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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...

PM Modi launches 5G in India, rollout today in Varanasi, Delhi, Ahmedabad

At the 6th edition of the India Mobile Congress held on Saturday, October 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off 5G services in India. On the inaugural day of IMC 2022, Modi visited the exhibitions of India’s leading telecom companies — Reliance Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea — to understand how 5G will bolster the indigenous development as a part of the country’s digitisation process. Leaders of all three telecom companies announced that 5G will be available in select cities from today.

Representing Reliance Jio, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, announced its 5G network will be available in Varanasi and a village near Ahmedabad from today. Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, said the company’s 5G services will go live in Delhi, Varanasi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, among other cities today. Speaking on behalf of Vodafone Idea, Aditya Birla Group chairman KM Birla laid out a roadmap for the company’s 5G services without specifying any rollout timeline.

Both Jio and Airtel previously said metropolitan cities of India will get 5G services by the year-end, while a pan-India rollout is likely to be over by 2023. The Department of Telecom has already earmarked the cities that will get 5G first. These cities include Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jamnagar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Pune.

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