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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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Ahead of iPhone 14 launch, US likely to probe Apple over anti-market practices

After taking on Meta (Facebook) and Google with antitrust lawsuits, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly drafting an antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the company “abused its market power to stifle smaller tech companies, including app developers and competing hardware makers”. According to a report in the Politico citing sources, the Justice Department is “in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple”.

“Various groups of prosecutors inside the DOJ are assembling the pieces for a potential lawsuita and the department’s antitrust division hopes to file suit by the end of the year,” the report said. Both DOJ and Apple did not comment on the report. However, the Justice Department is yet to make a firm decision on “whether or when to sue Apple, the world’s most valuable public company”.

It is still possible “no case will be filed”. If filed, it will be the first antitrust lawsuit by the DOJ against Big Tech under the US President Joe Biden’s administration. European antitrust watchdogs have filed antitrust cases against Apple over its App Store fees and the iPhone’s treatment of tap-to-pay technology.

The Justice Department has been investigating Apple since 2019 over allegations that it abused its market power to stifle smaller tech companies. In May, a US judge denied Apple’s appeal to dismiss an amended antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of Cydia, an app store for jailbroken iPhones.

Cydia developer Jay Freeman first filed a lawsuit against Apple in 2020, alleging that Apple “has wrongfully acquired and maintained monopoly power” in iOS app distribution and payments. Freeman shut down the Cydia store in 2018. Meanwhile, Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite game, challenged Apple for its stand that third-party app stores would compromise the iPhone’s security. Last year, a US judge ruled in the Epic Games v. Apple district court case that Apple did not have a monopoly in the relevant market.

 

 

 

(IANS)

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