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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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Don’t need to carry original documents for passport verification, govt approves DigiLocker support

The Ministry of  External Affairs has launched the “Passport Seva Programme” by which Indian citizens who need to apply for a passport can submit documents required for passport verification via the DigiLocker app and won’t have to carry their original documents during verification.

Union minister V Muraleedharan launched the programme which would enable the citizens to go paperless and this also speeds up the entire process of passport deliveries in India.

“This has seen a sea change in the last six years. The monthly submission of applications has crossed the one million mark for the first time in 2017. I am told that more than seven crore passports have been issued through the Passport Seva project till date,” he said.

Passport details anytime, anywhere

The minister also said that the government is looking to include the passport as one of the documents in the DigiLocker app which will help citizens retrieve their passport information whenever they want.

Also, the facility can also be used in case of passport loss or to re-issue the same.

The DigiLocker app is an initiative for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology that aims at “digital empowerment” of citizens and providing access to original government related documents via a digital wallet.

The issue of digital documents via the DigiLocker app is deemed to be at par with original physical documents. You can also store your Aadhaar, and PAN card details in the app. You can also store your driving license and vehicle registration details on the app.

The ease of e-passports

“We are also working towards rolling out e-passports for the citizens that are designed to increase security, making it more difficult to tamper with the data recorded on a passport, thereby limiting the chances of fraud,” Muraleedharan said.

In the near future, e-passports will help with biometric authentication at airports hence making the entire security check process much faster. In the second version of the Passport Seva Programme, the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, chatbot, analytics, robotic process automation (RPA) will further ease the experience of the citizens and lead to expeditious service delivery, the minister said.



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