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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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Attention Airtel users! 5G will be available in 8 Indian cities from today

Airtel, one of India’s leading and oldest telecom companies, announced its 5G services will become available to its users in at least eight cities from today. On the inaugural day of the India Mobile Congress, Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, said Airtel 5G will go live in New Delhi, Varanasi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru in addition to four other cities. While he did not mention what the other four cities will be, they will likely be one of the cities the Department of Telecom earmarked earlier.

Mittal said Airtel will expand 5G coverage in India by 2023, while in less than two years in March 2024, the company hopes to bring 5G connectivity to every nook and corner of the country. He made the announcement right before Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off 5G services in India.

Airtel’s 5G roadmap

Airtel was the first telecom company in India to announce its 5G roadmap. Ahead of Reliance Jio’s announcement in August, the Mittal-led company said it will introduce 5G in select Indian cities from October. While metropolitan cities will get the service on a priority basis, some major tier-II cities will also become 5G enabled by the end of 2021. Next year will primarily be focused on the expansion of 5G services to more cities.

Even though Airtel 5G is now available in at least eight cities, the availability of 5G will be limited to select locations. This means that not everyone will be able to use 5G even if they reside in cities that have 5G connectivity now live. The coverage of 5G services to more locations within a city is expected to grow in the coming days.

5G cities

According to the Department of Telecom, the following cities are eligible for the 5G rollout by the end of this year: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jamnagar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Pune. The four unknown cities could be one of them. We have reached out to Airtel to get clarity on the names of the remaining cities.

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