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...
NASA announces Boeing Starliner OFT-2 mission date for Commercial Crew Program
NASA along with Boeing announced that it targets to launch the second uncrewed flight test of Starliner no earlier than March 25 under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The agency states that Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), is a very critical milestone, which will ultimately lead to the company flying crew missions for NASA to the InternationalSpaceStation (ISS).
To recall, Elon Musk‘s SpaceX has already passed all of these tests and completed its first commercial crew rotation mission to and from the ISS last year under the Commercial Crew Program.
The agency claims that the target launch date has been enabled due to a lot of things lining up just right. These things include an opening on the Eastern Range, availability of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, steady progress on hardware and software, and an ISS docking opportunity.
Boeing recently completed the requalification process for its Starliner OFT-2 flight software. During this, the company conducted a full software review and several series of tests to verify that Starliner’s software meets the design specifications provided by NASA. The company has also stated that soon it will be completing an end-to-end simulation of the OFT-2 test flight. This will be completed using flight hardware and final versions of Starliner’s flight software, which will be used to model the vehicle’s expected behaviour before the flight.
The OFT-2 mission will launch Starliner aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The launch will take place from the Space Launch Complex-41, located at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starliner will dock to the ISS and make its journey back, finally landing in the western United States about a week later. This will play a huge part in the end-to-end flight testing, thus proving that the system can host a flight crew.
To recall, Boeing recently mated its reusable crew module during a test on its new service module inside of the Starliner production factory, located inside of the Kennedy Space Center. It stated that teams have been working very hard to complete Starliner’s interior before loading cargo and conducting final spacecraft checkouts.
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