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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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Apple reportedly back in talks to launch Apple Pay in India

Apple has reportedly planned to resume discussions with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) — an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India that looks after operations of online payments, including UPI (Unified Payments Interface) — to bring its Apple Pay service to India. The iPhone maker is mulling introducing a localised version of Apple Pay in India that uses UPI for online payments — much like Google’s GPay and Samsung Pay.

As reported by TechCrunch, Apple Pay, if launched in India, will allow iPhone users to scan QR codes to make payments through the UPI mechanism — contrary to how Apple Pay works originally in markets such as the US. iPhone users in the US and some other countries can link their cards to Apple Pay to make payments. Apple offers its own credit card called the Apple Card in the US and it comes automatically linked to the Apple Pay account.

A similar payment mechanism is also available on Samsung Pay in India. Eligible customers with an eligible Samsung phone can make contactless payments from their cards through Samsung Pay. However, Samsung also introduced a UPI-based payments service, which is available on both NFC-enabled phones, as well as phones without NFC.

As part of its discussions with government officials, Apple pitched that Apple Pay in India will offer the ability to use Face ID for the UPI authentication process, making it more secure than the current. However, UPI registration would still require a SIM card of the mobile number associated with your bank account.

Apple is still finalising the plan on how it will operate Apple Pay in India, according to the report, citing people privy to the development. The launch may still be “a few quarters away.” But even if Apple Pay officially lands in India, it will have to face extremely stiff competition from incumbents in the country’s payment industry. Walmart-owned PhonePe records the highest UPI transactions in India, followed by Paytm and GPay. Samsung Pay is nowhere close to these players, even though it is available on Android — the dominating smartphone OS in India. With a minor share in India’s smartphone market, iPhone is unlikely to put Apple Pay on the charts.

The push for Apple Pay could be a part of the US-based company’s holistic plan to increase its presence in India. In April earlier this year, Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook visited India to launch the company’s maiden retail stores in Mumbai and New Delhi, marking its entry into the country’s offline smartphone retail market. Apple also increased its production lines in India, initiating the manufacturing of iPhone units before the launch.

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