei’s consumer unit said that production of Kirin chips will stop on September 15. This is because the chips are made by contractors using US manufacturing technology. He specified that Huawei does not have the capability to manufacture their own chips.

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“This is a very big loss for us. Unfortunately, in the second round of U.S. sanctions, our chip producers only accepted orders until May 15. Production will close on September 15.” said Yu. “This year may be the last generation of Huawei Kirin high-end chips.”

He emphasized that Huawei’s smartphone manufacturing has no chips of it’s own and no supply of them as well. He added that the company’s sale will probably be lower than last year’s 240 million handsets.

Huawei became the world’s highest selling smartphone brand overtaking rivals Samsung in the first quarter which ended in June according to Canalys.



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